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U.N. Says World Will Miss Its 1.5-Degree Celsius Climate Target (www.nytimes.com)

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It proposed a new goal of limiting the “overshoot” of rising temperatures and eventually figuring out how to undo the temperature gains, a highly uncertain path.

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[–] lntl@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Feels like the world has given up on having a broadly habitable planet.

Sidewalks? Nope. Benches? Hostile. Housing? Fuck you. Earth? Too hot.

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