Thread by @JeffAndDonkeys

I tweeted this a couple of days ago. People who profess to be concerned about the climate, I'm talking to you. I don't care about those other people, the crazies. It's just us believers here. Do you want #ClimateActionNow?
Then why aren't you asking for it by name?

https://twitter.com/JeffAndDonkeys/status/1597771893636886528

2. By no stretch of anyone's imagination is building solar panels and wind turbines #ClimateActionNow.
That is manufacturing action now, with a promise that in a decade it will take away 40% of our emissions then.
It is fossil fuel consumption now. Empirically, measurably, now

3. If #ClimateActionNow has any meaning whatsoever it means "reduce emissions now" and since 100% of all emissions are in aid of some objective within our economy, slowing speeds and reducing demand for things is climate action *now*. The rest is all, also 100%, energy use now.

4. It is likely that there is no single activity in 2022 America that emits as many greenhouse gases as building Interstate highways, bridges, and tunnels.
From the limestone mines, through the cement kilns, runs one stream of high level fossil fuel use, diesel fuel, methane,

T. Earth moving and hauling, hills cut down and hauled away, and then - the reason to build additional high speed roads is to attract and enable additional high speed transportation. While we we're doing this every day in real life, people are getting themselves thrown in jail

6. To demand we "transition to" "renewable" energy, and none of them are demanding we quit building highways.
Anyone who is not demanding a halt to highway construction is accepting the highest possible use of fossil fuels today for the purpose of increasing energy use.
Why?

7. We are "transitioning" just like everyone is demanding, and nobody seems to like it.
We're bulldozing ever more land, to build $180 billion dollars worth of highways, and they're going to have EV CHARGING STATIONS and so the largest conceivable single use of fossil fuel today

8. Is fine. Hunky dory. Let me go glue myself to a building to demand they build more wind turbines and solar panels faster, cover the dying face of Earth with them, and build highways all you want.

9. The same people who demand that more fossil fuels be used, and not just a little more, either, are the same people bitching about new investments in fossil fuel.
We may not know how wind turbines and solar panels are built, but the investment bankers do.

10. Either we do something now, which reduces emissions now, or we go on accelerating the rate of ecosystem collapse as measured in global average temperatures.
What virtually the entire global climate activist society is demanding is an open ended upward curve of energy demand.

11. Within that context there is nothing less meaningful than complaining about fossil fuel use. Fussing at investment bankers. Bellyaching because Presidents sign leases.
Demand comes first. If nobody starts an engine no gasoline flows. Ever. It's not about the fuel. What we do.

12. It's about what we do, and the two cannot be decoupled.
The only real conversation about "climate change" would be, what can we do without. What can we use less of. What freight can we avoid hauling. What distance can we shrink? What speed can we reduce? 27 years of COP mtgs

13. The entire conversation is science fiction. A quarter of a century, and more, world leaders, generations of them, have gotten together and promised the same smoke and mirrors.
What'll it be, troops? #ClimateAction NOW? Or, make more stuff, believe the same old story,

14. I remember when My President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, told me that nuclear energy was going to make electricity too cheap to meter.
I suspected at the time it might not come to pass. 65 years later I'm sure of it.
It's all bullshit.