When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth’s atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

“This problem is not going away, and we’re moving further and further into uncharted territory, and almost certainly, very dangerous territory.”

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Yeah the attitude of “let China fix this” is really annoying. Don’t people want to be the world leaders in fixing a global problem?

    Also “just let China fix this” means only China will have all of the skill experience with the technology that we’ll all be using in the future. Why would you want that? It’s just laziness plain and simple.