Starší článek, který dobře shrnuje, proč se pořád nedaří vyřešit klima...
The hopium of the people | Consciousness of Sheephttps://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2018/11/05/the-hopium-of-the-people/November 5, 2018
#CCS #hopiumEven when fitted to chimneys – where the carbon dioxide is at least concentrated – carbon capture technologies have proved excessively expensive in both financial and energy terms.
...
However, this issue pales into insignificance when compared to the difficulty of storing any carbon dioxide that is captured.
...
Vaclav Smil, a professor at University of Manitoba and master of sobering energy-related numbers, calculates that if we were to bury just one-fifth of the global carbon dioxide emissions, we would need to build an industry capable of handling twice the volume of stuff as the entire oil industry, an industry that took 100 years to develop, driven by a large and mostly expanding market.
...
“Summing up, the path to least climate impact will require nations to work together to cut global carbon emissions by 45% in just over a decade.
“Such a cut in emissions will require an unprecedented degree of political will and global cooperation…
...
However, after decades of neoliberal politics and economics, only massive sacrifices on the part of the very wealthy are likely to prevent a further drift toward a climate change denying populism among the majority of impoverished citizens.
...
More than six out of every seven people alive today only exist because of the Haber–Bosch process that produces synthetic ammonia (fertiliser) from fossil fuels. Any genuine effort at reversing climate change had to have as its starting point a reduction in the human population at least to the level prior to the (industrial agriculture) “Green Revolution;” less than half of today’s population. Instead – with a great deal of help from religions that implore us to go forth and multiply, and economists that need a new base for the global Ponzi scheme – we have grown our population as fast as agricultural productivity has improved.
...
The choice before us is that we can take action to reverse climate change and a lot of people are going to die. Alternatively, we can do nothing about climate change and a lot of people are going to die. And since nobody has the wisdom or the bravery to make that choice, we can all sit around pretending that some incredibly implausible technology is going to come riding to our rescue… the opium of the people indeed.