“a lot of this [emissions] reduction is dependent on substitution of fossil fuel generation with industrial scale ‘renewable’ power. That substitution gets harder to implement as the easier applications are substituted first, and the harder ones (heavy transport, heavy industry) are likely to slow down future decarbonisation. Moreover, those renewable energy capture systems themselves have a major material footprint, with other dire ecological consequences”
https://mstdn.social/@degrowthuk/115733952836944733
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@urlyman I was putting together a response to a Law Commission enquiry into community energy co-ops (the FCA thinks the only possible co-op is a shop). To a question on our co-op’s purpose, I wrote “saving what remains of life on earth”. Think about it. I agree about degrowth though.
…only a business culture that was utterly deluded and paid no attention to global warming being a *cumulative* issue, and hadn’t even tried to make a single ‘renewable’ installation at scale without fossil fuel inputs would look at emissions *increasing* year on year and say
“look folks, we’re decoupling”
…fact is, pursuing notions of profit attached to monetary tokens which externalise the ecology they sit within *is the self-terminating error*.
But power is entirely disinterested in addressing that