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What I'm seeing:
The current trajectory is a downward trend, i.e. we are slowly going backwards (thanks to the orange turd)
We are WAYYYY behind the targets that we should be at and planned to be.
Not sure what's positive about that.
Check the axis labels again. I think you may have glanced at it too quickly before replying.
Avoiding the blue line, which would kill us much faster, is positive. Why be a negative Nancy?
Because the other option is to be delusional Dave.
Oh great! We are still fucked, still missing all the targets, still killing the planet, just a little bit slower. Good to know! Nothing to worry about then! 🥳
"Planed is being killed slow enough that it will be the next generation's problem, so nothing to worry about" - boomer idiots
No need to be rude.
I think that in their mind, anything short of being incredibly rude is telling everyone not to worry. They've kind of told everyone that they only believe in a world of binaries. Either you demand 100% climate crisis aversion despite how impossible that is, or you're telling everyone not to care about the climate.
What a perfect distillation of why everyone is depressed as fuck. Even when mildly good news comes out, it's rejected and shit on. Would've been possible to understand there are multiple levels of being fucked but don't let that get in the way of being miserable and trying to reinforce the misery of others.
Being angry has its place, happy people don't protest, content people don't change their surrounding.
Trust me, I'm angry. I don't know why it is so hard to see something like that and not think "oh well at least it's slightly better than I thought". But no. Gotta be a binary thinking troglodyte. It's either perfect or it's shit. Nothing in between.
I do not see any organizing (or even good agitating) in these comments. Looks like people having a doom attack (or having fun signaling to their in group).
What's positive about missing all the targets?
It's like those stupid participation trophies. Even if you fail miserably, you still get a participation trophy.
Celebrating this, will give people false impressions that we are actually okay and on target, WHICH WE ARE NOT.
WE ARE STILL FUCKED.
If you think a graph that shows a degree of positive change is nothing, there's nothing you would accept short of avoiding the climate crisis entirely. Which is clearly impossible at this point.
Impossible?? Why?
There is a big difference between can't and won't.
I believe it is possible, if we kill the politicians and billionaires and change the system. Unlikely? Maybe. Impossible? NO.
I also believe there are less destructive paths to solving the climate crisis, but we need the billionaires and politicians to work together to solve this.
Instead, what is happening currently is all the billionaires and politicians working AGAINST solving it! Just look at what the Trump admin is saying regarding climate change and how they are tearing up all the agreements to reduce the emissions.
We are going backwards, and you are delusional if you don't see it.
You should focus on what could actually be done versus telling strangers that having 1% faith things might get better makes them a delusional moron who is at fault for "celebrating". I'm done here.
I'm in my 30s, not a boomer, nor an idiot. I am probably more eco-conscious than you if I had to guess. I literally own a solar panel, 2 power stations, and a PHEV (I drive like a turtle intentionally to maximize the battery's longevity and coast and avoid coming to a complete stop as often as possible between destinations), and have shamelessly, openly criticized people at my workplace who misuse/ignore our recycling procedures.
What I'm saying is that we can only do so much, and there's no point in living your life in nonstop negativity. I know that I am doing my part so I will be actively happy about that. Your only defense to step back further is to tell me to join the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEM), to which I say: sure, but you first.
Yeah, this is not gonna be solved by individuals like you when just 100 companies are responsible for 71% percent of emissions. So even if every single individual on the planet will make their emissions net zero, it will STILL not be enough to save the climate.
This is something that needs to be solved by billionaires and politicians.
So no, I will not be happy and positive when we are fucked.
Enjoy living in your bubble thinking that your solar panels are helping at all. This is propaganda pushed by the billionaires to make people like you feel better when everything is actually going to shit.
So much more can be done and achieved by electing the right politicians and pushing them to do what needs to be done. And by stopping propaganda like this article that seemingly convinced half the people here that we are doing fine!
Are you assuming that I am not doing that, too?
Going higher (up) in the graph means more tons of carbon emitted, i.e. worse things done to the climate.
I think they were not referring to the graph butto current politics
This attitude is why everthing is shit. Spiting progress for perfection.
And they get upvoted for spreading gloom, we get downvoted for pushing back against blind negativity whatsoever. I'm having another "I should probably leave Lemmy" day
Confidently incorrect