From: Truth Out
By Dahr Jamail
"The impact of industrially packaged quanta of energy on the
social environment tends to be degrading, exhausting, and enslaving, and
these effects come into play even before those which threaten the
pollution of the physical environment and the extinction of the (human)
race."
- Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich, 1973 article in Le Monde
This month's dispatch surveys global calls for massive carbon dioxide
cuts from the European Union (EU) and Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) that are still not enough to truly mitigate the
impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) or stem the massive
wildlife disruptions that are now occurring globally, and highlights
other glaring signs of an increasingly unstable climate across the
globe.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has concluded
that, "Coal will nearly overtake oil as the dominant energy source by
2017 . . . without a major shift away from coal, average global
temperatures could rise by 6 degrees Celsius by 2050, leading to
devastating climate change."
A recently announced EU plan to cut carbon dioxide emissions 40 percent by 2030 was called "too weak"
by IPCC Vice Chair Professor Jim Skea, who added that this goal will
commit future governments to "extraordinary and unprecedented" emissions
cuts. MORE
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