There's a difference between changing direction and giving up.
I have been an activist since the 1980s. We actually won the Battle For The Tees in the late 1990s. By sheer numbers and making road building uneconomical. The Tories secretly shelved the road building program because protests were doubling the price of roads.
The Battle For The Trees wast about trees, it was about emissions. Very few people outside scientists & academics had heard of James E Hansen then. I knew about him because I had recently finished a dissertation on climatic variation impacts on rice & other grains.
We actually can't outdo climate change on economic disruption. (Just for the record I think JSO obstructing orking class people dies not help the cause). Environmental activists have a long history of supporting labour groups. We helped the Liverpool Docker in the late 1990s with their protests, we helped the Vestas workers on the Isle of White.
COP conferences are dominated by fossil fuel lobbyists.
Did you know that ExxonMobil scientists knew about Climate change in the 1970s?
“I think this new study is the smoking gun, the proof, because it shows the degree of understanding … this really deep, really sophisticated, really skillful understanding that was obscured by what came next,” Oreskes said. “It proves a point I’ve argued for years that ExxonMobil scientists knew about this problem to a shockingly fine degree as far back as the 1980s, but company spokesmen denied, challenged, and obscured this science, starting in the late 1980s/early 1990s.”
In the study, scientists showed how the multinational energy giant worked to cloud the issue.
news.harvard.edu
Possibly the Best conspiracy theory which is actually true is that the industry, not country which has done the most damage, has also spent al lot of its profits and subsidies on misinformation.
There are Gigatones od CO2 in the atmosphere. There is no technology or nature which can remove them without breaking the laws of physics.
When I say there is nothing we can do about our predicament, and as
@Toddy says, "we have Milankovich cycles, but we are warming".
There is also another problem to our predicament: "Aerosol Masking" this is to do with particulates in the atmosphere and their ability to cool the earth. Remember how there were news stories about how it was possible to see the Himalayas from Delhi during the Covid 19 lockdown? This was historically accurate, the introduction of the internal combustion engine to cities already over crowded creates smog.
We actually know that loss of aerosol masking raises global temperatures, because it happened during the pandemic lock downs.
The lockdowns and reduced societal activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic affected emissions of pollutants in ways that slightly warmed the planet for several months last year, according to new research. The counterintuitive finding highlights the influence of airborne particles, or aerosols...
www.sciencedaily.com
It's a rock and a hard place.
Human survival, as the entire biosphere has to go through rapid abrupt climate change, is dependent on skill, luck (chance), working together & nature restoration on a massive scale & no guarantee of rescue or survival.
Is that giving up?
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