silence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · edit-29 months agoHow we get to zero emissions matters, not just the date we get thereimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1239arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1236arrow-down1imageHow we get to zero emissions matters, not just the date we get theresilence7M to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.English · edit-29 months agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
Cumulative emissions matter because CO2 accumulates in the atmosphere, and is removed fairly slowly by natural processes source of graph
minus-squareNoiseColor@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·9 months agoHonestly, we are not doing it the way in the second graph. Probably not even the way it happens in the first one.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up24·9 months agoGlobally, we haven’t even started reducing our emissions at all yet. Our line is still going up
minus-squareSigntist@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·9 months agoThis is the thing people don’t seem to understand. It’s not that we’re failing to slow down fast enough to avoid the point of no return, it’s that we’re continuing to speed up on our way to the point of no return.
minus-squareciko22i3@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down15·9 months agofor every coal power plant western countries shut down, china and india build 3 and they are half as efficient (source: my ass but it sounds accurate)
Honestly, we are not doing it the way in the second graph. Probably not even the way it happens in the first one.
Globally, we haven’t even started reducing our emissions at all yet. Our line is still going up
This is the thing people don’t seem to understand. It’s not that we’re failing to slow down fast enough to avoid the point of no return, it’s that we’re continuing to speed up on our way to the point of no return.
for every coal power plant western countries shut down, china and india build 3 and they are half as efficient
(source: my ass but it sounds accurate)