COP 26 Climate Change Summit 2021

Will the idea of cloud-seeding in order to lower the global temperature be discussed at the summit? The inducing of snowfall might be more effective than reducing the eating of meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding

The President of Palau said at the conference that his nation is sinking. Why doesn't the international community plan land-reclamation in order to save island nations that are in danger? After all, land-reclamation worked in the Netherlands, Singapore and Hong Kong.

not saying it shouldn't be tackled. it just strikes me as a huge and sudden diversion policy in a summit that should be largely focused on moving away from fossil fuels. there's been very little talk of methane leading up to this. and suddenly it's the "game changer" we need to reduce global warming. colour me deeply skeptical.

Actually, the legacy of drilling for oil is a source of methane. https://www.itv.com/news/2021-08-09/how-millions-of-disused-methane-pumping-oil-wells-are-fuelling-climate-crisis

They'll fail to address the single biggest cause of global warming at this conference, just like at every other one; the out of control population growth.

Climate change is not even the real problem; ecological overshoot is (Rees, 2020).  ‘Overshoot’ occurs when humanity consumes bio-resources faster than ecosystems can regenerate and waste production exceeds nature’s assimilative capacity. In effect, the growing human enterprise is literally consuming and polluting the biophysical basis of its own existence.

Overshoot is a meta-problem: climate change; plunging biodiversity; pollution of land, air and waters; tropical deforestation; soil/land degradation etc., etc., are all co-symptoms of overshoot. Climate change is an excess waste problem — CO2 is the greatest waste by weight of modern techno-industrial (MTI) economies. We cannot solve any major symptom of overshoot in isolation. Indeed, the mainstream approach to emissions reductions will not only fail to subdue climate change but, by promoting material growth, will exacerbate overshoot (Seibert and Rees, 2021). On the other hand, if we eliminate overshoot we simultaneously relieve its various symptoms. The problem is, the only way to eliminate overshoot is, by definition, through some combination of absolute reductions in energy and material consumption and smaller populations, i.e., through controlled economic contraction.

This is why we cannot expect COP-26 to address the human eco-predicament.

Thats a piece from William Rees, published here https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/commentaries/cop26-illusions.html

Population explosions in Asia and Africa are down to Fertilizer driven food production. As a Continent African has very little good farm land.

Nigeria, heading to 700mn by century end, has next to none.

There answer to everything is more taxes petrol and diesel and electricity gas coal are all at a record high in price, and they wont be happy till we are living in caves with a candle eating grass. Climate change = taxes

Im no fan of Carbon tax, Id much prefer larger corp and industry take the hit.

However we havent paid the true cost of anything since we started using oil esp. When you consider that 1 barrel of oil is approx equal to nearly 5 years of human labour (100watts)

At the moment 1 barrel = $83/€72

Ave ind wage approx = €35000? × 5 = €175,000

So in economics 72 = 175000

So how do we reconcile this? Sure machines do all the work, but as the price of energy increases(and it will due to many factors) so will the cost of running the machines.

One proposal Ive heard about is untax https://www.untax.org/

So instead of taxing labour you tax resources and materials.

Think of the positives, farmers could hire more labour to offset the price of rising fuel prices. The hospitality industry which is labour intensive could hire more people. It would really suit small businesses and help create more local industries.

A universal living wage might help in a similar way.

For every stick we need a carrot, but the carrot should come first and it should be made into a story or a vision we can all buy into. At the moment its all climate change is bad, fossil fuels are bad, cows are bad, ye are bad for using them so we re taxing you.