The BBC is Wrong, Individuals’ Sacrifices Will Not Save a Planet That Doesn’t Need Saving Anyway
By
Linnea Lueken
January 6, 2025
A recent post at the BBC, titled “Seven proven ways to help the planet in 2025,” claims that the planet is threatened by global climate change due to human activity, and lists seven changes people can make in their lives save the planet by curbing emissions. The suggestions include: giving up meat; stopping flying; buying fewer clothes; reducing the carbon footprint of keeping a pet, if you keep one at all; using alternative home heating technologies; supporting fossil fuel divestment; and reducing plastic use. While none of these suggestions are novel, they are also not going to accomplish what the BBC claims, both because human activity is not threatening the planet via carbon dioxide emissions, and because many of these suggestions actually do not reduce emissions or are targeting areas that won’t have any measurable impact even if emissions reductions were desirable. For reasons of brevity, this post will only a address a few of the BBC’s suggestions in detail.
Right out of the gate, the BBC fearmongers with the claim that 2024 saw the first ever time that the “critical 1.5°C threshold was breached for a full year,” which according to the writers reinforces an “urgent need to rapidly cut global emissions.” As Climate Realism has discussed several times, including here, here, and here, the 1.5°C threshold is arbitrary and meaningless as a scientific measurement, it is merely a political tool. The planet has been much warmer in the past, and parts of the world have surpassed that measure for decades already with no catastrophic results. Now that the global threshold has been passed, when the media previously promised catastrophic events would follow, nothing has happened. There was no increase in extreme weather, and other forecasted tipping points have not materialized.
https://climaterealism.com/2025/01/the-bbc-is-wrong-individuals-sacrifices-will-not-save-a-planet-that-doesnt-need-saving-anyway/
