Posted on 03/05/2023 5:12:24 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
One of the founders of what would become the Green Party of England and Wales has declared "it's too late" to save the environment.
Michael Benfield, who helped set up the new political movement in the 1970s, said he believed the "battle for the world's environmental survival" was "at this moment, lost".
"I think we have succeeded in helping to educate... but we have failed in dealing with the battle for environmental survival.
The scale of the solutions which he believed were necessary would be simply too unpalatable for any political party to propose, he argues.
The focus now, he thought, would have to be on mitigation.
"It doesn't mean to say that we can't perhaps do other things to put things right, but it's a very dire situation that we have," Mr Benfield said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I agree!
Then why don’t they just STFU?
Meanwhile, for those of us living in the real world, today’s shaping up to be a lovely spring day.
In other words, the jigs up.
What does the “battle for the world’s ENVIRONMENTAL survival” even mean?
Here’s the rundown to piss off all sides:
Global warming is happening. It’s at least somewhat anthropogenic.
But the real battle is over the globe warming two degrees. Most of the warming would be in polar and subpolar regions. Most would be in local winter. Most would be at night. Hot summer days won’t be much hotter. Cold winter nights will be much warmer. This may introduce pests and health issues that Europe and Northern America aren’t used to. The net result of global warming would be fewer destructive storms, not more. The sea levels would rise a foot or so, mostly through adiobatic expansion (liquids expand when they heat up). Sea ice will decline, but even the complete elimination of all sea ice an ice shelves won’t raise sea levels one inch. The maps they show of sea level rise are based on the complete melting of Antarctica, which would require temperatures raising 100 degrees for 10,000 years.
50 years of lies about the feasibility of solar power make this hard to believe, but we’ve finally reached the point where solar power really does make sense economically. Subsidizing unfeasible “green” technology has delayed this, by robbing demand from feasible technology. EVs are incredibly more efficient than gas-powered engines, even given the presently higher price and cost of distributing electricity. EVs are about to get a LOT cheaper. They will dominate the car market with or without government intervention. There will long be a sizeable niche for gas-powered vehicles, and for dual-technology vehicles; this niche presently includes vacation and business travel, but not for long. EVs run on electricity, of which 60% is generated by carbon, but nearly all growth in power production will be “green.”
Earth will not run out of Lithium in the foreseeable future. New reserves will be found, new extraction and refinement techniques will make more of what has been found economically recoverable. And Lithium is not depleted by usage; if the price of Lithium goes high enough, lithium recycling becomes economically feasible.
Lithium extraction and refinement is not clean. Neither are any other industrial processes. Its harms are unique, but it’s not uniquely harmful.
Well, I guess they don’t need any donations, then…
Did Nike stop making purple shoes after that one group in Oregon did a mass suicide solution? This guy sounds like he would have a closet full of purple Nikes.
“The focus now, he thought, would have to be on mitigation.”
I agree.
The wealthy elitists need to get rid of their private jets, their multiple homes, their fleets of cars.
The anti-Pope needs to shut off all electricity in Vatican city.
No more world environmental conferences in posh resorts.
Lets mitigate!
;-)
Also, the conversion of our economy to solar and wind power is happening incredibly faster than any government projections ever predicted. Current projections would require a MASSIVE divestment away from these technologies to occur. Coal is absolutely dead. We probably will be 80% reliant on solar and wind power within 20 years. Last year, the market share for renewable energy grew 3%. I don’t mean that renewable energy grew by 3%, which would mean that at the current rate of growth, renewable energy could barely keep up with increased demand, if at all. Rather, I mean that its market share grew so fast that within 33 years, even at a linear growth rate, it would reach 100%.
If its true then we can just give up on this green crap!
I guess it’s all on Elon now.
“Meanwhile, the rest of us can build more coal power plants.”
No, but China and India will, and Russia will once they finish swatting us out of Ukraine.
At least one of the green weenies is showing some common sense.
MRking.
Well good, now the left can stop whi I g about it and prepare for warmer weather 😆
Good. So let’s party. Emit some greenhouse gases, everybody!
Great. So no need for green policy.
The dirtier the better.
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