The decarbonization optimism of the Decade Zero era collapsed under observable rebound effects.

Evidence

Something shifted in me one year into that wretched disease, though. Maybe it was sparked by news that emissions were already rebounding in China, as they soon would everywhere else. Or maybe it was when Joe Biden started handing out thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits. Or when the cruise ships filled with tourists wanting to see Alaska’s glaciers before they are gone started showing up again off the coast where I now live. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1048

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s climate trajectory interests; parallels This Changes Everything’s arc and the broader failure of the ‘Decade Zero’ rhetoric Klein now traces.