So, not only Climeworks is actually far away from achieving their own goals,

they also already sold 1/3 of the credits that

Mammoth capture plant is expected to capture from the atmosphere over the next 25 years

while

Climeworks cannot yet offset its own carbon footprint

Reality check is needed.

I just read this article and thought of adding it here. As the title reveals it’s a critic of Goldman. As much as I appreciate things she has said and done, there is room for criticism as well, like for all people. I don’t expect one person to say or do everything right, and this is one more reason why we need to decide and do things collectively imo.

Rethinking Emma Goldman as an Individualist, Eugenicist, and Nietzsche Apologist

I think the rest of the article (just below the graph you added) gives a decent overvue on how the situation is, and includes some equaly decent projections. It looks like there is a possibility that they have peaked, and will plateau or hopefully will diminish emittions. Still, no certainty that this is a trend, or that it will continue.

And June is a month to keep an eye out to see how its new electricity pricing policy for renewable energy will be.

The carbon footprint sham: A ‘successful, deceptive’ PR campaign

British Petroleum [BP], the second largest non-state owned oil company in the world, with 18,700 gas and service stations worldwide, hired the public relations professionals Ogilvy & Mather to promote the slant that climate change is not the fault of an oil giant, but that of individuals.

Economic growth makes us all better,

No. Economic growth under capitalism is the problem. Capitalism requires infinite growth on a finite planet, and this is what got us here in the first place. So this is not a sustainable economic system.

The answers are out there, but one problem is that we - the people - expect that those in power will implement them, and they don’t.

So, we need imaginative solutions, in order for these fixes to be implemented.

I’m not really sure what the proper definition of a robot is tbh. Apart from that, the article does talk about sensors.

Each device would be equipped with biodegradable sensors for collecting environmental data like water pH, temperature, pollutants, and the presence of microorganisms, which could be read out after collection or by remote sensing.

Edit: I took a look in wiki and I think it tracks?

A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. (…)

I could say, I do share your anxiety about what will happen in the near future. Still, personally, I don’t like doomerism because imo it restricts our collective imagination towards solutions.

Apart from that, lets keep in mind that this is an article about amphibians specifically, not about saving the planet or humans in general.

I would like to explain my downvote.

This quote is part of a stand up comedy by George Carlin that was performed many decades ago. When I saw it on yt I really liked it.

This quote here, out of context is pure doomerism.

Thank you, I can’t stop laughing!!!

If I understand you correctly in the part you talk about labor, robotics and AI, it reminds me of what was said by capitalists when automations started being employed in factories, meaning many, many decades ago.

At the time the capitalist narrative was saying to workers stuff like “we know you work hard, but thanks to the technological advancements in automations your children will work less and have a better life”. We very well know this never happened, only the rich got richer, to the detriment of everybody else and the planet as a whole.

So, allow me to say, this approach is not new.

I was wondering if anyone here has read it as well. And what your take is.

Personally, I will not read it because:

Meet the authors

James Arbib is a technology investor and the founder of Tellus Mater, an independent philanthropic foundation dedicated to exploring the impacts of disruptive technology and its potential for solving some of the world’s most challenging problems.

Tony Seba is a world-renowned thought leader, author, speaker, educator, investor and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

In relation to the content of the book, I wouldn’t be too surprised if these two capitalists suggest misleading technological “solutions” to a problem that is not technological in nature, but systemic. Meaning, the problem is the eternal growth of the capitalist system on a finite planet, and there is no techno-fix for that. Also, I’m pretty sure they are making baseless claims about humans and human societies to back their proposals.

Anyways, now that I said all that, may I suggest another reading? Totally free and priceless :)

What is Solarpunk?

Let’s not forget an important factor: within the span of 30 years.

I spent too many hours yesterday trying to find the relevant info without taking this into consideration.

I just realised that we should also keep in mind that the time-frame of this study is several decades, so we are talking about about an average through the decades.

I like better your take than the one in the video.

I’m afraid you are right. I fell into a rabbit hole yesterday trying to find were the claim of this article came from. I looked into the study itself, and didn’t manage to find how they defined the 10%. If I missed it, please point it out to me.

I copy-paste bellow a comment of mine on this, from another community:

The closest thing I managed to find was saying that 16.3% of adults worldwide have wealth of 100k to 1m, in 2023 [source: Global Wealth Report 2024 by UBS, see The global wealth pyramid at p23] but this is not what the article says.

Somebody suggested the World Inequality Database but on this topic, the results come by country and/or stats.

If anyone has a decent link to share on this topic, please do.

I totally tried and then decided to ask here.

The closest thing I managed to find was saying that 16.3% of adults worldwide have wealth of 100k to 1m, in 2023 [source: Global Wealth Report 2024 by UBS, see The global wealth pyramid at p23] but this is not what the article says.

Somebody suggested the World Inequality Database but on this topic, the results come by country and/or stats.

Thank you very much but it looks like they don’t have what I am looking for. I followed several path in More Indicators and Other Indicators but everything that comes out is by country and/or percentages and at my most hopeful moment I got:

This indicator has no data for this selection. Please select another one.

Anyways, thanks again!

I know that in the article they mentions €42,980 and I appreciate carbon brief. Still, I tried to find in the study itself how they calculated it, but somehow I didn’t manage to. This is why I asked for another link.

Do you have a decent link to corroborate that?