ethan’s Reviews > Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown > Status Update

just to drive home my point from yesterday, a literal quote from the team that first developed the genius idea of ‘just keep cooking the earth, one day we’ll uncook it’, emph. mine: “The situation changes substantially if negative emissions ARE ASSUMED TO BE POSSIBLE: the urgency for near-term emissions reduction becomes much less.”

within which i learned, more in depth than i already had, that the powerful people fucking the world to scorched bits are quite literally playing Calvinball with the future survival of (at minimum) 2-4 billion people. they force their programs not to consider systems-level solutions and allow for overshoot of targets like 1.5C based on the hypothetical future existence of tech that IS NOT REAL (carbon sequestration).