Inspirational. A presentation is alway more personal than a blog. It was nice to get a better idea of who you are and what motivates you.
It is amazing what is happening yet some people love to point out every set back, e.g. WSJEB 9/21/23 op-ed "Britain Blinks on Net-Zero Climate Mandates."
Thanks! You are one of the most important voices in the world, no exaggeration. You are doing more than anyone to offset the immense suffering caused by climate doomists.
Fabulous presentation, Hannah. It's so important to switch to a more optimistic understanding of Sustainability. As drawdown.org have shown, we have all the solutions at our fingertips. The challenge now is to implement them at pace and scale. All power to GenerationS!
Sensational! I was part of a peak oil group in 2005 when I learned of a young bloke who had committed suicide due to the doomerism in this group. Yours is the sort of talk young people need to have a focus and rallying cry to not give up hope, but make the world better! Thank you.
Thank you for having the courage to get on the TED stage. I hope your talk inspires others to follow. Now to read the all important additional information.
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
Regarding point 6, your fellow researchers just published this article on the Lancet. They found that
"The emission reductions that high-income countries achieved through absolute decoupling fall far short of Paris-compliant rates. At the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1·5°C fair-shares in the process. To meet their 1·5°C fair-shares alongside continued economic growth, decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025."
Green technology ALONE won't save us like you tend to believe in Hannah. We ALSO need to reduce our energy consumption. This message NEEDS to be part of the story.
Serious question: if we do nothing/only the bare minimum (as we're doing now), how soon before we go extinct due to the mass extinction we're entering into? I understand we *can* do better, but there's no evidence we *will*, and almost every ecologist I've seen seems to imply we're all going to die if/when we don't act on extinction rates. Is there *any* chance we can at least survive (though obviously not thrive) when we tip into a full extinction, or are we basically just doomed?
I am trying to watch this, but in both my mac and my iphone, I just get the circle of death...Is this just an issue for me, or are others struggling too?
Inspirational. A presentation is alway more personal than a blog. It was nice to get a better idea of who you are and what motivates you.
It is amazing what is happening yet some people love to point out every set back, e.g. WSJEB 9/21/23 op-ed "Britain Blinks on Net-Zero Climate Mandates."
The other trend I'm seeing is that peak temperature forecasts are going down. Zeke Hausfather put together a compilation chart a few months back showing some forecasts below an increase of 2C, https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/emissions-are-no-longer-following . A recent forecast by The Inevitable Policy Response sees temperatures peaking at an increase of 1.7 - 1.8 C, https://ipr.transitionmonitor.com/2023-09-20-global-climate-policy-forecast-predicts-well-below-2c-paris-agreement-climate-goals-will-be-met/ . As Zeke says, "Every tenth of degree matters."
Thanks! You are one of the most important voices in the world, no exaggeration. You are doing more than anyone to offset the immense suffering caused by climate doomists.
https://www.mattball.org/2023/09/the-greatest-source-of-unnecessary.html
Fabulous presentation, Hannah. It's so important to switch to a more optimistic understanding of Sustainability. As drawdown.org have shown, we have all the solutions at our fingertips. The challenge now is to implement them at pace and scale. All power to GenerationS!
Phenomenal !
Old Liberal Tech Business me, is going to publish the link for my conservative friends at The Dispatch.
It will probably be a good discussion of what I'll call good Free Market forces and good government stimulus and regulation.
Great talk. Our sustainability students will love it. I’ve shared several times since watching this am.
Sensational! I was part of a peak oil group in 2005 when I learned of a young bloke who had committed suicide due to the doomerism in this group. Yours is the sort of talk young people need to have a focus and rallying cry to not give up hope, but make the world better! Thank you.
Thank you for having the courage to get on the TED stage. I hope your talk inspires others to follow. Now to read the all important additional information.
Great talk!
Hannah, what are your thoughts on Universal Basic Income?
I truly believe that Universal Basic Income, is part of the solution to reduce poverty and reduce climate change.
Yes we can afford UBI, it won't cause inflation, and people won't be lazy. The evidence backs up all those claims.
Search for Scott Santens, and look at his FAQ page.
No ‘BAU’?
‘Most’ ‘economic thinking’ is ‘short run’ and ‘redundant’? ‘It’ ignores the ‘supply side’? ‘Growth’ {and ‘civilisation’} depends upon ‘cheap’ F.F. – those so called ‘halcyon days’ are ‘over’. ?
“The crisis now unfolding, however, is entirely different to the 1970s in one crucial respect… The 1970s crisis was largely artificial. When all is said and done, the oil shock was nothing more than the emerging OPEC cartel asserting its newfound leverage following the peak of continental US oil production. There was no shortage of oil any more than the three-day-week had been caused by coal shortages. What they did, perhaps, give us a glimpse of was what might happen in the event that our economies depleted our fossil fuel reserves before we had found a more versatile and energy-dense alternative. . . . That system has been on the life-support of quantitative easing and near zero interest rates ever since. Indeed, so perilous a state has the system been in since 2008, it was essential that the people who claim to be our leaders avoid doing anything so foolish as to lockdown the economy or launch an undeclared economic war on one of the world’s biggest commodity exporters . . . And this is why the crisis we are beginning to experience will make the 1970s look like a golden age of peace and tranquility. . . . The sad reality though, is that our leaders – at least within the western empire – have bought into a vision of the future which cannot work without some new and yet-to-be-discovered high-density energy source (which rules out all of the so-called green technologies whose main purpose is to concentrate relatively weak and diffuse energy sources). . . . Even as we struggle to reimagine the 1970s in an attempt to understand the current situation, the only people on Earth today who can even begin to imagine the economic and social horrors that await western populations are the survivors of the 1980s famine in Ethiopia, the hyperinflation in 1990s Zimbabwe, or, ironically, the Russians who survived the collapse of the Soviet Union.” ?
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2022/07/01/bigger-than-you-can-imagine/
https://www.facebook.com/cosheep
Regarding point 6, your fellow researchers just published this article on the Lancet. They found that
"The emission reductions that high-income countries achieved through absolute decoupling fall far short of Paris-compliant rates. At the achieved rates, these countries would on average take more than 220 years to reduce their emissions by 95%, emitting 27 times their remaining 1·5°C fair-shares in the process. To meet their 1·5°C fair-shares alongside continued economic growth, decoupling rates would on average need to increase by a factor of ten by 2025."
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(23)00174-2/fulltext
Green technology ALONE won't save us like you tend to believe in Hannah. We ALSO need to reduce our energy consumption. This message NEEDS to be part of the story.
Serious question: if we do nothing/only the bare minimum (as we're doing now), how soon before we go extinct due to the mass extinction we're entering into? I understand we *can* do better, but there's no evidence we *will*, and almost every ecologist I've seen seems to imply we're all going to die if/when we don't act on extinction rates. Is there *any* chance we can at least survive (though obviously not thrive) when we tip into a full extinction, or are we basically just doomed?
I am trying to watch this, but in both my mac and my iphone, I just get the circle of death...Is this just an issue for me, or are others struggling too?
Hey, Carl Sagan, that's 80 billion chickens, and a few other animals, not 80 trillion.