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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
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    2020 The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity
    http://libgen.li/edition.php?id=138269530
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    longtermism ve skutecne long, hypercivilizacni podobe / bostrom, musk, thiel & spol

    mozna taky smer kde lze hledat odpoved pro [YMLADRIS @ Elon Musk (SpaceX - Falcon / Dragon / Starship, Tesla Motors, Solarcity, Hyperloop, Neuralink, Starlink, Boring atd.)] tj. klima zmena neni zasadni zpusobem ohrozujici, je to z opravdu long term hlediska malej problem, technologicky a jinak resitelnej a problem je spis pokud bude prilis malo lidi realizujici svuj potencial prilis omezenejma zpusobama, ktery ho nerozvinou... nebo neco takovyho ,)


    Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
    https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

    the topic of our extinction has received little sustained attention from philosophers until recently, and even now remains at the fringe of philosophical discussion and debate. On the whole, they have been preoccupied with other matters. However, there is one notable exception to this rule: over the past two decades, a small group of theorists mostly based in Oxford have been busy working out the details of a new moral worldview called longtermism, which emphasizes how our actions affect the very long-term future of the universe – thousands, millions, billions, and even trillions of years from now. This has roots in the work of Nick Bostrom, who founded the grandiosely named Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) in 2005, and Nick Beckstead, a research associate at FHI and a programme officer at Open Philanthropy. It has been defended most publicly by the FHI philosopher Toby Ord, author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (2020). Longtermism is the primary research focus of both the Global Priorities Institute (GPI), an FHI-linked organisation directed by Hilary Greaves, and the Forethought Foundation, run by William MacAskill, who also holds positions at FHI and GPI. Adding to the tangle of titles, names, institutes and acronyms, longtermism is one of the main ‘cause areas’ of the so-called effective altruism (EA) movement, which was introduced by Ord in around 2011 and now boasts of having a mind-boggling $46 billion in committed funding.

    It is difficult to overstate how influential longtermism has become. Karl Marx in 1845 declared that the point of philosophy isn’t merely to interpret the world but change it, and this is exactly what longtermists have been doing, with extraordinary success. Consider that Elon Musk, who has cited and endorsed Bostrom’s work, has donated $1.5 million dollars to FHI through its sister organisation, the even more grandiosely named Future of Life Institute (FLI). This was cofounded by the multimillionaire tech entrepreneur Jaan Tallinn, who, as I recently noted, doesn’t believe that climate change poses an ‘existential risk’ to humanity because of his adherence to the longtermist ideology.

    Meanwhile, the billionaire libertarian and Donald Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who once gave the keynote address at an EA conference, has donated large sums of money to the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, whose mission to save humanity from superintelligent machines is deeply intertwined with longtermist values

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    The point is that longtermism might be one of the most influential ideologies that few people outside of elite universities and Silicon Valley have ever heard about. I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today. But to understand the nature of the beast, we need to first dissect it, examining its anatomical features and physiological functions.
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    MAZA: bohuzel to nemuzu najit primo z jejich stranek, abych chcecknul zdroje…
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    Pekna grafika k debate o cenach emisnich povolenek

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    "(...) Existuje však ještě snazší řešení. Časopis Environmental Research Letters provedl studii více než 29 tisíc elektráren na fosilní paliva po celém světě a zjistil, že pouhých pět procent z nich je zodpovědných za 73 procent globálních emisí z elektřiny. Mohli bychom snadno financovat modernizaci právě těchto zhruba 1400 elektráren, přičemž výnosem takové investice by bylo citelné snížení uhlíkových emisí. Mezinárodní agentura pro energii zároveň odhaduje, že více než 70 procent úniků metanu z těžby ropy a zemního plynu lze odstranit s pomocí již existujících technologií.

    Cílem – v dlouhodobém i ve střednědobém horizontu – musí být globální distribuce energií z obnovitelných zdrojů. Z této oblasti přichází mnoho dobrých zpráv. Náklady na solární a větrnou energii se dramaticky snížily a jsou konkurenceschopné s fosilními palivy. Jejich zapojení je nyní snazší než kdykoli předtím. Skladování energie, kdysi velký problém těchto nestálých zdrojů, má čím dál více řešení díky zvyšujícím se výkonům baterií a novým řešením skladování, která se zdokonalují. Stále potřebujeme mnohem větší investice do výzkumu a vývoje v této oblasti, ale děláme skutečné pokroky.

    Mezitím musíme již teď snižovat emise a zároveň udržovat stabilní dodávky energie. Pokud se tak nestane, budeme čelit dalším energetickým šokům, které by mohly snadno přerůst v odpor proti zelené politice."
    Fareed Zakaaria (aktuální RESPEKT)
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    #greendeal

    In many countries, levels of public investment in the economy are higher than they have ever been outside of war time, but too much spending goes straight into the pockets of big private companies rather than being used to help people & planet.

    – Jeremy Corbyn MP

    A radical #greennewdeal is the only way to stop climate catastrophe – Jeremy Corbyn exclusive on #Cop26 | MR Online
    https://mronline.org/2021/10/25/a-radical-greennewdeal-is-the-only-way-to-stop-climate-catastrophe-jeremy-corbyn-exclusive-on-cop26/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-radical-greennewdeal-is-the-only-way-to-stop-climate-catastrophe-jeremy-corbyn-exclusive-on-cop26
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    #China

    Little over a decade ago, China was strongly arguing against reducing the emissions being caused by its booming, coal-fuelled economic growth. Instead, it said rich, developed nations should be leading the way.
    Speaking to a diverse range of experts within China and beyond, Carbon Brief has learned that Xi has personally played “the most important role” in this shift in views.
    Below, Carbon Brief describes nine key moments over the past two decades that have helped to influence China’s attitudinal change.
    These moments – many of which have not been widely reported before – do not include the more obvious important incidents, such as Xi becoming China’s leader in 2012, or China ratifying the Paris Agreement in 2016.

    Analysis: Nine key moments that changed China’s mind about climate change - Carbon Brief
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-nine-key-moments-that-changed-chinas-mind-about-climate-change
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    modlit se za klima


    COP26: Why The UN Climate Conference Matters Like Never Before
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2021/10/22/with-one-week-till-cop26-climate-talks-experts-set-out-whats-at-stake/?sh=19fa74eb585d

    Rockstrom:

    “The message to take to Glasgow is that the science has never been so clear: that every tenth of a degree matters, and that 1.5 is for real,” explains Johan Rockström, professor and director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

    “At 1.5 degrees we're telling our kids that we, the adults who are in charge of Earth now, are handing over the planet in a less liveable state for all future generations,” he adds.

    Rockström delivers these words calmly, in measured tones. As one of the most influential climate scientists working today, he isn’t a man readily inclined to dramatic turns of phrase. So when he talks like this, the effect is alarming.

    “That’s where we are,” he continues. “That’s why we talk about a climate emergency. I mean, academics don't like those kinds of words, but we are forced to use them today because now it's a crunch moment.”

    Rockström points to the UN’s latest synthesis report, released September 17, which indicates that, with all countries’ current climate commitments taken into account, the world is currently on a trajectory to warm by 2.7 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.

    “I barely even want to talk about 2.7 degrees,” Rockström says. “If we go beyond 2 degrees it’s very likely that we have caused so many tipping points that you have probably added another degree just through self-reinforcing changes. And that’s without even talking about extreme events.”

    His frustration is palpable as he sums up the situation: “It is a very special moment in time. We have 30-plus years of scientific advancements; 150 years of unsustainable pressures rising; and we've come to this point now where we can prove that we've basically saturated the system. There's no more room to maneuver, which means the only way out is 100% sustainability.”
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    Gail Whiteman
    https://twitter.com/GenerationCO2/status/1448866636904161289?s=19

    As background, here is the paper that published in June on the feasibility of various pathways including the Shell Sky scenario.

    All options, not silver bullets, needed to limit global warming to 1.5 °C: a scenario appraisal - IOPscience
    https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/abfeec/meta

    And the accompanying op Ed that Johan and I wrote:

    Shell’s net zero plan will be judged on science, not spin
    https://www.climatechangenews.com/2021/05/18/shells-net-zero-plan-will-judged-science-not-spin/
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    J Rockstrom
    https://twitter.com/jrockstrom/status/1450779252396331012?s=19

    #ProductionGap report shows that governments’ production plans and projections would lead to:

    ⚫️ 240% more coal
    🛢57% more oil
    🔥 71% more gas

    in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C.

    2021 Home - Production Gap
    https://productiongap.org/
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    TADEAS: :)) rockstrom v shell

    Inside, @jrockstrom, my hero, took the mic and addressed van Beurden and Shell's "science"..
    "Your negative emissions scenario is not plausible" he said.
    So yeah, we had the the legit director of @PIK_Climate calling out @Shell's manipulations. Glorious

    https://t.co/i5vwiGjg1y
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    Alexandria Villaseñor
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1448844795082776576.html

    I'm gonna recap what happened when the largest speaking organization in the world, invited the CEO of @Shell to speak at their flagship climate conference

    In addition to platforming the CEO of the 2nd largest fossil fuel company on the planet, @TEDCountdown put local @Fridays4future, @GNDRising and @StopCambo youth activist, Lauren MacDonald, on the stage with him

    first, and he did what we expected, he called out consumers demand for oil as the problem, said oil needs to "fund" the transition to renewable energy, and ignored Shell's role in decades of climate disinformation and anti-climate lobbying

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    when van Beurden wouldn't agree to end Shell's appeal of the Dutch court's ruling, which demands they reduce emissions by 45% by 2030 - which is what the SCIENCE SAYS MUST HAPPEN - Lauren was done. She stood up, took off her mic, and walked out

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    Outside, Lauren joined a huge protest led by @StopCambo, amplifying Shell's misdeeds, decrying the platform given to van Beurden and RE-PLATFORMING those most affected by the climate crisis. @NomikiKonst has a great thread on the protest here



    Shell CEO Roasted at TED Countdown Climate Conference
    https://gizmodo.com/shell-ceo-roasted-at-ted-climate-conference-he-was-fool-1847862767
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    20211024-212758
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    updated

    20211024-220239
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    Sucho začíná tam, kde končí život v půdě
    https://youtu.be/mlrX0AGpZWg
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    #questions

    Microplastics May Be Cooling—and Heating—Earth’s Climate | WIRED
    https://www.wired.com/story/microplastics-may-be-cooling-and-heating-earths-climate/

    The good news is that microplastics may be reflecting a tiny bit of the sun’s energy back into space, which would actually cool the climate ever so slightly. The bad news is that humanity is loading the environment with so much microplastic (ocean sediment samples show that concentrations have been doubling every 15 years since the 1940s), and the particles themselves are so varied, that it’s hard to know how the pollutant will ultimately influence the climate. At some point they may end up heating the planet.
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