Edit: So, reading the actual paper, the article is somewhat sensationalized (shocker, i know). It is still possible to prevent collapse, but it requires extensive and fairly quick reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.

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[–] CaptnKarisma@lemmy.ml 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

F**k if I have any regrets its not voting green not that it would have mattered but I would have felt better

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

Feels good to live in a country where my vote for the Greens party actually matters.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If it helps you feel better about your vote. Your vote either way for the past 40 years would be irrelevant.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

We all die sooner with Republicans controlling the US.

[–] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 weeks ago

they might crater the economy so badly that it wipes out a ton of carbon use and buys the rest of the world some more time (albeit probably along with millions of people starving to death, akin to Mao's famine)

[–] shani66@ani.social 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Most of the other responsible will be dead by then. I'd much prefer they see their mistakes (⇀ ↼‶)

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

At this point I just hope I die before it gets too much worse. Spring and summer make me horribly depressed because they're so much different than they were when I was a kid.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

well yeah if you look at it like that, then it might seem so. but they're underestimating exponential growth

sources for the pictures: the first two are from ourworldindata.org, the last one is a plot i made my self, based on the extrapolation in the third picture.