Through all the efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, its relentless rise deviates hardly at all from the long term trend of 0.45% per year. It will begin to fall in the latter part of the 21st Century, simply because energy consumption will transition from hydrocarbon burning to enhanced geothermal and various forms of ocean energy extraction. Also, of course, the standard of living is increasing and is doing so in the two most important populations, China and India. As GDP per capita increases, carbon emissions per capita decrease.
Less discussed but of non-trivial importance, the world will also transition from the massive use of portland cement to various formulations of aluminosilicate geopolymers and other new materials as the primary construction material. While more expensive, geopolymers have other benefits that will cause a more affluent world economy to switch to them.
The central issue here, however, is that attempts to reduce CO2 emissions have had almost no effect on the trajectory of atmospheric CO2, but they have made a total hash out of the world economy. The primary message is that both technological advancements and economic innovations will result in a transition to a non-carbon based economy and likely will result in a stabilization of atmCO2 at the perfectly acceptable level of around 600ppm.
So, climate activists, in the words of Taylor Swift, 'You Need to Calm Down'. You are disrupting the world to little or no benefit.
Hi all, I live in Canada. And the article " The Inappropriately Excluded " is really something that deeply resonates with me, and has helped make sense of my life. That I've been going back to it for years as a reference. But today found out there is this meetup group. Excellent stuff!
So I'm wondering what are people's interests here?
I like transition planning, and how we'll get through the end of oil,
archival of important documents, talking to international advisors and politicians about it. Also run several businesses. And do a lot of religious stuff,
cause that's best way of connecting with the uh IQ challenged majority in terms they can understand. So for that I run anabaptist.ca and got like outreach for all sorts of faiths, like humanism, islam, communists, chinese, hindus, christians etc: https://anabaptist.ca/dyet/
Hi! Just joined. I discovered this group through the Inappropriatelt Excluded article and it hit home. Looks very interesting :)
After Dobbs v Jackson, people are saying they want to move to Canada? Why? There is no part of Canada that allows abortion after 23 weeks. And, of course, nowhere in Europe are abortions legal after 24 weeks. So, if one really feels that access abortion is so important, the best thing to do is move to California. It has the most Progressive abortion laws pretty much anywhere, save China, North Korea, and Vietnam. Honestly, if this is your thing, then you should move to California. Whatever state you are in, they will celebrate your departure.
