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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18000 on: 08/03/2021 11:13:48 »
If you don't you will fail.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18001 on: 08/03/2021 11:57:12 »
"Limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to further limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C requires rapid implementation and a signicant strengthening of pledges under the Paris Agreement.

Globally, net carbon dioxide emissions need to decline by 45 per cent by 2030 compared with 2010 levels and reach net zero by 2050 to put the world on a pathway to 1.5°C with a probability of about 50 per cent, whereas more ambitious targets would be necessary for higher certainty.

A pathway to 2°C would require global emissions to be reduced by 25 per cent by 2030 compared with 2010 levels and
reach net zero by around 2070.

Both pathways entail rapid transformations in areas including energy systems, land use, agriculture, forest protection, urban development, infrastructure and lifestyles. Mitigating climate change is vital, urgent and cost saving: the lower the degree of warming, the easier and cheaper it will be to adapt.

•  The loss of biodiversity can only be halted and reversed by providing space dedicated for nature while also addressing drivers such as changing land and sea use, overexploitation, climate change, pollution and invasive alien species.

To prevent extinctions and maintain nature’s life-supporting contributions, biodiversity conservation and restoration must be integral to the many uses of terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems, and coupled with an expanded and better-managed global network of interconnected protected areas designed to be resilient to climate change. "


No different from me, although I'm harder on it. F.ex reservations for us, not nature, and also have some other suggestions, building on me expecting you to be able to become responsible.

As it is today, you're not.

full report  https://wedocs.unep.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/34948/MPN.pdf
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #18002 on: 08/03/2021 12:06:29 »
If we take this one " Globally, net carbon dioxide emissions need to decline by 45 per cent by 2030 compared with 2010 levels and reach net zero by 2050 to put the world on a pathway to 1.5°C with a probability of about 50 per cent "

And compare it to what your laws support, your economy, energy and infra structures, it's already doomed.
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« Reply #18003 on: 08/03/2021 12:10:32 »
That's why it is a study. A dream that won't come true. Produced by the same EU that supports the opposite, over fishing, fossils, exploitations, with its banks supporting the same. There is a really big difference between studies and facts, and it's getting bigger by the minute, and the studies ever more more drastic.
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« Reply #18004 on: 08/03/2021 12:12:00 »
And I link it to your game. Do you understand that?
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« Reply #18005 on: 08/03/2021 12:18:24 »
If we take China I'm pretty sure they do understand the effects of more coal power plants introduced. But they have the same excuse as you, the one where everyone else do the same.
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« Reply #18006 on: 08/03/2021 12:20:44 »
I won't even mention USA, partly because I'm waiting to see to what becomes of their new President, partly because it's a political nightmare where everything becomes immaterial, nothing is real. A lot like Russia seems to be.
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« Reply #18007 on: 08/03/2021 12:23:54 »
And feel assured, I won't mention Sweden or the UK either :)
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« Reply #18008 on: 08/03/2021 12:49:26 »
You have a game that stops you at every corner. A game you accepted all by your own, thinking it 'fair' knowing that you too could play it. It built on preconceptions and lies, but it was lies you believed in. Everyone could become a millionaire, if they wanted it enough. The earth was infinite, and if you couldn't stand it where you was you could always move somewhere else. The inequality that existed was good for you, because you would excel in this game. It also had protections, getting stronger the more you raised in your society. All connected to the profits you might reap.

It was a recipe for extinction.
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« Reply #18009 on: 08/03/2021 12:50:59 »
" The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) is an international agreement from the mid-1990s. Investor rights apply to 53 countries stretching from Western Europe through Central Asia to Japan, plus the EU and the European Atomic Energy Community. It grants corporations in the energy sector enormous power to sue states at international investment tribunals for billions of dollars, for example, if a government decides to stop new oil or gas pipelines or to phase out coal.

Negotiations for this treaty mostly took place away from the public eye. This means the ECT has so far largely escaped the global storm of opposition which has otherwise hit investor-state dispute settlement in the past decade. Now many more countries in Africa and the Middle East, Asia, and Latin America are in the process of joining the treaty, often without any public debate. "

https://energy-charter-dirty-secrets.org/
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« Reply #18010 on: 08/03/2021 13:00:12 »
So how did it work out?

Global warming?

Well first you had denial, then skepticism, then a weak acceptance of the facts as long as they didn't point to you. Now the game plays a double role. Producing studies while supporting the opposite, waiting for a 'green transition'.  And the reason why it still waits?

It has to be profitable.


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« Reply #18011 on: 08/03/2021 13:01:51 »
Well, any way it falls out it will be 'profitable', although not by you.
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« Reply #18012 on: 08/03/2021 13:02:33 »
So you might wonder if we are suicidal? No, we're looking for the profits.
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« Reply #18013 on: 08/03/2021 13:05:33 »
And if you don't find that funny you're not on my wavelength.

It fits us and our game so well.
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« Reply #18014 on: 08/03/2021 13:08:32 »
Things like that is what your clowns, sorry, leaders can produce. Their way of 'protecting' you and your game. You can still play it, for a limited time only. So jump on board before it's too late.
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« Reply #18015 on: 08/03/2021 13:16:22 »
Of course we're failed, all of us. No one is perfect and the game steers us. I call it self reinforcing. It's also physically impossible to play, but we still do it.
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« Reply #18016 on: 08/03/2021 13:41:13 »
You could call the game the ultimate pyramid scheme. And you know what it builds on. Greed, egoism, ignorance and hubris, lifted up to ideals and beliefs. It's also a cosmic joke.
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« Reply #18017 on: 08/03/2021 13:50:03 »
See why revolutions keeps failing?
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« Reply #18018 on: 08/03/2021 13:50:29 »
and the game wins?
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« Reply #18019 on: 08/03/2021 14:00:45 »
And why you won't get out of anything insisting on playing it?

Real politik and 'game theory' is part of it.
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