IPCC: Sixth Assessment Report

It's impossible to interpret this in any other way as that emissions need to be massively reduced within the next couple of years.

Of course, then the cabinet fell in January for completely different reasons, and instead of taking responsibility for that they've been acting in-place until a new coalition is formed. For which they've been dragging their feet (the technically-former prime minister Rutte is on record with saying they're basically free to do whatever because "they can't kick us out any more"). So drunk on nothing-to-lose power they've decided to ignore the fact that they have been ordered by Dutch court of law to do something about the emissions. This is not just my opinion by the way, there's an actual interview where they say that meeting the criteria of the ruling is not a top priority. Because who cares about rule of law? Not the Dutch prime minister, apparently.

Since the pandemic, my personal food waste is finally near zero. In a nutshell, switched to mostly bulk foods, pressure cooker, baking.

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/#SPM

which besides being already up is called "AR6 Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis". It also says the PDF is supposed to be "39 pages".

If they used PR language and used big, visual metaphors, the deniers would nitpick every little detail of it. See how the grand statements of Al Gore's documentary are still used nowadays to prove the climate is not collapsing at the moment. (You can even scroll down here to see it happen).

Flashy educational presentations can quickly backfire - see DARE program or "You wouldn't download a car".

Because it obviously looks theatrical, the dramatization reading the paper...

that said, I honestly have a bad time trying to figure out if there's such a thing as "too alarmist" re. claims like "one third of projected population by 2070 will live in a nearly unlivable earth" https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11350

Seriously; our global civilization is in real danger of collapse in the next fifty years. I do see no reason not to panic or be alarmist?

I find it strange however that people are still able to actually ignore and deny the slew of icebergs we will be hitting in the next years; how can one be so delusional? Is it willful?

I think to a point it is. The idea that all of our oh-so-normal lives with hot showers that every human since the beginning of time enjoyed is coming to an end. And emotionally we just cannot deal with it; it's too big for us to grasp. And so we shut down that part of the brain and just suppress thinking about it.

But regardless, people who can see the curvature of the earth (and could perform other experiments) can still manage to be flat-earthers, so hard-core idiots cannot be convinced of whatever obvious things they choose to not believe in.

Governments will have to set the right incentives for these people to still do the right thing for society in general. Eg. a carbon tax. It's much easier to know which item is cheaper and then choose that.

People can be extraordinary thick-headed, even in the face of direct experience (like people you know dying of covid).

In other words, why would anyone get to "make politics" despite of anyone.

Getting people on the same page means understanding their motives and framing the facts appropriately. Unfortunately, people just want to take sledgehammers to "the other side", as if that's ever really fixed anything.

So yeah, maybe not everyone, but the reward matrix in this game makes very difficult to ignore all of them.

We are past the window for incentives -- we have sufficient observation of how individual incentive-guided action plays out in a finite world built of externalities. We are in the window for action: nationalization/collectivization of the offenders, forfeiture of their assets, and redirection into massive creation of renewables, sustainable industry, carbon capture/mitigation, and global relief for the people displaced and impoverished by climate and food disruption.

Or are you a denier?