In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms
In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming’s harms
We don’t give a fuck, give us cheap gas. We want cheap gas and continue useless consumption. Let’s consume the earth!
I was taught about global warming in school in the 90ies, warned, tried to warn and convince others, but apparently I’m wishing for the impossible and reducing consumption would be an economic disaster. So let’s consume all the earth. I’m sure this won’t be economically catastrophic in the lomg run either.
You don’t even have to reduce consumption. You can consume all you’d like. Fuck with modern solar and energy storage tech we could consume /more/ if we’d just stop setting everything on fire for lazy and stupid reasons.
This is crazy.
We learned about climate change in the 1980s in school, and I distinctly remember that a whole bunch of new cars around 1986 and 1987 came painted green. I had never seen green cars before during my lifetime as a school aged kid. To me it was a new color for a car. In my childhood brain it was an obvious connection to the perception that gas cars were considered problematic. [ * ]
If I remember correctly the mass media around 1988 was saying that we could only grow carbon for a few more years and then we would have to plateau carbon production on a per annum basis.
[ * ] at around the same time as this was going on, there was a famine in Ethiopia, and I learned that automobiles in north America had been implicated in causing the drought in Africa because they modulated ocean evaporation rates. And that globally cars don’t really cause most of the CO2. The system started to seem very complicated and the dynamics were not simple cause-effect chains…