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Bread and Circuses (@breadandcircuses) · 11/2022 · Tröts: 4.151 · Folger: 9.449
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Green growth is not a solution to climate change. Clean renewable energy is not the answer, not by itself. “Electrify everything” won’t do the job.
More than all that, we need system change.
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Industrial livestock farming produces 90 million tons of methane per year and most of the world’s anthropogenic nitrous oxide. Livestock farming alone contributes more to global warming than all the cars, trains, planes, and ships in the world. A number of industrial processes also contribute significantly to climate change, such as the production of cement, which requires chemical reactions that produce greenhouse gases. So too with steel, iron, and plastics. And then there are landfills which pump out huge amounts of methane – some 16% of the world's total.
The problem isn't just the *type* of energy were using, it's what we're doing with it.
What would we do with 100% clean energy? Exactly what we're doing with fossil fuels: raze more forests, build more meat farms, expand industrial agriculture, produce more cement and heap up more landfills with waste from the additional stuff we would produce and consume, all of which will pump deadly amounts of greenhouse gases into the air.
We will do these things because our economic system demands endless exponential growth. Switching to clean energy will do nothing to slow this down.
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That’s from “The Divide” by Jason Hickel (page 270).
📖 https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-divide-global-inequality-from-conquest-to-free-markets-jason-hickel/16609401
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Front cover of the nonfiction book "The Divide" by Jason Hickel.
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