We just hit 1.5 C above per-industrial levels for the first time.

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Global temperatures exceed 1.5C above pre-industrial levels for first time
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Climate change must be stopped by any means necessary. Start doing what must be done. You know what that means.

Eat the rich.

It's not enough. We (rich and not so rich) must either consume less, or be less people.

The first route involves changing technologies AND habits. And I'm not talking about recyclable bags or save water at home.

You change habits by making it more expensive to do unsustainable shit. Very few states here in the US are willing to properly tax carbon emissions. Very few Americans are willing to remove the subsidies that the beef industry enjoys which would see steak at $35/lb.

Just saying "consume less" does very little. People respond to incentives. Peoples' wallets are big incentives.

On the other hand, this problem is global. We all need to work together in order to succeed. That's the hardest part.

Recycle harder?

I HAVE ALL THE PAPER STAWS* IM DOING MY BEST!!! *now with more cancer microplastics!

I think he means vote or die.

Or eat the rich

That would not fight climate change at all.

It would significantly lower emissions given that the rich produce a hell of a lot more emissions than the average person.

They objectively do not because no percent of people are rich.

I mean if we lived in a society where we could tax billionaires out of existence, then we could probably solve climate change with all that tax revenue.

Says the rich.

Killing rich people doesn't stop people from driving cars or eating livestock or flying on airplanes or trading on sea lanes or requiring heat for their homes/water/etc or needing electricity

Big words, why don't you go ahead and show us how it's done then? Or are you just going to chest pound from behind your monitor?

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