Removing the GHG needs to be done but this is not how you do that. This is a way to say "look, we're trying so just let us take another hit of that sweet sweet crude OK?"
Plant trees. Simple.
Let the systems balance themselves out. Simple. Not fun but Simple.
CCS for industrial processes and that might one day be good enough to work on a global scale? Maybe but that's fucking ages away and it's certainly not this.
Why not just call my mum names while you're at it.
Write the whole quote not just the bit you like.
Round but pointy in places.
If you don't get the reference it's perfectly fine to just not comment.
I was trying to think of a pithy retort but the best I can come up with is "fuck off you sanctimonious bell end"
Entirely valid and I agree that continual growth is right at the heart of most of our problems. I guess most of my frustration comes from the fact we've had at least 40 years of warning, 20 more years of proper, severe warning and promises for action and now that we're seeing day in, day out that all the warnings were right, we're still not moving with any real purpose. I genuinely thought that COVID would show us what we need to do and how we could do it but nope, slipped right back into business as usual.
That wasn't always a thing. This is a new and rapidly evolving area with issues that will be solved. Hell, battery chemistry is changing rapidly already. ICE cars have been death traps for most of their life and are still at higher risk of going in flames and just as violently, case in point the car carrier that went on fire that everyone just knew was an EV, wasn't. It was a shitty old ice. Luton Airport too. Everyone knew that was a. EV. Was a shitty old diesel and that car park suffered serious structural damage because of it. In addition the AA claim that the majority of ICE fire are because of the 12v battery. None of this is new it's just different.
We don't have time to perfect and mature the tech though. That was 40 years ago. Now it's whatever fucking works that isn't fossil fuels and burning of them. It's a damn sight safer than an ICE which is actually carrying extremely combustible liquids in it too. It's not perfect but it's better and this kind of " we have to hold off" is effectively supporting the status quo which is fuckig everything up as it is.
Can confirm. Have become a total energy nerd. Want more solar. Want heat pump. Watch how much we spend and how much we make every day. Tell everyone about it and have no shame. It's a hell of a drug.
There's a class mashup of it with Smack My Bitch Up too.