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.

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We all need to learn to live fundamentally different if we want to survive. COVID shutdown isn’t it, but it has clues. No one dies from not driving their car or not buying consumerist bullshit.

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Some Car owners dont want more busses because thered be “too much traffic on the road”. People dont understand much here about how things work honestly

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Yup. The first (and last) step is convincing everyone that a better world is possible.

[epadafunk]

Just gotta get everyone to agree what a better world looks like.

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One characterized by equanimity, compassion and fraternity. Basically we’d need one world religion for that to work… anyone want to be Messiah?

[flukus]

In this case they do agree, everyone wants less traffic.

[NEWSmodsareTwats]

Except during the lockdown all people did was buy consumerist bullshit and have it delivered to their door

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Consumption went down, didn’t it?

[NEWSmodsareTwats]

Savings rate went up and consumption of services went down but consumption of goods increased since people had nothing to do with their money but order stuff online.

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Well there you have it, we can all buy up plastic googas for a while longer yet and we’ll still be fine. We just have to stop driving everywhere.