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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by munificent on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:27PM (#22004598)
It is a long-term problem, which means sign of the highest derivative is what matters most. If acceleration is negative then eventually velocity will be too, and that means eventually we'll start lowering absolute values.

Since change at human scale is never a step function, signs of progress will always appear at higher derivatives firsts.

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Re:US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 by kerkeslager on Thursday January 09, 2020 @09:59PM (#22008026)
> It is a long-term problem, which means sign of the highest derivative is what matters most. If acceleration is negative then eventually velocity will be too, and that means eventually we'll start lowering absolute values.

And how many people will die first?

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