Jeff McFaddenJul 8, 2023
One can call it climate change, or be more inclusive like I am and call it ecosystem catastrophe, but everyone but out-and-out lunatics knows we've broken nature. We've already killed well over half of everything - yes, really, over half of all wildlife which existed on Earth on my 25th birthday is gone today, through a combination of extinction and population collapse. Same with birds. I think bugs it's worse. Go drive in the country at night and - used to be the bugs would blind you. Not now.
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
2. We are wildly out of balance with the ecosystem, with the planet where we evolved.
Yes, there are a lot of us, but if everyone disappeared except Americans and Germans and whoever makes all their shit - all of Asia, basically - we'd still kill Earth.
Temperature changes did not take away half of all life, because we did most of it before there was much measurable change.
Making the change so fast it's measurable is new.
And it's taking off like Mush's Flying Penis.
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
3. We are not burning more fossil fuels because bankers finance them. That's exactly backwards.
Bankers finance fossil fuels because we, the climate conscious people of the developed world, have signed purchase orders for all of it in advance.
Financing fossil fuels is like a license to print money.
We know what we do with all the energy. It's not a mystery.
We have charts like this one.
In this chart, Lawrence Livermore National Labs shows where, in 2019 specifically, the US got its energy.
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
We got our energy from the colored boxes along the left vertical. So much petroleum, so much coal, so much natural methane, so much nuclear heat engine, so much dead riverine ecosystem (ahem. Pardon me. Renewable Hydroelectric) and, way up in the stratosphere, wind and solar.
The theory is, we're going to build enough more of that part to replace all the rest.
I find it interesting that the number one consumer of coal in the US and worldwide is generating electricity, so we're all yelling
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
5. ELECTRIFY EVERYTHING based on the assumption that before it matters we'll have replaced all the coal and gas we currently generate electricity with with (depending on the school of thought) stationary nuclear bombs, or wind turbines, solar panels, and FM.
So, here's another chart.
This one's a little older, but the division of the pie doesn't change much. Over half of all the energy used in the world is used by industry.
All the residents in all the Earth in all the cities, towns, and
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
6. mansions, all put together, used 12.6% of all the energy.
One huge sector of #ClimateAction is cutting residential use.
Change stoves. Change space heating tech. Insulate.
If we eliminated 100% of all residential use in the whole world we would still have 87.4% of the emissions.
Almost 90% wouldn't change at all.
Because it's mostly industry, and what's left is mostly transportation.
Works the same in the US. The boxes on the right are where we use the energy.
Plus the orange fudge factor.
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
7. Almost three quarters of our total global emissions come directly from industry and transportation, where most of what is transported is inputs into, and outputs out of, industry.
The only thing that #ClimateActivists agree on is that we must immediately, drastically, increase our manufacturing and shipping. For the climate.
We have to manufacture enough giant steel towers to cover the plains and mountains of the world with giant spinning blades, each standing in a concrete base halfway
Show threadchainsaw elf
@JeffAndDonkeys there he is. Been looking for Jeff since I bailed on the bird site.
Jul 9, 2023 at 1:29amWeb
Show threadJeff McFaddenJul 9, 2023
@dgoldgar Good to see you.
Show threadchainsaw elfJul 9, 2023
@JeffAndDonkeys good to see you too. Looking forward to some donkey videos.