Posted on 07/07/2023 11:24:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Countries belonging to the United Nations’s shipping agency reached an agreement Friday to reach net zero emissions from shipping by midcentury.
In the announcement, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) said the deal will set a target of net zero by 2050 from shipping among its 175 countries, “taking into account different international circumstances.” Maritime shipping comprises about 3 percent of global carbon emissions.
The agreement is “not the end goal, [but] it is in many ways a starting point for the work that needs to intensify even more over the years and decades ahead of us,” IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim said in a statement. “However, with the Revised Strategy that you have now agreed on, we have a clear direction, a common vision, and ambitious targets to guide us to deliver what the world expects from us.”
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Roger that. ZERO is not gonna happen.
Nuclear powered freighters, or sail power or will they just drift with the winds and tides? Or rechargeable electrics propelling themselves from ocean solar and wind charging stations.
Are some of the west African crap hole countries running pirates from their shores part of the UN?
Or net zero from carbon offset fraud of planting trees.
Lighting using whale oil.
Actually, this will be pretty easy. I’d like to say more, but I’m off to buy some stock in a sail-making company.
Set the mainsail, ye swabbies!
Tractor beams from outer space.
Total and complete virtue signaling idiocy.
Well , I guess i gotta get rid of my 3/4 Ron gasser. Gonna miss those 14 gallon a mile rides.
“Net zero” what? Oh... Carbon offsets bought from well connected offset sellers... Like Al Gore.
Some bureaucrat sets a goal and we are all suppose to jump.
> Total and complete virtue signaling idiocy. <
Wait, it gets worse. The Army is now playing around with the idea of electric combat vehicles. Hybrid first, fully electric by 2050 or so.
Either the general in charge is a complete idiot or he is afraid to object.
fill er up with the perverts tin pot dictators marxist facists and freakazoids and push it into the east river
Hey, no shipping... no CO2 emissions ...no problemo
Our communist masters and their communist buddies at the UN are setting up the final stages of the complete destruction of capitalism in general, and the U.S. in particular...
With the loss, in the U.S., of abortion as a principal population-control technology, now they'll eliminate the clothing from our backs, cars needed for mobility, and electronic components that all the serfs need to communicate with each other...
Reagan seriously understated the danger when he forecast 1000 years of darkest tyranny...
Welcome back to the day of sail. You can forget regularly scheduled shipping.
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