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Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit (www.bbc.com)

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Environmental scientists have been telling us that it’s too late for years.

Why are you lying? Environmental scientists have been telling us exactly the opposite of that: that it's incredibly important to not think it's "too late" and give up because, no matter how bad it's already gotten due to our previous failure to act, it will still get continuously worse as long as we continue to fail.

There is no bottom; only continual escalation of suffering until we finally get our shit together. The sooner we do it, the less we suffer.

[–] gradivis@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago

I would kindly ask you not to accuse me of lying - perhaps I was too brief in explaining my position and could have better phrased it.

We have very clear thresholds in the IPCC for climate disaster mitigation. We are NOT on track to reduce emissions below those thresholds by 2030, the generally agreed upon date that such reductions are necessary by. By most accounts, we won't hit those targets, particularly when considering who is currently the president of one of the world's biggest contributors and potential leaders in said reductions.

Put differently, climate science has been telling us for years that it will soon be too late, and we - in the opinion of many, including the EU's Copernicus - have already surpassed the crucial 1.5c mark.