This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows - ThreadSky

davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy • 2 days ago

This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/05/half-of-worlds-co2-emissions-come-from-36-fossil-fuel-firms-study-shows

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Brokar.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@davidho We want to, but the ones in power don't. Because it costs money and voters.

And most don't care. Just look how they re-elected Trump despite the fact that he ANNOUNCED beforehand that he'd be in favor of the fossil fuel industry. Nobody gives a shit. Everybody just thinks "what am i […]

mene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@Brokar @davidho so much, this! And articles like this only give the not-in-my-backyard folks targets to point at. Big=bad. As if providing for many is a problem per-se. Many provide electricity, so what’s their co2/kWh? What’s the co2/person? Is any of those companies less of a problem if we […]

Hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@davidho "The Earth isn't dying, it's being killed. And the people who are killing it have names and addresses."

Beggarmidas.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@davidho Are there climatologists available with any exposure whatsoever to economics curriculum? Any proximity to engineering or infrastructure STEM programs? Or are y'all like, raised on a compound somewhere, sequestered from the rest of the human dwelling planet before being kicked off the […]

florianjehn.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@davidho There was also an interesting article by https://mastodon.social/@lukekemp about that in many of the big threats we face, there are often only very few key players who make the vast majority of harm: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211014-agents-of-doom-who-is-hastening-the-apocalypse-and-why

GhostOnTheHalfShell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy•2 days ago

@davidho

Curry design like urban design where your daily needs do not require a car in order to accomplish them can save somewhere like 90% 90% plus of all the materials used for roads for cars for batteries for tires for fuel on and on and on and on if we reworked our communities to be car […]

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