In what is becoming an all-too-familiar affair by those in power and politics, the COP26 Glasgow Climate Conference has confirmed that citizens cannot rely on those who hold our lives and planetary life in their hands to do the right thing by being responsible for making the right moral decisions that serve the majority.
Today, the climate emergency has become business opportunities for those who put profits, and duplicitous ‘green washing’ and technological wizardry ahead of addressing the planetary catastrophe. No amount of tinkering and sophistry can hide the fact of the developing rift by human (destructive) economic activity vis-a-vis capitalism, and the interaction with the global environment, and the climate emergency.
Atmospheric carbon has amassed because fossil capital is still largely unregulated.
Almost all the scenarios described by scientist to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that limit warming to two degrees Celsius (let alone 1.5°C) require a massive and rapid deployment of carbon drawdown infrastructure. Yet there is still not one large gas or coal-fired power station anywhere in the world that is capturing and storing its emissions. ‘Direct air capture’, taking CO2 from the atmosphere, is still a small-scale infant technology.
It is abundantly clear, that expecting our elected political leaders and corporate business CEOs to take decisive action, against imperilling most of humanity, especially the poor, is proving futile.
The world is home to 900 million slum dwellers who live without basic sanitation, two billion sweatshop workers, and 40.3 million slaves.
What all this adds up to, is that effective action can only be taken by people mobilising and wresting power from those who own and control the institutions of economic and political power.
No easy feat, especially in our culture of individualism, where many have become atomised and estranged from any democratic decision making.
Hannah Arendt, the political theorist who survived Nazi Germany, saw hope as ‘a dangerous barrier to courageous action [and i]n dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act.
Boyd your council has declared a Climate emergency without ratepayers Input Incidentally.. !! As you explained its a Climate emergency ? Could you please provide a example Of the Climate emergency declaration in your shire ..just one will do ?
Barrow old son, you really do need to lift your game. The Climate Emergency has been declared by The UN – “Code Red for Humanity”. But I get it, communications fail to reach you deep down below in your burrow.
You talk the talk Joachim … yet you have never walk the walk with answers .. your UN
Are suppressing info that the planet has not warmed in 15 years fact Joachim..unlike your hero’s the likes of Tim Flannery and Al gore .. Credibility Zero for those two !!
Yet it matters little because even if the
Predictions are completely wrong by both
Who cares its the narrative right Joachim?
Example..again not one of your believers
Mandy for the greens included and our
Friendly Echo can provide one example Of the Climate emergency declaration by the
Byron Shire .. lift your game Joachim
EMERGENCY MEANING JOACHIM..
Eminent danger to lives .. !! Catastrophic!!
Just one example.. ? Wont hold my breath..
Dear oh dear, Barrow. I get it that ‘numbers’ aren’t your strong suit, I mean you got Australia’s warming all W R O N G. Now you double down with this cherry picking that might suit you, BS. NASA, NOAH, our BoM, would love to hear your Scientific Research debunking our warming Mother Earth. Barrow my man, The First Emergency for you is to stop making stuff up and The Second Emergency for you is to take action to mitigate The Climate Emergency – “Code Red for Humanity”.
Take Action ? Captain Planet Joachim..
Everthing you do in your every day life
Can be attributed to fossil fuels Joachim
Once you can wean yourself from the hydrocarbon life you live will we take you seriously… !! Talk the talk for everyone else
Joachim lecturing everyone regarding
Their carbon footprint on earth..
“Do as i say not as i ” code red Joachim
Take action minimise your carbon footprint
Before it’s to late ..
Barrow old son, thank you for your encouragements. I’m already doing, been doing, for many years but yes, more to be done as well.
That’s welcome news Joachim
Iam to very passionate about the Planet
Always have always will be ..
After all we debate cannot understand
Why Nuclear power with Zero emmisions
Is not in the Major Parties conversations !
Even the News Breakfast Team on the ABC
Agree.. !!