Climate Damage Becomes Too Severe To Reverse

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Axios ran an outstanding analysis of the global climate crisis and the future of the environment. Parts of it were highly pessimistic. The hopeful parts rely on actions governments and huge companies are not likely to undertake.

Much of the Axios analysis relies on an analysis published in The Conversation. It is titled

“The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C.” Its primary point–” The promise is that we can overshoot past any amount of warming, with the deployment of planetary-scale carbon dioxide removal dragging temperatures back down by the end of the century.”

New Technology

Such a deployment could only happen if such a technology were invented, and it could be implemented on a scale the cost of which ranges into the trillions of dollars. In the meantime, the disregard for climate goals among huge corporations like Exxon and Chevron will not change. There is very little pressure on them to alter their businesses. As a matter of fact, fossil fuel demand could actually rise. Nuclear, wind, and solar will not be online soon enough.

As for the activities of nations, China has made extraordinary steps forward with solar and wind. However, its remains the largest importer of crude in the world. The air quality in the country worsens each year, as does climate fuel surges in temperatures that are to blame for thousands of deaths.

US Oil

In the midst of all these other problems, the US is now the world’s largest provider of oil. The government has done too little to fund solar and wind. Wind, in particular, has had trouble with expansion because of what have been faulty structures.

The idea that the climate crisis will be improved in the future is more foolish than the idea that it is being addressed seriously and widely today.