How does walking back the mandate spur more demand, exactly?
"The mandate requires the number of new ZEVs (zero-emission vehicles) sold in Canada to hit 20% by next year, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 in order to help the country hit its emission-reduction targets.
A government release explains that the EV pause and other measures in the strategy will... spur more domestic demand."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-unveils-new-industrial-strategy-1.7626064 #cdnpoli #polcan #noplanetb
There is #noplanetb. 20% was already such a small number...
PM Carney to delay EV mandate, blaming Trump's tariffs.
PS There are OTHER countries that make EVs, eh. WHY AREN'T WE NEGOTIATING W/ THEM, or letting them expand into Canada?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-mark-carney-canada-toronto-justin-trudeau-b2821071.html #cdnpoli #polcan
Meeresströmung im Golf von Panama fast völlig ausgefallen
Wirklich nur eine Laune des Klimas? Oder doch eine Folge unserer Art, mit unserem Planeten umzugehen?
… und das, seit dem die Menschen vor 13.000 Jahren sesshaft wurden. Da bekommt die Aussage „Das haben wir schon immer so gemacht!“ ein ganz anderes Gewicht.
#Ausbeutung #NoPlanetB #KeinPlanetB #Plündern #KlimaSchutz #MenschenSchutz #UmweltSchutz #GermanZero #LocalZero #Verantwortung #Zukunft
Zum ersten Mal seit Beginn der Messungen hat das kalte, nährstoffreiche Tiefenwasser des Golfs von Panama nicht die Meeresoberfläche erreicht. Forschende rätseln über die Gründe für den plötzlichen Stillstand des Auftriebs.
J'interviens aujourd'hui à l'#université d'été du ministère de la transition #écologique pour y aborder la question d'une solution spatiale au changement climatique. Je vais expliquer pourquoi #NoPlanetB, même sur #Mars et déconstruire les concepts d'une solution #technologique spatiale.
“fossil fuels are finite and rapidly depleting, and alternative energy sources cannot fully replace them.”
I’m afraid the second half of this statement does not hold up to scrutinity and runs counter to human ingenuity and drive. Something else entirely is whether whatever is left of resilence and elasticity on Earth ecosystems will last long enough for fossil fuels to be completely phased out and the carbon amounts and cycle restored to preindustrial levels.
“Strategies are needed to broaden society’s goals beyond financial gains and to account for long-term risks and benefits.”
You don’t say.
#EcosystemCollapse #NoPlanetB #Antarctica
The petroleum industry ready to make things worse as usual:
"The problem is only expected to grow, in part because ramping up plastic production is “the fossil fuel industry’s plan B” as revenue from oil and gas drops, Zhu says."
In my view, in future the only form of acceptable plastic will be made from vegetable oil and only for the medical system, for single-use purposes, to be burned afterwards for sanitization. There isn't any other sensible use for plastics, despite our entire modern world depending on them currently for just about everything.
Imagine if the Grand Canyon was littered with those plastic bottles. Alas, it's fine dust so no one screams (yet):
"Collectively, about 1,000 tonnes of plastic fall each year from the atmosphere onto lands in the western United States that are protected and relatively uninhabited, such as the Grand Canyon. That is equivalent to between 120 million and 300 million plastic water bottles, Brahney and her colleagues estimate."
#NoPlanetB #PlasticPollution #EcosystemCollapse #plastics #GrandCanyon
"Each year, plastic production increases exponentially: the total weight of carbon in plastic has surpassed the mass of all animals combined, and is likely to equal the mass of all bacteria by 2095 (see ‘Litter legacy’)"
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