In “Climate Deniers Shift Tactics to ‘Inactivism’,” Michael Mann discusses the transition from climate change denial to a new strategy of hindering meaningful action on climate change, which he terms “inactivism.” Fossil fuel interests, previously focused on discrediting climate science, now deflect attention from systemic solutions and promote individual responsibility for climate change. Tactics include promoting the idea that lifestyle choices, not corporate policies, drive climate change, and sowing division within the environmental community. Mann argues for policy interventions and highlights the optimism inspired by young activists demanding action on climate change.
You know what there won't be more of - flood defences. Nor funding for the NHS or fire departments, and even social services, that are going to have to deal with the aftermath.
Though I bet Richi Rishi has some friends in the sandbag industry that are about to make a killing (in contracts, and then literally, when they fail to actually fulfil them)..
There’s a prototype technology to strip water from sea air without moving parts or the crazy energy requirements. It’ll be solved once profit from water is less an issue.
Clickbait. Ocean currents, and the means by which they redistribute heat, have been both a known mechanism, and considered a significant factor, for a while.
We just don’t know how significant it will be in the context of the PPM and temperature ranges we’re looking at this century (e.g. what will trigger tipping points and feedback loops).
Yes, it usually doesn’t pose a danger anymore. But it’s a natural process. It took time to damage it, it takes time for it to heal. It will close again in 2040 (back to 1980 levels of ozone)
Those market based solutions have been around for 40+ years and have been wildly successful in fucking 99.99999% of the population and transferring their wealth to the overlords. Which was their purpose, of course.
Oh I know. The so called “free” market is an absolute shitshow of an economic theory that actively destroys all the things it’s proponents claim it promotes, like competition, growth, and convenience. But people are too stupid to understand these things at anything more than face value, and the elites know it, so this is what we get. It’s literally going to kill us all.
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