Is there any reason to be optimistic about it, or are we all doomed? As far as I’ve looked it up, the more optimistic projections predict a 1-2° global temperature rise in the next few decades, which is pretty bad.

Is it a smart decision to start moving to higher/colder regions yet? What can we do?

And is there a good resource or video essay or whatever for this? There is so much misinformation and fearmongering around climate change. It’s a hassle to weed out any trustable information.

  • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Mostly bad but with u certainty and some hope.

    • We passed the 1.5°C threshold that was the goal to prevent the worst effects of climate change for 1-2 years although the threshold is defined as a 10 year average
    • we busted through 7 of 9 extinction boundaries
    • weather is clearly more extreme and impacting more and more of the population
    • climate tipping points have a lot of uncertainty and take place over years so we don’t know until later that we’ve passed one. They are effectively irreversible. There’s a chance we have passed one or more

    However carbon emissions have plateaued in quite a few countries. We do have technologies like solar, wind, grid storage, EVs that will have significant impact and are rolling out. It’s not enough and way too delayed but it’s a good start

    If we don’t pass any climate tipping points or all the extinction boundaries, we can recover over a century or two