Action needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body

Action needed to avoid disastrous overshoot of climate targets, according to organisation’s environment body

The world needs to cut carbon emissions by nearly a fifth in the next four years, and by close to half within a decade, to avoid overshooting climate targets by a disastrous margin.

Although the “window has closed” on holding temperature rises to 1.5C, in line with scientific advice, limiting the “overshoot” of that target is still possible, according to the UN Environment Programme (Unep).

But countries are failing to translate their long-term targets on reducing emissions into short-term actions, a report on the “emissions gap” between climate goals and policies has found.

  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    You don’t need a truck if it sit still most of the time. At best you need a friend with a truck and maybe a station wagon. I know it because it’s all around me.

    The only reason people think they need a truck is because the car industry decided thats what they want to sell to people. The plain reason for that is that it gives them the highest profit margin . In the early 2000 they wanted you to have an SUV for the same reason. There’s good video on the subject that you can easily find, where they explain how selling cars that falls in the “light truck” category (like the truck you own) is more profitable since around 15 years now.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      21 hours ago

      The F150 is our only other vehicle. Shall I sit at home when my wife is in the office 3-days a week? I do anyway, but sometimes have to leave. We also pick crap off the side of the road to sell at the flea market or FB Marketplace. And it was very nice to go to my camp in the boonies and haul home emergency gear before Hurricane Isaias. Four of my neighbors were damned happy I could run a genny out the back and keep their fridges on and phones charges for 5-days.

      Which kinda speaks to my point of judging truck drivers without knowing their story. Sure, there’s lots of assholes out there that don’t truly need a truck, but when I need it, I need it. In the last year we’ve replaced the dishwasher, clothes washer and fridge from FB. How was I to get those home? (Bad luck that year, but those are the nicest we’ve ever had! 😁)

      As to the profit margins, oh boy do I know. I got schooled on that during my brief stint as a Chevy salesman in '93. We could charge shitloads more for a full-sized truck vs a smaller one. Same engineering, labor and safety costs, all that and more, for just a little more steel.

      Assuming I get a decent job again, and assuming they work out, I’m holding out for a Slate truck. I’d kill for a small truck, all electric, no bullshit, not even a radio.