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Here's a reminder of where we are now compared to where we need to be.

As mentioned in my previous post (https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112671714655278802), fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions are at record highs. Yet scientists have repeatedly warned that we *must* rapidly reduce emissions or face climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse.

Look at the second graph below. We should have taken action years ago. By 2030, our emissions need to be 48% lower than in 2019. But instead, they keep going up, year after year. We're already halfway to 2030 and have made zero progress.

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Graph shows global CO2 emissions from 1900 through 2023. After a gradual rise for the first half of the last century, emissions began a sharp increase and are still rising today.
Graph shows required steep pathway of emissions reductions for a 50% chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Emissions should reduce 48% by 2030, and 80% by 2040, yet they are still going up.

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HEADLINE: "Fossil fuel use and emissions hit record highs as world struggles with deadly heat, storms, and fires" The world consumed record amounts of oil, coal, and gas last year, pushing planet-heating carbon pollution to a new high, according to …
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@Npars01 The Corporations know that it is already too late. They knew what would happen from research in the 1970s. They don't care. Profit is everything, it is even more important than life - their life, their children's lives, all life on the planet.

But...

They forget this: Those who die with the most money are still dead*. And they do not "win" anything.

Entropy (dressed as the Grim Reaper) is always the winner.

* This gives me great cheer, grim as it may seem.

And finally, a song by Tom Lehrer:

https://tomlehrersongs.com/we-will-all-go-together-when-we-go/

We Will All Go Together When We Go

Lyrics: view or download PDF Sheet music: view or download PDF -- An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer, track 11 Album: stream playlist Audio File: download MP3 The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1), track 23 Album: stream playlist …
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