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World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says
(www.theguardian.com)
The only way we can cut emission this fast is with a guillotine.
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2026
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Theres less than zero chance China or the US would do this.
Looks like plants should probably be back on the menu boys
Nobody takes the UN seriously anymore anyway. Russia, Israel and the US have ruined its credibility
If only the pandemic had taken out 2 or 3 billion people...
Buh the C02 Coalition (this is a real lobbying group BTW) told me everything was fine.
At the height of global lockdowns in early April 2020, daily global fossil CO₂ emissions fell by 17% to 19% compared to 2019 levels.
Main Contributors to the Drop:
- Surface transport (cars and trucks): ~43% of the total reduction
- Industry and power generation: ~43% combined
- Aviation: ~10% to 12%
Sooo... Wfh and we're good?
Win win
Fat chance of that. The Trump Regime doesn't give a shit about the future of the nation, let alone the world. So long as they have bunkers, our 'leaders' feel fine with dire outcomes.
tldr;
We're
Nonsense. We just cut off 20% of the global supply of Petroleum with the Iran War.
That, plus Ukraine and Russia obliterating their fossil fuel production capacity is going a long way towards tightening emissions.
The only problem is how unprepared we are for it and how it's not the 20% most pointless crap that will be left to rot. Many people would like to lose weight, but famine is a bad way to go about it.
Spoiler alert, we won’t…
Not only that, we're actively working against it.
Best we can hope for is hyperscale data centres to create big brother and skynet.
Skynets solution to global warming, kill all humans...
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I mean I'm not out to darken everyone's day. But this isn't happening.
well of course. I mean if they had told us sooner maybe but how was anyone to know? /s
eh, we're looking at a grim future either way at this point.
Only way I can picture the world cutting by that amount, is if there's a massive collapse of western civilization / the wealthy get purged, and technology goes backwards. We won't do that willingly, so the world will instead continue its trajectory, with the worst of climate change impact hitting poor people -- and rich people / wealthy people using their assets to eek out a mediocre lifestyle in the future. I doubt we'd totally die off, barring something truly cataclysmic.
I doubt Rosa Luxemburg was referring to climate collapse when she talked about the choice between socialism or barbarism, but here we are.
Maybe. I'm not so sure socialism would really change anything though, on the aggregate in terms of climate collapses.
Socialism isn't by default Eco-friendly / Eco-conscientious. Capitalism tends to have all the benefits from climate destroying stuff go to a capitalist class -- socialism could easily take the form of still pushing climate destroying stuff, but distributing the benefits to the masses. Depending on the scale of the change (which is likely to be massive), diversifying the benefits could result in no human surviving, rather than just a subset of the wealthy.
For a random example to explain the thought, really 'loose' example admittedly. Under socialism, theoretically you'd have a fairer distribution of wealth so that housing would be more equitable -- most people would get a simple starter-type home to live in. Rich person doomsday bunker type homes would be almost unheard of, as no individual would amass so much wealth that they could build em. In the socialist approach, each individual home has a smaller climate footprint, but the volume of homes built could have a similar net impact on the environment in the aggregate. So if it gets so bad that you need a bunker, humanity all dies together, equitably?
Our best chance to meet that target is for earth to be hit by a major asteroid.
Boy, do I have bad news about how much carbon is going to be burned when a major asteroid hits.
We WILL get a mini-ice age from the blocking out of the sun though!
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an alien invasion would be better, but a meteorite impact is more realistic.
Enough with these "by X years" projections, it keeps giving governments that there's still time to kick the can. Just publish "this is how much we are over the emissions budget TODAY" and make it clear that as long as it's above 0 that means we are truly, really fucking ourselves and future generations.
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Meanwhile the most sold car in north America is a huge pickup truck.
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