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We’ve already fucked it up. How can you save something thats already broke? Every fucking climate change article is always full of hopes and dreams yet we’re not doing shit. They’re talking about scifi carbon capture now but our consumerism society remains unchanged.
When you’re driving straight at a wall at highway speeds and are 50m away you can still press the brake pedal, but it’s already too late. Our foot barely started lifting from the throttle.
How bad things get is literally a matter of degree.
We can't achieve no impact, but temperatures will stabilize fairly quickly once we stop adding CO2 and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. Getting there isn't something that happens overnight; in the best case, it looks like a 20-year phaseout of fossil fuels and end to deforestation.
But the damage we’ll cause during those 20 years will destroy most of the ecosystem and our food supply chain. I have a feeling that the biggest reason behind stopping emissions will be our demise.
There will be some damage, but probably not end-of-civilization kind of damage if we actually cut emissions by a few percent of current emissions each year