"Please Sir. Can I Have Less?"

A report in the journal Bioscience, reveals that many key indicators of the global climate crisis are worsening. The indicators appear to be either approaching or have already exceeded 'tipping points' (situations, where it has become almost impossible to reverse the trend) as our planet heats up. A major lesson of the Covid19 pandemic seems to be that, even with substantially frozen transportation and consumption, reductions are insufficient to counter the climate crisis (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/27/global-heating-critical-measures-tipping-point-study). The report notes that over half the planetary vital signs are currently heading in the wrong direction. These include atmospheric 'greenhouse gas' concentrations, heat content of the oceans and the mass of ice. The reduction of activities over the Covid19 pandemic actually resulted in negligible reductions in carbon dioxide release. Methane and nitrous oxide (other 'greenhouse gases') both set new year-to-date records in 2020 and 2021. It is notable that ruminant livestock (largely cattle and sheep) now exceeds 4 billion. These methane-emitters, have a biomass that is greater than all humans and wild animals (I think they mean Mammals) combined. Most people, even those concerned about the climate crisis, fail to understand the magnitude of the required changes needed to slow or reverse this planetary heating. This will be a very difficult 'sell'.