Environmentalists are being accused of creating scary stories about the environment creating Eco-anxiety and environmental existential dread and for one i don't see a problem with that as we shouldn't downplay it because we ARE in a crisis and people should be anxious about it because we may have already fallen over a few tipping points and the less we trip across the less worse it will be for future generations so while there IS a lot to be worried, we mustn't lose hope that finally the penny has dropped and mankind is doing something about it.
Last year, worldwide spending on clean energy from wind, solar and nuclear energy passed £1 trillion which equals the amount spent on fossil fuels and next year it is estimated that renewables will be supplying 25% of our electricity and by 2030 over 80% and carbon emissions, still too high, are slowly reducing.
In 2022 global carbon pollution related to energy rose by under 1% , less than the 5% rise originally feared and renewables will become the world’s largest electricity source within three years, providing 35% of the world’s electricity and overtaking coal.
Data from the EU shows that the use of heat pump units avoided releasing 8 million tonnes of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere and wind and solar produced 22% of Europe's electricity in the EU in 2022.
Following the 1987 agreement to ban CFC's, The UN have reported that the hole in the Ozone layer is healing itself and should be back to full health by 2066 and sales of new electric vehicles are also taking off, increasing by 80% since 2020 with 5.6 million sold in 2022 as new models are introduced and the price reduces with the EU predicting by 2030 30% of all new car purchases will be zero-emission vehicles.
The world is, by any measure, still dramatically under-reacting to the rising risks which are hitting home this year with extreme heat waves, droughts, famines and floods as we creep towards the catastrophic 2.7°C which the United Nations Environment Program say is heading our way based on current projections but if the Global leaders can get their act together then we can reduce the impact or as one Environmentalist scientist said more colourfully: “We won't no longer be totally f$%@ed but we’re also be far from totally unf$@%*ed!'
Sunday, 13 August 2023
Not Totally f$%@ed But Far From Unf$@%*ed!
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As i said, i don't see a problem with causing anxiety, good, means it finally is sinking in with even the most bone-headed.
If things don't change on a global scale than what we are seeing now is the tip of the iceberg so again, i don't see a problem with it because if people like Greta can change governments, nations, economics, commerce, culture, etc. on a global basis then it's because that is what it is going to take.
You may not like it for some strange reason but then luckily, you are very much in the minority and seen as 'fringe' so whistling in the wind and easily passed over.
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