This kind of dooming extremist rhetoric is why we are where we are today.
No, it is not the "last generation of a functioning world" and we will solve climate change like we solve every other problem.
No, it is not the "last generation of a functioning world" and we will solve climate change like we solve every other problem.
Even your own flippant dismissal has holes though - what problem like every other problem have we solved well? Especially at this scale?
History is full of nasty times; trying to avoid them isn't extremist rhetoric and calling it that is shitty.
half-assedly, far too late and at tremendous cost, after multiple wars. but we will survive.
https://founderspledge.com/research/climate-and-lifestyle-re...
The current marginal cost of offsets is $50/person/year because nobody buys them. But if we all paid each other not to emit any carbon, what would the cars run on? Certainly you couldn't pay a person $50/year to stop using any transportation or power.
Offsets are a dead end.
That link recommends charities that include think tanks and lobbyists influencing policies well beyond paying individuals, and preventing future emissions is obviously currently more effective lower hanging fruit than removing past emissions
> if we all paid each other not to emit any carbon, what would the cars run on?
less gasoline :)
Chinese car sales went from 6% EVs to 38% EVs in 3 years: https://iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/electric-car-regi...
Most Americans driving their own large inefficient gas vehicles is a solvable policy failure
> you couldn't pay a person $50/year to stop using any transportation or power
luckily for the ~700M people without power, everyone could sustainably use transportation and power; power is obviously dictated even more by institutional decision-making than individual choices