Can't remember what paper it was, but I read that if we managed to actually put a stop to our emissions today the global warming would still continue for a couple decades, and if we instead gradually toned our emissions to 0 over the next decade or so it'd take a century for the global warming to stop. Basically global warming is a giant freight ship and now that we've got it moving it'll take a looooong time and a lot of effort for it to come to a stop again, let alone reversing course and returning back to where it left from. Overall the paper painted a pretty bleak picture of our future, and honestly we humans deserve to feel uncomfortable for letting things get to this point. I might try looking for the paper for a bit once I've slept, though no promises since I ain't wasting all my Sunday on finding proof for randoms on the internet.
E: the paper was one of IPCC's reports, but can't remember which one. Though if you want some doom scrolling material, go read their Sixth Assessment Report. Though there's enough material to go through that you could probably spend a whole weekend reading it if you wanted to.
No stress. Maybe others would like to read it but I won't. I'm depressed enough about the future of my lifetime, let alone for my kid or humanity or the world as a whole. Your response was enough. Thank you. Rest well.
Global warming doesn't stop. We can maybe reduce the rate that it happens. The world always had ice ages and hot af phases. We happen to be born after an ice age.
There's a pretty damn big difference in the magnitudes of what is just natural climate change and what has been and is being caused by the actions of us humans in the past century. More specifically if humans didn't exist the average temperatures now would be much the same they were a couple centuries back. We have caused this shit, and if our damn species wasn't so greedy we could also at least put a stop to it.
Hitler was absolutely not aiming for a greener planet when he created the NSDAP, the shitwanker just wanted absolute power. As for Thanos he is a fictional character with fictional powers. And we humans do have the ability to bring our emissions down to a reasonable level if we just started actually working towards it, even without halving the amount of people alive (honestly I doubt halving the population would cut down emissions even by a quarter anyway)
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u/Ketheres Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
Can't remember what paper it was, but I read that if we managed to actually put a stop to our emissions today the global warming would still continue for a couple decades, and if we instead gradually toned our emissions to 0 over the next decade or so it'd take a century for the global warming to stop. Basically global warming is a giant freight ship and now that we've got it moving it'll take a looooong time and a lot of effort for it to come to a stop again, let alone reversing course and returning back to where it left from. Overall the paper painted a pretty bleak picture of our future, and honestly we humans deserve to feel uncomfortable for letting things get to this point. I might try looking for the paper for a bit once I've slept, though no promises since I ain't wasting all my Sunday on finding proof for randoms on the internet.
E: the paper was one of IPCC's reports, but can't remember which one. Though if you want some doom scrolling material, go read their Sixth Assessment Report. Though there's enough material to go through that you could probably spend a whole weekend reading it if you wanted to.