<story><title>Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>554070</author><text>Does anyone else feel like we&amp;#x27;ll fail to make reasonable progress on climate change? I&amp;#x27;m naturally inclined towards pessimism, but I feel that the political solutions aren&amp;#x27;t going to work out and that the market isn&amp;#x27;t moving fast enough for humanity to get ahead of it.&lt;p&gt;Edit: to clarify, I think that political solutions won&amp;#x27;t work not because there aren&amp;#x27;t good ideas or that we couldn&amp;#x27;t collectively do a lot, but because there&amp;#x27;s too much money and power held by special interest groups that pollute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gns24</author><text>To be honest my rational view is that the situation is hopeless. We haven&amp;#x27;t even managed to stop global emissions increasing annually yet. That&amp;#x27;s the second derivative of temperature (even ignoring any feedback loops); the rate at which we&amp;#x27;re causing temperatures to increase is itself still increasing.&lt;p&gt;I disagree about special interest groups being the main problem; political will of the population is just as much of an issue. Even in the UK where the majority of people do believe in climate change, successive governments have failed to increase duty on fuel because of a popular outcry every time they attempt to.&lt;p&gt;I have friends who alternate posts on social media between complaining about a lack of action on climate change and posting photos of their latest intercontinental travel. People are prepared to do quite a lot to look after the planet. What they seem less accepting of is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; doing things.</text></comment>
<story><title>Major Climate Report Describes a Strong Risk of Crisis as Early as 2040</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>554070</author><text>Does anyone else feel like we&amp;#x27;ll fail to make reasonable progress on climate change? I&amp;#x27;m naturally inclined towards pessimism, but I feel that the political solutions aren&amp;#x27;t going to work out and that the market isn&amp;#x27;t moving fast enough for humanity to get ahead of it.&lt;p&gt;Edit: to clarify, I think that political solutions won&amp;#x27;t work not because there aren&amp;#x27;t good ideas or that we couldn&amp;#x27;t collectively do a lot, but because there&amp;#x27;s too much money and power held by special interest groups that pollute.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>twblalock</author><text>I have zero confidence that enough action will be taken before it is too late.&lt;p&gt;Even if almost every country in the world takes immediate drastic action, all it takes is inaction by a single major polluter to ensure that the negative consequences of climate change will occur anyway.&lt;p&gt;Voters will think, why should we make sacrifices when we will get screwed anyway, because other countries won&amp;#x27;t take action?</text></comment>