"Natural gas producers are planning for a significant spike in demand over the next decade, as artificial intelligence drives a surge in electricity consumption that renewables may struggle to meet alone." #AI#climate#ClimateCollapse#environment
I was just thinking: is mountain biking the "extreme" / action sport most likely to survive after The Collapse™?
Cities will be too dirty for skateboarding and rollerblading, snowboarding and skiing require both snow and access to high altitudes. Maybe BMX will also have a chance in rubble filled cities?
Am i the only person wondering about these things?
This is our new normal. There is barely enough time to reverse the worst effects of #ClimateBreakdown but it will take radical changes to our lifestyles to mitigate #ClimateCollapse.
Those radical changes include switching to cheap and plentiful renewable energy immediately.
Imagine that? Clean air and more money in your pocket. What a shocker.
"Highly unequal societies are generally lower-taxing societies and invest less in public goods like healthcare, education and infrastructure. Carbon emissions and crime rise with inequality, while mental and physical health declines."
"So-called overshoot days occur when a country's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the planet can regenerate in that year."
There are many voices and opinions in the climate movement, and whether you side towards radical voices, or think Rupert Read has it right as he argues in this essay, the consensus says everyone now has a duty to do something.
"Globally, malaria cases are on the rise. Infections increased from 233 million in 2019 to 249 million in 85 countries in 2022. Malaria deaths rose from 576,000 in 2019 to 608,000 in 2022, according to the World Health Organization."
"The researchers estimate that the northern permafrost region emitted 38M tons of CH4 and 670,000 tons of N2O into the atmosphere between 2000 & 2020. That's very little compared with the emissions of a major industrialized country, but the pace may accelerate as the world warms."
"This year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says."
Imagine if these mostly functional devices could be upgraded instead of replace and binned. Nevermind the mining of old tech for the valuable minerals they contain instead of destroying nature for it as suggested in the article. #ClimateCrisis#resources#ClimateCollapse
A plea... let's dustbin the phrases #climatechange and #globalwarming. They sound sedate. They're distancing, easy to ignore. Even positive. (A less cold, damp spring in Scotland is hard to refuse!)
Instead, let's talk about the end game - we are on the brink of 'climate collapse'. A collapse in existing food production capabilities, starvation, wars over water, deaths through extreme weather.
Let's start bringing home to our communities that our way of life will end.