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It's worse than that, and better at the same time.
I can't help noticing that Americans seem to see "climate change" and "the environment" as basically the same thing. That is: if you can just fix the first, you fix the second too.
But that's just not right. Climate change is only one of the problems we're facing. We could hit net zero tomorrow, or even net-minus-10% (i.e. draw down carbon), and it would do nothing at all to solve the myriad other semi-unrelated challenges. For example: deforestation, topsoil loss, freshwater depletion, overfishing, microplastic pollution, nitrogen and pesticide pollution, and of course the overarching issues of habitat loss and collapsing biodiversity.
Climate is almost a red herring. The real issue is our entire model of civilization, based on massive disruption of all kinds of natural processes.
The good news, ironically, is that the climate problem is at least somewhat fixable: just stop burning stuff (and then try to reverse the process). And despite the pessimism, we are actually making progress on this! Emissions are peaking earlier than predicted, the future temperature forecasts are better than they were a decade ago. Few people seem to know this good news. BTW: it's thanks mostly to China, without the Chinese green-tech revolution we would be in deep trouble.
The less good news is that solving climate will not solve the other problems. There are many of them and they are serious.
Oh just watch in 20-30yr for when coffee is no longer affordable to us commoners. Gonna get rough for a while. Actually why my goal ia to live at least another 35 years. Want to see that hell and the fallout.