In #Germany debate escalates about whether the #nuclear phase-out was justified granted its consequences for German economy that are becoming evident now. In the new turn, it is being suggested that the minister of economy Habeck was lied to by his own experts who claimed the phase-out is going to be harmless.^1
At this stage I can only reiterate that since 2011 when the plans were announced hundreds of worldwide climate experts appealed to Germany not to phase-out nuclear, which is one of the few low-carbon and dispatchable sources of energy. Climate scientist James Hansen had been calling German phase-out a “climate crime” and in 2019 hundreds of scientists wrote an open letter to German government asking to reconsider.^2
As I wrote a few years ago, the whole phase-out plan was plagued by cognitive biases, falsified data and excessive optimism about “prospective technologies of future”. The biggest blame however goes to “environmental activists” such as #WWF and #Greenpeace who were absolutely knowingly and cynically lying about both evils of nuclear and benefits of #renewables, convincing many people and pushing the government towards the current failure.^3
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.
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Excellent. 🤗
We could emulate what the #WWF initiated with #EarthHour or #HoraDelPlaneta in 2007.* People jointly turn off the lights.
When many people(s) join in a visible action, it can become a beacon of hope.
Due to the fact, that #VisionImpairments impacts only a fraction of the population and, as @hspmauli, pointed out today, voluntary "temperance/abstinence is always the problem,"..
Wie halten es die österreichischen Parteien mit dem Naturschutz? Aus Kohle, Öl und Gas aussteigen? Den Green Deal unterstützen? In die Natur investieren?
ONG: un sous-traitant accusé de précariser la collecte de dons
La #CroixRouge, #ActionContreLaFaim ou le #WWF sous-traitent le démarchage de donateurs à l’entreprise #Tawkr, censé faire #travailler des indépendants. Mais le contrôle étroit de leurs journées de travail, pour des rémunérations faibles, fait craindre une «#ubérisation de la collecte».
Licht aus für das Klima, eine Stunde lang - das ist die #earthhour zu der der @wwf_deutschland aufruft. Symbolisch geht das Licht weltweit bei ganz vielen Sehenswürdigkeiten aus, um Aufmerksamkeit zu schaffen und Energie zu sparen. Ein dunkles Zeichen für den Klimaschutz, auch in #Wuppertal. Das haben wir uns auf einer Radtour vom Barmer Rathaus, zum Stadtwerke Gebäude, vorbei an der Unterbarmer Hauptkirche bis zum Elberfelder Rathaus angesehen.
🌍🕯️ Am 23. März 2024 um 20.30 Uhr ist es wieder soweit: Die WWF Earth Hour steht an! Eine Stunde lang werden weltweit tausende Städte, Kommunen, Unternehmen sowie Privathaushalte ihre Lichter ausschalten, um ein Zeichen für den Klimaschutz zu setzen.
Es ist an der Zeit, dass wir der Klimakrise mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenken. Vor allem in den Medien. Die Earth Hour bietet eine gute Möglichkeit, gemeinsam ein Statement zu setzen.
#Nigeria scientific journalists debunking popular anti #GMO narratives distributed in #Africa by Western “environmental” activists and the reasons why they were relatively successful over the last 30 years:
There’s a very important distinction to be made here - scientists aren’t activists. The main difference is that when science is generally speaking in the language of probability, activism speaks in language of certainty, hype and simplification.
Scientific evidence for climate change being caused by human CO2 emissions is vast, I would consider it nearly as solid as law of universal gravitation today - the theory behind it is sound and consistent, and it’s consistent with experimental observations.
My problem with “environmental” activism is that it’s selective and often completely wrong. Where science -represented by IPCC - clearly says nuclear power and CRISPR are enablers to decarbonisation, activism - represented by #Greenpeace, #WWF etc - says exactly the opposite. They do say climate change is real, which is consistent with IPCC, but then they reject the whole IPCC package and selectively pick parts they like and those they don’t, in an entirely arbitrary manner.
And by their fierce insistence on doing things their way, they effectively only prevent actual decarbonisation.
That’s unfortunately a classic case study of how #ClimateChange activism as done by #Greenpeace#WWF works exactly against its goals:
Making far-fetching and exaggerated statements about what the climate change symptoms, easily ridiculing the careful, well-sourced and conditional predictions
Turning carefully worded IPCC probabilistic statements into simplistic certainties, further ridiculing actual scientific forecasts
Rushing mitigation goals which are described as “ambitious” but in reality are simply impossible to implement in the declared schedule, ridiculing the actual mitigation scenarios as proposed by IPCC and IEA
Cherry-picking from IPCC and IEA research, praising some solutions and discrediting others (e.g. nuclear), thus further ridiculing their mitigation scenarios and presenting them in the usual “even scientists can’t agree” sauce
In short, I can only encourage you to simply ignore any popular media reporting on climate change because it’s 99% guaranteed to repeat activist narratives, thus repeating the above problems.
Instead, if you go and read the actual IPCC and IEA “net zero” scenarios, which are not only clearly written but also use balanced language and are factually correct, you will see that the actual climate science has nothing to do with the activism and most of the (valid) questions you asked are already answered by them.
Whatever the type of pollution, profiteering is the common reason why organisations are polluting the water, land & air. Their profit motives come with the, generally bullshit, that the managers of the business "take their environmental responsibility seriously"__The sales pitch designed to sustain the businesses image
The "free market" isn't regulating against the profit before #pollution mindset.
If the allegations are proven this will be deeply damaging to both organisations. While it is well known that the Wye has been turned into a lurry filled wasteland by chicken farmers, this stinks.
while i was out thrifting yesterday, i also came across this glorious trash: issues of wwf magazine from the early 90s.
part soap opera digest, part tie-in ads, every page is totally expressive of pre-teen boy saturday morning cartoon culture of north america at the time. i am dying. 🤣
Hmm, irgendwas muss die Studie übersehen haben.
Für Fleisch brauchst man ja viel mehr essen als für den Veganer. Ich gehe Mal auf die Suche. #Vegan#wwf
“Regjeringen planlegger å åpne opp for gruvedrift på havbunnen. Det kan bli en katastrofe for havet. Signer brevet som skal sendes til Stortinget, og bli med i kampen for å bevare våre dyphav.”
#Vietnam’s “rice bowl” delta region, where #MekongRiver empties into #SouthChinaSea, is predicted to run out of #sand in just over a decade. Losses to riverbed are devastating lives & harming the local economy.