ozcad wrote:I wonder when we might see activists (or purported activists) blowing up coal-fired generators to force replacement?
ozcad wrote:Currently, nothing changes unless TPTB can see a clear path to profit.
Once CC problems reach serious levels, every nation has an incentive to destroy neighbouring FF-burner plant.
Reductio ad absurdum: Imagine a chess-board where every square is at war with the other 63 squares.
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Dogs are waffling and caravan moves away.
BAU will carry on until natural collapse of capitalism (which is on horizon).
Politicians won't change much, greenwashing won't change much either.
EnergyUnlimited wrote:Dogs are waffling and caravan moves away.
BAU will carry on until natural collapse of capitalism (which is on horizon).
Politicians won't change much, greenwashing won't change much either.
mousepad wrote:My daughter had global warming education in school. I asked her if she's going to change
her lifestyle in response to what she learned, consume less, heat less, drive less, etc etc.
She said, "no, nobody does that, we only talk and write about the subject"
aspera wrote:the key question is "what are the conditions under which someone would change."
mousepad wrote:That's why tesla is so attractive. Let's you whitewash your consumer conscience with
consumption.
diemos wrote:Easy. We'll stop burning fossil carbon when there is none left to burn.
aspera wrote:diemos wrote:Easy. We'll stop burning fossil carbon when there is none left to burn.
Certainly then (as a boundary condition). But people do sometimes change beforehand. Maybe reword the question as "what are the conditions under which someone would change, before circumstances force that change."
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:My mother was a smoker from her early teens. She used to pine away when I was growing up about how she couldn't break the habit, but if the government would juts make it illegal to use tobacco she would be forced into quitting.
Newfie wrote:The anti-smoking laws banning advertising and use in media and warnings and public service announcements had a significant impact. There was a bit of a shaming approach to this ... making smokers move outdoors.
Plantagenet wrote:Newfie wrote:The anti-smoking laws banning advertising and use in media and warnings and public service announcements had a significant impact. There was a bit of a shaming approach to this ... making smokers move outdoors.
Unfortunately vaping was allowed to get started in the US due to the claim that vaping would help people stop smoking cigarettes. Sure...right.....except vaping has attracted a whole new audience of millions of young millennials who are hooked on vaping.
Now we've got 9 million new people, mostly young millennials, vaping regularly in the US.
new-cdc-data-more-9-million-adults-vape-regularly-united-states
And vaping has turned out to be far worse then cigarettes for people's health, with numerous people in their 20s drying and being seriously injured because they are vaping flavored nicotine and THC.
Vaping is a health disaster for the USA
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
KEY POINTS
In an annual letter to CEOs published Tuesday, BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said: "Climate change has become a defining factor in companies' long-term prospects.
"But awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance," he added.
BlackRock's assets under management totaled almost $7 trillion in the third quarter of 2019.
aspera wrote:diemos wrote:Easy. We'll stop burning fossil carbon when there is none left to burn.
Certainly then (as a boundary condition). But people do sometimes change beforehand. Maybe reword the question as "what are the conditions under which someone would change, before circumstances force that change."
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