The world’s rich need to cut their carbon footprint by a factor of 30 to slow climate change, U.N. warns
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...ment/2020/12/09/carbon-footprints-climate-change-rich-one-percent/

Wealthy people are more likely to travel frequently by car and plane and to own large, energy-intensive homes. They tend to have meat-rich diets that require large amounts of greenhouse gases to produce. They buy the bulk of carbon-costly appliances, clothing, furniture and other luxury items.

Residents of the United States — the world’s largest historical source of planet-warming emissions — have some of the most carbon-intensive lifestyles. The carbon footprint of the average American is about 17.6 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents a year, about twice the footprint of a person living in the European Union or the United Kingdom, and almost 10 times that of the average Indian citizen’s 1.7 tons annually.

If the world is to achieve the kind of sweeping societal transformation needed, limiting consumption “will be really important,” said Surabi Menon, vice president of global intelligence at the ClimateWorks foundation and a member of the report’s steering committee.

najdolezitejsie tam je asi toto:

Safety: QuantumScape’s solid-state separator is noncombustible and isolates the anode from the cathode even at high temperatures.

to bude rana pre vsetkych posmievacov co si honia triko hned jak niekde hori nejaky elektromobil :)

PETER_PAN: 350 nejlepsi

TUHO: 2000+ Wh/kg je velice pravdepodobne v ramci nekolika nasledujicich let (dneska 260-300 produkcne). [ PETER_PAN @ Elektromobily ]

napiste babisovi .)

Napiš premiérovi, aby se zachoval jako odvážný státník!
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Human-made materials now outweigh Earth's entire biomass – study | Environment | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/.../dec/09/human-made-materials-now-outweigh-earths-entire-biomass-study

KEB: jsme zpátky u toho. je potřeba úložiště. a to v industriálním měřítku, které vydrží v řádu dnů, ne nějaké baterky na noc.

Paul Maidowski
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I’m struggling with “systems thinking” /-er; the word feels awkward at best, or distancing / arrogant often. But what other noun is there?

Most people don’t think in this way, it’s not at all intuitive in modern civilization, where success follows narrow expertise & reductionism
Regular reminder that these aren’t just academic pursuits; the difference between systems & linear thinking this year is measured in hundreds of thousands of lives, & many more affected. A stunning failure of western language, culture & education,

What to learn from it, & how-/- without losing trust in people’s judgement remains a struggle even after almost a year now.

Climate, same story. Have we learned from the past 50 years of reality denial? People seem to think that they can take on either climate or growth, but not but at the same time.

Dear all, you’re confusing symptom with cause which of course is the very shape of the problem

Best example: carbon law in Rockström et al 2017; but this is the rockbed of climate science & activism too, including IPCC

carbon emissions irreversibly approaching zero?

have y’all ever thought, seriously, what that would mean?

Spoiler: a system whose internal structure compels it to grow will not stop growing just because *melting glaciers*

Lack of access to energy resources will do the trick, but that’s not what we want. Gotta work harder if we hope to rebuild systems that can exist without growth

Fascinating, from a systems view, activists are then *how* the system speaks if it is not held together by a strong sense of trust & ethical bonds which of course we’re unraveling at astonishing speed

As ever, covid as climate not only in fast (that’s just human perception) but in *with feedbacks and without long delays, so we could learn

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Two centuries of energy transitions in one animated graphic: see how U.S. energy use has changed from 1800 to today using our interactive Sankey animation at https://t.co/fwmQtqCsgv.



What Very Muscular Horses Teach Us About Climate Change - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/12/new-visual-history-american-energy/617329/

Our work on U.S. energy history is the subject of a new article by @yayitsrob at @TheAtlantic
In this thread, we’ll highlight some of the most exciting findings and figures from our research.