Matt Davies for November 12, 2021

To misquote Greta T: “Talk, talk, talk, talk”. It’s what diplomats do, and in the context of wars, it’s not a bad system. However in the context of things like vaccinating those in Africa, or dealing with (un)natural disasters, the last three syllables need to be replaced by “think, plan, do”.

Add the human skeleton to the pile at the rate we’re going.

It’ll get returned to the earth in time. At this rate, once the human population is a memory.

Seriously how many people actually remember the Kyoto protocol everyone only quote the Paris climate treaty

Even if every nation lived up to their current promises, it would not be enough. Too little, too late.

“Everyone” knows that the floods and droughts and violent storms are all fake news. Food prices are rising because Biden is president, another thing “everyone” knows!! /S

The steps to achieve success necessitate new economies, jobs creation, resource use and delivery, food production, etc. Truly the most complex issue faced by the human race but failure to achieve success will be catastrophic.

The climate.. is a related red herring. The real problem is too many people all wanting cooked food and warm houses. But.. it’s a subject our leaders are loathe to touch.

The great thing is when we’re all dead we won’t care. Like Mars, aliens will ask "was there ever water on Earth?

Oddly enough, we’re disadvantaged with having so many countries with democratic governments. Totalitarian governments, monarchies, dictatorships, can just order actions taken. If they wish to make themselves look good and adopt a green mentality, they can just, like Ross Perot put it, make it so. But, democracies have to go through a process that, given the intricacies of the beast, may take much longer to win out. In the US, we have a system governed by two parties which are pretty much evenly split. The President’s party has some ideas for fighting CO2 levels, and the other party just wants to stop Biden’s reelection, regardless of the consequences for the nation or the world. What’s more, we have little hope of getting a green leaning totalitarian government to help us with the CO2 rise problem since they just want more money through fossil fuel production. It doesn’t look very good.

Some experts have suggested that if we don’t make substantial changes, we will face an “existential threat” from global warming by 2050. The agreements are scheduled for 2060.

It’s all bull crap eco communism o destroy our country

I am 71 and I feel sorry for all young people, my generation cares more about there bank accounts than the future of life on our planet

Road kill. We need to put off dealing with the problems associated with fossil fuels till we use them up.

“The ringing of the United Nations Peace Bell at the moment of the March Equinox on Earth Day has become a tradition. The Democratic senator, Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, eventually founded the first nationwide Earth Day that was celebrated on 22 April 1970.” That was then….what now?

“Oh, it’s our ‘overlords’ fault!” “Oh, it’s too late!” “Oh, that’s just the way it is!” "Doesn’t matter what we do, it’s up to the politicians. We don’t have ‘overlords’. We have elected officials and we, the people, do have some ways to pressure them into representing US, the people. We can finger-point all we want, but we, the people, share the responsibility and we need to share the solution. Surprise! People don’t like change. Rather, we don’t like change that inconveniences us, that we don’t create for ourselves. We don’t like change that moves us out of our comfort zone. We yammer that ‘they’ need to do something but, guess what, even when ‘they’ seem to be moving in the right direction, we complain about paying for it. “No new taxes.” Fixing things, maintaining things costs money, whether we’re concerned with reducing CO2 and methane levels or filling in potholes, and we are the source of that funding. We vote down issues to fund education, infrastructure, etc. all the while complaining about poor quality of education, infrastructure, etc. We talk about the plastic problem but we still buy strawberries in clamshell containers (which can’t be recycled most places). But we personally just aren’t willing to pay for what is needed, either in money or inconvenience. [“I just can’t seem to remember to bring my reusable bags when I go shopping.” /s] We bleat about jobs being lost that weren’t really such good jobs at all — they were just familiar and comfortable — and ignore potential new jobs (and we balk at paying for training). The world is changing with or without us. There are things only we can do to prevent the biggest disasters. If we want our ways of life to continue, we need to be willing to change as well.

Where treaties go to die.

Yup! Overshoot for sure…I remember the Club of Rome (Shhhhh don’t tell).

We’ll make fascinating additions to the fossil record.