»Do you take us for fools? Do you think you can just completely remove the disguise and we won’t notice?«
#COP28 is going to be a disaster. And the whole COP process is in the hammerlock of the fossil fuel industry.
Al Gore exposes all their plans in a brilliant way! 👏
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»Last year at the COP, the fossil fuel petro states vetoed any mention of phasing down fossil fuels. They say fossil fuels are not the problem. Let me tell you: the #ClimateCrisis is a fossil fuel crisis! And this industry as a whole has not been acting in good faith.«
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@algore »Now the fossil fuel industry is pushing another brazen fraud, by telling the world that the problem is not fossil fuels, but only the emissions from fossil fuels. They are using non-improving tech like CCS and Direct Air Capture as an excuse for never ever stopping oil.«
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@algore »What about all the energy that’s needed for Direct Air Capture? Will it come from more fossil fuels or from more solar and wind? If so, why not use the solar and wind to replace the fossil fuel burning plants that are emitting all that CO₂ in the first place?«
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@algore »Now, if a company says: 'Look, we shouldn’t be excluded from the COP process, we know a lot about energy.'
Well, here’s a simple test… [find it in the video] And any company that doesn’t pass this test, I’m telling you, ought to be prohibited from the COP process.«👏
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@algore If you are up for very clear words about the #ClimateCrisis without any sugar coating, I would recommend this brutally honest speech from Kevin Anderson, one of UKs most senior climate scientists:
»We are actually entering a stage of 'pre-traumatic syndrome'. Millions of young people who understand the science are terrified and already today beginning to live in trauma and grief. It’s not a question of #climate denial today, it’s a question of climate paralysis.«
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»Optimism is not about assuming that someone else is going to take care of the problem. Someone else will not take care of it. We need to stand up to the challenge of the reality that we face. None of us alone but all of us collectively can change the trajectory we’re on.«
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»There are millions of young people, but not just young people, who are in deep pain and desperation, in grief and many of whom have fallen into depression. And I understand that not only in my head but in my heart. But what are we going to do about it?«
»Banks and fossil fuel companies have captured the policy-making process in key countries and have intentionally zombified as many people as they can around the world with false messaging. We have to solve the #DemocracyCrisis in order to solve the #ClimateCrisis!«
@algore
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»Scientists have reached a conclusion that more facts, more data, more research is of absolutely no good unless we, the people can find the means to break through the imprisonment of our self-determination on the part of massive polluters who are just looking for profits.«
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@algore @TEDTalks »We have to stop destroying our future. We have all the technologies we need to cut emissions in half by 2030, fully developed with deployment plans that have been proven to work. It sounds so simple, but we have to break through this paralysis! Do not give up hope.«
Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words:
»We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.«
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»We are locking in very high levels of sea level rise, maybe 7-8 meters. We are changing weather and rainfall patterns as well as insect pollination of our crops. All of this plays out one disaster after another. We’re talking about society collapse here.«
– @KevinClimate
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@KevinClimate »Countries make various promises about what they are going to do against climate change. These promises are a disaster and still overly optimistic because they only rely on future generations, our children and grandchildren to develop technologies that we don’t have today.«
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„Wie sicher sind Sie denn, dass das was Sie jetzt so apokalyptisch an die Wand malen wirklich passiert, oder dass nicht irgendwie etwas passiert, das das doch nicht wahr werden lässt? Vielleicht stoppt es sich von alleine?“
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„Der Grund, warum Politiker SUVs in Innenstädten nicht verbieten, ist nicht die Angst vor dem Wähler. Die Mehrheit fährt doch keine SUVs. Die Automobilindustrie lebt von Autos, die deutlich schneller als 💯 hundert fahren und finanziert damit die Elektromobilität.“
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„Die Leute in führenden Positionen sind jetzt in unserem Alter und die meinen, sie würden die schlimmsten Auswirkungen des Klimawandels nicht erleben, und Politiker handeln sich einen unglaublichen Ärger ein, denn sie müssten bestimme Geschäftsmodelle verbieten.“
„Im schlimmsten Fall könnte die Zivilisation zusammenbrechen. Das ist nicht übertrieben. Ich kann dafür keine genaue Wahrscheinlichkeit nennen, Ihnen aber sicher sagen, sie liegt weit über Null.“
— Prof. Will Steffen, 2018 @ANU_Climate & @climatecouncil #Klimakrise
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„Viele Wissenschaftler gehen davon aus, dass der Kipppunkt für Korallenriffe sehr bald bevorsteht, oder schon überschnitten ist. Selbst mit dem 1,5°C Ziel würden wir die meisten der Korallenriffe für immer verlieren. Das ist der Preis, den wir jetzt schon zahlen.“
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Professor Will Steffen rechnet das globale Kohlenstoffbudget für eine 66% Chance vor, die globale Erwärmung auf 2°C zu beschränken. Wohl gemerkt nicht für 1,5°C.
„Das Budget für eine 75% Chance könnten wir schon gar nicht mehr einhalten.“
Inconvenient truths here from Professor Kevin Anderson:
“Equity is locked into the #ParisAgreement. And it means that the wealthy parts of the world have about 6-9 years at current emissions left until we blow our budget for 2°C. That requires zero carbon by 2035.”
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“There is no non-radical alternative. Either we have to deal with 3-5 degree of warming this century, which means chaotic radical change. Or we reduce emissions so rapidly, that this also means radical change, but only for 10-30% of the population.”
— @KevinClimate
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“If we’re going to places further away, then we should think about how we are going to get there slowly. It’s gonna be challenging but we will structure our lives so we travel less often but we maybe go for longer. Profound change for a small elite.” — @KevinClimate