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Capitalism plans only 1 quarter in advance. Even if we stop polluting the world entirely right this second, not a single further inch drilled into an oil deposit, not a single ICE car starting it's engine, not a single plastic toy produced, it would still be at least 50 years before we see a plateauing of these temperatures, and even that isn't a guarantee based on ecological negative feedback loops.
If I was you, I'd be looking at making keffiyehs for me and my family. It's gonna get hot.