Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
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"Forage for food and materials from their local forest."
Talk about burying the lede. They can only function on a quarter acre by "stealing" from the public forests.
If everyone did that there would be no public forests. There's not enough wood and food for everyone.
Pretty sure they don't grow their bicycles either!
He talked about community trade so I'll give him that. I don't want to give the impression that his lifestyle of living with less is wrong or bad.
I only question his sustainability claims when he is clearing the forest to heat his house.
I really don't understand why you're nitpicking someone who is trying to drastically reduce their impact. What would you recommend they do?
That guy is exactly who people point to when they say climate change activists are insufferable twats. Lmao like sure bud keep eating your own, that's historically worked well.
The real answer to your question what would you recommend they do? Not listen to that guy.
They explicitly said this wasn't the solution for everyone 😊
I carefully reread the transcript. They don't say that anywhere.
He talks about sustainability. But if everyone lived sustainably like him the forest would be gone in a few years for firewood.
There are too many people.
there are too many people
This is the root cause of most of our problems.
Climate change is just a symptom of overshoot.
If we want to have a stable livable climate we need to.live with the emissions of the average Cuban (Professor Kevin Anderson) That allows the worlds poorest to have more emissions per capita and the worlds richest to come down a lot, and by a lot I mean a metric shit load.
How we do that and what that looks like is up to us but if we don't soon, we'll likely collapse. civilisation anyway and none if it will matter and we won't be talking about it on here.
Everyone should be poor, great!
100s of millions are already doing this, it’s called poverty.