[woogiewonka]

It feels like us humans are unable to solve the challenges ahead of us. One could argue the sort of effort and organization required to make an appropriate change would take a couple of hundred years, yet here we are with only a decade to meet the unattainable IPCC goals. Let's hope we don't see each other on the battlefield, in wars that are surely to come. I will lie down and die before I kill a fellow human being.

[fabianhjr]

> unattainable IPCC goals

They are quite attainable, it is just that most people don't feel the urgency of preventing an extinction event or they feel like "individual change" is more important than societal change. (Eg, Extinction Rebellion is one subgroup that does get the urgency)

[krageon]

Those goals are and have always been attainable. We've just not put in the effort required. No goal is attainable if you are unwilling to work to attain it.

[flukus]

> yet here we are with only a decade to meet the unattainable IPCC goals

They probably are unattainable, but that's only because we (an electorally significant subset anyway) opted to sit on our asses for 30 years. The Kyoto protocol (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol) was the largest international collective effort and ignored by certain selfish countries.

[onion2k]

It feels like us humans are unable to solve the challenges ahead of us.

Every significant challenge humans have faced in history has probably felt like that.

That isn't to say we'll definitely solve the challenges facing us now. We might not. It's just that how we feel about the problem isn't actually very useful besides being good motivation to actually try.