Thread by @homemadeguitars

I'm in the shade down in the high bottom, sitting on the Ventrac. I'm sequestering carbon today.

We're in shade because I'm thinking. Quieter. I'm sitting beside one of my children. This one's a shellbark hickory, just born this spring.

My throne.

Yesterday and this morning I did something against my personal rule. Two or three things.
In the first place, stopping emissions isn't enough.
I don't think there's a serious scientist who says it is.
So arguing about emissions is not productive. We have to stop them, the sooner

The better.
We are, today, worldwide, in a record mess in a record number of places and all of it got here before the Best Minds thought it would.
By a lot.

6. The other thing that I did which is against my rules is argue with internet talking points.
I know them all.
I stipulate every single internet talking point about renewable energy devices.
I stipulate that you can build a wind turbine and it will be outputting energy greater

7. than the energy it took to make it.
If you say they'll do that by breakfast, ok, fine. Stipulated.
It doesn't matter at all.
What matter is,

8. We are implementing your solution now, as much as we can as fast as we can, and AT THE SAME TIME emissions are going up faster than ever before.
I will stipulate whatever you want.
We are implementing your solution now.
It is failing.
There is only one air.
We live in it.

9. I stipulate that one wind turbine on paper reduces emissions within a reasonable time.
It's not happening in the real world.
We are in the worst spot we have ever been in. We were last year too but this is worse.
Your system operates within an increasing emissions economy.

10. You system exists for the express purpose of continuing uninterrupted the economy which increases its emissions. It is and are.
I don't care if there is a cause and effect relationship or not. It is absolutely irrelevant.
What matters is the big curve.

11. I had a guy tell me the other day my charts don't prove what I think they do. Too much "noise".
I don't know how to express it to all you educated people. There is only one Earth. It all operates as a system. The oceans flow thusly, and the air does in this way, and we broke

12. It.
It makes absolutely no difference what one individual wind turbine does or does not require to manufacture and I was a fool to go there.
The only thing in the world that can save us it a the biosphere. That's why I'm doing what I'm doing.
Counting the emissions from gas

13. which will be about 120 pounds today - 6 gallons of gasoline - by my activities I will have resulted in a physical reduction in atmospheric carbon.
Only a few hundred pounds, but - a physical reduction.
Not next year. Like one wind turbine. Not in ten years to infinity,

14. Depending on whose opinion you believe, like the whole renewable worldwide system.
Emissions are rising today.
We are in the worst climate we could imagine for today, about seven years early.
I don't care if the excess calories that shrink my pants come out at night and emit.

15. We are implementing your solution today.
Emissions are rising today.
Weather is shitty today.
If we implemented my solution tomorrow, we could cause a measurable reduction virtually immediately with no leading emissions pulse.
Slow Down.
Y'all don't really want to fix climate

16. This tractor 🚜 is a high speed high energy device. It's got a zillion BTUs of fossil energy imbedded in it.
The one I was working earlier is made of atmospheric carbon.
But go ahead and laugh. I've got work to do.

17. It's only a few hundred pounds, but I will remove more carbon, already emitted already stored carbon, from the atmosphere today than all the wind turbines that are ever built put together in all the rest of high energy civilization.
And that's while pissing out 120 lbs myself