Greenhouse gases soared to another record and there’s ‘no end in sight’

https:// wapo.st /47eXiNA

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Don't think anybody is surprised. Has anyone actually tried anything? Nah didn't think so.

Here's me not showering doing all my plastic reduction. Not driving not going on holz. Buying things from shops.

One rich person negates ally efforts

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- We're actually doing enough that the acceleration has started to slow. There's some indications that emissions are going to start dropping in the next few years, but we're still decades from the point where concentrations stop rising.
  
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  Which is a few decades too late to avoid catastrophe
  
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While I appreciate the sentiment, I think it’s unrealistic to expect the greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere to decrease. For that, we already would need net 0 emissions AND some sort of carbon capture system in place.

For now, what must decrease is greenhouse gas emissions, and the article admits that that is what happened (but the decrease was so low it could be attributed to natural fluctuations).

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- There are natural systems capturing carbon as well. The problem is that it takes 10,000 years or so to capture all humans have released to date. So zero emissions would already lower concentration over time.
  
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I'm sure spaceX has nothing to do with it.../s

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- You can probably lose the /s. While space launches do have an environmental impact, it’s honestly negligible compared to manufacturing or even aor travel. It can be reduced of course, most of it is in materials and transport, but scale does matter, and i feel like that ire would be better directed towards the companies that do more damage in a hour than they do in a year.
  
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