"If nature isn’t front and centre of the energy transition, we risk forging a double edged sword—destroying desperately needed habitats, accelerating biodiversity loss and harming our unique and precious ecosystems in the name of climate action.

Protecting nature as the country transitions to renewable energy is not just an ethical imperative; it’s critical to the future of Australia’s economy as well. In its Global Risks Report for 2025, the World Economic Forum ranks extreme weather events, and biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as the top risks to the global economy over the next ten years."

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Alas it's too late, sure if we switched tomorrow we could but any change would take decades eg banning private cars etc and we are still doing nearly everything wrong (electric cars, more coal mines, more gas, stupidity like gold mining, AI, Bitcoin etc).

This isn't an engineering or scientific problem, we have all the tech and science we need We've de-evolved (?) and modern society truly lacks the ability to understand that the laws of nature always supplant human entitlement

I used to think the top global environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that with 30 years of good science we could address these problems. But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a spiritual and cultural transformation, and we scientists don't know how to do that." -James Speth

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    I tend to agree with you and with James Steph. Nevertheless, imo to give up and say it's all too late is to be complicit with or subjugated by the spiritual and cultural decay of our time. That is exactly what the current 'system' wants: us falling into "I can't save anyone else so I'll save myself" and/or "I don't feel I can do anything so I won't do anything", nihilistically and even cynically watching the Titanic sink (and even want it to sink) - i.e. inhumanity.

    Every act of care for nature and humanity counts. For example, if you needed help (for whatever reason) and someone stepped up and offered that help spontaneously, you would feel that within you and it would be life-giving for you and for them. If we lose this, we have caved in to techno-barbarism and given up our aliveness and being real.

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