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'We Are Climbing Rapidly Out of Humankind's Safe Zone': New Report Warns Dire Climate Warnings Not Dire Enough"Climate change is now reaching the end-game, where very soon humanity must choose between taking unprecedented action, or accepting that it has been left too late and bear the consequences."
Published on Monday, August 20, 2018 by Common Dreams by Jon Queally, staff writer
In the new reporttitled What Lies Beneath: The Understatement of Existential Climate Risk (pdf)authors David Splatt and Ian Dunlop, researchers with the National Centre for Climate Restoration (Breakthrough), an independent think tank based in Australia, argue that the existential threats posed by the climate crisis have still not penetrated the collective psyche of humanity and that world leaders, even those demanding aggressive action, have not shown the kind of urgency or imagination that the scale of the pending catastrophe presents.
While the report states that "a fast, emergency-scale transition to a post-fossil fuel world is absolutely necessary to address climate change," it bemoans the fact that this solution continues to be excluded from the global policy debate because it is considered by the powerful as "too disruptive." However, the paper argues, it is precisely this lack of imagination and political will that could doom humanity's future.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/08/20/we-are-climbing-rapidly-out-humankinds-safe-zone-new-report-warns-dire-climate
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)There is no technology to reverse climate change.
There is not enough time to invent and build the technology to reverse climate change.
The scale that would be required to build the technology to reverse climate change
would heat the climate faster.
It is too late.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)In that even the slightest hope we have with the massive changes required will never be heeded by those who own us... you are absolutely correct.
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)every ton of CO2 added to the atmosphere is 1 ton too many... in fact, we should be planting trees (fast growing softwoods mostly) and then burying the wood (as char) deep in the earth... and producing ZERO net new CO2... and then hope and pray the resulting methane releases from the arctic peat moss doesn't kill us (the planet will be "fine"... some species will adapt, many will not... ours being one of the ones that will not).