Comment by runarberg

> the worst thing we can do to ourselves as a society is panic and turn all of our attention towards climate-based dogma.

We’ve tried doing nothing for a decade and see where that has brought us. I say the strategy of remaining calm has failed, I say it is past time for us to panic and scream as if we are all going to die, because we are.

I know I am a climate doomer, why wouldn’t I be? I’ve been complaining about climate change since I was a teenager, waiting for the governments to stop it, only to realize they value corporate profits over, you know, our climate, and worse, my life. We are all doomed, and we are all going to die now.

Realistically we are only going to see 1.5° if we take immediate action now! This means close all fossil fuel plants, close all highways, shut down airports, close all cement factories, stop producing chemical fertilizers, etc. Realistically 4-5° is a business as usual, that is we enact no climate policies other than existing ones, where governments promise and then fail to deliver. Realistically 4-5° is the most plausible option. Realistically a realistic climate action could bring us down to 2-3°. However given how governments have acted so far, I see no reason but to panic and scream, we are all going to die in a 4-5° inferno.