Have we made any progress on the coal problem?
https://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-...
Nope.
Maybe we can limit these silly discussions to one day a year to avoid these “Groundhog Day” discussions.
In other news, 1.5C is guaranteed within a decade. To keep it interesting, Let’s come up with a few more miracles that won’t work.
How people get convinced to act against their own self interest I'll never understand.
[1] https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/china-permits-two-...
"Someone else is lighting a fire in the building so we shouldn't try putting out this grease fire we have here" is a stupid, accelerationist take that doesn't even make sense on it's face.
We were also warned that even if the United States solved the problem that it wasn’t enough. People think they can convince several billion people to give up meat but replacing several thousand coal power plants is too hard…
“Local governments in China approved more new coal power in the first three months of 2023 than in the whole of 2021, according to official documents”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/24/china-ramps-up...
No, energy and transport is easy.
Changing agriculture and diets/habits is hard. Unfortunately we have to do everything, not just this or that.
The science is clear.
And CO2 / warming is not our only problem. Biodiversity is equally important problem to be solved.
The climate crisis and biodiversity crisis can't be approached separately, says study
https://phys.org/news/2023-04-climate-crisis-biodiversity-ap...
Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...
Australians far less aware of biodiversity loss than climate crisis, research finds
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/20/australi...