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> I have seen no credible plan for how we would actually do this. Especially given we haven't even managed to stop (or greatly slow) the growth of global emissi
by the_other 4y ago
> I have seen no credible plan for how we would actually do this. Especially given we haven't even managed to stop (or greatly slow) the growth of global emissions much less reduce them to zero.
Given the distribution of responsibilities, and the societal emphasis on specialisation, I think it’s completely unreasonable to expect the people who study the climate phenomena to also define a plan with such radical cultural change implications.
On the one hand, it’s gonna take everyone to make some adjustments. On the other hand “day to day” folk have been making these adjustments for 40years and it’s clear that we need to make bigger ones, faster. The majority of the current suggestions seem to require changes in capital expectation, and extensive supply-chain alterations of the kind where whole sectors of work will need to change. No-one wants to do either because we live in a culture that doesn’t support these kinds of changes.
- schnitzelstoat 4y agoI'm not saying that the climatologists need to make a plan. But someone does, and so far I haven't seen any credible road map that gets us to net zero quickly enough to avoid catastrophic climate change. It seems there is no non-radical future - either we face catastrophic climate change or unimaginable changes to our way of life.
- the_other 4y agoI see. Yes, I agree with this. Sadly, the idiots with the capital and power who have been ignoring the research and evidence for half a decade were the ones who should have thought about this. If they had done, we might have made an easier transition. The only way forward now is radical.