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What If People Don’t Need to Care About Climate Change to Fix It?
(www.nytimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 31 Dec 2023
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Developed countries are getting more of their power from renewables every year. Solar and wind are now more cost effective than fossil fuels for bulk generation. The US has lowered its GHG emissions 3% by reducing dependence on coal this year.
Most importantly, policies that encourage renewable use are coming into effect. The next few years should see gradual declines in GHG output.
There is no "over". As long as we keep emitting, we need to cut back. We'll find a sustainable level eventually - it's only a question of when.
Whatever you need to tell yourself to keep at it.
There's no need to be harmful, if you've given up you don't need to encourage others to do the same. But as others have said it's far from over, we are only still able to fight because so many of us are trying to do something. If we had no ability to change anything, the capitalists wouldn't work so hard to keep us sequestered and depressed.
Actually very good point and excellent use of the word sequestered