I think one crucial step is for the major industries in rich, developed countries to scale down their operations.....as they're the ones who're mostly responsible for a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and thus, contribute a lot towards worsening climate change.
This would require significant public pressure towards the ruling class, who mostly share the greedy interests of those major industries and are beholden to them.
Yes. Unfortunately we don’t only produce greenhouse gasses, we also produce aerosols, or sulfates, particles better known as “pollutants”. These aerosols are a two edged sword for us. On one hand they contribute to disease and deaths because they are pollutants, on the other they act as umbrellas or little mirrors deflecting solar radiation back into space before it can heat up those greenhouse gasses. This is called the “Aerosol Masking Effect” also often referred to as Global Dimming and it is important because it has created a significant artificial amount of cooling in our atmosphere.
Why does that matter? Because the aerosols are falling out of the sky in about five days while the greenhouse gasses are in our atmosphere essentially forever in a human’s life. We saw how quickly our skies cleared up during the Covid lockdowns, all those ugly pollutants fell out of the sky because of reduced industrial activity. But the greenhouse gasses remained and were heated up exponentially by solar radiation. The ensuing heat waves, floods, droughts, fires, and thousands of human deaths were directly linked to the temporary loss of the Aerosol Masking Effect. If we stop industry, we and the living planet die faster.
Our ecology is fragile and we have really screwed with it. I believe the Hippocratic oath applies here, “First do no harm.”
We have forgotten how to just stop doing harm to the point that by stopping we will do harm.
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
Just be good, kind, love your neighbor, care for nature around you, and never support any kind of war waged by any government.
Hi .. indeed temperatures around the world have surged, as predicted by hard science. Less we forget the other aspects of the poly-crisis we face as the dominant species of the planet. With the calamity is also growing the Green Scare! Teenagers and youth especially at risk, given it's their future which is being wiped out as we speak. The article you wrote makes a good interesting read. Thank you.
YouTube randomly recommended a Guy McPherson video where he claims we've already passed 2 degrees celsius of warming. He doesn't cite evidence or explain how he reached this conclusion, so off to Google I went. Turns out ... "it takes careful examination of McPherson’s references, and a familiarity with the present state of climate science, to uncover that his claims aren’t scientific at all."
Don't get me wrong, I've been called an alarmist for 20 years, but I don't consider myself a doomer. The U.S. economy was transformed practically overnight to fight WWII, so I trust it can be transformed once again to address the climate crisis. This isn't a technical challenge, it's a political one. We need to motivate people to act now and telling people "we're all doomed" isn't helping.
I agree.
Humanity seems determined to go out with a bang. War is always insane, and it is now over food and will soon be over water.
I think one crucial step is for the major industries in rich, developed countries to scale down their operations.....as they're the ones who're mostly responsible for a lot of greenhouse gas emissions and thus, contribute a lot towards worsening climate change.
This would require significant public pressure towards the ruling class, who mostly share the greedy interests of those major industries and are beholden to them.
Yes. Unfortunately we don’t only produce greenhouse gasses, we also produce aerosols, or sulfates, particles better known as “pollutants”. These aerosols are a two edged sword for us. On one hand they contribute to disease and deaths because they are pollutants, on the other they act as umbrellas or little mirrors deflecting solar radiation back into space before it can heat up those greenhouse gasses. This is called the “Aerosol Masking Effect” also often referred to as Global Dimming and it is important because it has created a significant artificial amount of cooling in our atmosphere.
Why does that matter? Because the aerosols are falling out of the sky in about five days while the greenhouse gasses are in our atmosphere essentially forever in a human’s life. We saw how quickly our skies cleared up during the Covid lockdowns, all those ugly pollutants fell out of the sky because of reduced industrial activity. But the greenhouse gasses remained and were heated up exponentially by solar radiation. The ensuing heat waves, floods, droughts, fires, and thousands of human deaths were directly linked to the temporary loss of the Aerosol Masking Effect. If we stop industry, we and the living planet die faster.
Our ecology is fragile and we have really screwed with it. I believe the Hippocratic oath applies here, “First do no harm.”
We have forgotten how to just stop doing harm to the point that by stopping we will do harm.
Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
Just be good, kind, love your neighbor, care for nature around you, and never support any kind of war waged by any government.
Our days are numbered.
Hi .. indeed temperatures around the world have surged, as predicted by hard science. Less we forget the other aspects of the poly-crisis we face as the dominant species of the planet. With the calamity is also growing the Green Scare! Teenagers and youth especially at risk, given it's their future which is being wiped out as we speak. The article you wrote makes a good interesting read. Thank you.
Recently I wrote this, about the rising Green Scare and violence against the poor, indigenous and land protectors. https://audiopervert.substack.com/p/green-scare
Powerful! I thought the Venn diagram to be especially profound.
YouTube randomly recommended a Guy McPherson video where he claims we've already passed 2 degrees celsius of warming. He doesn't cite evidence or explain how he reached this conclusion, so off to Google I went. Turns out ... "it takes careful examination of McPherson’s references, and a familiarity with the present state of climate science, to uncover that his claims aren’t scientific at all."
https://fractalplanet.wordpress.com/2014/02/17/how-guy-mcpherson-gets-it-wrong/
Don't get me wrong, I've been called an alarmist for 20 years, but I don't consider myself a doomer. The U.S. economy was transformed practically overnight to fight WWII, so I trust it can be transformed once again to address the climate crisis. This isn't a technical challenge, it's a political one. We need to motivate people to act now and telling people "we're all doomed" isn't helping.