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Good news from the World Meteorological Organization.
"Long-term warming (averaged over decades) remains below 1.5 °C".
We can still make it - barely
Source: "State of the Global Climate Report 2024". It's 42 pages of bad news, more or less, so be prepared for that.
https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-climate-2024
What do you think? With the recent political issues in the world, can we still reach the goals of the Paris agreement?
@JohanEmpa
Not a chance.
Especially as more western democracies are CHOOSING to shift further to the right, wanting increased self-protection, deliberately sticking a middle finger up to their PERCEPTION of loss of identity from mass migration, politicians of the elite not the masses, being called fascist for having a thought or belief that might offend. And, alas, weakened environmental protection gets wrapped up in it.
I already believe we are past the point of no return for the planet.
@JohanEmpa ...and, in addition, unless China, Russia, India and the USA suddenly decide to radically alter their courses, the little bits that smaller countries can do will not make a bit of difference. The ONLY way is if every other country in the world suddenly found a way to force them .... very quickly ... and that is not going to happen.
The Paris Agreement was always a nice idea for people to say important things to look important but I never ever thought it had any competency.
@hastingsmothman What are we going to do if we're past the point of no return? Should we simply ignore the problem and do something else?
@JohanEmpa difficult to know what to do. I don’t have the answer. Paris Ag Been saying the same things for nearly 10 years and it’s still failing abysmally. All talk and little meaningful action, just talk and tinker. As I say, probably the only way is for 191 countries to collectively force the big four polluters to radically change now… but can you see that happening? i can’t. And I firmly believe some mass population areas of Australia will be totally uninhabitable in less than 20 years.
@hastingsmothman Forcing superpowers to change seems impossible, yes.
I don't believe we're past the point of no return, but we're close. The world need some kind of systemic change to speed things up. Easier said than done
@JohanEmpa (1/2) Agreed. We all know what's needed. We've known for 20 years it needs systemic change. And it hasn't happened. And it will be the same for the next 20 years. They've been saying "It's 1 minute to midnight" for the past 20 years as well and still nothing changes. The masses start to lose faith and question it all and shift politically to the right. The will is not there because humans are inherently self-centred and the current is more important to them than the future...
@JohanEmpa (2/2) From politicians it's all posturing talk and no systemic change. That is why I think we are past the point of no return, or even if we're not, there is no collective will to force superpowers to change in time. I have no doubt it is the ONLY way to possibly stop it if we're not past it already. But I don't see it happening. I really don't.
@JohanEmpa We could if we changed our perspective. It is all doable. All we need is to look at the challenge from a different angle IMO.
@JohanEmpa
Nope, oud political leaders will save the polluting companies, not the earth climate. And they will only change when it will be far too late.
@JohanEmpa no. And we could not have, even before the current events. We need a rewiring of the economy even for 2.5C
@alberto_cottica Which parts of the economy needs to be rewired?
@JohanEmpa masto updates are not a good format for this discussion. Plus, we don't know for sure yet. If you forced me to answer in short format, I would say: value theory; mod
@JohanEmpa Masto updates are not the best format to have this discussion. Plus we don't know yet. If you forced a quick answer out of me, I'd say: value theory (away from utility theory and onto physical measures of meeting human needs); modes of provisioning (away from for-profit entities and onto coops or public sector corps for providing anything deemed a human right, like housing, education or health); and monetary theory (away from "spend tax revenue" and onto #modernMonetaryTheory )
