Mysterious_Emotion
Mysterious_Emotion t1_j3ve9wa wrote
Reply to comment by faciepalm in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies
Emissions reversal ain’t happening within our lifetime, nor our children’s lifetime….maybe in their children’s lifetime, but that could be a stretch by a large margin. Oil companies seem to be hinging their bets on carbon capture (at least one of their big bets), so they think eventually they can make it a “closed loop” system, emit, capture, emit, capture in an ever ongoing cycle, so in the meantime, it’s full steam ahead for them drilling, refining, emitting, all while majority of consumers will continue to use. Until the societies finds a way to run the world through some other economic means, the Earth is gonna get major wrecked.
Mysterious_Emotion t1_j3vdeep wrote
Reply to comment by Scat_fiend in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies
….er, so how is this uplifting? Also not really news…basically what companies do anyways…very similar, if not the same as just buying carbon credits?
Mysterious_Emotion t1_j3vgted wrote
Reply to comment by faciepalm in Australia’s big polluters must cut emissions by nearly 5% a year, but can use offsets to get there | Greenhouse gas emissions by LachyWantsBrownies
Won’t have to wait that long. Polar icecaps are still around and it’s already happening. Mass extinction events, micro-plastics and synthetic toxic chemicals in all corners of the world, including living things like us, mountains upon mountains of waste from all industries piled up in backwater countries, facilities and infrastructures not able to keep up and withstand climate swings, many people dying….gonna be a pretty amazing fireworks display to look forward to.