| I don't. Big oil is still doing things with impunity. They knew 40 years ago that this was going on, they expanded operations, funded a denialism campaign, bribed left and right, no consequences besides doing more, getting even more money, and people consuming more. Governments follow the money, they don't touch a finger on them, even invade foreign countries to give them control over even more oil. Other big corporations (banks and so on) keep investing money on them. People are told to "recycle" but to not put a finger on having cars, having vacations on the other side of the world or consume in general. The top consumers are not the more affected in the short term, so they don't do anything really meaningful. It is easy to convince masses that is their fault, and the small actions that don't affect big money are the things that they should do. Against this even the gods are powerless. And science? It's been very creative in "mitigations" without consuming less or producing less oil. Going against the symptoms and letting the real problem to keep growing because it can't be touched. More than half of the CO2 emissions since 1751 were emitted in the last 30 years, after was evident that something very wrong was going on, the IPCC was funded, the UN noted the urgency to solve this and more. And the pledges that we managed to get was to reach "net zero" that is not to limit oil/fossil fuel production (that could still keep expanding over the years), but to somewhat compensate what is extracted with what is captured. And this of course doesn't cover capturing what is already on excess, just try to neutralize the new, and have the fantasy to wait 100+ years till that vanishes. And time is against us. We already, with a mild increase in the global average temperature, have big extreme weather events, and it not an El Niño year. Some "stable" climate features like the polar vortex and the gulf stream seem that are getting disrupted. And, of course, this article, that points that the biggest warming happens in the artic, where some positive feedback loops are rooted, from albedo lost from a blue ocean and permafrost thawing will worsen "hands free" the already very bad current situation. So, hoping for the best but expecting the worst. I'm open to good surprises, but I don't bet that things will be solved. At least my worst scenario is not fast extinction but that we will get into a climate dystopia with most people living in weather isolated environments controlled by the same big money that caused all of this. |