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

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Show threadmike805Jul 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.

Show threadHugo 雨果Jul 26, 2023
@mike805 How is AC life support? Things like AC are literally one of the roots of the problem.
Show threadmike805Jul 26, 2023

@whynothugo As someone pointed out up above, cities in first world countries are heat islands, with no place to go get cool. Power failures kill people. A heat wave in France (which does not have A/C for the most part) killed a bunch of people.

Are we going to abandon those cities for greener construction elsewhere? That would produce a lot of emissions for construction and transportation.

Show threadHugo 雨果

@mike805

> Are we going to abandon those cities for greener construction elsewhere?

Yeah, that sounds like the obvious answer (I also can't think of a better one)

>That would produce a lot of emissions for construction and transportation.

Is there any alternative? Filling those cities with ACs is pretty much throwing more fuel into the fire and one of the main causes of this problem in the first place.

Jul 26, 2023 at 8:35pmWeb
Show threadmike805Jul 26, 2023
@whynothugo i am arguing for advanced nuclear on another thread here on noc. That would be my preferred solution. If AGW really is a WW2 level threat, then let's have a literal Manhattan Project.