1.5°C climat goal is gone with 2024/2025 being every day being above that. A positive view of science says we are heading to a 2.7°C hell by 2100. Thought with current politics that is highly doubtful and we might already have that with 2050.
Especially fellow young people, i would like to hear your look apon the future, are you doing something now because you probably wont be able to do it in the future?
How will you imagine life will be like? Will you have to move because of the rising sea levels?
For me i see black. Its over and this is the coldest we will ever have it. I am enjoying somewhat livible summers and lukewarm winters (I remember when there was snow) as long as i can. The future is done for and im angry and sadend by all the people that dont care or actively fight against enviormental policies and living
Ignorantly believing there will be minimal consequences to our unplanned terraform is why we are in this mess. The problem is not simply “climate change”. Ecological collapse is a much larger concern. We are significantly altering the chemistry of the entire biosphere; the atmosphere, land and ocean with literally thousands of chemical compounds. We have killed off ~70% of the natural worlds macroscopic organisms over the last 50-100 years, and are already at the point where 95+% of all animal biomass is our livestock. We consider species “not endangered” if there are like 10k of them. Does 10k humans isolated to one geography sound like a healthy, extinction-resistant population?
It’s not gonna be 2.7c by 2100. It will be 3-4c. We were told we wouldn’t hit 1.5c until ~2035 and we’re already there — as I’ve believed for over a decade, because I actually listen to scientists instead of fossil-fuel-operated political orgs like the IPCC — and we’re on track to blow past 2c before 2050. ~25% of all Co2 ever emitted was in the last ~15 years, and another ~25% will be emitted in the next ~15. We can’t predict compounding feedback loops we know little about, or any of the many unknown unknowns that are guaranteed to exist.
I’m not saying the world will definitely be a “Mad Max inferno of devastation and death” — the entire natural world has already been through the majority phase of “devastation and death” — but everyone living today would almost certainly consider 2100 to be a dystopia.
Whoever said the consequences would be “minimal?” I’m saying they won’t be apocalyptic. It’s not the literal end of the world, as so many people are fretting about. People are deciding not to have children because they think humanity’s going to go extinct in a generation or two.
Well there you go, then.
People are not having kids because they believe their children will be worse off than they are; that persistent inflation, natural disasters, famine, resource wars, actual wars, austerity, mass migrations, fascism/feudalism are all but guaranteed for a majority of humanity over the next century.
Barely anyone believes or cares about us going completely extinct.