[Thanos]

More like on "what's going to be".

[bootlegga]

Scape Scape:

bootlegga bootlegga:

To me it's no different then the Extinction Rebellion yahoos who blocked traffic in dozens of cities worldwide a few years back to protest global warming. It got headlines, but instead of inspiring people, all it did was piss them off and create a lot of enemies for their movement. Same goes for the 'Tire Extinguisher' group, they deflate the tires on people's trucks and SUVS, inconveniencing them.

Those were bad and it was a public nuisance. Same with the indigenous protests cutting of the rail/high ways. Both backfired and got the public against them. This however targets only the rich and is why I see it as effective. To the middle class and working poor there is no impact and yet they are also pissed at this. That's why it's so confusing.

If they were breaking into some rich asshole's house and doing this to a private collection, you might have a point, but these yahoos are doing this in museums open to the public, so their petulant protests inconvenience everyone, not just the wealthy. If these morons continue with this stupidity, the wealthy will stop loaning their artwork to museums and then everyone will suffer for it.

I support environmental activism, but this is akin to a spoiled kid throwing a temper tantrum at the mall because Mommy won't buy him an expensive toy.

[Thanos]

Given how accurate photography & copying is now thanks to the tech there's no reason to put the actual items out on display anyway. Issue the best possible copies for free to all the museums and galleries than want them. They should all be under firm lock & key, not just to keep them safe from destructive & petulant fuckwads who apparently think they're proving some point with their junior high sort of stunts. But also from potential theft or being destroyed by fire/flood/etc. Keep them vaulted, under high security, where only the owner or actual art historians & artists can have access to them. The risk is now just too great, especially given how mean, stupid, and outright insane our disgusting society is rapidly becoming.

[Scape]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I support environmental activism, but this is akin to a spoiled kid throwing a temper tantrum at the mall because Mommy won't buy him an expensive toy.

Like the Suffragettes?

Beau said it better.

[DrCaleb]

[Scape]

German climate activists glue themselves to dinosaur display

[DrCaleb]

Emissions Gap Report 2022

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The report is the 13th edition in an annual series that provides an overview of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change.

The report shows that updated national pledges since COP26 – held in 2021 in Glasgow, UK – make a negligible difference to predicted 2030 emissions and that we are far from the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. Policies currently in place point to a 2.8°C temperature rise by the end of the century. Implementation of the current pledges will only reduce this to a 2.4-2.6°C temperature rise by the end of the century, for conditional and unconditional pledges respectively.

The report finds that only an urgent system-wide transformation can deliver the enormous cuts needed to limit greenhouse gas emissions by 2030: 45 per cent compared with projections based on policies currently in place to get on track to 1.5°C and 30 per cent for 2°C. This report provides an in-depth exploration of how to deliver this transformation, looking at the required actions in the electricity supply, industry, transport and buildings sectors, and the food and financial systems.

[DrCaleb]

Greta Thunberg: COP27 an opportunity for 'greenwashing, lying and cheating'

[bootlegga]

Greetings from Alberta’s Energy Transition Corridor, Canada’s unlikely green power hotspot

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Just five years ago, wind power accounted for 9 per cent of Alberta generation capacity, and solar didn't even register, according to AESO. Today, the two sources make up 22 per cent. Solar alone is now 6 per cent of the total, and about to take its next leap when Canada's largest solar project, Greengate Power Corp.'s $700-million Travers development, starts up.

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The former NDP government kick-started development in 2016 with auctions in which wind developers bid on projects - those offering the least expensive power to the grid won. The arrangements have netted the Alberta government $160-million, according to new research by the University of Calgary School of Public Policy, and primed the pump for today's investment rush.

[DrCaleb]

The NDP had the vision that Alberta being an 'Energy' province doesn't mean only an 'oil' province.

[herbie]

First time I saw fields of windmills was a couple years ago in Crowsnest Pass.
I've seen plenty being delivered along Hwy 16 from Prince Rupert, but have no idea where they were going to.

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJslrTT-Yhc

[DrCaleb]

[Scape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBp_Ngr ... 9Q&index=4

[DrCaleb]

Europe warming twice as fast as rest of the world, new report reveals