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Sophie Howe is the world's only future generations commissioner, a new kind of government official tasked with advocating for the interests of generations to come and holding public institutions accountable for delivering long-term change. She describes some of the people-focused policies she's helped implement in Wales, aimed at cutting carbon emissions, increasing sustainability and promoting well-being as a national goal.
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Woww…. motivational
The minute you stop caring what others think, is the minute you start being yourself.
-Shazistic
And the minute you begin caring about a girl is the moment you begin simping
Leave things better than you found them is one of the mottos that I live by, thinking long term, and being kind to future generations.
Here are some goals for politicians: don’t indebt future generations. It’s completely immoral. Don’t misuse collective force and habituate citizens to its misuse. If it’s not ok for the strong to do it to the weak, it’s not ok for government to do it to a person in the name of the weak.
Preserve a healthy society for future generations. Healthy societies exist only in the absence of coercion and deceit. Reciprocity and collective action can only happen if there are inviolable boundaries on what we own, starting with our bodies to everything we acquire without coercion and deceit. If there is no respect, the collective loses its strength and dissolves.
The weak depend on healthy societies; let’s not destroy the source of their wellbeing.
the goal of humanity
Remember, people like her pushed for Biomass reactors…
Wonderful. Long time no see. Enough for you. Return my house to be shared new things. Thank you for sharin
Have kids. Give them everything.
Don’t go to uni to get “background in equality and diversity” to become “Mum to 5 future generations”.
And You get a pat on the back and You Get a pat on the back!
Who is Ted?
TED (technology, entertainment, design)
If you cannot keep doing something forever, this is the very definition of unsustainable. Focusing on human wellbeing instead of economic growth is the kind of thinking that will bring society out of the confines of ancient economic systems and will propel us into a future of sustainable growth. It is not socialism. It is futurism. One of the defining features of our species is our aspiration to be more than what we are. Until now, that aspiration has been individualistic. Imagine what we can achieve if we apply that attitude to our entire society. That’s the kind of future I want for my descendants.
*What you don’t know about climate and energy will kill you*
50% of humaity will be water stressed by 2025
50% of thermal & hydro electric power will soon be water stressed
40% of coal power is now water stressed, and so will 30% of planned hyrdo power
North Euro offshore wind works 30% of the time, onshore works 22%, and solar 11%
80% of energy is fossil and 20% is electric of which 4% is renewable 2% solar & wind
2% of global energy is solar and wind after 20 years trying
By 2040, 15% of global energy will be renewable, with 28% by 2050
Most solar panels will be un-recyclable toxic waste growing at 6 million tons/yr by 2050
Europe burns 80% of wood pellets, and 80% of its recycled plastic/paper for electricity
Trees grow faster and die younger with increasing temps droughts & fire
Amazon tree farms take 30 yrs to recoup 10% of Amazon’ tree loss
Overseas forests are clear-cut & burned for 50% of Europe’s renewable electricity
Palm and soy grown in the tropics are shipped to Europe to burn in diesels
Europe burns 50% of its palm oil cargo in diesel engines
Batteries and bio-energy will wipe out tropical habitat for humans and wildlife
4% of mammals are wild and battery/bio-energy extraction will kill them off
The UN failed all 20 bio-diversity pledges from 10 years ago
There have been 25 UN Climate COPS and 15 Bio-diversity COPS
There were 1.5 billion flights in 2019
Earth is heating 46% faster than 50 years ago
Oceans take 89% of heat air takes 1%
*Weather* = flash floods + flash droughts + flash mobs + flash infections
*Climate* = 30 years of weather
There’s less rain and more storms, what old people call hard rain
Ozone destroying green house gases increase every year
Nitrous oxide eats the ozone and is the 3rd biggest greenhouse gas
Abrupt permafrost deep soil carbon and nitrous oxide loss is not modelled
350 ppm CO2 will not cool eath, 300 maybe will do it
We must cut energy use 50% in 10 yrs to stay under 1.5 C
This never happened in history, and will never happen in the future
People who are richer smarter and older than you don’t want you to know this
Batteries and bio-energy will not reduce earth’s heat imbalance in time, and will wipe out tribes and wildlife
Jets are 68% more efficient, but fly 60X more people over 60 years
There were 1.5 billion flights in 2019, and only 6 million out of 1.2 billion vehicles are electric
Petrochemical demand grew 7X human population for 20 years
EVs, batteries, bio-energy and solar/wind will not stop runaway hothouse mass extinction
If you want credible sources go to Loki’s Revenge blog because I don’t want your love or money
The first rule of Loki’s Revenge is that nobody talk about Loki’s Revenge
Since nobody will like you for it, this is an easy rule to keep
Same goes for Hansen’s monthly private carbon dividends being real climate justice
or go to Reddit’s DarkFuturology for links and sources
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Nothing To See Here = Runaway Hothouse Mass Extinction
There are 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu 😉
Humans and livestock are 96% of all mammals by weight and caused 80% of species extinction — Livestock use up to 80% of antibiotics and cause 25% of all infectious disease
Save the Wales, great idea!
we should target child abuse and human trafficing drug addiction domestic abuse education food
stoping procreation and breeding is the only and actually true way to leave the world a better place
“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors: we borrow it from our children.” – Chief Seattle