Below the graph trashing the hoax about de-coupling and "green growth."

The underlying paper by Jefim Vogel and Prof Jason Hickel (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00174-2/fulltext) has already been cited at several places, so I won't go into quoting the work of these two great people.

But I still found the graph (a picture often says more than a thousand words) quite striking.

Blue the goal for keeping the 1,5°C goal of Paris and red the reality of the industrialized, rich countries.

#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #klima #klimakatastrophe #greengrowth #capitalism

New paper out by Jefim Vogel & Jason Hickel demonstrating the absurdity of #greengrowth promisses:

"[H]igh-income countries have not achieved green growth, and are very unlikely to be able to achieve it in the future"

"At the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1·5°C fair-shares in the process. To meet their 1·5°C fair-shares alongside continued economic growth, decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025." #degrowth #postgrowth

Open-access pdf is here:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00174-2/fulltext

@GreenFire @curtisysmith @afterconnery @Pomegracias

The world has no obligation to offer you a solution. There may not be one!

Doesn't mean that we should allow the powerful to feed us lies about #GreenGrowth and delude ourselves with false hope.

These are not meaningless complaints. Tell that to all the activists from #ExtinctionRebellion, #JustStopOil or #KeepItInTheGround. Stopping extraction of fossil fuels is necessary and we can't wait for the mythical market forces to make that happen.

"The Unsustainable Green Transition"

Interview with Simon Michaux on the Planet: Critical podcast

https://youtu.be/pwmygkdoGgc

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GreenGrowth #renewables

"We are here" 🔥

Image credit: @Peters_Glen

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GreenGrowth

@cowvin plants do capture carbon, but they don't really *store* it. Most plants have a very short lifetime and, when they die, the captured carbon is returned to the environment. Even during their lifetime, plants release some of that carbon as fallen leaves or branches. That's the short term carbon cycle.

Real carbon storage is only viable deep underground in deposits of fossilised organic matter that take millenia to form. That's the (very) long term carbon cycle.

Even *if* we could grow huge forests to capture some of the excess carbon we have been extracting from the long term carbon cycle, we would only be postponing the inevitable until we run out of space to grow trees and overload the short term carbon cycle.

The *only* sensible response to the emergency situation we are living is to *completely* and *immediately* stop extracting carbon from long term reserves.

@breadandcircuses

#Greenwashing #GreenGrowth #ClimateCrisis #CarbonCapture #CarbonSink

@NatureMC it is an interesting subject, #fungi are a fascinating topic, one that may be a useful resource in our children's troubled future. Thank you for sharing.

However the video is cringy to watch as it's mostly #GreenGrowth propaganda. It even ends with the signature phrase "... it feels like the sky is the limit".

Not a single #SolarPunk or #Degrowth vibe, just plain old "replace the current grey shit with new green shit and keep growing the economy" mantra that #capitalism is so good at.

«
There is now a huge commercial sector working on a technological response to #ClimateChange, with a vast range of funded NGOs in concert with them. As such, there has been the emergence of a ‘climate user’ who sees the topic as a career opportunity as much as a global catastrophe.

But there is also something deeper involved. I know how much my identity as a good person was bound up with my sense of being a good professional on sustainable development.
»

https://braveneweurope.com/jem-bendell-the-sustainability-professionals-seven-deadly-sins-of-denial

#GreenGrowth

"""
Greenhouse gas emissions and total energy use have increased since the implementation of the South Korea’s National Strategy for Green Growth (NSGG) despite overall improvements in energy efficiency. We argue that the Jevons paradox is a fundamental limitation of the NSGG and suggest policy alternatives to the NSGG: (1) increased public participation in environmental decision-making and (2) economic degrowth.
"""

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652617300070

#GreenGrowth #korea #degrowth

Ecomodernists, the true believers in human ingenuity and technology. They "write with the conviction that knowledge and technology, applied with wisdom, might allow for a good, or even great, Anthropocene." Is that a new type of denialism, painted green?

http://www.ecomodernism.org/

#ecomodernism #anthropocene #GreenGrowth

"Green growth scenarios play loose with science, assume incredibly unjust arrangements, and gamble with the future of humanity—and all of life on Earth—simply to maintain ever-increasing levels of aggregate output in high-income countries." -- Jason Hickel

https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/on-technology-and-degrowth/

#GreenGrowth #capitalism #socialism #degrowth #JasonHickel

https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/wene.335

"""
Perhaps the most important lesson from the Korean Green Energy Growth (GEG) experience is that change cannot and will not happen without fundamental changes in embedded belief of “the more energy is the better” and necessary changes in the main drivers of energy system.
"""

#GreenGrowth #ClimateChange #Korea #renewables

"""
In October 2021, Norway’s Supreme Court ruled that a wind farm built on the country’s central-west coast violated the protected cultural rights of the Indigenous Sámi by infringing on their reindeer grazing lands. On June 3, 2023, exactly 600 days after the ruling, the $1.3 billion Fosen wind farm was still operating.
"""

https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/norways-largest-wind-farm-violates-indigenous-rights-why-wont-authorities-take-action/

#ClimateChange #greenGrowth #wind #renewables #colonialism #capitalism

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602519

A periodic reminder that this is what capitalism does. Produce as much as possible, maximize profit and treat waste as an externality. Language used in articles like these is revealing: it's all about what's "cheaper to replace" and what recycling method is "economically viable".

#renewables #capitalism #waste #greenGrowth

Throughout all of this I'm only advocating for rollout of #renewables coupled with #degrowth of the economy. The proposed solution of #greenGrowth is simply too slow to avert #climateCatastrophy, not to mention unsustainable and destined to fail. The optimistic scenarios professed by proponents of green growth are naive in my eyes. I'm with Vaclav Smil on this one: https://mas.to/@jackofalltrades/110594409234135234

Thank you for sharing your perspective @stuvx

@nebulousmenace

"The wind megaproject in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is an example of how the expansionist nature of this so-called development recreates the irregular conditions of leasing contracts and the negative effects on the life of the communities in the area. The aim of these projects is to ensure the continuation of the capitalist accumulation model rather than climate mitigation. Technology is once again used as a weapon for capital."

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/community-resistance-isthmus-tehuantepec/

#capitalism #wind #greenGrowth #degrowth

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jun/18/mind-boggling-how-big-snowy-20-dogged-by-delays-budget-blowouts-and-politics

Snowy 2.0 is supposed to deliver 2GW/350GWh of pumped hydro storage. Construction began in 2019. Originally planned as a $4bn project to be completed in 2024, current estimates have a price tag of $10bn+ and completion date of 2029.

More details at https://reneweconomy.com.au/disastrous-tunnelling-delays-underline-complete-folly-of-snowy-2-0-pumped-hydro-scheme/

#climateChange #australia #greenGrowth

"Faith in progress really is the established religion of our time. Most people nowadays believe in the inevitability of progress just as fervently as medieval peasants believed in saints and angels.

(...)

As social psychologists have been pointing out for a good long time, it’s when a belief system no longer does an adequate job of explaining the world that people cling to it most dogmatically and get most irritable when it’s questioned."

https://www.ecosophia.net/the-twilight-of-the-monofuture/

#greenGrowth #future

https://www.ecosophia.net/progress-and-amnesia/

Greer's understanding of energy and the capabilities of renewables is spot-on, but his assessment of risk sounds off. Just because a nuclear war hasn't happened doesn't mean it never will. I'm not saying it's inevitable either, but the risk is much higher today than it was even ten or twenty years ago, and due to climate change is only bound to increase with time.

#greenGrowth #solar #renewables #climateChange #nuclear #war

"A typical electric car requires six times the mineral inputs of a conventional car and an onshore wind plant requires nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired plant.

Until the mid-2010s, for most minerals, the energy sector represented a small part of total demand. However, as energy transitions gather pace, clean energy technologies are becoming the fastest-growing segment of demand."

https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in-clean-energy-transitions/executive-summary

#climateChange #greenGrowth #wind #solar #ev