We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
We were supposed to hit peak emissions. Why won’t they stop rising?
Greenhouse gas emissions are higher than ever as key leaders threaten to walk away from this year’s UN climate talks.
Because chinwags like the COP are accomplishing nothing, and there's not enough direct action.
Ya huge mystery huh?
Because we keep emitting?
There's no mystery to this, there's too much money in petroleum for too many people for us to just stop using it.
we just need to use natural gas as a bridge fuel trust me, let's just build pipelines and special refineries and special cargo ships that can handle these new fossil fuel supply chains. just a bridge fuel though just until solar catches up don't worry they're just multi decade leases of course we're going to hit net zero trust me just use gas it's clean burning trust me just ship the gas across the world it's the greenest choice there is just trust me
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Big polluters know their resources are finite. They’re deliberately cooking the planet because after some threshold has been reached, they’re going to pivot their enormous infrastructural and industrial capacities into geoengineering.
We’ll be paying BP and Shell to keep the planet cool eventually.
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That's indeed tinfoil-hattery. These companies care about quarterly profits and they extrapolate the future from the past (where nothing bad ever happened to them). They may find another business model eventually but they'll make it up on the go.
Cause Oligarchs that make money from it sponsor these and own everything
Very specifically, because we are building out additional power infrastructure for AI. That means we keep the dirty sources online longer.