It's about 20 years later than it should have happened, and we've got a lot of speed to scrub, but late is a heck of a lot better than never.
Climate change is accompanied by an incredible amount of doomerism. I've had lots of people tell me variations of "we're all doomed anyway, I'm going to vote for the drill drill drill party and party until the world ends".
If we don't celebrate the wins we do have, everybody will give up.
You are off by one derivation. Breaking would be putting the carbon from the atmosphere back into the ground, which we are not doing at all.
Your doomerism argument is a strawman, it is fact that we are still accelerating the current temperature excursion. If it helps you, we are at one of the coldest moments in earth's history, so most of what climate change will cause will have been there before.
Like when people took “two weeks to flatten the curve” with a silent “and then the pandemic is completely over” instead of the obvious “well then it has to go down later for it to mean anything”.
