inariMar 6
40% of global ship traffic is simply moving fossil fuels around! Renewables make much of this traffic obsolete
Show threadTigerAceMar 6
The issue is, that renewable energy requires a lot of rare earth metals. This bring a whole bunch of other issues. Politically and ethically. "In a perfect world it would be… " there is no perfect world. Humans never change.
Show threadGreenKnight23Mar 6

not just that but that’s millions of jobs worldwide lost.

had we started moving to renewables 40 years ago, like we should have, the impact wouldn’t be as bad now.

Show threadNocturnalMorningMar 6
Oh no…think of the economy! We have to keep accelerating climate echange!
Show threadGreenKnight23

let’s assume worldwide shipping creates enough jobs for 1% of the world’s population. that’s 70,000,000 jobs.

if half of those jobs (35,000,000) just poofed out overnight, what would be the global climate impacts after 6-8 months?

I’m willing to bet it wouldn’t be positive.

Mar 7 at 12:09amWeb
Show threadNocturnalMorningMar 7

We lived for millions of years without jobs. We’d be fine. In fact, We’d replace those jobs with jobs in renewable energy sectors.

Its insane to me that people argue that we should continue accelerating climate change which will kill far more people and cost more money than what we would make addressing and mitigation it.

But that would get in the way of your dumbass argument wouldn’t it?