‘Forest management alone cannot address the hotter, drier conditions that are making fires more intense … — that requires confronting the underlying crisis.’

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    irreversibly

    Not yet. There’s still hope.

    • CO2 in the stratosphere clears in like a century or two. Our actions today can help our great grandchildren see a friendlier environment again
    • science around tipping points, permanent changes, is less well understood, so we don’t have strong evidence of having passed any yet
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        LOL, they might have been the first generation to really start doing the work on sounding the alarm, ironically.

        Their parents and grandparents were likely even worse as far as this kind of attitude. I know that was the truth in my immediate family, anyway.

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      What actions are being taken though - by the people who can actually make a difference? Governments are reversing to mining coal. Trump is illegally drilling Greenland for oil. Like, what actions are actually being taken for our great grandchildren?

      Many scientists say it’s too late. That’s my point.

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        It’s too late to meet our target, allegedly the point where we can avoid serious disruptions. We’ve failed to prevent harm to ourselves and can’t take it back

        But there’s so much more serious harm looming that can still be avoided. We can still keep it from getting worse

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            There’s so much truth in that cartoon, yet it’s still coming true. Renewable and storage are revolutionary and many parts of the global economic system are restructuring. We’re late and slow but it is happening.

            Except in the US. We not only threw away several chances at restructuring our economy to profit from it, but we’re working on turning several of our remaining industrial giants irrelevant, all while somehow thinking it’s a good idea to maximize our impact on the environment

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          Sure, I bet we can keep it from getting worse. I’ll be here waiting patiently for some billionaire corpo to decide to do something for the environment over profits while we keep using our paper straws. I might nod off so wake me up when it happens.