The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.
1.5C is way back in the rearview mirror, we are on our way to 3 C in the near future . EVs, solar panels, wind farms, recycling have failed to stop what has already arrived. "Free market capitalism" has won the day, to our ruin. Greenwashing frauds like Al Gore and Bill McKibbon have helped make things worse while making bank.
"At the edge of extinction, only love remains", McPhearson.
I would lie to add that I have served two short prison sentences for nonviolent offences one for the environment and one against war and I feel honoured to be following in the footsteps of such a great person in even in a minor way
The simple fact is that humanity long ago overshot the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet to support human beings.
The World Wildlife Fund recently reported that since 1970, the vertebrate animal population of this planet has decreased by almost 75 percent (referring to the wild creatures, not dogs, cats, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc). In this same 50+ year period, the human population doubled from four billion to over eight billion. Humanity's voracious appetite for natural resources and massive expansion of agriculture has destroyed global biodiversity.
Wind turbines, solar panels, green hydrogen, Carbon Capture and Underground Storage, batteries and EVs are all too little, too late. Humanity simply consumes too much energy. The typical American believes that he will continue to live life exactly as we do now, only everything will be powered by ‘clean’ renewable electricity.
Five hundred years ago, humanity lived in an idyllic renewable energy economy, powered entirely by solar energy. Sunlight was the photosynthetic basis for the food crops which provided the energy for human and animal muscle. These were the prime movers which performed most of the work in the world at that time. Wood and charcoal biomass also provided primary energy. Solar energy drove the circulation of the atmosphere, resulting in wind and rainfall to power sailing ships, windmills (for grinding grain and pumping water out of the Dutch polders), and waterwheels, also for grinding grain and other purposes.
And the world population in 1500 CE is estimated to have been only about 500,000,000 (roughly six percent of the current global population of eight billion plus) and it grew very slowly until the mid-eighteenth century, when the industrial revolution (read carbon-based energy revolution, the steam engine plus coal) began. Half a billion people was all that renewable energy-based agriculture and technology could support at that time.
Humanity has greatly overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere, thanks to the trillions of hydrocarbon slaves that we have had working on our behalf for over two centuries. The climate crisis is a symptom, but not the main event.
Nature is now in the driver’s seat and the ghost of Malthus is nature’s co-pilot. Degrowth and massive population decline is our destiny. The ride is not going to be pretty.
Well said, sadly. When I was 12, I saw the book title “a population bomb“. When I was 19, we had Earth Day and nothing changed. Greed has been running our system since time immemorial. . Yes, when I was born in 1950 there were less than 3 billion, now eight. we sold our future for a few pieces of gold. No one will escape and I will be dead and gone having watched the beginning of the end.
Today Roger Hallam's enchanting words echoed by Eunice Wong lit up my heart. It is good to hear the truth breaking through the deafening silence of climate change denial.
I remember your many conversations with Roger. I never thought he would end up in prison for nonviolent protest. Anything that disrupts profits is criminal. More war, more profits…that is what counts.
Our atmosphere contains 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other trace gases. The same amounts that I recall from like elementary school science in the 1960's. Do you really believe that increasing that .04% or .0004 to .0005 is destroying the planet?
I also note that everyday when I check the weather for the day it alsways seems to be listed a bit hihger in temperature than we really ever get. 91 for the high that barely makes it to 84, etc. Why is that? Is someone trying so desperately to make a case for global warming because it's their grift?
But even if you don’t accept the science - which, unlike for Covid is not state-‘approved’ - you must surely accept the evidence of the increase in dramatic weather events, the disappearance of the glaciers, the rising sea levels, forest fires etc?
Forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, and mudslides have been around as long as I have but now we have the internet to expand on the volume of people crying something's wrong. I've not been to see any glaciers in my entire life. But showing me video of one falling into the ocean maybe normal. I have no vantage point for such so-called evidence. They could be showing the same one over and over it's not like they look different. Unless you can see this stuff first hand you don't know when you're being propagandized and when you/re not. We know that because we have been cucks since the day we were born. I can't seem to stop editing this one. Just another thought on forest fires. We've moved out of the cities into the rural landscape where we never used to be. Maybe we didn't care as much about fires because they weren't threatening our homes so they weren't front page news. Maybe it's us that has changed not the environment. And yet again. Right off the climate.gov website "Gauging average global sea level is trickier than sticking a ruler in the depths and noting the day-to-day or year-to-year changes. That’s because the ocean doesn’t have one steady level. Tides and currents constantly flow up and down, while tectonic forces move land masses relative to the water, for a few of many factors." And let's not forget we're dredging off the coast of any economic beachfront to replace the lost sand so that makes ocean depth and water movements change to. In fact it's been shown that changing the beachfront at one community has effects along the entire coastline. Drilling for oil, over-fishing where does our involvment begin and end. We hear about ridiculous measures like cow farts but what about commercial bakeries and yeast who's very objective is to create CO2? If it is our fault and i'm not convinced it's not just a "new eyes" problem and unrelenting plowing over of farmland for warehouses and computer installations for bigger profits but it's not cow farts they are just part of the conspriracy being blamed so once-again we can suffer the consequences of over-priced food.
Like so many problems in our world (*) there are solutions. It’s just that our rulers don’t want to fix these problems because it would cause them to not be in control and expose their evil and corruption.
* In US, two long-term, and critically important problems that have not been fixed: 1) illegal immigration, and 2) election security. As problems go, a number of straightforward measures could be put in place to substantially reduce both of these problems. The only reasons they’re not, is the politicians benefit when the problems remain in place.
Did Roger manage to block any ambulances taking a patient to the emergency section of a hospital? Blocking peoples right to move is facistic and it seems he believes his views must over rule and be imposed upon other members of society!
I don't believe in the green new scam as thrust upon us by the likes of John Kerry and Al Gore. I suspect they are just enriching themselves as they fly around in their private jets. After the Covid scam treating scientists as some godlike entity us over for me.I had 2 shots of Astra Zeneca and 1 of Pfizer followed by a brain Heamorrage.
I do agree with you on the appalling genocidle behaviour of the Israeli's in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon!
1.5C is way back in the rearview mirror, we are on our way to 3 C in the near future . EVs, solar panels, wind farms, recycling have failed to stop what has already arrived. "Free market capitalism" has won the day, to our ruin. Greenwashing frauds like Al Gore and Bill McKibbon have helped make things worse while making bank.
"At the edge of extinction, only love remains", McPhearson.
CApitalism is a system which is founded on greed and greed even amongst intelligent well informed people can be blinding to deadly consequences
I would lie to add that I have served two short prison sentences for nonviolent offences one for the environment and one against war and I feel honoured to be following in the footsteps of such a great person in even in a minor way
The simple fact is that humanity long ago overshot the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet to support human beings.
The World Wildlife Fund recently reported that since 1970, the vertebrate animal population of this planet has decreased by almost 75 percent (referring to the wild creatures, not dogs, cats, cattle, pigs, chickens, etc). In this same 50+ year period, the human population doubled from four billion to over eight billion. Humanity's voracious appetite for natural resources and massive expansion of agriculture has destroyed global biodiversity.
Wind turbines, solar panels, green hydrogen, Carbon Capture and Underground Storage, batteries and EVs are all too little, too late. Humanity simply consumes too much energy. The typical American believes that he will continue to live life exactly as we do now, only everything will be powered by ‘clean’ renewable electricity.
Five hundred years ago, humanity lived in an idyllic renewable energy economy, powered entirely by solar energy. Sunlight was the photosynthetic basis for the food crops which provided the energy for human and animal muscle. These were the prime movers which performed most of the work in the world at that time. Wood and charcoal biomass also provided primary energy. Solar energy drove the circulation of the atmosphere, resulting in wind and rainfall to power sailing ships, windmills (for grinding grain and pumping water out of the Dutch polders), and waterwheels, also for grinding grain and other purposes.
And the world population in 1500 CE is estimated to have been only about 500,000,000 (roughly six percent of the current global population of eight billion plus) and it grew very slowly until the mid-eighteenth century, when the industrial revolution (read carbon-based energy revolution, the steam engine plus coal) began. Half a billion people was all that renewable energy-based agriculture and technology could support at that time.
Humanity has greatly overshot the carrying capacity of the biosphere, thanks to the trillions of hydrocarbon slaves that we have had working on our behalf for over two centuries. The climate crisis is a symptom, but not the main event.
Nature is now in the driver’s seat and the ghost of Malthus is nature’s co-pilot. Degrowth and massive population decline is our destiny. The ride is not going to be pretty.
Well said, sadly. When I was 12, I saw the book title “a population bomb“. When I was 19, we had Earth Day and nothing changed. Greed has been running our system since time immemorial. . Yes, when I was born in 1950 there were less than 3 billion, now eight. we sold our future for a few pieces of gold. No one will escape and I will be dead and gone having watched the beginning of the end.
Today Roger Hallam's enchanting words echoed by Eunice Wong lit up my heart. It is good to hear the truth breaking through the deafening silence of climate change denial.
I remember your many conversations with Roger. I never thought he would end up in prison for nonviolent protest. Anything that disrupts profits is criminal. More war, more profits…that is what counts.
Our atmosphere contains 78.08% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.04% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other trace gases. The same amounts that I recall from like elementary school science in the 1960's. Do you really believe that increasing that .04% or .0004 to .0005 is destroying the planet?
I also note that everyday when I check the weather for the day it alsways seems to be listed a bit hihger in temperature than we really ever get. 91 for the high that barely makes it to 84, etc. Why is that? Is someone trying so desperately to make a case for global warming because it's their grift?
Why is it that you are asking questions that you could answer on your own by educating yourself? Don’t expect other people to do your work.
It was educating myself not to the likes of Bill McCibben, Al Gore, etc that allows me to post what I did.
Ah, a ‘science-denier’.
But even if you don’t accept the science - which, unlike for Covid is not state-‘approved’ - you must surely accept the evidence of the increase in dramatic weather events, the disappearance of the glaciers, the rising sea levels, forest fires etc?
Forest fires, hurricanes, tornados, and mudslides have been around as long as I have but now we have the internet to expand on the volume of people crying something's wrong. I've not been to see any glaciers in my entire life. But showing me video of one falling into the ocean maybe normal. I have no vantage point for such so-called evidence. They could be showing the same one over and over it's not like they look different. Unless you can see this stuff first hand you don't know when you're being propagandized and when you/re not. We know that because we have been cucks since the day we were born. I can't seem to stop editing this one. Just another thought on forest fires. We've moved out of the cities into the rural landscape where we never used to be. Maybe we didn't care as much about fires because they weren't threatening our homes so they weren't front page news. Maybe it's us that has changed not the environment. And yet again. Right off the climate.gov website "Gauging average global sea level is trickier than sticking a ruler in the depths and noting the day-to-day or year-to-year changes. That’s because the ocean doesn’t have one steady level. Tides and currents constantly flow up and down, while tectonic forces move land masses relative to the water, for a few of many factors." And let's not forget we're dredging off the coast of any economic beachfront to replace the lost sand so that makes ocean depth and water movements change to. In fact it's been shown that changing the beachfront at one community has effects along the entire coastline. Drilling for oil, over-fishing where does our involvment begin and end. We hear about ridiculous measures like cow farts but what about commercial bakeries and yeast who's very objective is to create CO2? If it is our fault and i'm not convinced it's not just a "new eyes" problem and unrelenting plowing over of farmland for warehouses and computer installations for bigger profits but it's not cow farts they are just part of the conspriracy being blamed so once-again we can suffer the consequences of over-priced food.
Cute…cheeky, even. Bravo. Touche’ 🤪🤡😂
I’ll be watching this tonight. Anyone seen it already? It’s gotten good reviews.
https://www.nuclearnowfilm.com/
Like so many problems in our world (*) there are solutions. It’s just that our rulers don’t want to fix these problems because it would cause them to not be in control and expose their evil and corruption.
* In US, two long-term, and critically important problems that have not been fixed: 1) illegal immigration, and 2) election security. As problems go, a number of straightforward measures could be put in place to substantially reduce both of these problems. The only reasons they’re not, is the politicians benefit when the problems remain in place.
https://en.vedur.is/media/ads_in_header/AMOC-letter_Final.pdf
Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Reykjavik, October 2024
We, the undersigned, are scientists working in the field of climate research and feel it is
urgent to draw the attention of the Nordic Council of Ministers to the serious risk of a
major ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. A string of scientific studies in the past few
years suggests that this risk has so far been greatly underestimated. Such an ocean
circulation change would have devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic
countries, but also for other parts of the world. ...
Signed by 24 noted Climate Scientists
Did Roger manage to block any ambulances taking a patient to the emergency section of a hospital? Blocking peoples right to move is facistic and it seems he believes his views must over rule and be imposed upon other members of society!
I don't believe in the green new scam as thrust upon us by the likes of John Kerry and Al Gore. I suspect they are just enriching themselves as they fly around in their private jets. After the Covid scam treating scientists as some godlike entity us over for me.I had 2 shots of Astra Zeneca and 1 of Pfizer followed by a brain Heamorrage.
I do agree with you on the appalling genocidle behaviour of the Israeli's in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon!
Thank you. Working on a better grasp of he fear thing.
Thank you for this writing & reading ~>•