No country on Earth is taking the 2 degree climate target seriously

As the article says, taking the target seriously would mean drastic rapid changes to try and achieve it. Furthermore, it would require worldwide changes - unilaterally restricting yourself would give all the harm but none of the expected benefit.

So every country on Earth has seriously decided that they are not willing to take on the cost of achieving that target; they haven't communicated it explicitly to their voters (because, let's be real, voters don't want to hear bad news), but IMHO that's a serious decision, and not an unilateral one but one that takes into account the will of the voters as well - I'm quite certain that if the necessary changes are actually undertaken anywhere, mandating major restrictions to lifestyles and economics, the mass of protesters will overwhelm the environmental activists and replace the government (with violence, if necessary) with someone else who'll "not take the 2 degree target seriously" and roll back the measures.

Sure but with solar, wind and HVDC prices now below the cost of coal and continuing to drop, with transportation starting down the slippery cost slope of electrification, with China's mass build out with concrete and steel starting to wane in 2030 and beyond and finally with the world population bending the curve around 2050 there will be a dramatic lowering of new atmospheric carbon by 2050 and beyond. Will it be enough to keep sea levels from rising quickly? Fasten your seat belt and tighter your sphincter, by 2100 we'll know if we've won or lost.

Personally I would like to see some temperature mitigation projects right now while we deal with the CO2 levels over the next 80 years.

We've agreed as a species not to prevent global warming. The part I find confusing is that we all keep pretending otherwise. It's very confusing for me. Why do we do this?

Well that's because government are the wrong place to try and make change. A lot of failed policies have been put in place and we keep trying the same thing over and over again thinking we're smarter than the last people.

Investment and innovation are where real and sustainable change happens.

What about Tuvalu? I think they care a lot.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/may/16/o...

It may sound harsh, but that's a good thing for the planet.

There are far too many humans in the world at present. The Earth needs to reduce that number to sustainable levels. By humans disregarding the problems of global warming, there will be global famines which will reduce human numbers markedly.

Climate change is merely a symptom of TOO MANY HUMANS. It's pointless trying to reduce climate change without trying to reduce human numbers.

We have a choice: reduce human numbers ourselves down to around 1-2 billion (possibly with a 'One child per woman' policy which would do the task without trauma) or have the number reduced forcibly (perhaps via the global famines or water-wars which will occur when climate change causes droughts and low water supplies).

Being humans, we'll do nothing and be forced to undergo the trauma of having our numbers reduced forcibly.

If all humans dropped dead tomorrow. What is the change?

We’re still coming out of an ice age. So temperature is will go up. It’s just a matter of how much.

They take the prospect of international socialism a lot more seriously.

Note the article is from 2017. Since no major changes happened since then, the current scenario is much worse.

That’s because, quoting Sonny LoSpecchio, “nobody cares”.

This confirms the widely held supposition that elected officials are, by and large, morons... At some point war will be declared on emission points. By that I mean fossil power plants will need to be destroyed by aggressive acts. If these acts are via domestic drone attacks by your own populace - so be it. It is possible that the situation will become dire, so countries will attack fossil fuel emitters in other countries as their own people start to starve by lack of crops. One hopes it will never come to that. There is, of course, the elephant in the room - stored methane clathrates (a complex of methane and water that forms under fairly low pressure-300 psi or so). They are mainly accumulated under permafrost areas, and as the earth warms and melts the permafrost, the clathrates decompose into methane and water.Large amounts are being exposed in the arctic, where they were formed under the ice caps over millions of years, and stayed metastable until lower pressure/warmer temps allowed them to decompose. Large areas in Northern Russia are now emitting methane from this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_clathrate