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Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says (www.dw.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In short, we aren't on track to an apocalyptic extinction, and the new head is concerned that rhetoric that we are is making people apathetic and paralyzes them from making beneficial actions.

He makes it clear too that this doesn't mean things are perfectly fine. The world is becoming and will be more dangerous with respect to climate. We're going to still have serious problems to deal with. The problems just aren't insurmountable and extinction level.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14693062.2018.1532872

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

climate change unstoppable != scary life threatening consequences

Those are two entirely different narratives.

(And I didn't get past the paywall.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Homie I’m trying to explain what you’re obviously not understanding about this, and you keep responding with arguments about how you’re correct to not understand or something?

Guy said “don’t be hyperbolic about the 1.5c goal because if people feel hopeless they are less likely to act.” We shouldn’t be acting like the scary life threatening consequences of climate change are unstoppable. That is one narrative, you silly goof.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Guy said “don’t be hyperbolic about the 1.5c goal because if people feel hopeless they are less likely to act.”

Then he's wrong. But it's more likely you misread the study since that's not the conclusion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guy I can only imagine how hard it must be to go through life completely illiterate.

“The belief that climate change is unstoppable reduces the behavioural and policy response to climate change and moderates risk perception.”

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So you are saying

"The belief that climate change is unstoppable"

is the same thing as

"a temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius is an existential threat to humanity"

Those are fundamentially different things and you just pulled some study you think is fitting to OPs article. But allright... I'm the one who's illiterate.