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Comment on climate
Featured
- The Solution is the Problem: a response to the UK Prime Minister’s plan to end the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2030
- Playing politics whilst Rome burns: a response to the EU's 'business as usual' climate change law
- Whilst in many respects I welcome the headline framing of the Government's “net-zero” proposal, sift amongst the detail and all is far from rosy
- UK Climate Minister undermines the Committee on Climate Change & pulls the rug on the 1.5°C report
- Personal reflections on the latest Bonn-Fiji climate meeting (COP23) - November 2017
- Film review of Leonardo DiCaprio's Before the Flood
- Individual or collective responsibility? A false dichotomy
- Rambling thoughts on 1.5 Celsius, economic growth and academic freedom
- The Paris Agreement ... how techno-utopias mask the need for deep political & economic change
- Are climbers & outdoor types custodians of the countryside or simply smash & grab looters?
Media
- Debate with environmental business advisor on flying, emissions & leading by example
- Weak EU decarbonisation target risks locking in dangerous climate change
- Scientists suggest UN climate talks are going backwards & risk 4°C of warming
- Holding to 2°C is an issue of equity; the wealthy must change their ways
- Article on climate science, carbon budgets and fear of speaking out
@Peters_Glen @wunder2welt @DaytonRMartind @misterp55 @hausfath @patrick_s_smart @dangroshev @landrights4all @deirdrekent @scholarswarning @dad_climate @RobinHeinenNL @UN @UNDRR @JeremyRLent @alastairmci @GreenRupertRead @DrDCWahl @jrockstrom @ProfBillMcGuire @ed_hawkins @AndMedh @Davos @jembendell @AminaJMohammed @buildresilience @dwallacewells @CarolineLucas @JustCollapse @MrMatthewTodd @Matthew__Green @medialens @_Stella_Ngugi_ @OurWorldInData Relative to 400GtCO2 for 1.5°C (ie. under 10yrs of current CO2 & being used up at ~1% each ‘month’), I see the IEA as greened BAU with little deep behaviour change (attached). The trick is not to have no behaviour change, but to have just enough to be able to say it’s included.
@Peters_Glen @wunder2welt @DaytonRMartind @KevinClimate @hausfath @patrick_s_smart @dangroshev @landrights4all @deirdrekent @scholarswarning @dad_climate @RobinHeinenNL @UN @UNDRR @JeremyRLent @alastairmci @GreenRupertRead @DrDCWahl @jrockstrom @ProfBillMcGuire @ed_hawkins @AndMedh @Davos @jembendell @AminaJMohammed @buildresilience @dwallacewells @CarolineLucas @JustCollapse @MrMatthewTodd @Matthew__Green @UKCRP_SPF @medialens @_Stella_Ngugi_ @OurWorldInData Identifying all the damaging activities and scaling them down private jets, SUVs, air travel, fast fashion, industrial beef farming, advertising, the practice of planned obsolescence. Providing everyone with private sufficiency but with public luxury (Hickel&Monbiot)
@Peters_Glen @wunder2welt @DaytonRMartind @KevinClimate @hausfath @patrick_s_smart @dangroshev @landrights4all @deirdrekent @scholarswarning @dad_climate @RobinHeinenNL @UN @UNDRR @JeremyRLent @alastairmci @GreenRupertRead @DrDCWahl @jrockstrom @ProfBillMcGuire @ed_hawkins @AndMedh @Davos @jembendell @AminaJMohammed @buildresilience @dwallacewells @CarolineLucas @JustCollapse @MrMatthewTodd @Matthew__Green @UKCRP_SPF @medialens @_Stella_Ngugi_ @OurWorldInData The BAU aspect refers to the assumption that we will still over produce, ie produce more than people need, to fulfil the need for more profits/GDP. Imagine, for example, all citizen’ basic needs being publicly provisioned as services as described in the WG3 report, imagine 1/2