TED Countdown

[marsrobertson]

Quality content. World-class production. Next level guests. 6 hours of content: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVcn8NjbwY

And yet something is missing.

Emissions budget

This is what data says. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_budget

In line with the 2018 Special report on Global Warming of 1.5° C by the IPCC, the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change estimates that the CO2 budget associated with 1.5 °C degrees of warming will be exhausted in 2028 if emissions remain on the current level of the late 2010s.

It says 2028. A year when net-zero emission must stop.

That is 8 years from now. But even the most ambitious goals of the most forward-thinking companies (Google) are 10 years from now.

Towards the bottom of the page:

Grandfathering allocates these budgets proportionally according to emissions at a particular base year, and has been used under international regimes such as the Kyoto Protocol and the early phase of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) This principle is often favoured by developed countries, as it allocates larger emissions budgets to them.

This is what I suggest: https://steemit.com/climatechange/@genesisre/a-quick-note-about-emission-trading-system-carbon-credits-open-climate-collabathon

Radical idea. Egalitarian principle. 1 person = 1 unit

Other topics that were missing

• Market price for energy
• Market price for emissions
• Subsidies for fossil fuels. Global reset in one tweet
• Inflation, debt-based economy
• Food system, land use, water use (and conflicts)
• Obsolete climate models
• Feedback loops, tipping points, non-linear changes.

Who else was missing

• IMF
• World Bank
• Exxon / Chevron / Shell / BP

"I'm doing my part"

Not all advice is something I advocate.

Why recycling is a scam?

• https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled
• https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11348930/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714880

The triple whammy to all this is that all over the planet people have been cleaning their plastics with hot water, drying and then separating it into different rubbish bags with separate collections and additional bins etc. All for a giant lie about recycling that was never true. We have wasted substantial energy and time on something that never worked and helped destroy the environment even more because of it.

Radical change is possible - COVID gave me loads of hope.

Check the summary of my work: https://medium.com/@basexisland/summary-of-marss-environmental-and-economic-work-c433b1dd1120

I'm passionate about the topic but I'm still participating in the labour economy, selling my time for money. I'm seeking a COFOUNDER - #44 - to launch a business putting CO2 emissions as 1st class citizen in the global trade.