"If #Biden continues his current course, extraction of the lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese vital for a green-energy transition will come at the cost of Indigenous lands and trust... it could also cost Biden the election."
To actually accomplish a green transition we (the world) needs to spend around $9 trillion a year.... well that's just not affordable, say climate sceptics.
You might say that, but lets have a look at the money we were prepared to pony up to deal with the pandemic.
While a more focused threat & certainly causing some fiscal issues, when required the money can be found.
(Don't get me started on fossil fuels subsidies!)
So its not the money stopping the green transition!
@ChrisMayLA6 Money is a social construct used to direct how people spend their time and to allocate and share out resources. Banks create new money every time they issue a loan. We are talking about mobilising people (workers) and equipment to build adaptations (eg public transport, insulated homes, reconfiguring manufacturing to new products etc.) - and shifting consumption patterns so everyone has enough to eat. It's a choice. We can choose a #JustTransition $9 trillion?- it's political choice
"Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-04-15/the-oil-crash-is-coming-sooner-than-we-think/ #oil#JustTransition#LightsOff#PeakOil#ukpolitics
“…by having a poverty of the imagination we actually hold back just solar energy transitions.
We don’t believe enough in utopian visions to act in line with them. And if we don’t do that we don’t actually create the possibilities for them to flourish…”
#SiddharthSareen
discusses building out solar energy capacity on the Cultures of Energy pod
Need some smart people to help me out here. I MIGHT BE WRONG, WILLING TO LEARN
this might be considered a problematic opinion but for a very long time I was pro nuclear energy. by no means do I think we are ready to transition to nuclear, in the current Pol economy... but I do feel that there needs to be more research into how to dispose nuclear waste, minimise harm to communities, etc etc. for it to eventually become a viable solution. (1/n)
That is also a very ideal scenario in which a country spends time studying nuclear and doesn't do some weapon development on the side.
But today I saw an indigenous activist posted a reel that called nuclear a false solution. I am conflicted. Not now, but at some point we must aim for nuclear energy right? (2/n)
and statistically (I realise I sound like a STEM bro here) nuclear energy has led to significantly lesser fatalities as compared to other renewables.
And unless there isn't more research, we will never be able to completely reduce the number of fatalities. We aren't ready for power plants, but calling it a false solution and preventing research feels short sighted.
The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.
“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.
"...now is not the time to move away from fossil fuels when the country is still reliant on them"
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Let's try that logic in another domain:
'Now's not the time to kick my opiate addiction, while I'm still reliant on it'
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-Wouldn't we suggest a variety of measures to wean someone off it?
And in the context of the article, if there were measure available for pain control in the longer term that were not addictive, wouldn't we be recommending them for new situations?
"When mining companies like Resolution Copper kill places like Oak Flat, they kill us, by taking away both our way of life and spiritual connection to the land — and that is the worst way to die. That is not what we want. We want to stay connected; we want to live here freely as our ancestors did."
--NAELYN PIKE
San Carlos Apache Tribe executive assistant, Apache Stronghold member
What #FossilFools like Stephen Blank are unwilling to acknowledge yet is that the reason that it doesn't make any sense to build new fossil fuel infrastructure is because we're rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels.
It's also quite possible that they are being paid in order to try to help slow down the transition.
I was so glad to hear about my old friends, the Ute tribe is transitioning away from their historic source of income, fossil fuels, into solar energy farming.
Joe Biden putting a native American in his cabinet doesn't get enough respect from the left side of the aisle imo. Anyways, I'm so happy that we're trying to help make it a just transition.
I have gotten the impression over the last year that the fossil fools are expending a lot of effort towards turning Americans away from EVs towards ICEVs so-called hybrid vehicles.
I'll let y'all in on a secret that they want to keep from you. We have to stop burning fossil fuels just as quickly as we possibly can and putting a fossil fuel burning engine into new vehicles is not helping towards that necessary goal to address the existential crisis we're facing.
@darnell
I am glad that enough Americans voted for a POTUS that is trying to help lower income people though so don't get me wrong.
"As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda and Bidenomics, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing new actions to lower the cost of electric vehicles (EVs) for Americans and build a convenient, reliable, Made-in-America EV charging network."
Remember when Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau dared propose a #JustTransition for Alberta's workers and BOTH candidates for Premier attacked him for it? I do. That's a leadership failure clear across the political spectrum right there
Been thinking of my late mentor & collaborator Dr. Saleemul Huq & wondering what he would have had to say about #COP28. Or how his presence there might have informed, inspired, interrupted different discussions, as it had in all prior COPs. Pretty sure he would have had scathing words at the end.
There is still much emphasis on a #JustTransition, #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage financing at #COP28. Important things. But they amount to NOTHING in a 2°C, 3°C, 4°C, 5°C world of conflict, violence and civilisational collapse. So focus on phasing-out fossil fuels! #COP28UAE
Think about it:
You don't need to be rich enough for a $50,000 car.*
You don't need to be old enough for a driver license.
You don't need insurance.
You don't need parking money.
You don't need legal status, even.
You CAN get to places you can't with a car.
You can feel the wind in your face.
You can laugh at the price boards at the gas stations.
THIS is the bit missing from #JustTransition proposals: safe bike lanes.
"While there’s rising demand for people to build electric cars, construct solar farms, or upgrade insulation, it will take a concerted effort to help people working in coal power plants or building diesel trucks fill those vacancies."
"#Michigan Gov. Gretchen #Whitmer is set to sign a package of bills that would transition the state to 100 percent #CleanElectricity by 2040. The bills include robust provisions for workers & are among the most ambitious efforts undertaken by any state to move toward a carbon-free future in a manner that is actively good for working people. Significantly, Democrats are testing this approach in a swing state in the heart of the industrial Midwest."