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Ms Thunberg makes a good point well thanks ChrisR777
Unfortunately the scale of changes which would have to happen in order to achieve meaningful change is bigger than anything else since perhaps WW2. I'm led to believe that WW2 was quite a kerfuffle!
Most of us almost certainly own goods (or their parts, etc) made in China, the USA, and/or India. The same is true (in spades!) of most industries.
• China: ~30.3% of global emissions (leading the world in total annual output) • United States: ~11.4% to 15% of global emissions (the largest historical cumulative emitter overall) • India: ~8.5% of global emissions • Russia: ~4.5% of global emissions • Indonesia: ~2.6% of global emissions
Please imagine the power generation and consumption just for people to use in the UK, let alone what remains of industry here. All of that is still only about 1.4% of the damage humans are currently doing to the planet.
If human greenhouse gas emissions drop to net zero, global air temperatures will stop rising and stabilize relatively quickly. However, stored heat in the oceans means temperatures won't immediately plunge back down.
To actively cool the planet back down (a strategy known as "overshoot and recovery"), humanity would need massive Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) to pull historic amounts of CO₂ out of the atmosphere. According to reports from groups like the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), cooling the planet back down by the end of the century is theoretically possible, but carbon-removal technologies are currently unproven at the scale required.
So we might as well enjoy it whilst we have it, it's Friday night again!
Cheers
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We often talk about saving the planet, but the reality is that the planet will be here long after we're gone. Earth has survived asteroid impacts, super volcanoes, ice ages, and mass extinctions that wiped out most life on the planet. The dinosaurs didn't kill the Earth, and neither will we. What we're really talking about is preserving the conditions that allow our human civilisation, and countless other species, to thrive. The planet can recover from catastrophic change over millions of years. The question is whether we can survive the consequences of creating conditions that are increasingly hostile to ourselves. History shows that when the world changes dramatically, it is often the living things on it that pay the price, not the planet itself.
The biggest problem is too many people.
Too many people want too much.
Too many people don't give back.
Too many people don't think about tomorrow.
Too many people don't learn from yesterday.
Too few people have enough so they want more.
I am not a Communist but pure Communism has it's benefits.
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