Now the government should buy it for 10p on the pound and use it to hold fascist rioters until they’re tried.
Now the government should buy it for 10p on the pound and use it to hold fascist rioters until they’re tried.
Compared to preventing emissions at source, carbon capture and storage is expensive, non-scalable and a pointless displacement activity.
They’re rioting because they’re lowlife racist scum.
If reform is infeasible, there are other ways to lessen the impact of Russian exports. All are brutal and will hurt ordinary Russian people. But if necessary for the survival of humankind, someone will attempt them.
Please don’t tell me that Fetterman’s becoming the new Manchin.
Just remember, for the owners of extractive resources, if they lose that revenue stream, they might be forced to earn their money instead. That must terrify them. Much easier sitting on a lake of oil and living the rentier life on a massive scale.
But this is an existential crisis, and if they don’t take no for an answer, it’s possible that the time will come soon when someone has to go in and shut down that business the hard way.
If you look at it on a case-by-case basis, it’s harder to catastrophize. Would the world economy collapse if petroleum-derived food additives vanished? No. Plastic bags? No. The vast volumes of cheap plastic packaging? No. Shipping? That’ll take a while. Fertilizers? Partial substitution can happen immediately, but a full changeover will take years. And so on through the list. You can rack and stack each case by its social value, how hard it will be to eliminate or replace, and the lead time needed to transition. Beyond that it’s engineering, planning and politics.
The reason those products were adopted was because the raw materials were available chaply as by products of fossil-fuel production. We’ll have to substitute, and will still use some petroleum to produce feedstock for a while. But substitution, efficiency improvements and replacement are normal parts of a working economy. As fossil-fuel derivatives become more costly, we’ll ditch them.
Shipping is a separate problem: the logistics and transport sector will be slower to decarbonize because of the long lifetimes of its capital goods.
Chinese power generation has produced more CO2 this year than ever before. They’re also bringing renewables online, but electricity usage has risen too. So we’re closer to turning the corner, but haven’t done so yet.
I blame them too, but bigger blame adheres to those who own the fossil-fuel companies, and to the politicians who let the fissil-fuel owners buy them off.
Some of the early indicators include chain-link fences, pitbulls, bikers, junkyards, prickly pear cactus in yards, book-burning school boards, and lifted diesel trucks.
They should be held liable for the damage they’ve caused, and either pay up or get expropriated. And I believe the term for lying to expedite commercial activities is fraud? Their C-levels should be charged with that.
The ECHR would be forced to intervene.
Tommy Robinson has been arrested under anti-terror laws, according to his supporters
And winged mokeys fly out of my arse, according to me.
He’s in a pissing contest with the judge that found him guily of defamation, repeated the lie, and has landed a contempt charge that might get him sent to prison. And now he has fled the country.
He seems to like prison. “You’re not really here for the hunting, are you?”
Don’t forget to take into account the industries that are keeping the state afloat
That’s how they like to present themselves. They’re really the industries that keep the state a backward, polluted, corrupt cesspit.
“YES, THE STONES ARE STILL THERE, YOU PILLOCK, NOW FOCUS ON DRIVING.”
The Stonehenge tunnel is a boondoggle that should never have been funded in the first place.
They handed £20bn out and ran up the card so Labour would be on the hook to pay for it. And now Hunt’s bleating like he’s an honest man wrongly accused. How like the Tories to do something ugentlemanly, then complain that they’re not being treated like gentlement. Cry-bullies.
They’re trying to force us into a post-truth world where all positions are treated as equally valid-- a sort of worse-than-both-sides Mexican standoff to keep everyone distracted while the looting continues.
It’s similar in the UK. The UK has a public weather service (the Met Office) and there are also private services that use the data from the Met Office. The private services cut corners with their forecasting software and have lower-skilled forecasters, and as a result, provide measurably worse forecasts. If you’re making life-and-limb decisions based on forecasts such as which roads to close due to ice, you’d better have access to the best possible forecasts that exist, otherwise people will die.