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He asks: "What's my legacy". It's a world which will be uninhabitable for us unless we take some drastic action now. Drastic action which his industry is throw

He asks: "What's my legacy". It's a world which will be uninhabitable for us unless we take some drastic action now. Drastic action which his industry is throwing everything into opposing.

jpadkins 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan He was one of the major voices in the industry to switch to wind, and why we have some much windpower in the midwest today.
- scblock 7y ago
  No he wasn't. He was just playing for money and for name recognition. He did absolutely nothing in the wind industry except attach his name to it. He built nothing. He developed nothing. He achieved nothing.
antisthenes 7y ago
It's worth noting that the newest generations in developed nations (XYZ) are the most carbon intensive creatures this planet has had to date, in 300+ million years of vertebrate life. You can't really blame his legacy without accepting some personal responsibility at the same time. Either take the cross off or put the knickers back on as they say.
- radicalbyte 7y ago
  I at least am! Since the scale of the problem became clear around 2012: First the big one: * Politically support the Greens (GroenLinks), switching from the center-center/right parties (D66 or VVD if you google). Then the smaller things: * I've rejected a number of contracts the last two years which required significant travel or were for the fossil industry. I'd be $200k richer if I accepted one or two of them. Climate wasn't the only reason (young kids and father in law with cancer/stroke who needed my help played a part too). * I haven't flown in 5-6 years (I live in the NL, my family in UK so this is a sacrifice). This is hard because travel is a passion of mine. * I cycle everywhere whenever possible. * I drive a tiny car and haven't upgraded it yet for environmental reasons. * I've drastically cut my meat intake especially of beef. * I'm spending $100k on my new house making it as close to 0 carbon as possible. * Generally repairing instead of replacing stuff as much as possible. Once I'm back to billing hours I'll be repaying my and my partner's climate debt by funding projects which remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only the "gold standard" projects, not the $10 clearly fraudulent "offsets" that the airlines try to sell you. What are you doing?
  - antisthenes 7y ago
    I was growing up in poverty for the first 50% of my life.

He asks: "What's my legacy". It's a world which will be uninhabitable for us unless we take some drastic action now. Drastic action which his industry is throwing everything into opposing.

jpadkins 7y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickens_Plan He was one of the major voices in the industry to switch to wind, and why we have some much windpower in the midwest today.

scblock 7y ago
No he wasn't. He was just playing for money and for name recognition. He did absolutely nothing in the wind industry except attach his name to it. He built nothing. He developed nothing. He achieved nothing.

antisthenes 7y ago

It's worth noting that the newest generations in developed nations (XYZ) are the most carbon intensive creatures this planet has had to date, in 300+ million years of vertebrate life. You can't really blame his legacy without accepting some personal responsibility at the same time. Either take the cross off or put the knickers back on as they say.

radicalbyte 7y ago
I at least am! Since the scale of the problem became clear around 2012: First the big one: * Politically support the Greens (GroenLinks), switching from the center-center/right parties (D66 or VVD if you google). Then the smaller things: * I've rejected a number of contracts the last two years which required significant travel or were for the fossil industry. I'd be $200k richer if I accepted one or two of them. Climate wasn't the only reason (young kids and father in law with cancer/stroke who needed my help played a part too). * I haven't flown in 5-6 years (I live in the NL, my family in UK so this is a sacrifice). This is hard because travel is a passion of mine. * I cycle everywhere whenever possible. * I drive a tiny car and haven't upgraded it yet for environmental reasons. * I've drastically cut my meat intake especially of beef. * I'm spending $100k on my new house making it as close to 0 carbon as possible. * Generally repairing instead of replacing stuff as much as possible. Once I'm back to billing hours I'll be repaying my and my partner's climate debt by funding projects which remove carbon from the atmosphere. Only the "gold standard" projects, not the $10 clearly fraudulent "offsets" that the airlines try to sell you. What are you doing?
- antisthenes 7y ago
  I was growing up in poverty for the first 50% of my life.