Mastodawn

Bread and Circuses Jul 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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mike805 Jul 26, 2023

@breadandcircuses Has anyone pointed out, global warming is going to massively increase the consumption of energy?

A/C is now life support rather than comfort in a lot of places.

If solar gets cheap and good, everyone with no reliable grid power will want a solar system. Making that equipment will require a lot of energy.

If electric cars are cheaper to run than gas cars, people will use them more.

We need to figure out how make green tech with a small and decreasing amount of fossil fuels.

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504BatteryDr Jul 26, 2023

@mike805 @breadandcircuses

If fossil fuels were the only thing causing CC, that would be a good plan.

Unfortunately, FFs aren't the sole problem. Possibly the worst, but certainly not alone.

Human activity has caused the CCrisis - all human activity.

Our over consumption of wasteful, needless products, our food system that relies on man-made fertilizers that pollute the natural world and farmed animals that require more destruction of the natural world for pasture lands ( having to feed 8B ppl certainly doesn't help), and worst of all, our economic system that relies on the pursuit money - at any/all costs as a means of survival.

The lockdown showed us how to respond to the CCrisis. The skies temporarily cleared and animals returned to urban areas. That was a good start, imo.

Alternative energy solutions?
All green washing scams.
Bc every one of them still requires that we explore for and exploit natural resources; killing off more of the diversity this planet evolved to thrive under.
We can have a healthy economy or a healthy planet but we can't have both. A booming economy means more destruction of the planet.

Want to tackle the CCrisis?
Cease the most harmful of human activity, and strictly curtail the rest.

Most of all, slash our energy use to the bare minimum needed.

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mike805

@504DR @breadandcircuses Most people who have them are not going to give up their comforts and luxuries. Those who don't are not going to give up seeking those things.

So to "curtail human activity" would require a massive war and a global dictatorship. And that would have a hell of a carbon footprint.

The lockdowns ended because people rebelled against them. People will rebel against this too. Riots and burning cities... also produce greenhouse emissions!

All we can do is adapt.