I don't think the big enough changes will be initiated in the next few years. They said we have around 12 years though and I wonder if in five to eight years people might be inclined to action? There has been a lot of media coverage of the extreme weather disasters, if they continue I wonder if that will gather political momentum? Especially if the disasters start to affect the biggest polluters.
The problem is that the lifestyle shift needed in countries like the UK is so substantial.
People I know are buying bamboo toothbrushes but still flying, driving unnecessarily, eating red meat most days, buying imported tat that gets chucked out. The interest is there but not the desire to make any significant sacrifices. I hope this will change soon.
I wonder how these multimillionaires who fund anti-planet campaigns can live with themselves, especially if they have children.
The report did mention a scenario where we overshoot the target to I think 3.7 Fahrenheit (I don't know how many centigrade) but then drastically reduce emissions and carbon capture (does that even exist yet??) and manage to lower temperatures a bit. I wonder if this is possible, or will the world be in such crisis that the global coordination and foresight needed to do this won't be possible?