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Ilikereddit15 t1_ivzw3un wrote

Climate change is here!!! We needed the green new deal like yesterday

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ArmlessGeodude t1_iw0k78n wrote

It's too late

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RageAgainstThe t1_iw12dxk wrote

Yes. I've read there is a 10-20 year lag of effects from our yearly output of CO2 and methane. Meaning we are feeling the effects of what we burned around 2000. Plus humanity keeps breaking emission records every year

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hyp0crite t1_iw2bghu wrote

Or we could consider the recent IPCC statement, global emissions need to drop 42% by 2030, but are projected to rise 10%.

The rate of change (warming) is accelerating. So the difference between every year should knock our socks off more than the previous year.

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flamethrower2 t1_iw2dchl wrote

Emissions are global (what anyone burns affects everyone worldwide) and global emissions won't peak until 2030 according to estimates. Emissions have already peaked and are now falling in the US. That has localized effects on public health but won't help climate change.

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_ivzz4xq wrote

What will the green new deal solve?

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TheLyz t1_iw0jtdi wrote

Climate change were you not listening

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_iw10mng wrote

How will it solve climate change?

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TheLyz t1_iw17z43 wrote

Since capitalism is entirely motivated by money, we make it profitable to play by our rules (move towards green technologies) and expensive to ignore them (carbon tax).

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cjh79 t1_iw1bhug wrote

You sound skeptical, which is natural, but I'm curious what strategy you support for combating climate change.

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thekuroikenshi t1_iw2jdao wrote

User is sealioning ignore them

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donutsforkife t1_iw0hv51 wrote

Dude green is in the title. What more do you want

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_iw10qba wrote

I would like to know how.

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DustyIT t1_iw1272t wrote

So go read the resolution's text?

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-Horatio_Alger_Jr- t1_iw13l3g wrote

I have read it. What will the green deal do to stop climate change?

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DustyIT t1_iw1702m wrote

You've read a proposal about a 10 year plan to massively switch to renewable energy and you don't know how that would help us to change our climate change trajectory?

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Moparmuha t1_iw12pzo wrote

Do you hear about the ozone damage anymore, no because we solved that. Do you hear about smog anymore, no we solved for that too. We’ll solve Co2 emissions as well, but like the rest it will take time and legislation. We could solve gun violence just as easily if not for knuckle dragging Republicans.

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