Toward actions to contain climate change and related issues taken as a system

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The tough logic of heating is that temperatures are continuing to rise, New energy instead of replacing existing energy is being added to it, and absorbed by new economic growth. There is no person or institution that has the authority and the leverage to create an alternative and more attractive path out of this mess. In the background, a grinding extractive economic machine continues to extract profit from the land - farming, mining, forests, and real estate. And from the people who have to manufacture and manage the wealth, creating activity of industrialization, including agribusiness, and ocean farming. To continue the support for a too large population with food, habitat, and expected consumption, especially of electronics, is beyond the capacity of this earth. A necessary re-organization would require that the urban populations would have to give up offices and computers and become farmers operating with fewer tools and much less energy. Most urban bodies would not be able to make this transition.

The absurdity is unconsciously illustrated by the choice made in making this book cover. (the book is much better)

Which is climate brutal, not a democracy, and not a garden.

Consequences. A rush of articles, most still holding out for how to do green with growth. which I assume is not possible. That is because any - any economic activity - produces CO2. Which adds to the existing CO2 blanket.

Droughts floods and fires are already decreasing the total amount of food production and workable hours given heat waves.

It is not at all clear where fossil fuel use will stop. Since there are no plans and burning continues to increase and state plans call for more not less, social eruptions will come as a series of surprises. Meanwhile, oil production is going down because wells are producing less. and the energy needed for, and hence planned for, an energy transion is driving up demand and prices.