I think we're fucked. Human nature, slow governments, apathy and disbelief mean we will not overcome climate change.
Best brace for the impacts in all practical ways. It will not go away and will only get worse.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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I hate being a doomer but yup we're unbelievably fucked. Anyone want to guillotine some rich folk with me on the way out?
Hell yeah!
I hear that makes the meat taste worse.
Oh boy I can't wait for hard decarbonization. Yee haw.
Is that when carbon based life goes extinct?
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Yes but only the weird lanky monkeys.
Sadly, I don't think we're the only animals that will disappear.
What is that? Like, carbon emissions stop because of general supply chain collapse? Or we all get together and figure out a way to make massive diamond blocks from the CO2 in a hurry?
you can 'expand' local production to decrease reliance on foreign sources and still also decrease overall consumption.
The issue is that especially oil is a globally traded commodity. So increasing local production means you buy less from abroad and that means lower prices, so others are more likely to buy it.
Also the money can be used to invest into green infrastructure as well.
The Russian war of Genocide rejiggered the entire planets energy sourcing, and though we're decades past where renewable energies could, and should have already taken over for Fossil fuels everywhere, the old systems of profit couldn't rejigger themselves quick enough to benefit from the change, and so it's back to fossil fuels, planet be damned
There was a hopeful time when the gas turned off (or the pipleine exploded) and every energy saving project came to the forefront. I hope these efforts are still going on?
A lot of the laws passed are still going strong. ETS-2 which is a carbon trading scheme for transport and heating should start 2026. The law has passed, so that is pretty safe. The ban on sales of new fossil fuel cars is going to start in 2035, so that needs preparations as well. Also the number of ETS-1 certificates has been lowered. That is basicly the EU level stuff, which has some real impact and has been passed since the gas turn off. Those are going to take some time to really work.
Honestly at the moment permitting large fossil fuel projects in the US to help the EU are imho just fossil fuel propaganda.
When you are making very difficult life and death decisions regarding resources for your family, remember your conservative neighbors did this. And they did it gleefully.