Posted on 08/30/2022 4:26:31 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Paris (AFP) – The cost-of-living crisis pushing millions of people towards poverty in Europe is driven by fossil fuels, according to a leading Earth systems scientist, who has warned that global heating risks causing runaway climate change.
Johan Rockstrom, director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and co-author of the new book Earth For All, said that spiralling inflation was in large measure a result of decades of government failures to decarbonise their economies.
"I find it very disturbing that our political leaders in Europe are unable to communicate that high living costs right now are caused by higher prices on fossil fuels," he told AFP at the book's launch on Tuesday.
"So this is fossil fuel-driven, supply-driven inflation. If 20 years ago you invested in solar (panels) or had a share in a wind farm, you're not affected today.
Rockstrom, who helped pioneer the concept of planetary boundaries -- thresholds of pollution or warming within which humanity can thrive -- said he hoped the current energy price crisis would be "communicated as another nail in the coffin" for oil, gas and coal.
"This should accelerate our transition towards renewable energy systems," he said.
Rockstrom said scientists needed to "open up a much broader palette of scenarios" in climate models that could incorporate the kind of low-probability, high-impact events that could lead to runaway warming.
As to whether governments were finally ready to take the kind of system-changing action needed to avoid climate meltdown, Rockstrom said that he was "actually quite pessimistic".
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So we need more expensive green energy because fossil fuels artificially cost too much?
Got it.
It’s the fossil fuels and guns. They’re out of control.
The war on fossil fuels to combat a fictitious problem is what is causing this.
All experts need to shut it....they are anything but “expert”.
lmao
liberals raise the cost of fossil fuels and then complain that they cost to much!
Climate Change Radicals are already doing more global damage than actual climate change (if indeed there is any) can ever do in the next 500 years.
But that's a feature, not a bug.
Never forget that the whole "CO2 global warming" scam was invented by the neo-malthusian Club of Rome as a tool to force a drastic die-off of human populations. This is only the beginning. Ultimately, YOU are the carbon they want to reduce.
Meanwhile, trust the climate oligarchs to find private profit in public policy.
Wow! They must think we’re really stupid. Trouble is, I’m sure the stupid left will lap this stuff up.
Oh my God! I cannot believe I am reading such incredible rhetoric. Few things shock me these days, but this nut-case just did.
How warped does one need to be to think like this, let alone say it out loud?
There are plenty of fossil fuels to go around. What is happening is the result of poor planning, poor policy planning, and bad science being used to force an untenable agenda.
More gaslighting.
“Who are you going to believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?”
They will as they cannot see how outrageous it is due to brainwashing all these years. Especially our young people.
Big Media puke up impressive sounding names of alleged organizations in an attempt to provide some cover of apparent expertise regarding whatever nonsense they think we're stupid enough to believe. Ever heard of these clowns before? No? Nor have I ... is it even proper to refer to them as clowns (plural)? How do we know it isn't just some dude with a computer in his grandmother's basement?
These people are certifiably insane...
Energy is a huge part of any human endeavor.. before the Ford Tractor a farm had to dedicate 40% of its plantable land to food for the livestock that did the heavy lifting that the tractor replaced.... 40% of a farms land didn’t go to growing food for people but food for the OX and horses that did the work to grow the human food.
To claim that Fossil Fuels is driving a cost of living crises is absolutely INSANE.. by any legitimate measure.
You serfs have been told you are going to have to suffer by those elites who will NEVER suffer.
This is how Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette had their heads cut off.
People don’t want to be forced to starve and freeze to death by those who NEVER will.
Time to bring out the guillotines and dust them off.
The way to eliminate the climate change problem is to eliminate the likes of Johan Rockstrom
yes double down on crazy
who cares if people freeze and starve
those are just the cracked eggs needed for the green energy omelette
that is the only way to make green energy economical
the people will warm themselves by the bonfire
No, you stupid French mfer, the LACK of fossil fuels is causing the cost-of-living crisis!
I love the Lords sense of humor . After the anti-Christ forces beat that fake global warming theory the Lord will in the last days pour out His judgements upon the earth . One of them is particularly interesting and seems to be quite relative to the lefts wishes . Devine karma in 3-2-1
Revelation 16:8
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
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