@lachs0r@nazrin.moe @dtluna To be fair, at this point there is not really much that can be done individually or collectively to halt climate change; barring something catastrophic like a nuclear war, we are on track for enough warming to activate quite a few climactic feedback loops, meaning more or less a collapse of society and massive disruption to most ecosystems within the century. This seems like less of a funny skit as time goes on: https://youtu.be/XM0uZ9mfOUI
“there is not really much that can be done … to halt climate change”
Indeed, we can't halt it immediately. But we can chose whether to keep it to a mildly damaging small amount largely halted in a century or so or to allow much more damage over a longer timescale.
Whether it'd amount to a “collapse of society” is another question.
@edavies @lachs0r@nazrin.moe @dtluna We’ve likely baked in warming well past “mild damage” at this point and our foot is glued to the accelerator. Climate models are pretty adamant about this. Societal collapse is much more tricky to predict, so that is indeed speculative. But when you find yourself actually able to witness in historical time things that are supposed to occur over geological time (like a mass extinction event) and you discover that you are the cause, it’s a pretty bad sign.
