https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368?utm_source=TCUK&utm_medium=linkback&utm_campaign=TCUKengagement&utm_content=InsightsUK
This is a great idea, in principle. Unfortunately, in practice it helps perpetuate a belief in technological salvation and diminishes the sense of urgency surrounding the need to curb emissions now.
We have arrived at the painful realisation that the idea of net zero has licensed a recklessly cavalier “burn now, pay later” approach which has seen carbon emissions continue to soar. It has also hastened the destruction of the natural world by increasing deforestation today, and greatly increases the risk of further devastation in the future.
To understand how this has happened, how humanity has gambled its civilisation on no more than promises of future solutions, we must return to the late 1980s, when climate change broke out onto the international stage.
Any kind of zero is all very nice but totally impractical when we are all so completely and utterly locked in as fossil fuel addicts.
ReplyDeleteAny kind of zero discussion will be a distraction (and somewhat misleading and raising impossible to achieve expectations) from urging urgent action to adapt, mitigate and reform. And repent!!
Can we have another fun lobby with XR's band on Fri 14 Jan to keep the pressure up on the Board members? To show them we haven't gone away?
I want to see if I can catch Board members and distribute my ever so helpful, educational 'propaganda' that I missed out on last time at Wolverhampton.