Renewables are taking off rapidly across the world because they are the cheapest form of power full stop. We keep underestimating how much capacity they'll add. Existing renewables and other measures, while not sufficient to prevent a lot of harm (we still need to keep going), has already made some of the absolute worst case climate timelines no longer considered likely
In solid blue is what we've actually done and the lighter lines were our predictions and models for new solar capacity
https://chaos.social/@russss/114825851049843449
Something I have a less stats on and is more gut feeling, but in my personal life and online, I'm seeing a massive increase in the support for moving towards plant-based diets in just this last year. I was talking to one of my friends, in a city I used to live in, who told me that the veg fest near them was the most crowded they've ever seen it this year