I haven’t argued the point because it’s unpopular and because it’s contrary to the position taken by people who run this place, but given the things we all should be doing but aren’t, and shouldn’t be doing but still are, I think it’s on all of us. I see blaming the industrialists, while based on truths, as saying “look, it’s them, not us!” and thus letting us all off the hook in our own minds. I’d say it’s partly them and partly us.
I’m sure you know about Project Drawdown, and last I checked the single biggest impact – if you combine the two categories that apply to women, as Drawdown researcher Dr. Katharine Wilkinson did in her Ted Talk – comes from 1) educating women, because educated women, while enjoying the many obvious benefits, also have smaller families and 2) family planning, i.e. access to birth control, again because it leads to smaller families. Fewer people means lower emissions from individuals, smaller markets for production output, and lower economic activity which again reduces emissions.
And, relatedly, our planet is undergoing the Sixth Mass Extinction, caused by human activity.
That’s how I see it, anyway. What am I getting wrong?
I think we’re in an all-hands-on-deck emergency situation. We can’t just do some of the things, we have to do all the things. Depending on what one considers to be a good outcome, I suppose.
That the rich and the west are below replacement level already? That it will take decades to get the effects of education and healthcare, but we only have about ten fucking years to fix things before we have a catastrophic climate chaos on out hands? That the only neo-malthusians who have any kind of ten year plan beyond hope and prayers are the eco-fascists, as in actual fascists who are trying to hijack the green movement. Genocide is not something I will accept in my name.
If we want things to change in the next ten years we need to cut emissions drastically. I agree, do the long term things too, but that has to be the top priority. The capitalist class is insistent that they can’t do that, so if they won’t change then we will have to change what they do too. They set themselves up as the enemy, not us. We are only in this situation now because of their refusal to change.
I still believe what I said in my last comment. Going after the poor won’t save the environment.
At one session at Harvard, Mr. Epstein criticized efforts to reduce starvation and provide health care to the poor because doing so increased the risk of overpopulation, said Mr. Pinker, who was there. Mr. Pinker said he had rebutted the argument, citing research showing that high rates of infant mortality simply caused people to have more children. Mr. Epstein seemed annoyed, and a Harvard colleague later told Mr. Pinker that he had been “voted off the island” and was no longer welcome at Mr. Epstein’s gatherings.
Google Camp on Climate Crisis Attended by Rich and Famous in Private Jets, Mega Yachts
In fact, the Palermo airport had made preparations for the expected arrival of 114 private jets, according to Giornale Di Sicilia. The influx of private jets, private yachts, helicopters, sports cars and limousines seems in stark contrast to the theme of the conference
euronews about it:
While the facts remain, following the influx of private vehicles to Google’s Italian retreat, there is an argument to be made that both the coverage generated and the environmental awareness resulting from it, makes it all worth it.
well, fuck no! its just obscenity at its highest level!
Im done. they all can go fuck themselves with their fucking hypocrisy and their neverending craving for attention.
Russia’s air force has put out 753,000 hectares of forest fires in Siberia in four days,
it rather looks like that the fires in siberia are pretty much out of control and theres not much the russians can do but to wait for rain.
this is from today:
another great visualiser is https://earth.nullschool.net/ which let you switch between projection-modes and multiple modes for wind, chem, ocean and their respective submenues (wind, for example in different heights, great to monitor the complete jetstram). here CO worldwide in equirectangular projection
edit/ can please somebody explain to me whats up with NYC?!? I was going back the data several years and it seems that NewYorkCity is the worst manmade permanent single-sourced emitter of CO and CO2 on the whole fucking planet?!?it tops LosAngeles by far and every city in china or india or fucking elsewhere. ze fuck?!?
you cant make that shit up; its just rush-hour. seriously.
Could partly be winds and topography (including man-made topography). For example Vancouver consistently gets high marks for air quality: this is because the winds funnel it up into the Fraser Valley where all that pollution mixes with the ammonia coming off the chicken farms and produces a haze that on bad days resembles LA before pollution controls. Vancouver looks great. Parts eastward, not so much.
Remember, too that LA is spread out and NY is jammed in on an island, mostly. LA might be posting deceptively low numbers. Given the location, I know Seattle is.
But I am not kidding about the Fraser Valley Haze. Most summer days, the Air Quality Index hovers somewhere around abysmal.
