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These are all symptoms of over consumption, warming, plastic... Bill Gates's idea of spraying chalk dust into the stratosphere is duct tape that will maybe addr

These are all symptoms of over consumption, warming, plastic... Bill Gates's idea of spraying chalk dust into the stratosphere is duct tape that will maybe address one of the symptoms. There are close to eight billion of us here. The planet absorbs twenty billion tonnes of CO2. That gives a quota of three tonnes for each of us, divided equally. Three tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year, per person. Three tonnes. I live in a Nordic country where the average emissions are over ten tonnes per a year. How is that not comparable to Nazi era Germany, where normal folk knew what was happening but did nothing to prevent it from happening? Except maybe few thingies. Germans were gassing a group of people alienated and we're gassing our own children. Germans trying to act to stop the gassing would likely be killed, we're facing the consequence of upsetting someone. Tell me how I (or anyone else) justify using over four times the sustainable amount of resources and pretend to be a goodie? #3TA

shrubby 6y ago
Three tonnes of course is a rough guideline. But my idea is that 2020 equivalent of three tonnes should be a good guideline for the coming decades to fix most of our sustainability problems. Tech will progress simultaneously and help us in offsetting the accumulated burden, but what we really need is to relearn the moderation that was present daily just some decades ago.
01100011 6y ago
I think a lot of us are going forward with the hope that technology will improve and we will find solutions. You can take individual action. I did for a couple decades. It was, more or less, a waste of time and energy, but I felt smug for a while. The world needs more Elon Musks, not more smug Westerners. There are billions of people in the developing world who want their world to continue to develop, and right now that takes energy.
- shrubby 6y ago
  Tech wont come in time as we're passing tipping points all the time, the due date was already. Only chance is psychology of moderation and realizing the statistics of the over consumption. Oxfam told in their report that the top 1% contributed twice the amount of the lowest 50% over the course of last 25 years. And out of that consumption of the rich, most is vain. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...

shrubby 6y ago

Three tonnes of course is a rough guideline. But my idea is that 2020 equivalent of three tonnes should be a good guideline for the coming decades to fix most of our sustainability problems. Tech will progress simultaneously and help us in offsetting the accumulated burden, but what we really need is to relearn the moderation that was present daily just some decades ago.

01100011 6y ago

I think a lot of us are going forward with the hope that technology will improve and we will find solutions. You can take individual action. I did for a couple decades. It was, more or less, a waste of time and energy, but I felt smug for a while. The world needs more Elon Musks, not more smug Westerners. There are billions of people in the developing world who want their world to continue to develop, and right now that takes energy.

shrubby 6y ago
Tech wont come in time as we're passing tipping points all the time, the due date was already. Only chance is psychology of moderation and realizing the statistics of the over consumption. Oxfam told in their report that the top 1% contributed twice the amount of the lowest 50% over the course of last 25 years. And out of that consumption of the rich, most is vain. https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-richest-1-percent-more-double-emissions-poorest-half-humanity https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/carbon-emissions-ric...