A Long, Long 'Braking Distance'?

There's been much agonising about the UK opposition party's cutting of its 'green investment pledge'. The pledged £28bn per year, was earmarked for developing 'green' technologies; insulating UK homes; future-proofing infrastructure etc., etc. (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/08/labour-cuts-28bn-green-investment-pledge-by-half). Some folk regard the cuts as a demonstration of 'fiscal responsibility' (looking after the country's finances). Others see it as a slowing down of the needed urgent responses to the looming danger of 'runaway' climate change. It could be false economy, as the costs of countering climate change will get heavier and heavier. The planet is already at the 1.5 degrees Centigrade beyond Industrial times. This was the figure countries pledged to avoid reaching in the Paris Accord. The UK is, of course, not the only nation, where political pressures are slowing any attempts to cut back on global heating. This apparent lack of urgency is staggering. If everyone stopped releasing all nonessential 'greenhouse gases' today, it would still be decades before there would be a major curbing of global heating. Using a car analogy, we are in a prolonged 'skid'. And that's without the possibility we've already exceeded tipping points, where any reversal becomes next to impossible.