We just hit 424.58 ppm while National, ACT and Corporate Farmers abdicate any responsibility for Climate Change
As National, ACT and Corporate Farmers walk away from any agreement on emissions as they play their usual game of deli and denial when it comes to doing anything meaningful on climate change emissions, we just hit a Co2 level of 424.58ppm!
The last time the planet was this hot was 5 million years ago.
We can now see the impact of this super spike in heat melting the planet in real time…
There are mega fires burning in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, SIBERIA, Spain and Chile.
All in the past month.
Siberia holds one and a half trillion tons of carbon and methane in the permafrost, what happens when it burps all that enormous amount of gas into the atmosphere?
We know from the ice record this has happened in the past, 635million year ago and it caused catastrophically abrupt climate change.
We are seeing enormous craters of methane erupting already.
Look what is happening in Turkmenistan…
The US is in negotiations with Turkmenistan over an agreement to plug the central Asian nation’s colossal methane leaks.
Turkmenistan was responsible for 184 “super-emitter” events in which the powerful greenhouse gas was released in 2022, the highest number in the world. One caused climate pollution equivalent to the rate of emissions from 67 million cars.
…singular events that produce the pollution of 67million cars?
What happens when these events get triggered?
There is just no plan to adapt to this new reality when it should be the driving force to begin immediate and radical adaptation for what is coming.
We have no comprehension of what is coming and we are simply not prepared for the age of consequences.
Watching National, ACT and Corporate Farmers use their economic and political muscle to avoid responsibility for what comes next can only be resolved by civil unrest and a campaign of civil disobedience against those interests.
This is the age of consequences.
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OK so what’s your plan then?
I think I’ll return to South Africa. It’s a far safer country, and doing their bit for climate change and racism…
It is not corporate farmers, it is family farmers. Have a look at Groundswell. Not recognising that is not understanding why ACT is so strong in the provinces.
The corporate farmers (or at least the corporate processors) actually wanted He Eke Waka Noa. The family farmers revolted at the prospect. Hence the former President of Fed Farmers becoming an ACT candidate.
We really have to calm down a little – I know NZ wants to do its part but we are only 0.01 aren’t we of the problem.
Also with farming we never contra off with the CO2 they remove as well like with grass’s.
Science in NZ is making massive changes as well – especially in Methane.
Would help in Huntly used NZ coal instead of Indonesian rain forest clearing coal – this could be the first thing any govt could do.
Plastics & Pollution is my issue we should be advancing quicker on for NZ & the planet.
Just small opinions.
Consumerism and keeping up with the ‘Jone’s’ to blame.
“While National, ACT and Corporate Farmers abdicate any responsibility for Climate Change”
Who is in government with a majority again? And who has overseen record coal imports.
“Turkmenistan is responsible for 184 super emitter events in 2022”. Russia, 120, US 154, plus dozens of other countries but several big emitters are authoritarian states. There is zero we can do about that! And the biggest emitters are farming and wetlands. So what do we do, become hunter gatherers?
NZ can’t make an iota of difference nor will protests or civil disobedience. But if we do it for moral support this country will become uninhabitable anyway!