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[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

Jesus fuck.

Coal burning and greenhouse emissions increased last year, despite the deaths and destruction from climate change really starting to bite.

And some dickwad at the telegraph wants to spend time splitting MPs on whether on not they want to oppress some tiny minority enough?

They need to fuck off and spend energy on something that matters.

[–]wristaction 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

Weird, since the cause of increased coal use is the sabotage of Russian energy supply inflicted by the same people who place a priority on gaslighting and sexually mutilating children. Maybe kill two birds with one stone by eliminating Atlanticist Neoliberals from government.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Weird, since the cause of increased coal use is the sabotage of Russian energy supply inflicted

It's mostly more coal plants being built by China and to a lesser extent India.

But certainly the damage done by Russia to Ukrainian energy infrastructure doesn't help.

by the same people who place a priority on gaslighting and sexually mutilating children.

Okay, let's see it: Who exactly do you claim are "sexually mutilating children"? What's your best evidence of it?

Maybe kill two birds with one stone by eliminating Atlanticist Neoliberals from government.

On the other hand Europe and North America are the only economies reducing greenhouse emissions. That's where we should look to support and protect the ideals that put the less damaging policies in those economies. And where we should look to apply tariffs to international trade of goods in proportion to their carbon footprint.

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

LMAO. In other words, the past 35 years of climate action and global equity were in fact counter-productive. Free trade sent industry overseas (and impoverished working class westerners), using dirty power sources to make and ship products back to the west.

At the same time, rather than building nuclear to reduce our emissions (which we could have done several times over by now) we bought increasingly expensive windmills and solar which, rather than decreasing GHG emissions, increased them, while accelerating the decline of living standards in the west.

It's almost as if the whole thing was engineered to fail by an elite group of criminal masterminds masquerading as benevolent eco-Marxists. Now they need to censor "harmful climate misinformation" online so they aren't found out.

Germany knocking down windmills to build emergency coal power is just the icing on the cake.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

LMAO.

Ha ha ha.

What hilarious people we are.

In other words, the past 35 years of climate action and global equity were in fact counter-productive.

Not only other words. Also other meanings.

Free trade sent industry overseas (and impoverished working class westerners), using dirty power sources to make and ship products back to the west.

Not exactly what is meant by "climate action".

At the same time, rather than building nuclear to reduce our emissions

Nuclear and renewables. Don't forget renewables. They're cheaper, come online quicker, don't require any logistics around fuel and waste, and are zero risk in the event of geological or political instability.

we bought increasingly expensive windmills and solar which, rather than decreasing GHG emissions, increased them

1) increasingly cheaper.

2) Wind reduces GHG emissions compared to everything. Any renewable source is about 10% of the GHG emissions of Gas, and 5% of coal.

while accelerating the decline of living standards in the west.

How much has the standard of living declined in the west?

Germany knocking down windmills to build emergency coal power is just the icing on the cake.

They've lost about a year and a half of gains against coal since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and they're inappropriately reducing nuclear since Fukushima.

But in the big picture, renewables are dominating power generation in Germany, and the share is increasing.

[–]xoenix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Renewables are "dominating power generation in Germany"???

All they've done is displace nuclear. 🤡

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Your graph is consumption, not generation.

But see how the width of the fossil fuel bars are down? Particularly the drop in coal and oil energy consumption?

That means that they've dropped.

[–]xoenix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Total energy use has dropped, for whatever reason, I'm not too familiar with Germany. It's clear however that so-called "renewables" have merely replaced one non-emitting source (nuclear) with another that hides enormous GHG emissions - not to mention all their additional environmental harms.

In any case, all that wind & solar that they've spent so much money on for so little. It's all a show. Current global mining capacity can't even replace existing wind/solar as they approach the end of their 15-20 year lifespan. You can't even recycle them (takes 5X the energy than it did to create them) so they typically just bury windmills.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It's clear however that so-called "renewables" have merely replaced one non-emitting source (nuclear)

But see how the width of the fossil fuel bars are down? Particularly the drop in coal and oil energy consumption?

That means that they've dropped.

You can't even recycle them (takes 5X the energy than it did to create them) so they typically just bury windmills.

Wind has the lowest whole of life GHG emissions per kWh of any commonly available power source

[–]xoenix[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Look at the energy consumption chart again. "Renewables" didn't arrive until the year 2000, but total consumption dropped since then - i.e., people used less energy, probably because industry left and went overseas (where who knows what emissions or pollution it generates.) All they did since they arrived was displace nuclear.

I posted a whole thread that debunks that naive GHG chart. Wind and solar are scams, they're also not renewable or sustainable. We simply don't have the materials to replace fossil fuels. Nuclear is the only solution.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The same woke crowd saying trans women are women are the ones who will cry racism if anyone tries to cut China's emissions.

They talk instead about "justice", that is that China should be allowed to pollute and get rich on it because they weren't as rich as the West over the last couple of hundred years and that is unfair.

Even Greta Thunberg talks about climate justice. She will never talk about China for this reason.

This is why they whole set of BS needs to be tackled, the ideology exists for people to appear and feel good not actually to do good.

[–]wristaction 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

done by Russia

lol!

And then you go on to do the "There are no clinicians performing gender-affirming treatments on minors and when they do it's an essential and beneficial good" paradox.

[–]ActuallyNot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's not clear what your point is.

If you have a position, state it.