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Amy ideas how close we are to this actually happening? I saw we hit 1.8° a few weeks ago... .2° is not a big difference..
Even without any fossil fuels, the current food system alone is responsible for +2°C
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357 (2020)
That depends on human decisions.
Phase out fossil fuels and end deforestation over the next few decades and it never happens.
Keep on burning more each year? A few decades.
A few decades it is then 😔
It doesn't have to be that way. Do what you can to put your thumb on the scale of policy, and we might shift things.
I know, sorry to be so defeatist.