This may not be a viable option, in terms of safety, in certain scenarios (e.g. #metropolitan #RushHour with aggressive #drivers), but in terms of cost and range, this seems like a solid and relatively "affordable" #car alternative and progress towards reducing overall #vehicle #carbon and space footprints.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation means making improvements any way we can, not waiting on mythical "perfect" solutions.
It's a start.
Check out this cool solar-powered Aptera EV that supposedly gets 1,600 km on a single charge. The solar panels integrated into its design can add an extra 64 km of power a day, leading the company to claim that some users may never even have to charge it. ☀️ The company apparently has 26,000+ pre-orders for the vehicle, which they hope to start delivering by the end of the year. The base model costs US$25,900 – which doesn't seem insane to me? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDX4mWP9TIU #solar #ev #SolarPunk
"...#conservation isn't something that happens somewhere else...it can happen close to home..."
"Everything that is in this creation is put here for a specific purpose."
"...if we're not...mindful of the connection that our #society has to have with #nature, it'll be too late."
#AmericanPrarieReserve #Montana #USA #NationalGeographic #LastWildPlaces #Rewilding
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation.
"#Iberá was...degraded by #humans and is...being recovered by humans...what we can achieve if we...[restore] an #ecosystem..."
"Our [mission] is to...help reverse the #biodiversity #extinction crisis...protecting what is left...reintroducing #KeystoneSpecies...then...develop #economic activity for the local people..."
#TompkinsConservation #NationalGeographic #LastWildPlaces #Argentina #Rewilding
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation.
"...there's no one-size-fits-all solution."
Every little bit of improvement helps in an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
One very positive aspect of #Hygroelectric #power is that the parts of the #world already most negatively affected by #climate change are also the most #humid parts of the #planet, and significant parts of the high-#polluting #nations are also humid.
If it can scale, this could work in most places.
"We know that #wilderness is an incredibly powerful #natural #climate solution and we need to be conserving more of it."
"...each...of us really needs to get on this and work with organizations like #NortheastWildernessTrust...put these #lands aside...large and small alike...20 acres or 200...or 2,000...it's all important."
It's about doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to mitigate #ClimateChange.
Restoring #ecosystems is an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy that works.
Removing #dams and allowing #waterways to resume their normal flows increases the numbers of native species and overall health of the #environment.
Replacing #hydroelectric power with far less intrusive and destructive sources, like smartly deployed #solar, can result in a net gain of environmental health and #climate change reduction.
It's been almost a decade since the removal of dams that blocked salmon migration on Washington state's Elwha River. Salmon populations have now recovered enough that members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe are this month enjoying their first traditional fishery since removal. #salmon #fisheries #FirstFoods #NativeAmericans #LowerElwhaKlallamTribe #ElwhaRiver #DamRemoval #WashingtonState https://phys.org/news/2023-10-tribe-coho-salmon-free-flowing-elwha.html
#Rewilding, a keystone* of an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
#Beavers help limit catastrophic #flood damage and minimize #drought while creating #ecosytems filled with #biodiversity; all critical to a healthy #environment.
*😇
Ealing: Beaver family released in west London wetland. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-67075177 "Beavers have been reintroduced to west London for the first time in about 400 years in a bid to improve biodiversity and help mitigate the impact of climate change. The family of five Eurasian beavers were released at Paradise Fields, an area of wetlands in Ealing. They were relocated from a wild beaver population in Scotland by a coalition of wildlife groups." #EurasiaBeavers #Wetlands #ClimateChange
🎵 Everything old [can be] new again 🎵
Rethinking Everything, Everywhere, All at Once can lead to amazing #ClimateChange mitigation solutions based on #ancient #technologies, we don't always have to create entirely new components.
Cost-effective, scalable, and #environmentally friendly storage of #energy generated by #rewnewables remains a problem with which current #batteries still struggle, and l this kinda low-tech alternative may be an answer.
This is so cool! The engineers at MIT discovered that cement and carbon black (paracrystalline carbon) can be mixed to create a supercapacitor that still behaves like cement. That means you can build cement structures that store energy. They estimate that 45 m³ of this material is enough to store 10 kWh (about a day’s worth of energy for a home). “New Breakthrough in Energy Storage – MIT Engineers Create Supercapacitor out of Ancient Materials” https://scitechdaily.com/new-breakthrough-in-energy-storage-mit-engineers-create-supercapacitor-out-of-ancient-materials/
#GreatGreenWalls, everywhere they've been tried are, alone, absolutely not a #ClimateChange mitigation solution.
As noted previously in this thread, #tree planting on its own is a strategy that will fail. There must be a #holistic approach that includes much more than just adding #trees, including incentives to reduce or eliminate continued human damage.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once does NOT mean anything, anywhere, thoughtlessly done.
In the #US, 100% useless and very #climate-destructive #lawn #grass consumes more #acreage than #food #crops.
This ongoing series of one person's #rewilding of their yard is small-scale Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
"...the #FoodWeb is an #EnergyWeb...bugs which eat plants are a main contributor to this conversion."
"Don't think you have to do a ton of rewilding, just start small."
https://youtu.be/WoFLocyd_sQ?si=1D-hiJ3WJQIWFwxv
https://youtu.be/4-NP_GW_2Zg?si=mXuMTO-uqGTt0Blb
It's not about any one thing, no matter how critical that any one thing may be—especially ending #carbon and other #GreenhouseGas #emissions—it's about Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
Even we got emissions down to zero literally today, and for all time, we've still already passed important temperature benchmarks that will continue to negatively affect our #climate for decades, if not centuries or permanently, if we don't do much more.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-10-15/climate-change-adaptation-united-states-emissions “Even with a global crash program to cut emissions — which is essential — climate change will worsen for at least the next two decades. We need national strategies that can help us bounce back from increasingly devastating hits.” #ClimateChange
"#Agriculture has been the single biggest driver for #wilderness destruction." (As noted in a previous #video, in the #US home #lawns consume more acreage than agriculture, thus are more #ecologically damaging.)
As also previously noted, #ancient #technologies, like #aquaponics, updated and adapted for our times (e.g. including #solar, for power), can be part of a successful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
"#Mycellium is the #root structure of #mushrooms and, simply [stated], they're just the #recyclers of #nature."
#Mycoremediation, replacing #plastics, #meats, #packaging, #leathers and more are all possible with #fungi, perhaps the important #organism on #Earth.
Using and doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to mitigate #ClimateChange may save our #species. It's our best option.
Now I want to be buried in a #mushroom #coffin. #GreenFuneral #GreenBurial
The goal of Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions is "progress, not perfection", with radical and continual improvements.
#WasteToEnergy #incineration is only a bit cleaner than #coal and #gas, but "...the process reduces the volume of #waste, creates #energy, and part of the residue can be #recycled." while reducing the amount of #waste burned in the open, a major and increasing source of #pollutants and #GreenhoseGas #emissions
"If we used #infrastructure in the #oceans and created #seaweed #islands, we would actually eliminate a lot of the #ClimateChange issues we have today."
"#Seaweeds are a platform of opportunity in #sustainability, #nutrition, and #innovation."
"There's many ways that seaweed as a new #material, or #food, or #feed on the planet can service a better #environment..."
#Kelp #CarbonCapture #CarbonSequestration
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
"The "#AmericanDream" is a very painful dream."
Returning to #Mexico with $55 after decades in the #UnitedStates, #OmarVazquez started his own successful #plant #business and soon expanded into a more personal pursuit of using the massive amounts of #sargassum washing ashore to make #bricks.
These blooms are likely caused by #ClimateChange, and this business may soon be another Everything, Everywhere, All at Once option for #sustainable #HomeBuilding.
#insulation #link: https://youtu.be/2fXiboAGQvM?si=jbeEvANn9m-uyejB
"#AirConditioners used as a solution against #urban #heat are actually making it worse."
#Singapore, the #GardenCity, is still a #concrete jungle and "#HeatIsland" and is trying to make use of passive #technologies, like greenery, both on the street and the #skyscraper level.
Back alleys can reach 60° C (140° F) due to #AC usage.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is rethinking every aspect of #city living, where most people live and to where most are moving.
Every little thing that helps is part of the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
"The work was done in collaboration with #Llama 2000 Asociación...local #Peruvian #farmers...negatively impacted by the receding #glaciers"
“...the #science...not only requires...the authors, but all of these other groups...it shows the constant need for collaboration and to develop communities..."
#Ecosytem #restoration with local involvement is key.
https://eldritch.cafe/@SallyStrange/111285235715183031
Llama poop helps restore ecosystems teetering on disintegration as glaciers retreat. '“[Looking through feces] doesn’t sound like fun, but when you see vegetation sprouting out of that, and you recognize that the whole ecosystem goes back to this latrine,” [Geography professor Tim] Beach said. “Because the llamas go to graze there too … you see that these are little islands of fertility, that then lead to the stabilization of this ecosystem.” ...The work was done in collaboration with Llama 2000 Asociación, an organization of local Peruvian farmers whose land and communities had been negatively impacted by the receding glaciers." #Climate #ClimateChange #resilience #Peru #llamas #farming #ecosystems #GlacierRetreat https://thedailytexan.com/2023/10/22/llamas-assist-in-revitalizing-low-nutrient-soil-combat-some-climate-change-according-to-ut-researchers/
Restoring #ecosytems is vital to a successful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
It's not enough to stop destroying our #environment, we must repair as much as possible the damage we've already caused.
"We are demonstrating it is possible...We just have to do it on a gigantic scale."
"Lakeside Farms’ cropland leached high amounts of phosphorus...It took mere months for the wetland to filter the sediment back to safe levels."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/farm-wetland-bird-animal-sanctuary-oregon
"Little things add up" – #AlannahVellacott, #Marine #Ecologist
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies must include Everyone, Everywhere.
#MarineScience #CoralReef restoration #BlackScubaDivers
Without fundamentally changing how our society functions, even the best Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies will only slow the rate of our impending demise, when the goal must be to not just to avert that demise, but to reverse as much damage as we can so we can thrive in harmony with our #environment.
It's clear our collective priorities have failed, and we need a new way forward.
https://kolektiva.social/@theceoofanarchism/111287870593209715
Our Fixation on Green Technology Harms Our Ability to Confront Climate Crisis "This narrow and unimaginative vision of a sustainable world is unfortunately holding us back from what needs to happen to address the climate crisis.There will be no magical technology that will save us. The answer to climate change has always been much more than just scientific innovation; it is economic, social and geopolitical. We are not in this climate crisis because we have bad technology. We are here because our societies have prioritized the resource-intensive livelihoods of a few, at the cost of the environment and well-being of many. The unsustainable and polluting technology we have is only responding to our society’s obsession to go faster, grow bigger and consume more at any cost. It is that system of value that must be disrupted to solve the climate crisis. Relying on green technology without systemic change is a Band-Aid approach. Our understanding of technology and its role in our society must also shift. For too long, we’ve seen technology as a way to dominate or overcome our natural environments. Western societies have built this illusion that we are somehow separate from our local ecologies because of technology. We are not beyond the laws of nature and we can’t expand and consume resources endlessly. Technology cannot fix this delusion, and if anything, it can only fuel it. For centuries, Western countries have invisibilized the ecological costs of our industrial societies. This is often done by relying on nature to absorb pollution, forcing poor communities and communities of color to take the brunt of environmental issues, and shipping environmental problems off to lower-income countries. In many ways, the climate crisis is a confrontation of this belief. After centuries of ignoring the temporal and physical limitations of our planet, the chickens are coming to roost." https://truthout.org/articles/our-fixation-on-green-technology-harms-our-ability-to-confront-climate-crisis/ #climatechange #globalwarming #ClimateCrisis #degrowth #socialism #technology #green
"As #human #civilization continues to grow, our need for #sand will grow too. But that doesn't...mean that the way we exploit our #environment needs to grow..."
"We have to figure out ways to live our lives, and to build our #cities...where most people live, in ways that just consume less across the board...less of everything, and that is very much doable."
Not using Everything, Everywhere, All at Once may be the best #ClimateChange mitigation solution of all.
More information, constantly and openly shared, needs to be a part of an Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
"We're not #physiologically oriented for slow #violence and incremental notions of #risk...we're...impaired in our ability to understand the accumulation of risk. The more information #consumers have...the greater likelihood [there] is...that they will shift their behavior accordingly."
"Start from the rising #sun and work towards the setting Sun. Take only the sick, the mature, and the downed #trees, the trees that are dead, the trees that are dying. When you reach the end of the #reservation turn, start over, and cut from the setting Sun to the rising Sun and the trees will last forever." – #Menominee #tribal teaching.
The wisdom of the past is vital to successful Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation.
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Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, literally.
Attached: 4 images Destruction of forests increased worldwide in 2022 Source https://www.20min.ch/story/umwelt-2022-wurde-mehr-wald-zerstoert-683655559275 It was easier to translate all the text and post it as a screenshot #climate #climatechange
In our pursuit of anything, and in all things, we must be mindful and respectful of the peoples who first populated our lands, whoever they are and wherever we are.
Trampling, often literally, the people, and their rights, to whom the land most rightfully belongs is not part of the Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy because that mode of operation is exactly what's caused our #climate destruction.
https://newsie.social/@TheConversationClimate/111297276641562262
Beyond Juukan Gorge: how First Nations people are taking charge of clean energy projects on their land https://theconversation.com/beyond-juukan-gorge-how-first-nations-people-are-taking-charge-of-clean-energy-projects-on-their-land-213864?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #ClimateChange
Some Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solutions may only realize their full potential decades from now, but while we work on immediate fixes we must also remain aware of and prepare for the future regardless of how successful our efforts are in the relative short-term.
This will never be an issue that ends, we will continually need to work tirelessly to reduce our #GreenhouseGas #emissions and #environmental damage, forever.
Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air | UC Davis #ClimateChange https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/adding-crushed-rock-farmland-pulls-carbon-out-air
"...it should give everyone hope. Any...project or...idea...someone has that's gonna help restore balance and help fix an #ecosystem, all they have to do is look at the #Klamath and say, 'Those guys did it, we should be able to do it, too.' It's not just about restoring the #KlamathRiver. This whole idea is much bigger than that. It's about fixing the #earth."
By doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to mitigate #ClimateChange and improve our #environment.
"We (the #Yurok, specifically, and other #triibes of the #KlamathRiver, inclusively) have that great privilege of being able to fish this river, but along with that great privilege comes an obligation to preserve and protect it..."
We all, collectively and individually, have an obligation to do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, as best we can and on a rapidly ever-improving basis, to preserve and protect the #enironment, our #ecosystems, our #Earth.
"...80% of all #wildlife species [in the #US] depend on the...habitat beaver create."
"#Beaver should be our national #climate action plan because connected #floodplains store water, store #carbon, improve water quality, improve the resilience to #wildfire...what beaver do play an enormous role in controlling the dynamics of those systems...we should...be trying to mimic what they do."
By #nature, beaver do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, even city rooftops.
"I like to define it as a multi-species approach to growing #food in #water...the three #species in an #aquaponics system are #fish, #plants, and #microorganisms."
"...there are people around the world who are using it to address real #hunger and real crisis...it does play a role."
"#Nature requires balance."
#AquaponicsCycle #symbiosis #OkoFarms #PBS #WomenOfTheEarth
Screw you, #CO2. We're all gonna burn through you!
Maybe.
If this works, in the 2100's or beyond, we may be facing a crisis of lack of #CarbonDioxide because #capitalism is insatiable.
Loss of #biodiversity and ending other #GreenhouseGas #emissions would still be issues to address, but using CO2 as an affordable, #scalable, #energy source might be a great Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation solution.
https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-efficient-fuel-process-carbon-dioxide-1030
"It just goes to show the power that preserving and protecting something has, even if it is by chance."
In 1996 a #volcanic eruption in #Iceland combined with the largest #glacier in #Europe to create the conditions that allowed the native #birchwood #mast (mass #seed release) in 1997 to reforest 35 square kilometers.
When protected from #humans, #nature does Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, on its timescale, to mitigate #ClimateChange
#white / "#western #saviorism is not part of a Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategy.
The people who live in a place where such work is to be done must always be directly involved in and benefit from any solutions, and may already have successful methods that just need more resources.
"When you go into any small village in #Africa, you will find that people #conserve as a way of living, not because they were called to '#conservation.'"
Namibia hosted the first community-led conservation congress in Africa in late October. Hundreds of Indigenous and local community groups, conservation organizations, governments and policymakers gathered to strategize how communities can play a bigger role in African conservation efforts, which are typically dominated by big international NGOs. by Victoria Schneider https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/namibia-hosted-africas-1st-community-led-conservation-congress-where-will-it-lead/ #News #Conservation #Environment #Africa #IndigenousPeople
"The problem is...people live and work on these lands. #Communities have to see a benefit in regrowing and maintaining lost #forests...this is, again, developed #Western #nations asking the least developed communities to shoulder the weight of their past [and barely abated] #ecological damage...every #community [has] different needs and...challenges."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once must include Everyone, Everywhere, All the Time.
#Humans are #biologically, #evolutionarily, inclined to be pessimistic and fearful, thus making thoughts of #dystopic futures much more appealing and easier to accept.
It's better to expect the worse and be wrong, than to be optimistic and be wrong, is our default.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation requires hope, and a belief that we can achieve a much better outcome than what we have now, and where we're headed.
#LandBack and #rematriation are proving to be highly effective ways to effect long-term Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClinateChange mitigation, in addition to being morally righteous and long overdue.
"#Western #conservationists have...ignored #Indigenous people’s knowledge of #landscapes and #wildlife...that is no longer tenable...Indigenous-managed lands host 80 percent of the world’s #biodiversity...and...much of the...intact #forests, #savannas and #marshes."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once.
#ClimateChange mitigation is done in many ways, in many places. The more of both, the better for us all.
"Sponge park" is a bit more descriptive than "rain garden," I think I will be stealing that term. #GreenBuilding #GreenArchitecture #CityPlanning #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #flooding https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/sponge-cities-montreal-canada-china-1.7013728
#Lithium is definitely not the answer, but only an interim option until we can find a better solution that doesn't cause the level of #environmental and #human damage of this rare material.
Could #zinc be a much better, and cheaper, way to achieve Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation?
How zinc-ion batteries may solve our renewable energy storage problem Low cost, same performance as lithium ion, what’s not to like? https://energi.media/news/how-zinc-ion-batteries-may-solve-our-renewable-energy-storage-problem/
Extractive, non-#regenerative #technologies can only be short-term options for #ClimateChange mitigation because the irreparable damage they cause will eventually negate all or most of the immediate benefits they provide.
#Lithium is definitely not the answer. It only provides a temporary break and we must move away from it immediately.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once solutions and strategies must always be improving, and doing less #environmental damage.
"...all based on an idea from ancient #Persia... this how one of #Spain's largest [and one of #Europe's hottest] cities is using a strategy pioneered thousands of years ago to beat the heat."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #ClimateChange mitigation strategies must encompass not just the most modern of #technologies and techniques, but must also include and integrate the most time-tested and proven from the past.
A common theme in this thread is that there are people everywhere on #Earth who already have extremely successful and #scalable #ClimateChange mitigation strategies and solutions that have worked for centuries and millennia, but the white western world and #capitalism ignore their truths.
We need everyone doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to restore, implement, and expand #ecological practices that help the planet, which helps us.
the milwaukee journal sentinel gets it: "The Indigenous communities that call this region home have been practicing good land stewardship and sharing that message with others. But for too long, that message hasn't been heard. The tribes hold thousands of years of expertise. They believe their traditional ecological knowledge is critical to safeguarding resources and cleaning up the land, air and water for everyone. And they're keenly aware that our relationship with nature is at one of the most critical junctures in history. The question is: Will anyone pay attention?" "Western thinking tends to separate people from nature, removing the responsibility to protect it, and making solutions seem out of reach. Traditional ecological knowledge prioritizes gratitude and forward-thinking solutions, helping bring back the human connection with nature and the land." https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2023/11/09/great-lakes-native-tribes-knowledge-key-to-climate-change-work/70893550007/ #ClimateChange #nature #environment #indigenous
#Climate pessimism and doom are easy, simple, and wrong.
"...every fraction of a degree matters. In short, we are making progress, though it still isn’t yet enough progress."
Yes, we're already suffering through likely irreversible negative effects of #ClimateChange, but we are still not at the point where the planet can't stabilize in a way that allows our #environment, and us, to regain health and thrive.
Doing Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is helpful.
Positive.News: 'We're not doomed yet': reasons for climate hope, by a climatologist #news #GoodNews https://www.positive.news/environment/were-not-doomed-yet-five-reasons-for-climate-hope-by-a-climatologist/
"We need many, many technologies, and in high quantities, because of our failure to enact #climate policies."
"...this is not something that will come in the future, it's here now."
"Add that all up and...we're well on our way to a system...not based on #FossilFuels, but on #renewables."
"...how do we scale it up...before the worst case climate catastrophe occurs."
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once must be done to avoid 2° C and higher.
"...we have to try."
Defeatist #climate doomerism is an easy, lazy surrender to our possible self-annihilation.
I remain hopeful, perhaps naively—but I think pragmatically—that, as we race past the 1.5 C benchmark and have irreversibly (at least with current and near-future solutions) altered the global climate, we can still avert the worst outcomes and end our patterns of overconsumption and #GreenhouseGas emissions.
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once #technologies are flourishing
‘It’s not game over – it’s game on’: why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis. #ClimateChange https://theconversation.com/its-not-game-over-its-game-on-why-2024-is-an-inflection-point-for-the-climate-crisis-221497
As I've noted, we're definitely not going to limit overall warming at or below 1.5° C.
We're already at or past that mark and living through the effects of likely permanent, human-caused, #ClimateChange.
The goal now is to do Everything, Everywhere, All at Once to avoid hitting or passing the 2° C mark so we can mitigate the worst effects of a too-rapidly changed climate.
Otherwise, basic human nature means that then the doomers will probably be correct.
Unless that trying causes more harm than good.
Human activity has caused the climate crisis.
Accelerating that activity doesn't seem wise nor logical.
The activities of resource extraction for the materials to build all the green innovations is just as harmful as the extraction of fossil fuels.
Continuing the harmful practices of the past, with different goals in mind, isn't the panacea many want us to believe.
We could halve our energy use if we wanted to, but no world leader has called for that. All we hear is more "green energy" to satisfy an ever growing thirst for it.
When trying to get out of a hole, the first rule is to stop digging, literally.
As to tech miracles, it's a pipedream. Technology has created not only conveniences, but also a big part of every problem we now face, inadvertantly and otherwise.
A few are good, and feasible.
Meat manufactured in labs is one. Little resource extraction is needed, saves water, saves billions of animals from exploitation and slaughter, and frees up land for rewilding back to it's natural state.
Choosing which tech will be truly helpful is vital; not wasting time, resources and money on boondoggle schemes, of which we've already seen many.
Most tech will not save us, but it will make a lot of money for the charlatans pushing it, which is their goal - making money, the consequences be damned.
If we we're serious about addressing climate change we would halt exploration and exploitation of most all natural resources and ration what oil/gas is left, ban frivolous flying, make needed products fixable and to last rather than become obsolete after a year or two, and basically learn to live with what we have.
As sea change in our lifestyle?
Definitely.
Drastic actions?
Most definitely.
But we are facing drastic, extinction levels of most life on earth if we don't.
Hopium and unjustified optimism ensure a much more difficult future than it will already be.
@ricardoharvin No!
#Climate pessimism and doom are easy, simple, and wrong.
I loathe the implicit arrogance & insensitivity of this statement, each & every time some random peep utters it. Who are you / the other equivalent tooters, what right do you think you have, to pompously opine fault in those of us overwhelmed by the escalating catastrophe, & the clear evidence before our eyes that humans as a species are proving every day week month year, how blindly suicidal we are?
I took personal responsibility years ago [abandoned car, driving, travel, went vegan, assiduously minimise my fossilfool energy consumption, always vote Greens, yada yada], but it is wildly insufficient.
Atm a majority of other peeps in mine & other developed countries still refuse to abandon meat & dairy, still own & buy their huge ICE vehicles, still fly for holidays, still vote in governments that continue to approve & open new / expanded fossilfool projects, etc.
Sanctimonious condemnatory pomposity such as your statement is not only contemptuous of peeps like me who happen to understand the science very well, completely grasp the magnitude of the hazard & its accelerating timeline, & who recognise with open eyes the ongoing blinkeredness & obstinacy of a majority of our fellow ape-descendent bipeds, but additionally it entirely lets off the hook all those truly deserving of getting their arses kicked.
Pls, try punching up, not down!
#ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy
@MsDropbear425 I really hope you've already muted and blocked me.
Otherwise, since you obviously haven't already done so, read my full thread to get a better understanding of my position, which is absolutely not "sanctimonious", but realistic AND hopeful.
As I directly stated, and have repeatedly acknowledged, we are already experiencing the negative effects of #ClimateChange, and it will get worse.
That doesn't mean we can't still avert our self-extinction.
@ricardoharvin @MsDropbear425 As i'm contemplating what to tell my family about climate change:
I think this argument is about Bravery vs Dispair, with former allowing to fight danger and latter forcing flight from danger.
For climate change, hell even just for the CO2 level both make sense - concerning this one i am for action and bravery concerning slowing the increase by a few 0.1°C by 2050.
On the other hand e.g. for the sea level rise - flood area, Dispair is in order.
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