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moniss

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3. Recent records as well
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 07:24 AM
Apr 2024

for GHG levels. It will be obvious when reviewing the actions taken over the many years that we didn't start early enough, didn't make changes deeply enough and that we allowed political/financial/corporate interference and disinformation to keep us from starting early enough and making the deep changes needed.

So despite some per vehicle emission reductions, per kilowatt hour reductions in emissions etc. we are still increasing. It is the lag factor of adoption versus results combined with an ever increasing population and consumption. In other words to a certain extent we're trying to outrun ourselves.

Our world economies are based on ever increasing profits by increasing numbers of customers, amount of consumption etc. It was never a sustainable idea to consume all the resources on spaceship Earth and have an ever increasing population but that is where the economic model we have heads to as an ultimate end.

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K&R Think. Again. Apr 2024 #1
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Recent records as well moniss Apr 2024 #3
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