Don't overstate 1.5 degrees C threat, new IPCC head says – DW – 07/30/2023
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Jim Skea, the new head of the UN's IPCC climate panel, said it was not helpful to imply that temperature increases of 1.5 degrees Celsius posed an existential threat to humanity.

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.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    What worries me about that thinking is that historically children have been the big reason for people to care about the future and what they’ll leave behind.

    • ANGRY_MAPLE@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes, but you can also still care about doing that without having children. I hope that this doesn’t follow those trends.

      People can also love nature, animals, history, the arts, and lots of other things. They might want other people to still be able to enjoy the things that they love in the future. I would still care regardless of if I have kids or not, personally.