Mind-blowing that SAI #SRM is taken seriously.
As is deabte about geoengineering #CDR#BECCS#DAC#CCS to "save" 1.5 right now, while mitigation hasn't even been tried to take seriously/started to be acted upon. Reading this report takes me forever because it makes me furious.
White man from Global North:
"Perhaps Brazilians watching recent television footage of dying children in Ethiopia and Sudan would be glad to have their own rainfall reduced to 2000 mm a year when necessary." or geoengineering is a humanitarian endeavor! 🤡 homepages.ed.ac.uk/shs/Climatecha…
But evironmentalists are like the people who hated anaesthetics because they wanted to punish women in childbirth for their wicked things done, which they did not do with men! is apparently also possible as a white man's argument for geoengineering. heraldscotland.com/news/15540151.…
“Solar geoengineering not a humanitarian endeavor: it would constitute massive, potentially dangerous, likely centuries-long intervention into the climate system in order to maintain the economic system at the root of the crisis.”🔥
philanthrocapitalism, ecomodernism, longtermism
"There appears to be a faction within climate politics willing to push for extreme..technological interventions to alter the climate system so that we can ultimately change…nothing at all. Or, more accurately, to actively save capitalism from a climate crisis of its own making."
Connecting the dots between “cost-effective" IPCC #IAMs and what #SRM has to do with large-scale carbon dioxide removal #CDR. Would add plan includes powering CDR with “green” nuclear to finally make nuclear "economical" 🤡
+ a lot about David Keith / Bill Gates FICER @DoctorVive
Curiously many Shellenberger nuclear bros & girls claim nuclear is "super safe" but needs deregulation + often appear on climate denial and far right media outlets that propose climate or "energy realism" which just means let's do all we can to help fossil fuels to stay alive.
Guess why for example jobs in renewables in Germany were lost in the last years?
That's right, because the far right gladly supported astro turf anti-wind campaigns while Germany's leading politicians were catering to the demands of Russia's gas lobby and saving coal jobs. 🤡
2021: UK’s most prominent climate science denial group
The Global Warming Policy Foundation #GWPF Rebrands as ‘Net Zero Watch’ promoting nuclear and fracking desmog.com/2021/10/11/cli…
"Overall, these narratives also serve to justify violations of the law and violence." @Matthias_Quent
Presenting yourself as "a victim of quasi-national socialist methods" has been the hobby-horse of covid denial & Querdenken in 🇩🇪.
Gas Lobby PR to appeal to the far right.
"Put it simple, this treaty is a major threat to the EU energy sovereignty, #GreenDeal, and #ClimateJustice goals. This timely comic is of high importance to ensure the French Presidency will end the participation of EU countries to this ecocide treaty.” @ysaheb#ExitECT#NoECT
"The Energy Charter Treaty is the arguably the largest and most arcane obstacle to climate action. This comic will help you figure out what is going on through thoroughly researched cases. Read, share and convince your politicians to stop the ECT!" @JKSteinberger#ExitECT
1. Individualism
Featuring @MaryHeglar from @RealHotTake and @BenFranta!
Covers the most successful and deceptive greenwashing campaign maybe ever: @bp_plc ’s “Carbon Footprint”. Plus, @Shell’s Ceo Ben van Beurden using it to gaslight his children.