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Reading the article leaves me with a taste of self-delusion as a society. I mean, we take 3 pollution parameters very limited in time and space, we see how the
by kaskakokos 4y ago
Reading the article leaves me with a taste of self-delusion as a society.
I mean, we take 3 pollution parameters very limited in time and space, we see how they decrease, and we open the bottle of champagne to celebrate...
If we don't look at the big picture, we are fooling ourselves, and in my opinion only degrowth will save us, just keep in mind that previous societies that consumed fewer resources collapsed for exhaustion of resources in relatively short periods of time (but long in human terms).
Is it difficult to convince people of degrowth? Absolutely. But we either degrow or we will be degrowth.
- mpweiher 4y agoSo instead we take no parameters, no data whatsoever, and predict absolutely certain doom. Hmm.
- kaskakokos 4y agoOr... we can use the information that experts collect and share: https://www.ipcc.ch/ https://www.ipcc.ch/ * I edit to copy paste an extract of the report: Emissions reductions in CO2 from fossil fuels and industrial processes (CO2-FFI), due to improvements in energy intensity of GDP and carbon intensity of energy, have been less than emissions increases from rising global activity levels in industry, energy supply, transport, agriculture and buildings