I grew up in Northern California. I never "smelled" a forest fire until about 3 - 4 years ago. Now, every other year there is an entire month of hazardous air. It will probably become every year soon. I have purchased two air purifiers. I am also very much thinking that I should move out of the state to a wetter climate.
Earth is enjoying a deep breath... It won't last, but it will give nature a Oxigen Ballon for some decades. But Humans won't change. We look at the abyiss and the abyiss is looking back at you. And you will keep going until you fall.
yes we can still have luzuries like air travel, private cars, toys but they will need to be very expensive. but keep in mind- just like an elec. car or a PV panel for your roof- it takes at least 7 years of use to re-coop the carbon footprint just to make those items!! and all this energy we expend to deal with these climate disasters is just one more positive feedback loop to creating more energy use and thus more warming!!!
i don't think we will ever be more prosperous than currently- but that doesn't matter we have to save all the ecosystems and the climate- no matter what the sacrifice is!!!!!! we have to make pollution expensive ! Carbon Tax ASAP ! along with a Wealth Tax since all wealth can from the environment which belongs to the people and other species..
Encouraging developments: I heard about Southpole.com from a webinar by Dr. Court Whelan about travel offsets on WWF Nat Hab Adventures. If I take a trip with them, they will offset the trip and my life footprint for a year. You can also buy individual offsets from southpole.com which are third party audited. Also, a small electric plane started flying in Dec 2019 and carbon removal machines may someday exist to offset our home emissions per the webinar. Also, the UK is researching the JetZero commercial plane (probably hydrogen fuel) by 2050 and France is researching a hybrid Airbus.
A rapid speaker David Wallace Wells has taken the problem of Climate change with great candour.But though he is a " Liberal Democrat ", he isn't for " Neoliberalism ", he mentions Indian author Dr. Amitav Ghosh " The great derangement ", and Dr.. Amitav Ghosh in a interview he gave on his analysis of " Jungle Nama", his versified poem on the largest delta of the world " Sundarbans ", talks about the dangerous nature of Neoliberalism that us been seen in India.
From UK: There are other culprits. Healthy soil is the best absorber of CO2 on the planet today. Since industrialisation we have destroyed half the soil on the planet. Poverty, ignorance, greed and since World war II the new Agribusiness Chemical Farming which has added poison to the mix, which now infects our soil ,rivers and coastal waters too. Regenerative farming which restores the soil and provides good chemical free food is developing in projects around the world, on a small scale. If we could scale up (but from a grass roots basis from communities) and create education facilities for new (and ancient) developments in non chemical organic techniques we could begin to drawdown CO2 into food! and employ millions too, a part deindustrialisation sort of...
I grew up in Northern California. I never "smelled" a forest fire until about 3 - 4 years ago. Now, every other year there is an entire month of hazardous air. It will probably become every year soon. I have purchased two air purifiers. I am also very much thinking that I should move out of the state to a wetter climate.
I'm so glad for David Wallace-Wells as a leader on climate change.
Earth is enjoying a deep breath...
It won't last, but it will give nature a Oxigen Ballon for some decades.
But Humans won't change.
We look at the abyiss and the abyiss is looking back at you. And you will keep going until you fall.
yes we can still have luzuries like air travel, private cars, toys but they will need to be very expensive. but keep in mind- just like an elec. car or a PV panel for your roof- it takes at least 7 years of use to re-coop the carbon footprint just to make those items!! and all this energy we expend to deal with these climate disasters is just one more positive feedback loop to creating more energy use and thus more warming!!!
Thank you for this!
i don't think we will ever be more prosperous than currently- but that doesn't matter we have to save all the ecosystems and the climate- no matter what the sacrifice is!!!!!! we have to make pollution expensive ! Carbon Tax ASAP ! along with a Wealth Tax since all wealth can from the environment which belongs to the people and other species..
Encouraging developments: I heard about Southpole.com from a webinar by Dr. Court Whelan about travel offsets on WWF Nat Hab Adventures. If I take a trip with them, they will offset the trip and my life footprint for a year. You can also buy individual offsets from southpole.com which are third party audited. Also, a small electric plane started flying in Dec 2019 and carbon removal machines may someday exist to offset our home emissions per the webinar. Also, the UK is researching the JetZero commercial plane (probably hydrogen fuel) by 2050 and France is researching a hybrid Airbus.
A rapid speaker David Wallace Wells has taken the problem of Climate change with great candour.But though he is a " Liberal Democrat ", he isn't for " Neoliberalism ", he mentions Indian author Dr. Amitav Ghosh " The great derangement ", and Dr.. Amitav Ghosh in a interview he gave on his analysis of " Jungle Nama", his versified poem on the largest delta of the world " Sundarbans ", talks about the dangerous nature of Neoliberalism that us been seen in India.
From UK: There are other culprits. Healthy soil is the best absorber of CO2 on the planet today. Since industrialisation we have destroyed half the soil on the planet. Poverty, ignorance, greed and since World war II the new Agribusiness Chemical Farming which has added poison to the mix, which now infects our soil ,rivers and coastal waters too. Regenerative farming which restores the soil and provides good chemical free food is developing in projects around the world, on a small scale. If we could scale up (but from a grass roots basis from communities) and create education facilities for new (and ancient) developments in non chemical organic techniques we could begin to drawdown CO2 into food! and employ millions too, a part deindustrialisation sort of...
Just made my very first TH-cam video on this very topic-a poem/rap. I'm a teacher from N. Ireland.