I’m very scared, it feels like the world is about to fall apart. I will also remember a passage that I heard, and which does not seem to be a joke: you will own nothing, and will be happy! And it seems that this is gradually becoming a reality.
What scares you?
Maybe. It doesn’t make much sense that the same US government Republicans are preparing for the worst that could have just prevented it. Staying under 2C wasn’t that difficult. The hardest part was getting China to go along, and that’s gone reasonably.
Respectfully disagree. Ending fossil fuels is not easy. Technically, politically and economically.
The hardest part was getting China to go along, and that’s gone reasonably.
…China, India, Russia, Japan, Europe, Canada, the middle east, Australia…
No one came close. China’ progress is significant and in some ways commendable, matched only by their failures.
https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser?country=CHINAREG&fuel=Energy+supply&indicator=TESbySource
I don’t think we’d have to fully end fossil fuels to stay under 2C. I think getting rid of them in power plants, road vehicles, and ocean vessels would have been enough.
And that probably would have taken less resources than these data center rollouts.
We could have kept oil in airlines and military.
That would just have slowed it down not stopped it. Fossil fuels must end, one way, or as it seems to be the case, the other.
To be fair, I’m not sure we could have eliminated gas from residential heating. That’s a big lift.
If we had gone nuclear and managed to make electricity pretty cheap, maybe.
I’ve heard that this technology has been around for decades, but for some reason, they don’t want to develop it, and from what people are saying about this technology, it could temporarily save humanity.
No. Just no.