Why we need "Net zero"

[saveasteading]

41 minutes ago, -rick- said:

vastly more costly option. By multiple orders of magnitude.

Am I misunderstanding?

 

Adaptation involves turning off unused lights, putting a jumper on in the cold weather. Not doing the dishes under a hot running tap.

Reuse, repair and recycle.

Don't buy what you don't need.

They're easy and have less than zero cost.  Or in trump maths 200% reduction.

 

Then comes not having so many cars, reducing plane travel.

 

It's back to the 1950s basically and adjusting expectation, but with the benefit of greener energy.

1 hour ago, Roger440 said:

Adapation was and is the only realistic route forwards.

And is much cheaper than new every time. It's just not what people, and big business 0 want.

[-rick-]

2 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

Am I misunderstanding?

 

Yes

 

2 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

Adaptation involves turning off unused lights, putting a jumper on in the cold weather. Not doing the dishes under a hot running tap.

Reuse, repair and recycle.

Don't buy what you don't need.

They're easy and have less than zero cost.  Or in trump maths 200% reduction.

 

Not going to touch the sides.

 

Adaption in climate terms, means changing the crops we grow. Living with a lower population world (there will be less arable land in temperate zones so it will be difficult to grow as much food as we do now)

 

Obviously air conditioning/more insulation/more heating for people depending on where you live.

 

Adaption also means living with higher sea levels of at least a metre or two maybe more. That means at minimum building a new much bigger tidal barrier in London (and similar examples all over the world), possibly abandoning various existing urban areas due to no cost-effective protections available.

[SteamyTea]

10 minutes ago, saveasteading said:

Adaptation involves turning off unused lights, putting a jumper on in the cold weather

And building huge flood defences, reorganising food supplies, dealing with greater fuel insecurities, health care will have new priorities.

 

There is a lot to consider.

 

Turning off lights, adding solar panels and driving less is mitigation.

Edited 39 minutes ago by SteamyTea

[ProDave]

2 hours ago, Roger440 said:

Adapation was and is the only realistic route forwards.

Those with a bit of foresight would have been "adapting" for a long time.

 

I would not as a matter of course buy a house less than 10 metres above sea level or built on a river flood plain.  If everybody had planned ahead like that, no such new houses would have been built like that over say the last 20 years.  But if that is the only place planners will grant permission then the sheeple have been ushered into a whole load of expensive trouble ahead.

 

I have been sharing this wisdom with my daughter who is buying her first house.  I have advised her not to consider any in the area she is currently renting as there is a flood history there (next to a river)  She has settled on one in a different part of town much higher up.