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Every human and natural system — from oil extraction to the flight of a flock of starlings — can be seen as a set of repeating patterns. These patterns can be disrupted for good or for bad, says Nigel Topping, the High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, the UN's climate change conference set to take place in November 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. He shares three rules of radical collaboration that could positively disrupt the patterns of the global economy and help humanity tackle the world's greatest threat: climate change.
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Nigel, what does your lapel pin mean? It looks like an SDG pin, but it’s not.
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We manifest our destiny by our thoughts and stories. Now math proves it!
I was so sleepy I read it, *3 Nukes for a Zero-Carbon World,* since Earth is largely made of Carbon.
Would probably need more than 3. Good thing we got thousands.
The nuclear winter will solve global warming!
Excellent! Realistic, optimistic, actionable. Thank you, sir.
…. string of non-factual platitudes.
Thank you ! Absolutely agree with everything you said. It is easy, and à la mode, to be pessimistic and understandable to be discouraged, but one must make a choice to either be part of the solutions or not. There is a lot in Humanity that I consider worth saving and of course nature in itself deserves our determined work towards to more viable Humanity.
bro 1,5C is done, we f-ed . say it as it is. we looking at 3 or 4 now. did you not read your own ipcc 2021 report??
*YOU* are the carbon they want to reduce.
Indeed we are. We’re not sustainable. So, don’t have any kids.
@Sol Stice Yeah, sure. My body, my mind, my soul – my choice. I love my kids and me and my wonderful wife shall have more. Antinatalists can be replaced by rocks for all I care.
3 rules for zero-carbon world:
1. More nuclear power plants
2. More nuclear power plants
3. More nuclear power plants
1. Stop burning fossil fuels.
2. Clean up the mess you made.
3. Don’t do it again.
Nahh u see due to the negative irrational perception of nuclear energy by the masses no politicians gonna risk that approach, instead they gonna focus on bogus, ineffective, unreliable, but nicer, less immediate fear inducing, renewables lol
@wojciech strzelecki Yea, thats pretty much it haha
Great talk! Thanks for sharing!
“Kindly let me help you,” says the monkey to the fish as he takes him out of the water and places him in a tree. This is the cobra effect. You can’t be so idealistic.
The first rupe is no life and the second rule is recreating ourselves with hydrosilica / hydrosilicones
A crucial message, thank you for sharing this!
You said everything and nothing. So generic, nothing practical in this speech. Mathematics is not engineering. Saying is not doing.
Zero emission? With electric vehicles powered by batteries? Are you informed on batteries industry emissions?
The only reason why vehicles constuctors are moving to electric is that it’s the only option given by laws and politics. If they want to sell, they have to do it.
Regards,
Vito
Tell us when the map was surveyed or don’t use the story. That said, everything else you said was brilliant
El primer mundo desarrollado fue el causante mayor de esta contaminación. Tiene la obligación de arreglarlo. A su costo.
Plants need CO2, especially plants like tomato plants. Perhaps we should grow more tomatoes?
“The stories that we tell most often, are the ones that will come true.”