Four pages on Hannah Ritchie and her book Not the End of the World in @Trouw today. Data on positive developments led her to 'urgent optimism' on climate change: achievements in the past call for acceleration action for clean energy and environment. 🧵
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Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:22:55 JST Kees van der Leun
- GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.
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Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:22:54 JST Kees van der Leun
Hannah Ritchie on climate change itself: "Global warming of 2.5 to 3⁰C is catastrophic, and it will hit the poorest, who least contributed to global warming, the hardest."
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Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:23:41 JST Kees van der Leun
Ritchie's reason #2b to be optimistic:
- India's per capita emissions from coal are low. True.
- China's are 'many times lower than the US/UK peaks'. Hmm. Roughly two times, rather. -
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Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:23:42 JST Kees van der Leun
Reason #1 to be optimistic: Renewable energy has become cheap. Agree.
(Hey @Trouw , that's not $ per megawatt, but per MWh)
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Kees van der Leun (sustainable2050@mastodon.energy)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 05:23:42 JST Kees van der Leun
Ritchie's reason #2a to be optimistic:
"Rapidly decreasing per capita emissions from coal, even in China and India, despite what you hear in the media." Hmm. Her own graph says:
UK, US: yes
China, India: not exactly rapid yet.GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) repeated this.