No man, the Second Coming climate change is going to happen within our lifetime and everything is going to go to hell. You know our government won't be able to handle it. The evil communist left Christian right is going to come into power and try to take away our guns and freedom. Stockpile ammo and protect your families, friends.
Maximum b8.
But step back for a moment and look at what we're dealing with here. 7 Billion people on the planet. Going to be about 10 billion at peak. We increase emissions by gigatons each year and reduce them by megatons at best, and even renewables cause high emissions through their manufacturing, not to mention the superfund sites that have already been created by neodymium and silicon mining. Just to deal with fossil fuels will take an emission budget we no longer have, for a population that's going to be demanding four times what we can do
with fossil fuels. That says nothing about ocean acidification, about superfund sites, or about sea level rise.
And what will do we have to match that? For the US specifically, policy paralysis, and a system which is geared towards the people who want to consume the most and whine the loudest. Do you think that these are people who can agree on things like one child policies and preemptive resource conservation? With putting the boots to the industrial emitters who sign their donation checks?
The measured, personable kind of sustainability transition has been beyond our reach for a while now. There are too many of us, and too much of our byproducts. No fucking kitschy Captain Planet activism is going to help now. They should have been stopping reproduction back in the 50's. Now? Now you might as well just enjoy the rest of the ride.
How else will we shoot the ocean back down to a reasonable level?
Oh, and talking about sea level rise is literally illegal in our state's legislature. We're fucked, man.