Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱every time I see this graph
it reminds me that the status quo thinkers and talkers and powers are an oil slick in our minds
telling us things can never change
what they really mean: STOP THE CHANGE
our answer: no
#SolarIsRadical
Tykayn@susankayequinn
Yup, however this is installed capacity, i would be more optimistic if it was like that for the tera wathours production, and if the shift to more electric usage was following this. Because if you add clean energy but do not remove shitty sources like coal it has no climate impact mitigation, and this is what we need to survive.
Yup, however this is installed capacity, i would be more optimistic if it was like that for the tera wathours production, and if the shift to more electric usage was following this. Because if you add clean energy but do not remove shitty sources like coal it has no climate impact mitigation, and this is what we need to survive.
@tykayn "no climate impact" is wildly pessimistic and falling prey to the same kind of thinking that led to these predictions.
Yes, we need to remove shitty sources like coal (which we are doing at an astonishing rate) but this solar surge also allows better quality of life for people who skip over fossil fuels altogether and go straight to renewables. There are incredible (and a lot of unknown and unknowable) knock on effects.
Pessimism is a comfortable place but it doesn't bring change.
@susankayequinn
I prefer to say that i pays attention to plain greenwashing instead, i am not a passimistic person and toroughly read on the climate subject (ipcc, iea reports and our world in data sources are great with measures and i often see people amazed by solar stuff not being serious on the measures of impact)
Things are done and being changed but not at a satisfying pace.
Low carbon production is becoming more available, it must not make us forget how huge the work is left to be done, how strong we should pressure the politicians to stop being so unknowing the basic things, and there are more than 80% of the things in the world that are still high carbon, plus some facts about how solar punk is known to be more of a marketing movement than a science based view of possibilities.
To illustrate that, we have in france a minister who thought we can power easily the needs with people pushing on bikes all day. That would not provide enough for any country.
So yeah.
But still optimistic if people are able to get some eyes on some science vulgarisation.
@tykayn ok, if you're gonna say solarpunk is marketing more than movement, I'm going to say you have no idea what you're talking about.
And literally no one said this one graph on mastodon was the totality of everything that we should do. You're not being serious, just an agitator.