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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 13h

Forbes tells us renewable energy creates jobs twelve times faster than the average for the rest of the economy.

$1,000,000 invested in oil and gas creates two jobs, but a invested in clean energy it creates fifteen.

Want more jobs? *Don't* do what Carney's doing.

fortune.com/2017/01/27/s...

Renewable Energy Industry Creates Jobs 12 Times Faster Than Rest of U.S. | Fortune

Solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20% annually in recent years

fortune.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 13h

To put the scope of UK college of actuaries calculating the risk at 50% of global GDP in perspective, let's remember that "The Great Depression" was the loss of only about 10% of US GDP.

Climate impacts will make the great depression look like really great times.

actuaries.org.uk/media/qeydew...

actuaries.org.uk

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

Canada's current level of dependence on fossil fuels already endangers 20% of national GDP and 8% of employment by 2030 even *without* Carney expanding the sector.

Markets for bitumen like Alberta's will be the first to collapse, making 🇨🇦 particularly vulnerable.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Canada Buys Pipeline as Oil Bubble Is About to Burst | The Tyee

New research finds collapsing oil demand means Trans Mountain is ‘doomed.’

thetyee.ca

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

CCS is super effective at what it was originally designed to do:

to funnel money away from renewables and other real solutions

and further entrench reliance on fossil fuels rather than diminishing their use.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

And the "brilliant solution" is to do the morally right thing,
which is also the ecologically right thing,
which is also the economically smart thing,

instead of ignoring the direst possible warnings from
scientists, generals, insurers, doctors, economists, agronomists,
and more
to doom us all.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

Fun fact: I'm not denigrating the politicians you voted for as persons.

I'm denigrating their deeply horrible, evidence-defying, climate-arson-committing, economy-harming, planet-cooking, body-count-generating, morally unforgivable vile policy decisions, which amount to a climate suicide pact.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

Global Commission on Climate & the Economy: the clean energy transition represents $26 Trillion in new opportunities, and renewables create jobs far faster than fossil fuels

Carney gov: "Let's skate to where the puck was in the 20th century, not where it's going in the 21st!"

Maybe don't do that.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

World Bank: climate impacts are trending to obliterate $158 Trillion in global assets by 2050

College of Actuaries: climate chaos also endangers fully 50% of all global GDP

Carney: "Making it worse will be great for the economy!"

My solution: observe the evidence & don't commit economic suicide

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

My solution is to *not* deliberately worsen the greatest existential crisis in all of human history by doubling down on a slowly dying ecocidal industry, and to instead do what's better for both the ecosystem and the economy at the same time.

Just like it's brilliant to not burn your house down.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15h

Officials argue that international guidelines only require we include emissions from deliberate human activity, not from natural disasters, but at the same time, Canada has also failed to acknowledge emissions from the forestry industry.

medium.com/climate-cons...

When We Can’t See the Climate for the Trees

Tree planting can’t offset our emissions, and forests are in big trouble

medium.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 15h

To get support from PM Carney, a climate mitigation approach must combine

✅ an eye-wateringly high price tag

with

✅ a spectacularly low capacity to effectively reduce emissions

and

✅ be used to distract voters from massive fossil fuel expansion.

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 22h

Harper made Canada the worst climate performer among industrial nations, ranked 58th best by the international Climate Change Performance Index.

Trudeau made Canada an even worse climate arsonist than under Harper, dropping us to an even more dismal 62nd place.

Carney: "Hold my beer."

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2d

By coincidence, I watched the Gene Kelly Ginger Rogers film that song came from last night, as an escape from the hellscape of looking at actual news, and sure, "eee-ther or eye-ther" I get, but even in the era of its release, were lots of people really saying "poe-Tah-toes" and "er-sters"?

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2d

"Electricity is weighed in ounces" is roughly the level of intellectual rigour we know to expect from Ontario's dismantler-of-public-goods-in-chief.

Another great way to avoid talking about important issues he's mishandling, though. At that he excels.

sustainablesong.medium.com/doug-fords-o...

Doug Ford’s ongoing extremism problem

A conservative premier “condemns” the extremists he’s benefitted from for years

sustainablesong.medium.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 4d

Reaching 100% renewables would include challenges. Of course, *all* options have some.

The most successful pathways are the transition models with less nuclear in the mix.

If you think this IPCC data doesn't recommend we prioritize renewables, what exactly is the pro-nuclear argument here?

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 4d

Pg 38:|
"All mitigation strategies face implementation challenges. Many, such as reliance on technologies with high upfront investments (e.g. nuclear)
are significantly reduced in modelled pathways that assume using resources efficiently or shift global development towards sustainability"

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 5d

Even if nuclear was inexpensive, which it isn't, it also takes at least a decade longer to come online, which is yet another reason the IPCC is extremely clear that renewables are firmly their recommendation.

You're grasping at straws for any excuse to ignore the IPCC on the climate.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 6d

Not to worry, people who already can't afford their rent will be forced to fund a bailout for the tech bros so that the guys who inflated the bubble in the first place won't be in any way inconvenienced by the fallout.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7d

Or are you instead suggesting that BloombergNEF has been producing levelized cost analysis of energy technologies that has been used by various policy makers since 2009 without ever once understanding that grid transmission lines have costs?

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7d

Of course, what you're doing here seems primarily an attempt to avoid the basic premise that the world's top climate experts might actually be worth listening to on this topic.

Are you contending that the IPCC is too dumb to know about transmission lines when they make their policy recommendations?

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7d

It is fascinating that you apparently think grid transmission lines are a cost associated with renewables that somehow isn't just as relevant to nuclear, though. Did nuclear plants suddenly stop needing the same transmission lines to transmit their power to end users and I somehow missed it?

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7d

Me: Quotes IPCC. Quotes leveling costs as calculated by professional organization that is relied upon to provide that specific kind of analysis for a living.

You: "You're doing it wrong."

You're not actually disagreeing with me, but with the relevant experts.

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 7d

Rapid escalation of the worst police state tactics & violent assaults on its own citizens in America continues to breathtakingly accelerate.

NRA types who insisted they were only here to oppose tyrannical government are so gleeful to be assaulting citizens without guardrails in the service of one.

Hogula 🧛🏻‍♂️🐷🎃 @jessemackinnon.com · 8d

So armed Federal officers will come to your house in the dead of night, and you must identify yourself—again, while you are doing nothing but sleeping in your own home—and you will be deported without due process.

“Free country” shit. Cool cool

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8d

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 8d

The US has a very long history of inventing new designations for civilians they'd like to murder or torture.

Like denying Guantanamo prisoners Geneva Convention protections by creating the brand new term "unlawful combatants" which simply means "people we've decided now have no rights."

Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 8d

Put another way, just the cost of France's new waste depository could instead be used to install >46,500 megawatts of new utility scale solar power capacity that wouldn't require any fancy waste management.