{"id":46891,"date":"2019-06-24T19:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46891"},"modified":"2019-06-24T19:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T00:07:35","slug":"pursuit-of-profit-wont-solve-climate-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46891","title":{"rendered":"Pursuit of profit won\u2019t solve climate crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pursuit of profit won\u2019t solve climate crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Effective democracy needs \u201ca widespread sense of responsibility for the common good\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every answer has a cost. Every choice exacts a penalty. A new book reminds readers there are no easy answers to the climate crisis.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LONDON, 24 June, 2019 \u2212<\/em> Resolving the climate crisis demands radical political change, a British author argues: the end of free market capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You could turn the entire United Kingdom into a giant wind farm and it still wouldn\u2019t generate all of the UK\u2019s current energy demand. That is because only 2% of the solar energy that slams into and powers the whole planet on a daily basis is converted into wind, and most of that is either high in the jet stream or far out to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hydropower could in theory supply most of or perhaps even all the energy needs of 7 billion humans, but only if every drop that falls as rain was saved to power the most perfectly efficient turbines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that too is wildly unrealistic, says Mike Berners-Lee<\/a> in his thoughtful and stimulating new paperback There Is No Planet B<\/em><\/a>. He adds: \u201cThank goodness, as it would mean totally doing away with mountain streams and even, if you really think about it, hillsides.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a book for people who really want to think about the state of the world, and how to get to zero-carbon emissions as swiftly as possible, and in a way that preserves a decent life for the 11 billion or so who will people the planet by 2050. And, of course, everything boils down to energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enough for everyone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sun delivers around 16,300 kilowatts to the Earth\u2019s surface for every person on the planet: enough, he says, to boil an Olympic-sized swimming pool of water for each and every one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pursuit of profit won\u2019t solve climate crisis Effective democracy needs \u201ca widespread sense of responsibility for the common good\u201d Every answer has a cost. Every choice exacts a penalty. A new book reminds readers there are no easy answers to the climate crisis. LONDON, 24 June, 2019 \u2212 Resolving the climate crisis demands radical political change, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[1053,9245,11565],"class_list":["post-46891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-climate-crisis","tag-climate-news-network","tag-tim-radford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46892,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46891\/revisions\/46892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}