Thread by @safiume

#carbonneutral after 2030 is too late, find out why:

https://twitter.com/safiume/status/1265524983343742981

SR 1.5 recommended we stay below 1.5ºC by 2100, yet oddly allowed for overshoot pathways. An overshoot would cost us in biodiversity and global food security, as well as further weaken the climate by accelerating warming past more tipping elements.

To avoid hitting more tipping elements, we need to switch from fossil fuels to renewables asap, increase energy efficiency, & deploy more renewable power. All the while increase DAC R&D. Tons of room for innovation here! IEA is already planing iea.li/2VQB0Pn

Unlike the Koch/Mercer/Bannon spread&subsidized doom, gloom & gaslighting and false reports from the climate deniers, there will be a full job ecosystem in STEM fields and sales, management, etc. to be had if we supercharge the Green New Deal. economist.com/the-world-if/2…

Instead, if we wait past 450 ppm or 1.5ºC to go neutral (predicted in the mid-2030s), averting the Climate Catastrophe will be ridiculously more expensive to fix, and we would have to pull out radically more CO₂ with an already further damaged climate.

What to be done? Take the leadership position, grab those rarely gifted first-mover advantages, make $$$ deploying, and regreening the new economy while quickly tapering back on fossil fuels. #innovation #Entrepreneurship #carbontech #stem #greentech #afforestation/reforestation

And what to do right now? Besides using fewer fossil fuels, Help the air miners scale! @airminers airminers.org