Mark Carney, is this you?

When COVID hit and everyone did the stay at home thing we felt the effects almost instantly. Waterways cleared up and air quality improved significantly.

If we stopped burning oil today, entirely, worldwide, the environment should stabilize around temperatures in about 10 years. That'd be a start. That figure also assumes the arctic permafrost hasn't thawed far enough to keep pushing temps itself.

But yes I've read timelines of 100+ years to see real improvement.

Wish you were wrong.

It's depressing how few people know that. Like you think it's bad, it's going to get worse your whole life even if we stop everything today, now.

I think it's maybe too scary of a verified truth for many people to even register. Like most people's brains are protecting them by blocking them from understanding it.

Yes, it's a sunk cost, we may as well just keep destroying the habitabilty of the planet since we've come this far, we ain't no quitters.

It would be a bit like stopping smoking. We'd see some improvements almost straight away, as someone mentioned, look back at the covid lockdowns, but there would also be slower responding, longer term, benefits. The sooner we start, the sooner we get there, and you might not have smoky summers for the rest of your days.

The best time is 50 years ago. The second best time is right now.