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Obviously.
There has been essentially 0 effort to actually reign in corporate pollution.
They are still trying to spend their way out instead of punish decades of deception.
And of course there’s a brainwashed mob that will reliably brey liburl ters as they vote us off the cliff.
It’s not zero effort, but not enough effort. The US and EU are both seeing emissions drop at this point; it’s just that it’s happening more slowly than we need, and emissions in China are rising fast enough to more than make up for it.
Industry emissions are regularly underestimated by up to half. To no response.
Divestment is dead in the water.
“Our overall expectation, based on analysis of the announced spending plans of all the large and medium-sized oil, gas and coal companies, is that investment in unabated fossil fuel supply is set to rise by more than 6% in 2023, reaching USD 950 billion.” From iea.org
Yes.
One word. No charts.