2023 smashes record for world’s hottest year by huge margin | Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

More like ..... hey fellow shareholders, let's let everyone die so that we can keep making more money, the longer we stay quiet, the more people die, the more people die, the more money we make ... win win

Life will be just fine, humans don't have the power to extinguish life. But we sure do have the power to exterminate ourselves 🤦‍♂️

There is a distinct racist history to how overpopulation is discussed. High-birth-rate countries tend to be low-emissions-per-capita countries, so overpopulation complaints are often effectively saying "nonwhites can't have kids so that whites can keep burning fossil fuels" or "countries which caused the climate problem shouldn't take in climate refugees."

On top of this, as basic education reaches a larger chunk of the world, birth rates are dropping. We expect to achieve population stabilization this century as a result.

At the end of the day, it's the greenhouse gas concentrations that actually raise the temperature. That means that we need to take steps to stop burning fossil fuels and end deforestation.

Right? But anyone that points this out gets shouted down, accused of all sorts of things, and is generally disliked. It doesn't make sense. The human population has exploded, and as a result, our impact on the environment has also exploded. There are more than double the number of people on earth than there were when I was born, and it's noticeable everywhere I go.

Typical corporate line, "It's not OUR fault, there's just lots of people we have to make things for!!!"

If we somehow just stopped burning fossil fuels overnight it would have a huge impact without changing any other thing

Nobody is using equipment which lasts for centuries. This means we can get the world economy off fossil fuels on a timescale of decades, not centuries.

The super-fast version of that looks like:

• generate electricity without burning stuff
• electrify everything we can
• stop doing the things we can't

The IPCC has a detailed chart showing the short-term parts of that

You nailed exactly how I feel. Those of us just trying to make it day to day can't be the only ones trying to do anything when a corporation kills the planet equivalent to a billion people polluting. Someone who accidentally spills oil in the driveway gets in more trouble than a company dumping millions of gallons into the ocean.