silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month agoFossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.grist.orgexternal-linkmessage-square5linkfedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-linkFossil fuel companies say they support the energy transition. New numbers suggest otherwise.grist.orgsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 month agomessage-square5linkfedilink
minus-squareRooskie91linkfedilinkarrow-up13·1 month ago“We totally support the solution to this problem,” says cause of problem. The only thing fossil fuel companies can do to solve the problem is shutter their doors.
minus-squareStinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSadly even that wouldn’t solve our problem. We’re already at 1.5°C above normal and we’ve got 20 more years of warming baked in after emissions stop. Then come the tipping points.
minus-squaretae glas [siad/iad]@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoit’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞 it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”
“We totally support the solution to this problem,” says cause of problem.
The only thing fossil fuel companies can do to solve the problem is shutter their doors.
Sadly even that wouldn’t solve our problem. We’re already at 1.5°C above normal and we’ve got 20 more years of warming baked in after emissions stop.
Then come the tipping points.
it’s not the only thing that’ll need to be done by any means, but it’d be a great starting point! 🤞
it’s like the thing people say about planting trees / reforestation: “the best time for it would’ve been 40 years ago, the next best time is today”