In other news, 2023 broke 2022 record for most carbon emissions ever. 2024 will break that record again. Renewable energy is just added to the energy we consume. No displacement on a global level (if some country uses less, the oil companies just sell it to the next eager market). We won’t see meaningful declines in emissions until the population begins to fall instead of grow, crops fail from climate chaos (starving us), and most importantly we begin to run out of carbon to burn. I fully expect to see solar-powered oil wells extracting oil that would otherwise have a negative EROI.
The other bad news is that completely displacing oil would require more of various non-renewable resources than exist on Earth. To get where we need to go, we will need a decline in lifestyle, and covid already demonstrated how unwilling many are to that concept (staying home and wearing masks to save lives was too much of a burden for many).
You don’t know that emissions will only start to fall when the “population begins to fall”. That’s just a wild guess on your part.
To get where we need to go, we will need a decline in lifestyle
This only makes sense if you’re a millionaire. You’re completely missing sight of whose “lifestyles” are fucking us over. The Pentagon is one of the biggest polluters in the world. Oil companies have coated the earth in micro plastics. But you think a “decline in lifestyle” is needed to improve the environment?
good point on perspective of “lifestyle”. I eat like a king, but the people who door dash every day would think I eat like a Buddhist monk just making a big cauldron of rice and chicken or maybe a huge bolognese… and that is what I eat for my main meal for 5 days! a lot of these spoiled fuckers don’t get that I am eating richer than most people in the world!
In other news, 2023 broke 2022 record for most carbon emissions ever. 2024 will break that record again. Renewable energy is just added to the energy we consume. No displacement on a global level (if some country uses less, the oil companies just sell it to the next eager market). We won’t see meaningful declines in emissions until the population begins to fall instead of grow, crops fail from climate chaos (starving us), and most importantly we begin to run out of carbon to burn. I fully expect to see solar-powered oil wells extracting oil that would otherwise have a negative EROI.
The other bad news is that completely displacing oil would require more of various non-renewable resources than exist on Earth. To get where we need to go, we will need a decline in lifestyle, and covid already demonstrated how unwilling many are to that concept (staying home and wearing masks to save lives was too much of a burden for many).
You don’t know that emissions will only start to fall when the “population begins to fall”. That’s just a wild guess on your part.
This only makes sense if you’re a millionaire. You’re completely missing sight of whose “lifestyles” are fucking us over. The Pentagon is one of the biggest polluters in the world. Oil companies have coated the earth in micro plastics. But you think a “decline in lifestyle” is needed to improve the environment?
good point on perspective of “lifestyle”. I eat like a king, but the people who door dash every day would think I eat like a Buddhist monk just making a big cauldron of rice and chicken or maybe a huge bolognese… and that is what I eat for my main meal for 5 days! a lot of these spoiled fuckers don’t get that I am eating richer than most people in the world!