Penny SturtApr 15, 2023
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"What we urgently require is a Marshall Plan-style roll-out of low and zero carbon technologies..retrofitting our houses, public transport, and massive electrification. Itโ€™s..โ€˜far-from-sexyโ€™ end of technology thatโ€™s important; ..rather than dreams of big and powerful electric vehicles (EVs), electric planes, and lots of future carbon dioxide removal."

https://www.sgr.org.uk/resources/getting-real-what-would-serious-climate-action-look

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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like? | SGR: Responsible Science

Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really committed to keeping global temperature change close to 1.5ยฐC - and how there would be wider benefits too. Article from Responsible Science journal, no.5; advance online publication: 19 March 2023  

Scientists for Global Responsibility
Apr 15, 2023 at 7:33amWeb
Show threadPenny SturtApr 15, 2023
@SiR_GameZaloT thanks for sharing
Show thread504BatteryDrApr 15, 2023

@SiR_GameZaloT

Sounds like just more destruction of the natural world in a vain attempt to keep humans comfortable while the world collapsed around us, imo.

It will fail.

Without a healthy, robust natural world and the biodiversity that goes with it, nothing will survive.

Show threadJonApr 15, 2023

@SiR_GameZaloT 70% of global emissions come from corporations. This is predatory profit-making at the expense of the ecosphere.

There is no existing method of carbon dioxide sequestration that has been scaled. It's been compared to greenwashing and is often used as a rationale by the fossil fuel sector to actually increase their emissions.

Retrofitting private housing and the use of EV's is available to a privileged few and as an emissions saver can be compared to watering house plants while Rome burns.

The science community has resoundingly stated that we need to stop creating emissions. That's the only thing that works.

Sharply curtail mining, stop padding and creating unnecessary markets.

Corporations need to be held in check.