Record breaking June temperatures have been deadly in Europe as the mercury soared past 40 degrees in several locations. The heat was hard to handle in Paris, London and Berlin, but our expert says we need to get used to it. But, how fast can we adapt to a scorching new-normal?
The coronavirus pandemic showed us that global survival is possible with significantly lower CO2 emissions; that was an extreme case, of course, but finding a middle ground between that and the extreme we call “normal life” is absolutely feasible and achievable.
10-15% is not significant.
There is no middle ground, we ignored this problem for far too long for us to not have to do something extreme to try and solve it.
Yeah, the pandemic revealed a quick and easy way to drastically cut CO2 emissions. Humanity really doesn’t need to travel as much as we do, at least not by plane. A lot, and I really mean a lot, of air traffic is for stuff which should be solved with online meetings. I see this at work too, everything got solved online during the pandemic. But, as soon as restrictions were lifted people absolutely HAD to travel by plane somewhere for a meeting and then return home on a plane, often doing both trips in the same day. Sure some of the air traffic is for leisure, sightseeing and so on. I don’t like travelling far myself so I’m a bit biased, but do we really need to fly around the world 5 times a year? We survived the pandemic by staying at home, surely we can cut down on some air traffic to save the world?
Not just that, but making people commute to an office to do what they can easily do at home is fucking stupid
you can buy a cheap trinket from China and have it delivered to your door for like $2.
Wont somebody think of the profits??
It’s okay. The collapse of the AMOC will bring a nice chill.
Fast. People adopt to far crazyer things.
