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.

  • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    No one expects Gen Z to be the magical cure to climate change. Rather, it is expected that Gen Z will continue and escalate work that is already being done.

    That’s a pretty normal thing to expect of upcoming generations.

      • SCB@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The pressure isn’t on you. The pressure is on older generations right now, and things are moving. Your job there is to continue the work.

        Ideally by the time Gen Z is 40, they’ll have a whole new crisis. Nearly every generation does.

    • pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.eeEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      You lazy idiots aren’t about to demand anything of a young kid. Shut the fuck up, grow up, and do it yourselves.