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0 pointsahevia4y ago0 comments

Youre right about the difficulty of the task, but should we even be considering 3 degrees of warming as acceptable? That’s a nightmare scenario for most of the global south

5 degrees is a nightmare scenario for the whole world. Albeit I think it’s far more likely if we have to finally admit we’re on the pathway to 3 degrees, many countries might independently deploy solar geoengineering projects to save their skin (especially island nations)

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Helmut100014y ago

I agree, actions (what and to which degree needs to be done) will differ if you plan for 1.5 °C or 3 °C.

moralestapia4y ago

The degree (no pun intended) changes, but the kind of actions you engage with are more or less the same.

This, from a business point of view, if we talk about things like "the entire city will flood in 20 years" (which is what would happen to some places on the 5ºC pathway), then there's not really much to do, honestly.

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