To have any chnave we have to engage in demand destruction. There are NO solutions involving growing the economy, we’ll fuck around trying though and make it much worse
It doesnt have to mean a shitty life, it does.mean a differnt life eg no car and cycle and PT means no car costs, denser quieter cities, large houses banned, small really well insulated homes only, less deaths from car polluton etc. We need to ban flying, close airports etc
All we’re doing now is greenwashed nonsense and blah blah blah. At mimum we should be building no more roads and only funding e trains and e bus lanes etc
We’ve barley started with planned withdrawal from coast lines.
We either crash the economy (preferably equitably) or we collapse civilisation, were out of choices, we have left it to long. Neither the ALP nor the LNO are up to the task but that’s on voters supporting those assholes.
Mostly the rhetoric I heard in personal conversations was conservative talking points about blaming The Greens for not allowing enough back burning and blame The Greens for not allowing nuclear.
Insee some if the same.stuoid nonses spouted in the Canadian less by conservative polticans there.
The Greens have never been in power at the state or federal level and can’t draft legislation. The conservative LNP have been in power literally for decades and drafted all the legislation but here we are.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”
Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”
Thay said, I keep my emisisons low, vote green, but plan for the worst while hoping for the best.
This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions....
Well, as an Australian I’d hope they’d not come here either, happy to have refugees and help then out as much as possible but not Americans.
As to brain drain, you come from a country that’s destroying the planet, acts like a spoiled child when it doesn’t get it’s way, (look at the reaction to the ICC arrest warrants for Israel) you’ve created a monster that has little to admire, the “brains” that created all that will hopefully stay there.
This is a country that has threatened to invade the Hague if any US person or allly is indicted by the ICC for example. Churlish doesn’t even begin to describe it, stay there.
Well yes but Vote Green to at least try and move the political dial on this and hope the completly and utterly fucked can be dialed back in time to just fucked.
We’re decades behind on this because of the intragience of voters reelecting the same sorts of polticans. I am not sure we have time to come back from the brink but one things for sure, neither the ALP nor the LNP are at all interested in anything but pushing us over the edge
Federal Coalition commits to dumping 2030 climate target as it pursues nuclear power (www.abc.net.au)
In short: The Coalition says Labor will fail to meet the Paris Agreement emissions reductions target but will damage Australian industry in trying....
Warfare’s Climate Emissions Are Huge but Uncounted (www.scientificamerican.com)
Pay Day with demographer Liz Allen: 'Poverty grants perspective that can never be bought' (www.abc.net.au)
This bit resonated....
As 12 months of record heat stack up, scientists unpack the impacts around the globe (www.abc.net.au)
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/10230630...
Labor backs ICC’s role in international law as other MPs condemn Israeli ‘war’ on court | Australian foreign policy | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Pocock and The Greens come out in supoort of the ICC against after the Israeli shenanigans in trying to undermine it for the last decade.
RBA should now 'in theory' hike interest rates in June, but will it? - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)
SUVs made up 20% of global emissions growth and 55% of car sales globally in 2023 (slrpnk.net)
This is just insane. Not only are cars themself mostly unnecessary, if the right infrastructure is provided, but SUVs also use more resources to run and be produced then small cars, without any advantage over them. So an obvious waste, which could easily be cut to reduce emissions....
Why billionaire Tom Steyer argues capitalism is the best tool to fight climate change | Calling for more regulation to stop global heating, Steyer says we must stop letting people "pollute for free" (www.salon.com)
What could have been... (lemmy.world)
Parliament blocks Greens attempt to recognise Palestinian statehood (www.sbs.com.au)
Why Is the World Ignoring a Looming Genocide in Sudan? (foreignpolicy.com)
Aid workers fear a new disaster as militia forces close in on a major Darfur city....
How do you recover from seeing something awful on the Internet?
Locals concerned over SunCable proposal to manufacture subsea cable in northern Tasmania (www.abc.net.au)
The Pyramid of... Benben? (lemmy.world)
Just so you know, absolutely none of that is true....
Arizona Senate Republicans Pass Bill to Prevent Climate Action (climate.law.columbia.edu)
Do you avoid discussing some topics online even if you have something you'd like to say about them?
I’ve been doing this for some time now. Even if it’s something that I consider important....
Americans, what's the plan if Trump wins the election in November? (serious)
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53 (www.nbcnews.com)
Pope clears way for 'God's influencer' to become a saint (www.bbc.co.uk)
Corbyn confirms he will stand against Labour (www.bbc.co.uk)
Sovcit made her own license plate out of cardboard. (lemmy.world)
'Living wonders' group loses court appeal to consider climate impacts for coal, gas approvals (www.abc.net.au)