...๐There simply is no other possibility if we are to withstand once more the #Kassandra predictions๐ like mine here, or e.g. quite some time ago, about the #Overshoot, the #PopulationBomb, the #GreenRevolution, and the importance of the so-called #PhantomCarryingCapacity:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112047709692840344.
As I summed up in this in this thread here, I guess, is the best example of ๐the imminent reality of this #PhantomCarryingCapacity is deep-well...
It all became very clear to me, when I read this insightful article about #Overshoot:
[CW: This is a quintessential article, however, I strongly recommend *not* reading it if you're suffering from a depression, etc.!]
After further reading and contemplation, I wrote this thread about the the #PhantomCarryingCapacity and the quintessential #SecondGreenRevolution:
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(9/9)
...That said, there is a lot we could do, apart from #PopulationControl, rethinking building construction (e.g. using #WindCatchers*), but first and foremost, a #SecondGreenRevolution, using a combination of #Agrivoltaics and #WaruWaru:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109972629386382918
*
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110624369550177707
//
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(8/9)
...the #ExtinctionLevelEvent will most likely not be limited to plants and animals...
(2) https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/08/23/is-there-enough-metal-to-replace-oil/
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(7/n)
"...is created this way. There is ๐no substitute.๐ This is why fertilizer prices (and thus, food prices) are getting higher and higher, because #NaturalGas has gotten so expensive..."
Instead of using natural gas exclusively for fertilizer production, we are just "firing away"
Humans have essentially painted themselves into a corner." (1)
Another #overshoot seems hard to avoid.
This time, the
#PhantomCarryingCapacity...
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(6/n)
"...about #oil is [in contrast] that all of the #energy is already stored inside of it." (1)
"Is There Enough Metal to Replace #Oil?" asked #RobertHunziker in 2022.
"The short answer: No, not even close!" (2)
And then, there's the food issue:
"About ๐50% of the worldโs #food production depends on #fertilizer๐ that...
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(5/n)
"...8 billion people is ๐completely dependent on #FossilFuels๐ such as #oil and natural #gas."
"Without plenty of affordable energy, we cannot continue to grow our population or even maintain it."
"...all this #GreenEnergy requires another finite resource:
#RareEarthMetals. The great thing..."
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(3/n)
"...anticipate the #GreenRevolution, which took off in the 1970s.
๐#Farmers began to use new chemical #fertilizers such as #phosphorous and #ammonia (which is derived from #NaturalGas), and #agrochemicals such as #pesticides and #herbicides [#oil derivatives]).๐
In addition, they began to use new types of #farming equipment that mechanized #cultivation and harvesting.
But thatโs not all. In the past, a #drought...
#ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity
(2/n)
"...In an early edition, the preface read:
โThe battle to feed all of #humanity is over. In the ๐1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death๐ in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate.โ
"#Ehrlich was [only] wrong because he didnโt..."
* #ClimateCatastrophe #Overshoot #PhantomCarryingCapacity *
(1/n)
The #AngloSaxon capitalist model ruined earth for humanity and many other species. #BigOil has been its undertaker, b/c #BigOilKnew.
If capitalism hadn't made the #GreenRevolution possible, human society would already have reached the #overshoot (1) point at the end of the last century:
In 1968, the #biologists Paul and Anne #Ehrlich wrote the book The #PopulationBomb"...
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