Has the Tony Blair Institute just had a big shadowy donation from the #FossilFuel and/or #Nuclear industry?
Carbon capture is very expensive with questionable results…renewables work right now.
Getting to #NetZero matters for any chance of the survival of society as we know it. Implying it’s optional helps whom?
#BigOil not the nation’s poorest.
A reminder of how the Tony #Blair Institute came to be and the tentacles of its power, particularly around the current #Starmer #Labour government…
‘The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) has exploded in size and revenue during the last few years. Its accounts show it made over $81m (£65m) in revenue in 2021, a 78% increase on the previous year.’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/17/tony-blair-institute-rise
‘#Starmer says #Blair's #ClimateCrisis views are in line with government policy
Sammy Wilson (DUP) says Starmer’s net zero policy “is not only bad, it is mad”. Even Tony Blair says so, he says.
Starmer says Blair said there should be more #CarbonCapture. The government agrees. He called for more use of #AI. That is happening too, he says. And Blair said domestic targets were needed too, he says.’
Guardian Politics Live
“Tony #Blair has decided to mimic Nigel #Farage on #NetZero and sounds like he is speaking on behalf of petro-states like Saudi Arabia & Kazakhstan for whom he has lobbied for more years than he was PM.
It is vital that the government distance itself from this latest dodgy dossier from Blair and turn its attention instead to what the Climate Change Committee is saying today. Their report could not be clearer: we are woefully unprepared for the impacts of climate breakdown”
Carla #Denyer
“This new report [from Tony #Blair Institute] is muddled and misleading.
There is far more progress being made around the world to #decarbonise the global economy than it suggests.
For instance, China is the world’s leading producer and domestic deployer of #renewables and #EVs. Its power generating capacity from renewables has now exceeded that of fossil fuels and its emissions are likely to peak in the next two years.”
Nicholas Stern (Blair’s #climate advisor when in office)
basically Tony's Tufton Street think tank says, us not making fossil fuel profits is bad so greening is bad.
@JugglingWithEggs MOAR AI !!!
FFS even the money basic intelligence knows that the wya to decarbonise is not to use power hungry and limit use data mining tools, but to gather free energy from the sun and moon (solar, wind, tidal) and stop digging up dead dinosaurs and burning them!
Juggling With Eggs
Estarriol, Terrorist Dragon
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