True Left

Since democratic nations have no interest in doing anything to genuinely make the tiniest of dents in global warming, I have been thinking that the impending climate crisis will be a prime opportunity to necessitate the formation of autocratic governments in Western nations. Democratic election cycles mean the can is kicked down the road every 2/4/6/8 years and bickering among political parties makes it so that no solid solution can ever be agreed upon. By the time to problem grows so massive that it is simply impossible to ignore, it will be too late (and it is already too late to avoid much of the damage).

Leftists are well-aware of this, and it will provide a reasonable justification for False Leftists to finally admit the necessity of changing to a form of government which can actually govern efficiently and with the welfare of society as a whole in mind. Indeed, all the solutions to the climate crisis are already there and have been written in plain language for decades, but as long as capitalism and democracy are in place, the solutions will never be implemented.

A team from NASA and NOAA found that Earth's "energy imbalance" doubled between 2005 and 2019. The energy imbalance is simple to understand but complex in its causes and impacts. It is the difference between the amount of energy absorbed by Earth and the amount of energy emitted by it.

Any increase in the energy imbalance means the overall Earth system is gaining energy, causing it to heat up.

https://www.sciencealert.com/our-atmosphere-s-storing-energy-twice-as-fast-as-15-years-ago

If we stopped all emissions today, the planet would warm for at LEAST a century, and very likely closer to scales of millenia. CO2 lasts for hundreds of years in the atmosphere, and then only goes into other forms of the carbon cycle slowly over thousands of years (or never).

Firstly, there is a delay in air temperature increase. This means that the carbon already emitted will take 40 years to reach its full potential. This is largely due to the slow process of Earth's oceans warming. In many ways, we're only feeling the full effects of emissions from the 80's right now.

There are feedback loops. As the planet warms, the oceans cannot absorb as much CO2. Methane, which works on scales of hundreds of years instead of thousands(but is much more effective at heating), will be released more and more on large swaths of land as time goes on.

Other feedback loops include deforestation, wildfires, and albedo effects, melting ice caps, and increasing water vapor which will only amplify the damage that has already been done.

Think about that: If we did the impossible and switched entirely to 100%, zero-emission, fictional renewables today and provided zero carbon footprint... We'd still be in dire conditions for generations to come.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/oimpq5/earths_atmosphere_is_retaining_heat_twice_as_fast/h4wybgg/


Apparently the Amazon Rainforest is pretty much destroyed now as well:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/14/biggest-story-world-right-now-humanity-has-flipped-amazon-carbon-sink-source

Only laws can stop corporations from murdering the planet, and democracies will never enact those laws.