Individual action won't achieve 1.5°C warming — social change is needed, as history shows

The IPCC thinks we still have a chance of keeping warming to 1.5C. But current nationally determined pledges to take action to reduce warming, when combined, are emphatically "not on track to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees C above pre-industrial levels". The window of opportunity is small and shrinking - perhaps 12 years before a 1.5C target is unattainable, assuming in the meantime there is concerted global action to rapidly scale back carbon emissions [...] Look closer, and in an important sense, the IPCC report is all about change and upheaval, especially for the well-off citizens of the developed nations. But it is change on a scale we have never experienced before: “There is no historical precedent for the scale of the necessary transitions, in particular in a socially and economically sustainable way