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- Dec 2023
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climateuncensored.com climateuncensored.com
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Fast international travel will, at least temporarily, have to be for urgent or emergency purposes only. A triage approach is needed to ensure that the reallocation of society’s small carbon budget, its labour and resources, are used wisely to provide for a thriving society.
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for: climate crisis - air travel, climate crisis - triage approach, climate communications - SRG suggestion - energy diet
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- Kevin's use of the term triage is aligned to a Stop Reset Go strategy of reframing the challenges in the next few years in terms of a potentially temporary energy diet
- That may be more palatable for transition for people accustomed to the existing high carbon lifestyle culture to accept
- The potential of developing alternative energy resources plus a shift to low energy / high efficiency lifestyle could get us to the target and provide incentive for a drastic energy consumption cut
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Once decarbonisation is complete, then, if it is considered desirable, rampant inequality can again be pursued, as it clearly is today. But between now and then, inequality is the main obstacle to getting anywhere near our Paris commitments.
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for: SRG energy diet, climate communications - suggestion - SRG energy diet
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- This statement once again echos the idea of a temporary energy diet as a way to reframe the challenges we face
- There are potential clean high energy density replacements for fossil fuels but they will take time to develop. Meanwhile, an energy diet is recommended
- This means we must adapt to a much lower intensity world, at least temporarily
- We would need to calculate the numbers to see what such a future looks like and what steps must be taken to get there
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