Saturday, October 22, 2022

Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy… — Lynn Fries

Yves here. We’ve repeatedly challenged various brave green future schemes as rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. Advanced and major emerging economies need to engage in radical conservation to have any hope of preventing the worst climate change and mass species dieoff outcomes. Instead we have a host of cleverly branded proposals that are at best hopium and at worst conventional energy producer devices to forestall change and most importantly, cutbacks.

This interview does the important service of identifying ten key greenwashing phrases and explaining why they would be regarded with prejudice....
No politician or political party could withstand the reaction of the electorate to imposing the kind of policy that is required if climate change is real and the threat that many climate scientists foresee unfolding unless action is taken to mitigate it. The point of avoiding it has apparently been passed.

Naked Capitalism
Debunking Net Zero, Carbon Offsets, Nature-Based Solutions, Climate Smart Agriculture, Bioeconomy…
Lynn Fries. Originally published at GPEnewsdocs

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