Ppl are at times angry and/or puzzled when they find that I do not support "renewables" wind and solar farms, and most other so called climate "solutions".
"But every bit helps!", some proclaim.
No, it doesn't.
That's not a true statement, realistically or logically.
For the current climate "solutions and mitigations", most are doing more harm than good.
This article shows the main reasons of how and why - capitalism.
As consumers, we have the power to decide which companies succeed and which fail simply by using our pocketbooks.
There is no easier way to bring down a Corp than to starve it financially.
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Article from the Irish Times
Capitalism is killing the planet – but curtailing it is the discussion nobody wants to have.
If life on our one and only planet is to be pulled back from the brink, the time for voluntary ecological measures from businesses has surely passed.
The sheer magnitude of the biodiversity crisis is laid bare in the biannual Living Planet Index compiled by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London. Their latest report from 2022 showed there was a 69 per cent collapse in monitored wildlife populations since 1970.
In 2018, when the decline was “only” 60 per cent, their report lambasted “exploding human consumption” as “the driving force behind the unprecedented planetary change we are witnessing, through the increased demand for energy, land and water”.
However, these reports do not delve into why consumption of land and resources has exploded in this time. In an article for the Conversation website, Anna Pigott, who is a lecturer in human geography at Swansea University in Wales, criticised WWF/ZSL for failing to identify capitalism as the “crucial (and often causal) link” between the destruction of nature and galloping levels of consumption.
“By naming capitalism as a root cause,” wrote Pigott, “we identify a particular set of practices and ideas that are by no means permanent nor inherent to the condition of being human” and that “if we don’t name it, we can’t tackle it.
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/08/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-but-curtailing-it-is-the-discussion-nobody-wants-to-have/
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@504DR We need a lot more than a little bit.
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Agreed.
A lot more of the correct and workable solutions, too.
Too much time, money and resources are currently being wasted on unworkable projects or those that do more harm than good (tearing up the planet to fuel the "green energy transition".)
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@504DR and a lot more of actual change which is the hard part.
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