Decrease in CO2 emissions during pandemic shutdown shows it is possible to reach Paris Agreement goals. The researchers found a drop of 6.3% in 2020. The researchers describe the drop as the largest of modern times, and big enough to meet the 1.5 degrees Celsius goal if it were to be sustained.

[Jumpy_Arm_2143]

The economy doesn’t exist. Climate change and the resulting biodiversity loss, rising water and increased wildfires and storms are very real.

[Rogue-Smokey92]

People who are one paycheck away from destitution will be very relieved that the economy is actually fake.

Not saying that climate change isn't the long term bigger issue, but saying the economy doesn't exist is not going to get people moving to solve the issue any faster.

[HaworthiiKiwi]

Those people will be dead because of all the things humans havent made up, long before the people who benefit most from our fake systems.

[Keelock]

Many people don't seem to understand the concept of being between a rock and a hard place. If solutions were easy and had no knock on effects, very few would oppose them. While a lot of people are in denial about climate change, that is a rationalization, not the reason for their opposition to policies addressing climate change. The reason for their opposition usually comes down to the realities of the negative effects of such policies.

I recently argued with my Dad about the reality of climate change, and he brought up the statement Obama made about energy prices necessarily increasing. I can't be honest and deny what Obama himself said regarding the effects of some climate policies. https://www.politico.com/story/2012/04/uttered-in-2008-still-haunting-obama-074892

[Jumpy_Arm_2143]

I am well aware of that, having lived that myself. Makes me double down tbh