COP29 has been a total failure:
Oxfam Says COP29 Deal Is A “Global Ponzi Scheme” – Oxfam Aotearoa
COP29 ‘bandaid over a bullet wound’, polluters should expect resistance – Greenpeace
The obligations are meaningless and do not in any way protect us from what is coming, nor does it make real momentum for adaptation.
The entire process has now been taken over by the polluter interests against the common good.
This is Capitalism at its worst.
I just believe at this stage we are in an age of consequences, that the extreme nature of what is coming our way will splinter the political spectrum.
There is going to need to be a very different kind of politics and a very different kind of economy, society and culture required to be able to adapt fast enough for the climate realities coming.
The ugly truth is we will be forced to change whether we want to or not now because the speed of biosphere shut down and the enormous immediate changes they will wreck will literally force us to change.
It’s only a matter of time now.
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It’s already happening. The weather the world is experiencing now was predicted by climate scientists in the 1980s. They said then if governments did not address the issue of carbon pollution then the world would experience the extreme weather we are now experiencing. Now the fresh water melt is causing AMOC to slow, it may stop….make hay while the sun shines as all indicators are it’s too late to stop what is happening and so the climate eventually will not support life that exists in this age. But this has happened on earth before, humans have just speeded up the process. Maybe that’s why all these evil right wing cynical governments are taking over.
Did anyone else note that our climate minister was promoting him self as the great negotiator and was going to get it done then quietly slipped away when the going got tough and headed down to the ice with no boats willis .Maybe while they are there they will see the damage being caused by their lack of action .But I guess no boats will just shrug her sholders and say well that will cost over 3 billion so lets can it .
Well, with cars floating en masse down Spanish Streets, Euro rivers dried up, thousands dying in various countries from heat related causes, US hillbillies flooded out due to the warming of the Gulf of Mexico–they voted Trump anyway…fires and landslides everywhere…things are not looking good at all.
We at least live in Aotearoa NZ, and have some chance of a few years before total shit descends–but do not count on it if you remember recent cyclones. I’ve rain water tanks, solar power, a garden and keep cash stashed, but just imagine Auckland if the ATMs went down, waste and water had major problems, power went out…
Bomber is probably right about people being forced to change (when they are up their necks in sludge in their apartments perhaps), GreenPeace has long been right. We need thousands of eco socialists now!
Wait for the collapse of the insurance industry. It will all flow outward from there collapsing the whole economic system.
That is another factor for sure, a lot of coastal is uninsurable now, and much more will become so. A hundred “reinsurers” are never going to cover climate disaster.
Wait for the collapse of the insurance industry. It will all flow outward from there collapsing the whole economic system.
In the words of David Wallace-Wells:
It is worse, much worse, than you think.
I highly recommend his 2019 work “The Uninhabitable Earth”.
Sure, the book is absolutely fucking terrifying, but being aware of what is happening, and doing even a little to prepare, as is Tiger Mountain- is better than blindly blundering to our doom.
Business as usual simply will not be an option.
I wouldn’t say it’s an upside but banana farming is expanding in Northland.
well we will be a banana republic soon
What to say? It’s all been said , to no effect.
Technology is moving at speed and that is where the answer sits.
Just wait till the religious nutters in politics start claiming that the disastrous weather is all a judgement of God and we need to obey the church state that’s forming in the USA, throw is a few miracles to fool those who work on the seeing is believing logic, men’s hearts failing them for fear of what is coming on the Earth and it is easy to see the world united around a false idea.
For most of my life I thought that it would be impossible to prevent buying and selling but technology has totally changed that situation. Just keep an open mind regarding coming events and don’t believe something just because almost everyone else does is the safest way to live.