The time to end fossil fuel use is 3 decades ago. The second best time is right now, not years from now.
Every climate action plan I’ve seen is always 10-20 years away. Climate change is clearly getting worse every year. This summer was the worst on record for heat waves all across the world, and we still aren’t getting the message. It’s honestly beyond idiotic that we aren’t taking it seriously.
Yeah, it still seems a weird place to complain about it when this is actually a measure of moving the goalposts closer (2030 is certainly less than 10-20 years,) while other industrial nations like the UK and Germany are even backsliding.
I think it’s totally fair to criticize that it isn’t enough, because it isn’t. I just don’t see how engaging in hyperbolic scenarios and defeatism is supposed to help anything. I think it’s also okay to acknowledge when something is at least moving in a slightly less shit direction and use that as a source of encouragment to turn things around further, instead of just saying “well, this is shit”.
