been feeling like shit last few days. anyone have any reasons not to be fully doomer? (preferably important stuff and not individual level things like "my cat is pretty") (though by all means do share cat pics as well)

  • Skinhn [they/them,any]
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    4 years ago

    The cost of deploying enough shitty and highly expensive CO2 scrubbers to reach net emissions is only ten percent of global GDP. The only challenge is a lack of political will which will increasingly erode as things worsen.

    The doomer narrative is certainly promoted to shore up eco fascism and to stop people demanding change.

      • Skinhn [they/them,any]
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        4 years ago

        You'll have to jump on Google scholar for the source, sorry.

        I haven't watched the video but did try to read some of his arguments and he seems borderline ecofascist from what I read. Obviously negative emissions technology does exist, even if it's harnessing natural processes otherwise Earth would look like Venus. On the ecofascist claim (apologies for the fucked PDF text:

        Meanwhile, in an Indian village where my offset money has helped to fund a wind turbine, the villagers now have the (low-carbon) electricity to watch television, which provides advertisers of a petrol-fuelled moped with more viewers, and customers. A fuel depot follows, to meet the new demand, and encourages others to invest in old trucks to transport goods between villages. Within 30 years, the village and surroundings have new roads and many more petrol-fuelled mopeds, cars and trucks. Meanwhile, the emissions from my original flight are still having a warming impact, and will do for another 100 years or so.

        • aqwxcvbnji [none/use name]
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          4 years ago

          ecofascist

          That's a very big claim. In the lecture I posted he said the West should learn from the Global South in how to live fulfilling, less carbon intensive lives. Hardly something a fascist would say. A fascist would advocate killing certain ethnic groups.