@americanfietser.bsky.social and, indeed, in the second half of this century we as a planet are going to be critically short of metals, so there isn't going to be metal for a new electric car for everyone.
Well, if we keep fossil fuelled smelters going there could be. But if we do that we're all dead.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2021-08-18-wheres-the-steel/
From the discovery of iron working techniques, about 3,200 years ago, up until the widespread exploitation of fossil fuels, about 250 years ago, iron and steel were rare, precious materials. The average person, across the whole world, almost certainly had less than 500 grammes of it. A knife, probably; some tool of their trade, possibly. Even members of the elite — warriors who fought in full armour, for example — probably owned no more than 30kg of iron and steel.The use of fossil fuel changed all that, of course. There's about one car for every two people in the UK, and the average car now weighs 1857Kg, so that's almost a ton per person in cars alone, not to mention all the steel we now have in buildings and infrastructure. But it's fossil fuels that have made that possible. In future, we can't use them. So how much steel will we have?
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I started reading the Global Justice Report. This is the result of a macroeconomic modeling exercise that tracks a path to a sustainable future via #degrowth, sufficiency and massive redistribution. The target: everyone in the world gets to a 5,000 EUR monthly income, while staying under 2°C temperature increase.
"Concretely: Per capita monthly national income converges to €5,000 in every country, closing a 16-fold gap."
@Shivviness Here's tae us, whae's lik us? Damn few, an we're aa deid.
Hydro-Québec : le plus gros réservoir à son plus bas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWYDrvuItnE
#Québec #Canada #MassExtinction #ecology #environment #Climate #ClimateJustice #EndFossilFuels #ClimateEmergency #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown
Europe is officially the world's fastest warming continent and it's not even close
We spend a lot of time talking about problems, effects, and causes. Sadly, we fixate on problems' effects rather than focus on their causes.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/soapbox/2024/01/problems-effects-causes
#ClimateEmergency #COVID #wars #problems #effects #causes #solutions
Ouch, I did not realize how racist that guy's statements were.
NY Times, Aug 14, 2019
"Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery--and are still believed by doctors today.... They believed that black people had large sex organs and small skulls — which translated to promiscuity and a lack of intelligence — and higher tolerance for heat, as well as immunity to some illnesses and susceptibility to others. These fallacies, presented as fact and legitimized in medical journals, bolstered society’s view that enslaved people were fit for little outside forced labor and provided support for racist ideology and discriminatory public policies."
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BBC: Global heating: Study shows impact of 'climate racism' in US (May 2021)
"A new study says that black people living in most US cities are subject to double the level of heat stress as their white counterparts.
The researchers say the differences were not explained by poverty but by historic racism and segregation.
As a result, people of colour more generally, live in areas with fewer green spaces and more buildings and roads.
These exacerbate the impacts of rising temperatures and a changing climate."
Llewelyn Pritchard
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