NYTimes: The Flaws of “Net Zero”

July 22, 2022

“Net Zero” pledges have a teensy problem. The technologies they rely on do not yet exist.

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6 Responses to “NYTimes: The Flaws of “Net Zero””

  1. J4Zonian Says:

    July 22, 2022 at 7:25 pm

    People like the narrator need to learn that this is NOT an “environmental” buzzword. They need to stop saying that. It’s a climate denying delayalist buzzword.

    “Net zero”,
    offsets, (aka ripoffsets (Joe Romm))
    BECCS,
    carbon capture,
    allegedly non-dirty coal,
    carbon prices,
    “innovation”
    any generation nuclear
    talk about a hydrogen economy or any significant reliance on hydrogen or mention of “green” hydrogen (currently .03% of H production & it, like every color H, is mostly used to extract more oil & gas),
    population,
    Paris,
    personal lifestyle solutions,
    geoengineering (geoengimagicalism),
    unlimited other distractions.

    …are other delayalist buzzwords. Every one of them has only one purpose: to delay real climate action.
    And to profit the rich.
    Two purposes.
    And to satisfy the sadistic impulses of the lunatic right wing* by forcing climate activists to fight against all the wealthiest people, corporations, industries, & governments in the world at once.

    Amongst the purposes of every one of these…

    Call it the breakthrough boys gambit, used by bjorn mcborgerson, Schellenberger, et al, & their camp followers: call yourself some sort of environmentalist or use “eco” in some form, then use it to pedal (oops, TDF Fever) relentlessly right wing frames as solutions instead of what they are, problems.

    * sorry for the redundancy.

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    • rhymeswithgoalie Says:

      July 23, 2022 at 1:30 am

      “I’ll come in again….”

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    • rhymeswithgoalie Says:

      July 23, 2022 at 1:33 am

      And to profit the rich.

      Don’t just blame the profit-seeking of the rich. You have to include the evil people do to try to become rich.

      😉

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      • J4Zonian Says:

        July 24, 2022 at 2:38 am

        Yes, but
        1. I’m thinking in terms of globally rich:

        If you have just 4 things—a roof, a bed, food in a refrigerator, clothes in a closet, you have more than 85% of the people on Earth have.
        (Pachamama Alliance Awakening the Dreamer Symposium)
        Have a car? 2? House big enough for 10? (of the <85%) You're one of the richest 7 or 8% of people on the planet.

        Most people trying to get rich are in the 85% doing a tiny fraction of the damage the phenomenally wealthy who most people you know think of as rich do.

        2. It’s unknown how infected by Wetiko disease & how affected by the addictions that go with it those trying to get rich are. They’re mostly motivated by fear, & acute awareness of how insecure life is now. It’s being made so by the [Name your preferred percent]%.

        It IS known that those who have accumulated mbillions despite the dire need in the world are infected & affected & need to be removed from the decision-makig process

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        • rhymeswithgoalie Says:

          July 25, 2022 at 4:15 am

          As a kid I used to see pictures of people in poor slums and villages in National Geographic, or hand-carrying water for miles. Even though we had less than our parents’ friends had, I still thought of ourselves as “rich” compared to that.

          Assuming clean, drinkable water at the turn of a tap is a fundamentally different lifestyle.

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  2. raveendrannarayanan Says:

    July 23, 2022 at 7:26 am

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