The “State of Climate Action 2025” report from the World Resources Institute found that the world’s governments are failing on all 45 indicators of progress towards limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees. Of these, 29 indicators are “well off track”, meaning at least a twofold and for most a fourfold acceleration of progress is needed to meet end-of-decade targets.
Five indicators—the carbon intensity of steel production, the share of kilometres travelled by passenger cars, mangrove loss, share of food production lost, and public fossil fuel finance—are heading in the wrong direction.
There is not even enough data to analyse the trend for the remaining five: the rate of retrofitting buildings, the share of new buildings which are zero-carbon, peatland degradation, peatland restoration and food waste.
But! Imaginary number go up! Line go up!
We really have to start talking about the reality that capitalists will never concede or negotiate. The more real this becomes, the more the privleged people will convince themselves that it is too late to change and therefore it is a fight for survival. Settler-colonialism and imperialism are are very good at generating rationalities for brutal violence and genocidal narratives have emerged from far less dire circumstances. You think it’s a coincidence that doomer narratives appeared in the metropole once the effects of climate change became undeniable?
Climate change mitigation is a death threat to capitalism. There is no world where they coexist as a capitalist system will never accept the material constraints of our world and will seek to dominate any alternative in its imperative for infinite growth. Liberals will always choose a dead world over a living one because their entire way of life needs to construct the world as an object to extract from. When they lie and say they want change, they hope that it will buy them enough time for the genocide to be acceptable in metropole.
Let’s extend that. Capitalism failing on a whole helluva lot more indicators than just climate change. The people in charge said they would look into it and get back to us, so it should be okay. /s
You say that decades of furiously funnelling public money to the private sector and corporations doesn’t provide jobs, housing, food, clean environment, healthcare, and security for all?? Time for a rev.
Tragedy of the commons.
Tragedy for the commoners
Imagine not having a bunker in new Zealand. Pleb
Hey, where’s that funny guy that posted something here saying how capitalism is the best thing we can do for the human race and nothing else can do better? Please show this to him. lmao
Progress in general.
It’s fair to say Capitaliat hegemony and attempts to constrain all other human values is detrimental to quality of life, society, and is a risk to our species as a whole.
