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It's always ~12 months away.

It was 5 years ago and will be in 5 more years.

I've got a strong suspicion that it's game over already. Perhaps various grades of game over still exist.

Well, we’ve know of the increasing need of stopping emissions for something like 30 years and basically ignored trying to solve the problem for all of that time. So yeah, there have been plenty of deadlines for easier solutions we’ve blown past.

But it is true, there are still some time left before we’re reduced to the Elysium solution.

It's 18 months because of upcoming UN meetings. Which means nothing, so it's making an alarmist headline to tie to a story, which has no bearing on the reality. The UN can't keep humans from slaughtering each other, so what chance at "Saving the planet", for whatever that means?

The UN was created to do one job: prevent World War III. Everything else it has done is a bonus.

But the climate/energy crisis might very well lead us to World War III, still.

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