The “State of Climate Action 2025” report from the World Resources Institute found that the world’s governments are failing on all 45 indicators of progress towards limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees. Of these, 29 indicators are “well off track”, meaning at least a twofold and for most a fourfold acceleration of progress is needed to meet end-of-decade targets.
Five indicators—the carbon intensity of steel production, the share of kilometres travelled by passenger cars, mangrove loss, share of food production lost, and public fossil fuel finance—are heading in the wrong direction.
There is not even enough data to analyse the trend for the remaining five: the rate of retrofitting buildings, the share of new buildings which are zero-carbon, peatland degradation, peatland restoration and food waste.
2.8 my arse.
We are comprehensively losing the battle for 3c@2100 anthropogenic climate change, and so looking warily toward 4c after inevitable feedbacks.
The good news is those born then won’t know a better world. The bad news is it won’t necessarily end at 4c so they still might experience the mourning many of us are and already have gone through.
But! Imaginary number go up! Line go up!
We really have to start talking about the reality that capitalists will never concede or negotiate. The more real this becomes, the more the privleged people will convince themselves that it is too late to change and therefore it is a fight for survival. Settler-colonialism and imperialism are are very good at generating rationalities for brutal violence and genocidal narratives have emerged from far less dire circumstances. You think it’s a coincidence that doomer narratives appeared in the metropole once the effects of climate change became undeniable?
Climate change mitigation is a death threat to capitalism. There is no world where they coexist as a capitalist system will never accept the material constraints of our world and will seek to dominate any alternative in its imperative for infinite growth. Liberals will always choose a dead world over a living one because their entire way of life needs to construct the world as an object to extract from. When they lie and say they want change, they hope that it will buy them enough time for the genocide to be acceptable in metropole.
Wait, what? Liberals are the capitalists now? Or is it that Liberals aren’t doing anything/enough to reign in the capitalists?
Wait, what? Liberals are the capitalists now?
Now and since around the 18th Century. Private ownership of property and market economies are key liberal tenets.
What exactly do you think liberalism is?
The belief that no-one is above anyone else and that everyone should be treated equally. The doesn’t quite match with the dictionary definition, I grant you (I looked it up afterwards), but nonetheless I think I was nearer the mark than “capitalist = liberal”.
Capitalists tend to think of themselves as more deserving than others which would seem to be at odds with that supposed equivalence.
And there’s that the biggest capitalist booms of recent years have been driven by illiberal politics, by and large. Reagan wasn’t a liberal. Thatcher wasn’t. Today’s billionaires are stumbling over themselves to swear fealty to distinctly non-liberal political parties, in power or not.
How are the non-capitalist societies doing in this front? I don’t mean uncontacted indigenous tribes that are too small to make a difference. I mean large nations of millions of people that function with non-capitalist economies.
If we narrow down to only the countries who have successfully implemented democratically controlled production, what is their carbon footprint like? Then we can extrapolate from those model nations to determine how it would impact the globe as a whole.
Economy is a mostly capitalistic term, at least in the most commonly used calculations, it doesn’t factor in the well-being of citizens.
There aren’t any.
Succeeding*
Progress in general.
It’s fair to say Capitaliat hegemony and attempts to constrain all other human values is detrimental to quality of life, society, and is a risk to our species as a whole.
Absolutely. I read the headline and thought: it fails in every way.
