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24 nations, incl. Australia, Britain, & The Netherlands will form a breakaway conference from the annual COP conference, without the petro-states, focused on permanently ending fossil fuel use. (futurology.today)
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The countries committed to permanently ending fossil fuel use now far outnumber those against. Their problem? Their chief organising conference, the 30-year-old COP conferences, comes with vetoes from the petro-states. This year, 1,600 fossil industry lobbyists attended, and they managed to get any mention of fossil fuels scrubbed from the final agreement.

This ridiculous state of affairs can't continue, and this is a classic move to break the deadlock. Sideline COP & the petrostates, by creating an alternative, they don't have power in.

The first ever International Conference on the Just Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, scheduled for April 2026.

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[–] -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Correct, among those things, they had no way of supporting 8 billion people with 3% of the population working on farms. Or intercontinental travel measured in hours. Things like that.

What makes you think we aren't going back to that long term? That was what sustainable energy allowed. Or do you think it was just magical happenstance that office work and supersonic jets appeared around the same time as we started using fossil fuels?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    among those things, they had no way of supporting 8 billion people with 3% of the population working on farms. Or intercontinental travel measured in hours. Things like that.

    Correct, and then new technologies where discovered and developed that allowed those things to exist.

    JFC these countries aren't saying "let's ban all fossil fuels immediately and see what happens!" They are working on new methods to do things that don't require fossil fuels.

    A super simple example for you: before fossil fuels there were no cars, then there were cars the required gasoline, now there are cars that can run off electricity, and we can get electricity from wind and Solar power.
    A society in which all cars run off of electricity instead of gasoline would indeed look different from the society we have today, but it's not impossible and does not require the majority of the population working on farms again.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sigh. Technology without energy is a sculpture.

    "A super simple example for you: before fossil fuels there were no cars, then there were cars the required gasoline, now there are cars that can run off electricity, and we can get electricity from wind and Solar power."

    And there we go, the "we'll just all have electric cars".

    Good luck with that. The future is horses, not electric Star Trek. Sorry.

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