Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change - Sensationalist Headlines

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/climate-change-losing-earth.html The world has warmed more than one degree Celsius since the Industrial Revolution. The Paris climate agreement — the nonbinding, unenforceable and already unheeded treaty signed on Earth Day in 2016 — hoped to restrict warming to two degrees. The odds of succeeding, according to a recent study based on current emissions trends, are one in 20. If by some miracle we are able to limit warming to two degrees, we will only have to negotiate the extinction of the world’s tropical reefs, sea-level rise of several meters and the abandonment of the Persian Gulf. The climate scientist James Hansen has called two-degree warming “a prescription for long-term disaster.” Long-term disaster is now the best-case scenario. Three-degree warming is a prescription for short-term disaster: forests in the Arctic and the loss of most coastal cities. Robert Watson, a former director of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has argued that three-degree warming is the realistic minimum. Four degrees: Europe in permanent drought; vast areas of China, India and Bangladesh claimed by desert; Polynesia swallowed by the sea; the Colorado River thinned to a trickle; the American Southwest largely uninhabitable. The prospect of a five-degree warming has prompted some of the world’s leading climate scientists to warn of the end of human civilization. Is it a comfort or a curse, the knowledge that we could have avoided all this? Because in the decade that ran from 1979 to 1989, we had an excellent opportunity to solve the climate crisis. The world’s major powers came within several signatures of endorsing a binding, global framework to reduce carbon emissions — far closer than we’ve come since. During those years, the conditions for success could not have been more favorable. The obstacles we blame for our current inaction had yet to emerge. Almost nothing stood in our way — nothing except ourselves.

Man, it's gonna be fun inheriting this planet decades down the line, when all the money hungry people will be in the ground long before they get to experience the consequences of their greed.

I wonder if the great filter will end up being climate change.

Jesus, 5 degrees and we're fucked, that's amazing.

https://youtu.be/3E0a_60PMR8 remember to thank these people while you starve to death

who would win the entirety of humanity or https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/106981/5383af7f-c5d9-4c48-8929-f3deb27a35c8/image.png 5 and a half doughnuts???

Is now the appropriate time to say "We are all going to fucking die"? What can be done at this point?

I wonder how long he could feed a family of four for.

I hope the money was worth it

what's stopping us from digging up their corpses and smacking them around?

Of course it was worth it All the fucksticks responsible are going to die having lived a simply fabulous life

It will have been for the boomers. Most will be dead within the next decade or two. It was never worth it for us, and we're the ones that'll get fucked.

This is why I'm not having kids, you're shoehorning them into a fucked up future

For those who do want kids, adoption is still always an option.

Really brings a whole new meaning to "Get fucked kiddo".

Not a single person will face criminal action for this.

I fucking hate this timeline.

Aye, we're gonna have all the consequences and none of the money to deal with it. Fun.

Legit i have no want of suicide because of depression or anything like that, but if shit ever does actually get bad i would end up doing it. Just because, why would i want to live a life where its atrociously hot, major population issues, food/water droughts and god knows what else it would bring? Sounds like torture to me

Good to know we were fucked before I was even born. Lee Evans had a joke that trying to combat climate change as an individual is like trying to clear up a destroyed building with a dustpan and brush. Now it looks like we've been doing it with just our bare hands.

I wonder if future people as a society will have a general dislike of old people and the past due to this. I mean I'm probably gonna live to 2100 barring societal collapse so I'm going to see all of this as well.

I wonder if they really believe they'll be safe when the world is reduced to savagery.

You think you're going to live another 82 years? I'm 27 and I'm worried that I'll barely reach 50.

They'll have money to pay the soldiers, and automated turrets/explosive ordnance as well. (though I believe a Blade Runner or Judge Dredd scenario is more likely)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9aoINXzk Jim Henson tried to warn us.

Personally I hold out hope for technological advances, and for people to give a fuck when it literally affects their backyard. (and for every climate change denying politician in the US to be imprisoned for criminal endangerment, maybe for colluding with big business/Russia) Well I am hoping for advances in medical technology and I want to live to 2100 as I was one of the last people born in the last millennium and century.

All I want is to see the wealthy people who didn't do anything or even worse hid information punished. Punished as severely as it requires considering that they impacted the lives of billions of people and trillions of plants and animals who may go extinct.

i guess i might as well fucking drop out of college and build a air conditioned bunker i wont need a film production degree for the 100-degree apocalypse

Anyone wanna build Vault 101 with me? Thread music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eo1xMC7VbU

Our only hope is Elon Musk.