Bread and CircusesJul 25, 2023

In case you didn't already know, Net Zero is a scam promoted by the fossil fuel industry and their financiers to perpetuate Business As Usual for as long as possible...
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"Why Net Zero is not enough"

More than 4,000 governments and companies around the world have pledged to go Net Zero. This includes more than one-third of the world’s largest publicly traded companies.

That sounds like a step in the right direction, right? If every organisation “stops emitting”, our world will be great again.

Well, not exactly…

If we continue to be in a collective delusion that Net Zero is the solution, we will be proved terribly wrong.

In "Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero is Not Enough", Holly Jean Buck discusses the implications of chasing Net Zero from various frames — looking at it not only through an environmental lens but a social justice perspective as well.

Instead of telling us to do better, this book provides different stakeholders concrete steps for planned phase-out on top of sound arguments and justification for it.

Simply put, the framework of Net Zero and its concentration on emissions diverts public and policy attention away from the fundamental task of ensuring effective and lasting climate change mitigation, which requires an unwavering end to the fossil fuel sector.
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Always remember, Net Zero is NOT zero.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.li/VQBar

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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A little more about the magical thinking around Net Zero and the required "carbon rapture" technologies...
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President Biden’s special envoy for climate John Kerry doesn’t seem fazed by openly admitting that “I am told by scientists that 50% of the reductions we have to make to get to Net Zero are going to come from technologies that we don’t yet have.” In response, science historian Naomi Oreskes writes in Scientific American that “depending on technologies that do not yet exist is irrational, a kind of magical thinking… Imagine if I said I planned to build a home with materials that had not yet been invented … You’d likely consider me irrational, perhaps delusional. Yet this kind of thinking pervades plans for future decarbonization.”
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The excerpt above is from this indispensable article -- https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/07/climate-optimism-is-dangerous-and-irrational

‘Climate Optimism’ Is Dangerous and Irrational ❧ Current Affairs

<p>Overly-confident math models based on unrealistic assumptions are used to avoid crisis-consistent climate policies and to protect global elite privilege, while abandoning our duties to the planet’s most vulnerable. </p>

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fühl mich so technologieoffen heute
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