and the momentum is huge

We asked for a metro to bring us more easily to the airport

Let's not get carried away. This is not much more than a better www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/

I just hope I can hang on teaching software dev for another 5.5 years until I retire.

Doing your bit for the environment by avoiding those pesky ebooks! Well done...

The oceans have started to have had enough

Of course Elon.
Actually, thanks to the EU for protecting us from the likes of you.

These places should be owned by the public, just like schools, hospitals, etc.
oh yes sorry, I forgot. In Ireland, the state does not own schools nor hospitals...

Nature does not care for per-capita emissions

"The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new." S. Beckett

Well, it depends on what the EU is for. If it is for defense and foreign policy then there is indeed a very long road. Perhaps it should not go that way. A European Nato would be more useful quicker.

So recent and yet so much has changed. Are we ready for even more faster changes?

Always bending the knee at money

In which report is that? Link?

Well done the humans!

We are not even implementing the current policies, and the environment's ability to absorb CO2 is decreasing, while its ability to release CO2 is increasing.
To stay still (no more CO2 in the atmosphere), we need to run backwards: we have barely slowed down going forward

I am always wary of engineers wanting to build more stuff, but here they have a point; even without data centres and AI, we need more steady decarbonised electricity.

"au debut du printemps les oiseaux revenaient"