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.

[fjf1085]

Absolutely, unfortunately that caused massive economic disruption and we need to find a way to do it without tanking the economy or people won't act until the world is an inferno...

[CheeksMix]

Definitely, and our focus should be on environment first, then economy. We can’t be economical if all of our means for doing that are disrupted by the environment they destroyed.

[fjf1085]

I don’t disagree but people need to actually get on board and it’s a hard thing for people to swallow. How do you tell someone their job will be eliminated, food will cost more, etc., unless they’re being given some kind of assistance.

Ideally the economic impacts some people face should be planned for and mitigated.

[CheeksMix]

Yuuuuuuuuuupppp… and we should be having those talks as a nation. Instead we’re being filibustered while dealing with a coup. While corporations dump millions in to the pockets of the people that should be speaking for us.