First IPCC report since 2013 says 'immediate, rapid & large-scale reductions' in emissions' would (just) keep warming to 1.5c, but risk of 5.7c of warming by 2100 without change
I think it feels hopeless when the biggest polluting countries are simply carrying on and will effect everyone, everywhere. Like hostages in a huge concentration camp where the estimates of the what is the very least it will take to keep people “producing” until the investment becomes to expensive and human and legal rights become problematic so the boot of systems have to come down on whole portions of the population usually the most vulnerable women, children and the poor. These groups are simply resources to be extracted from. Until some in the privileged classes realise they’ve created an uninhabitable, inhumane system no one in the working class has the energy, time or resources to bother with their latest “fancies”. There is no coherent strategy to reform the economy, calculate the costs in to supporting it,provide adequate housing and transport needs for work or life. Life is precarious and fragile enough without and idiotic class of the not so bright, who don’t understand or believe in consequences running the joint. As Salman Rushdie said “there are worse things than death”. That’s at the centre of the complacency here nothing suggested will work or is practical while people are too deprived and overwhelmed to have the energy to care. People feel powerless as more impractical demands are put upon them when it’s the wealthy and industry and their enabling middle classes who have caused, profited from and suppressed information on forever. Suddenly the working and unpaid reproductive classes have to pay more and work harder and continue to lie about reality to save their privileged lycra clad and uniformed and besuited arses? Ha! Even if they could I doubt they would. Lots of nagging and vaguely patronising manipulation and guilt tripping isn’t going to work it’s going to take action where no one is left behind.
The growth imperative is driven by interest-bearing debt. Global warming cannot be properly addressed while debt controls the show. Nationalise the banks and end the despotic production of debt by the private banks. Then properly fund the programs and services that are sorely needed to end hunger and poverty and homelessness, and calmly and intelligently work to clean up the planet and mitigate global warming. Without debt. But the power elite won't have it, will they? A post-pandemic "return to normalcy" will change nothing. The elite's agenda must be stopped.
You would certainly be forgiven for being sceptical about NZ governments ability to land on a robust strategy, when they cant even vaccinate workers at the border during a pandemic on an Island!
I think it feels hopeless when the biggest polluting countries are simply carrying on and will effect everyone, everywhere. Like hostages in a huge concentration camp where the estimates of the what is the very least it will take to keep people “producing” until the investment becomes to expensive and human and legal rights become problematic so the boot of systems have to come down on whole portions of the population usually the most vulnerable women, children and the poor. These groups are simply resources to be extracted from. Until some in the privileged classes realise they’ve created an uninhabitable, inhumane system no one in the working class has the energy, time or resources to bother with their latest “fancies”. There is no coherent strategy to reform the economy, calculate the costs in to supporting it,provide adequate housing and transport needs for work or life. Life is precarious and fragile enough without and idiotic class of the not so bright, who don’t understand or believe in consequences running the joint. As Salman Rushdie said “there are worse things than death”. That’s at the centre of the complacency here nothing suggested will work or is practical while people are too deprived and overwhelmed to have the energy to care. People feel powerless as more impractical demands are put upon them when it’s the wealthy and industry and their enabling middle classes who have caused, profited from and suppressed information on forever. Suddenly the working and unpaid reproductive classes have to pay more and work harder and continue to lie about reality to save their privileged lycra clad and uniformed and besuited arses? Ha! Even if they could I doubt they would. Lots of nagging and vaguely patronising manipulation and guilt tripping isn’t going to work it’s going to take action where no one is left behind.
The growth imperative is driven by interest-bearing debt. Global warming cannot be properly addressed while debt controls the show. Nationalise the banks and end the despotic production of debt by the private banks. Then properly fund the programs and services that are sorely needed to end hunger and poverty and homelessness, and calmly and intelligently work to clean up the planet and mitigate global warming. Without debt. But the power elite won't have it, will they? A post-pandemic "return to normalcy" will change nothing. The elite's agenda must be stopped.
You would certainly be forgiven for being sceptical about NZ governments ability to land on a robust strategy, when they cant even vaccinate workers at the border during a pandemic on an Island!