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When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

"This problem is not going away, and we're moving further and further into uncharted territory, and almost certainly, very dangerous territory."

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[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

2020 since the pandemic shut everything down. There was a one year respite.

Basically at this point the only thing that might make things go down would be something on the scale of covid but deadlier that would make the ultra wealthy scared enough to keep things shut down long term.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 9 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Before that it was the 2008 financial crisis.

I wonder if Trump's tariff chaos is causing enough economic shrinkage to bring another year of slight slow down.

We really need to decouple economic activity from CO2 emissions or we're just left hoping for the global economy to be in peril.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically tariffs on Imports would be good for cutting global emissions. But people will starve and economy collapse.

[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I rather reduce emissions without people starving, but radical environmental laws are apparently a no go... radical tariffs on the other hand.. all good?

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

The "let them eat CO2" policy. Yeah, it's insane, global warming is a solvable problem. We have the technology needed already, we're just lacking in a willingness to change. The powers that be are going all in on stagnation while facing a crisis.