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We've barely managed to make a tiny dent
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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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That period between 1990 and 1995 where there seems to be 3 consecutive years where it slowed to a relative crawl... Imagine if we did that. What if we plateaued there for a few years - decades even - and then started dropping. A wonderful thought.
I think that’s partly due to the fall of the soviet union, which caused a noticeable drop in carbon emissions.
So you're saying... /j
On a more serious note, I don't consider myself to be entirely out of the loop on historical events, but I had just never made the connection that the soviet union fell quite that recently. That's only a handful of years before I came into the world.