Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

In short, we aren’t on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn’t mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We’re going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren’t insurmountable and extinction level.

  • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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    11 个月前

    What we need is politicians to fucking listen to their citizens who want them take real action on climate change.

    What we personally think means jack shit if the capitalists in charge don’t want to hear it.

    • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 个月前

      Politicians absolutely listen. They mirror the desires of their constituents.

      You won’t see a situation where politicians take action on climate change if their constituents do not support such action, full stop.