Austria has afaik still growing co2 emissions.
Don't know about other countries but at the moment if feels like europe talks a lot but doesn't do much.
EU stands out as the one line that has been trending down.
Germany is different matter, we are still building new coal plants while making wind more or less impossible in Bavaria. Hope that changes as well, if nobody seriously starts nothing will ever get done.
I am afraid that we as a species wont be able to act together quickly enough to have a real chance of halting the run-away changes that seem to be starting up all over the planet.
We need to reduce emissions yesterday and reduce our plastic output considerably. We're not doing anything on a scale big/quick enough to matter.
We don't have until 2050 or the targets some governments have set.
We need it done by next year, 2021, but that's unlikely to happen. We need new laws enacting tomorrow and to give everyone a big kick up the ass to get their acts together.
That's not going to happen, no matter how desperate Greta, Attenborough make it seem.
True. Greta alone won't save the climate for us. We need to get afk and go help her.
Let me just point out that we the species also include you. And me. It's up to us.
Absolutely. And the governments respond to popular pressure. When I say "It's up to us", I mean we should go out, join popular movements and pressure the government.
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/each-countrys-share-co2-emi...
Because carbon emissions are measured at their output. So if european shoe/clothing manufacturers move to china, pollute in china and sell the products back in europe, that pollution would be credited to china when in actuality, the pollution was created for european consumption.
The easiest way to tell is by how large the consumer market is. Europe is the largest consumer market in the world. EU + the non-EU european states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...
Europe is an 800+ million people market with first world living standards. In the US, we probably slightly out-pollute europe on a per capita basis since our standard of living is slightly higher than europe overall, but since europe has 500 million more people than the US, I can safely say that collectively, europe outpollutes every major country/bloc in the world.
Do you think the clothes europeans wear, the electronics europeans use, etc all were created by a green energy fairy?
That's the big problem, it's too fast for the normal adaptation mechanisms.
So while there have been rather elevated temperatures before in geological history, the temperature changes have been very gradual, not the wild rise we've seen in less than 100 years, which is a mere instant in geological terms.
Comparing scientific evidence as religious makes me believe your view is the hysterical / religious one, not based on facts, but on ignorance.
For a bit of perspective, see https://xkcd.com/1732/
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Ice_Age_...
