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Jock Gill Mar 20, 2023

Energy & The Developing World

There is a group of go slow supporters of the coming Energy Transition, who only want a measured twenty or more year gradual, affordable, accessible, and reliable transition to renewables based on concern for the developing world.

This “concern for the developing world” is a very interesting and clever red herring. …

Full message on FB, LinkedIn and Medium.

Jock Gill Mar 19, 2023

Have you asked yourself if the toilet paper you use is the best choice for the planet? Would TP made from hemp fibers be better? After all, wood has a higher and better use: sequestering carbon. So why flush wood down the drain? Or perhaps bamboo is a better fiber for making TP? Why is hemp TP not generally available? What would happen if even 10% of the population switched to the most planet friendly TP? We have to be the change.

Jock Gill Mar 19, 2023

Time to rethink how we participate in the economy. If we want change, we have to start being the change. I am tired of being the ”product” that FB sells to advertisers, so I will be transitioning away from “free services” such as FB and LinkedIn. I am also starting to question an economy driven to consumption by incessant advertisements. Is this model a reasons we are not coming to grips with the climate emergency. For starters, find me @Jock5862. Medium and Patreon too.

Jock Gill Mar 19, 2023

Anyway to increase the number f characters allowed in a post? Donate more for more characters allowed? 500 characters is quite limiting.

Jock Gill Mar 19, 2023

Given that it is very unlikely that there will ever be 100% GHG emissions elimination, we also need to evaluate this equation for Carbon Neutrality:

(Residual emissions) - (carbon removed from the atmosphere) = 0.

Then push onwards to true carbon negativity. Thanks to Hugh McLaughlin for the idea for the formula.

BTW: Biochar is one tool for offsetting the inevitable residual emissions.

Jock Gill Mar 19, 2023

I have read a number of passionate essays saying we must get endowments to divest from fossil carbon energy investments. Focusing exclusively on divestment, however, has the unintended and perhaps too convenient, consequence of taking the focus away from the consequences of our individual choices and their consequences. Perhaps we should ask ourselves to decarbonize our personal lives first?

We have to walk the talk we want others to also walk.

https://19thnews.org/2023/02/student-sustainability-climate-environment-course-berkeley/

This student was overwhelmed by ‘alarmist’ environmental education. So she designed her own college course.

Sage Lenier’s sustainability course at UC Berkeley focuses on solutions. Now she’s launching a nonprofit to equip students with the knowledge to help solve the climate crisis.

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