Oh fun, so how well did this method grow grains, corn, & rice, the main staple crops? Turns out, really badly. So food is going to get incredibly expensive, got it.#
When do we start eating the rich?
This is called Normalcy Bias. Since it failed last time, we shouldn't do anything to counter it.
This allows tragedies to happen. Don't enable it.
The problem is it's extremely energy intensive. The math just doesn't work. IIRC, we currently have three big "carbon capture" plants operating to try and remove CO2 from the atmosphere. (As opposed to the carbon capture they do in things like concrete plants.) Those plants are operating at a fraction the efficiency they expected. Age even if they did work, we'd need to open a new plant like those every single day for a decade before we could capture just the emissions we're putting out right now.
It's not gonna work.
Yup, the idea of electric cars is great, but it easily becomes something like Braess Paradox. Where building bigger roads leads to more cars & more traffic. Building electric cars just means fuel is cheaper so people drive more.
And even if we were able to electrify every single vehicle in the world, with sufficient charging infrastructure, cheap reliable renewable energy, and abundant resources for cheap replacement batteries; that still leads to collapse. Assuming electric cars are afforable,b that pushes more "investing" in so many car-centric single-family suburbs that are cashflow negative will have to finally face drastic increases in taxes. We'll wish that walkability and public transit should had been prioritized, as we desperately densify in patchwork ways that cost more in the long run.
Then if you look at the amount of pollution caused by rubber tires, continuing with electric cars using rubber tires is just leading to collapse from inhaled particles and forever chemicals.
The answer has always been walkable cities with infrastructure for bikes, busses, streetcars, and rail. This temporary century-long obsession with abandoning what's worked for human cities and splurging with the assumption that the temporary abundance of cheap energy would never end. But we never change in time.
Article:
> A new climate change report offers something unique: hopeHere's something you don't hear much when it comes to climate change: hope.
> Countries are setting records in deploying climate-friendly technologies, such as solar power and electric vehicles, according to a new International Energy Agency report. The agency, which represents countries that make up more than 80% of global energy consumption, projects demand for coal, oil and natural gas will peak before 2030.
> While greenhouse gas emissions keep rising, the IEA finds that there's still a path to reaching net-zero emissions by 2050 and limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. That's what's needed to avoid the the worst effects of climate change, such as catastrophic flooding and deadly heatwaves.
> "The pathway to 1.5 [degrees] C has narrowed in the past two years, but clean energy technologies are keeping it open," said Fatih Birol, IEA Executive Director, in a statement. "The good news is we know what we need to do – and how to do it."
> That overall message is more optimistic than the one issued in 2021, when the IEA released its first Net Zero Roadmap.
> In addition to optimism, the 2023 version shows that the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy will have to speed up even more in the coming decade. For example, the world is on track to spend $1.8 trillion on clean energy this year. To meet the target outlined in the 2015 Paris climate agreement among the world's nations, the IEA finds annual spending would have to more than double to $4.5 trillion by the early 2030s.
> As renewable energy costs continue to decline, the IEA says tripling installations of new renewable energy, mostly solar and wind power, will be the biggest driver of emissions reductions. But the agency warns countries will have to speed up permitting and improve their electricity grids for that power to get to where it's needed.
> The agency also finds a little room for new fossil fuel developments, such as the controversial Willow project the Biden administration approved in Alaska earlier this year. The roadmap does leave room for some new oil and gas drilling to avoid "damaging price spikes or supply gluts."
> The report comes as countries prepare to meet for an annual climate summit in Dubai at the end of November and amid calls to phase out fossil fuels entirely.
> "It's an extraordinary moment in history: we now have all the tools needed to free ourselves from planet-heating fossil fuels, but there's still no decision to do it," said Kaisa Kosonen with Greenpeace International in a statement.
> The oil and gas industry continues to argue it can be a part of addressing climate change, despite research showing most oil, gas and coal reserves would have to stay in the ground.
> The American Petroleum Institute offered a defense of its business in response to the IEA report. "Policymakers should not ignore current market realities—which are clearly signaling the need for more supply of oil and natural gas—in favor of any scenario models with predetermined outcomes," said Dustin Meyer, American Petroleum Institute senior vice president.
> If countries fail to achieve climate goals, the IEA report warns carbon removal – essentially vacuuming carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – would be required. The agency calls those technologies "expensive and unproven" at the scale that would be needed to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
> "Removing carbon from the atmosphere is very costly. We must do everything possible to stop putting it there in the first place," Birol said.
IMHO, the last paragraph kinda invalidates the rest of the article.
"Despite widespread abuses, Rwanda maintains support for Canadian government" works just as well, given how we treat indiginous people, unhoused people, environmental protestors...
Well given we have limited resources and climate change is causing a lot of issues, we really should stop growing the economy and creating more inflation, because we're going to see widespread deflation over the next few decades. Everything we build up now will come back down, as we refuse to build for the new world & cling to the old one.
A lot of it is just giving more public money to perlite who have money, so not take a great fix. Rental prices aren't about covering costs, so why would lowering costs help?
You say that as if the solution is just "people in charge say it should be fixed". What are the major causes of the housing crisis & see do you see it being fixed?
From what I've been reading from various sources, the problems we're seeing are a combination of deep-seated urban design failures, combined with the changes to investment rules over the last few decades. Neither are quick fixes.
You're aggressively missing the point. It's it a mental health issue, or are you being deliberately obtuse?
Landlords provide housing the way scalpers "provide" tickets. The solution for people who need can't afford to buy or who only need short term accommodation is public housing.
The CMHC used to provide funds to the provinces which would then build big public housing units with affordable rent. This provide a check & balance to the free market, keeping rents and house prices from skyrocketing. But then in the 80s and 90s, both Conservative and Liberal PMs successively defunded that aspect of the CMHC to solve budget issues, and those properties were destroyed as they reached their "maturity" date, regardless of whether the building was still usable or not.
I lived near one of them, located here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/SG2kkXeVsp3Nia2RA Check out the street view and click "see more dates" for 2012, that's housing for 90+families. Then in 2014 it was closed for demolition. And today it's still an empty grass lot. Almost 10 years as a Govt-owned empty lot, instead of affordable housing, because those Govts kept promising "market solutions" to housing problems.
But it turns out the "problem" with housing was letting the "free market" turn it into another Tulip Bulb craze, instead of keeping it an affordable necessity
If not for scalpers to buy tickets from LiveNation would there even be concerts?
They're not generally cartoonish evil
You really need to look at how they're talking on landlord forums and such, the way they speak about tenants. Reality will remove this naive idea from your mind.
An ex-gf once did cocaine off an RCMP officers breast at a party in Montreal, so the idea that they don't use drugs because "policy" is such a damn joke.
Historically, what made countries great was their ability to provide rising standards of living to its citizens. That often results in large gold reserves and military might, but plenty of places with gold and bullets were bad places to live.
But the rich wasn't us to believe those metrics, so we can ignore how living standards are dropping, indicating that Capitalism has failed to provide a better lifestyle.
And what's really fun is that despite the housing crisis, many home builders outside the big-3 city areas are running slow right now because regular people can't qualify for housing. I've only been working 5-12 days a month for the last year, between a shortage of framers (many moved to Ontario in 2021 due to work slowing), shortage of materials, and now interest rates killing purchases.
We're so fucked, and anyone in a position to fix things just refuses to. If you build public housing, prices drop and you get voted out by angry house owners. Don't build houses, and both homelessness and living standards get so much worse, and you get voted out by angry poor folks.
I mean, I've been on percentages for pretty much my entire life. It's worked out just fine.
That's good politics works. The guy in charge openly washed his hands of the problem and doesn't seem to have any solutions. So the masses are turning to the person who says "I can fix it!", even if he doesn't have a plan.
Well yeah, Trudeau stuck his foot in his mouth about housing, and continues to not solve the massive problem. I get the anger, and since "progressive" Neoliberals can't solve it, they're turning to Pierre.