Stop Throwing Oil On the Wildfire That Is Earth

Mitigation and adaptation is a cruel joke until and unless we quit fossil fuels.

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We either need to accept climate collapse and die passively or work to mitigate the worst effects. Those are the parameters of the discussion.

What’s absolutely prohibited, and not even contemplated, is doing what scientists warned us decades ago to do: sharply and quickly slash fossil fuel use, and stop producing gigatons of deadly CO2 emissions. There are dozens of excuses why this is impossible or undesirable—which are trotted out on the rare occasions when a sane person calls for genuine emergency action. But usually, the subject of emergency action does not even come up.

It’s taboo.

Every “Solution” On the Table Is Actually A Diversion to Continue our Planet-Wide Death March

All of the climate actions seriously being discussed are ridiculous. My “favorite” is carbon capture. While we continue to spout gigatons of toxins into the biosphere, we are told that grabbing and sequestering a tiny, tiny bit of it is an important step in fixing the crisis.

This is like someone who is blasting a giant hole in the hull of a cruise ship telling all the passengers to bail faster. It’s ridiculous, futile…