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Y'all know about me and #slowdown. If you're new here - which, by the way, welcome aboard, I've acquired some new readers lately and thanks for coming. But - if you haven't, please read my pinned tweet. It is a serious proposition to combat climate change and ecosystem collapse.
2. I don't think many people see the speed component of our culture the same way I do. I think most people see speed and think, miles per gallon, how big a difference can that make, and - it can make a big difference.
3. I wrote a thread a little while back where I googled a bunch of relevant facts and demonstrated with real numbers how we could reduce our fossil fuel use by literally millions of gallons of gasoline a year, just by slowing modestly.
I am going to build a thread tonight on Erin's excellent thread from yesterday.
I invite all to read Erin's thread and her supporting documents. I will be addressing one of them later.
I call readers' attention to the graph here on the opening tweet.
I invite all to read Erin's thread and her supporting documents. I will be addressing one of them later.
I call readers' attention to the graph here on the opening tweet.
2. The pinky - beigey parts are what we're doing. "Implemented policies."
The green line is what we'd have to do to stay at or below 2° C, the blue one 1.5° C.
The red one goes the wrong direction. It slopes up.
After a while it appears to slope back down, but
The green line is what we'd have to do to stay at or below 2° C, the blue one 1.5° C.
The red one goes the wrong direction. It slopes up.
After a while it appears to slope back down, but
3. The upslope is real and the downslope is "projected."
So - it slopes up.
So - it slopes up.
