"Don't fall for the clickbait," he said, clickbaiting...

Followed by an article of pure equivocation (or, as another reader pointed out, strange mental acrobatics).

1.5 is no longer viable. (See Jan Rapan's excellent comment for more.) No, I don't work for the fossil fuel companies. No, I don't think we should give up. At all. We should be doing everything we can. But this kind of false hope breeds complacency. People see "we can solve this!", then breathe a sigh of relief and go back to BAU.

We can't "solve" climate change. There's way too much already baked in. We can only try to avoid the most horrific scenarios and try to save lives by doing everything we can. And I do mean everything -- everything about our carbon hungry, for-profit society that runs on dense energy has to change.

What's "doomed" is the high population, dense energy consuming society we've all come to know (some certainly more than others).