Outstanding coverage the whole way through. And while the outcome falls far short of what’s needed as climate change accelerates, your strategy of attacking the fossil fuel industry via their financing/banks, may just be the most effective activism of all. Thank you for your honest account of COP26.
I think a intellectual honest assessment is needed to slow down, perhaps avert, a global "Final Act".
My assessment is that we should honestly think more about mass migration planning versus mass mitigation planning.
Right now, I see little effort we are collectively acting in unison for our common good. For example, I think the "Third Act" leaders and members should be favoring a Carbon Tax ... why aren't they? Is it because the young progressive leaders at the Green New Deal don't see the wisdom in it.
Distavorous Global Warming will continue as business as usual for at least the next 100 years. Most of the Drop in the bucket efforts by Climate Activists and Governments are too little too late as they are primarily ineffective where the "House", meaning Nature, is winning by continuing to warm.
The COP26 talks underscored the COMPLEXITY of trying to persuade scores of countries, each with its own economic interests and domestic politics, to act in unison for the greater good. In the end, at the urging of India, which argued that fossil fuels were still needed for its development, “phase out” was changed to “phase down.”
When simple language cannot be agreed upon such as "phase out coal" that means to me that human life on this planet is in a slow "phase out" / "Final Act" mode and it's time for migration to more northerly latitudes and also toward higher / cooler elevations.
Diplomatic resolutions always rely on specifically chosen words to reach an accord amongst opposing parties. In this case, it was “phase-down” over “phase-out.” But poorer nations never received the billions of dollars pledged by richer nations in the Paris Accord to assist them in using renewables and cleaner energy to meet the needs of their citizens over the last five years. As disappointing as the word choice of “phase-down” is, keep in mind that the Earth’s natural resources have not been equitably distributed. If they had been, the US would have used up its portion by the early 1940s. With regard to your comment on mass migration, international law is wholly unprepared for the nightmare that awaits us when climatic events force people to cross borders in search of refuge. Just look at the US response to climate refugees from the dry corridor in Central America in 2018. We should be planning and creating legal language to accommodate climate refugees, as without it, conflict zones are inevitable. The complexity of the climate crisis can be overwhelming, but nations must keep talking, activists must keep up the pressure, and science must keep innovating. I so appreciated your comment to mine!
Outstanding coverage the whole way through. And while the outcome falls far short of what’s needed as climate change accelerates, your strategy of attacking the fossil fuel industry via their financing/banks, may just be the most effective activism of all. Thank you for your honest account of COP26.
I think a intellectual honest assessment is needed to slow down, perhaps avert, a global "Final Act".
My assessment is that we should honestly think more about mass migration planning versus mass mitigation planning.
Right now, I see little effort we are collectively acting in unison for our common good. For example, I think the "Third Act" leaders and members should be favoring a Carbon Tax ... why aren't they? Is it because the young progressive leaders at the Green New Deal don't see the wisdom in it.
Distavorous Global Warming will continue as business as usual for at least the next 100 years. Most of the Drop in the bucket efforts by Climate Activists and Governments are too little too late as they are primarily ineffective where the "House", meaning Nature, is winning by continuing to warm.
The COP26 talks underscored the COMPLEXITY of trying to persuade scores of countries, each with its own economic interests and domestic politics, to act in unison for the greater good. In the end, at the urging of India, which argued that fossil fuels were still needed for its development, “phase out” was changed to “phase down.”
When simple language cannot be agreed upon such as "phase out coal" that means to me that human life on this planet is in a slow "phase out" / "Final Act" mode and it's time for migration to more northerly latitudes and also toward higher / cooler elevations.
Diplomatic resolutions always rely on specifically chosen words to reach an accord amongst opposing parties. In this case, it was “phase-down” over “phase-out.” But poorer nations never received the billions of dollars pledged by richer nations in the Paris Accord to assist them in using renewables and cleaner energy to meet the needs of their citizens over the last five years. As disappointing as the word choice of “phase-down” is, keep in mind that the Earth’s natural resources have not been equitably distributed. If they had been, the US would have used up its portion by the early 1940s. With regard to your comment on mass migration, international law is wholly unprepared for the nightmare that awaits us when climatic events force people to cross borders in search of refuge. Just look at the US response to climate refugees from the dry corridor in Central America in 2018. We should be planning and creating legal language to accommodate climate refugees, as without it, conflict zones are inevitable. The complexity of the climate crisis can be overwhelming, but nations must keep talking, activists must keep up the pressure, and science must keep innovating. I so appreciated your comment to mine!
That is so very true about Nietzsche. Distance, ha! Made my day. Thank you.
Some real and by 2030 attainable progress (IWMS) can be made here: https://www.wastedive.com/news/opinion-ierm-landfill-methane-reduction-biden/609693/
local, state, national, global--we've got to engage at all levels. thanks for being out there (even in the rain!)