{"id":58471,"date":"2021-07-03T08:06:01","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58471"},"modified":"2021-07-03T08:06:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:06:01","slug":"myth-19-nate-hagens-dismisses-the-insistence-we-can-achieve-net-zero-by-2050-or-any-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58471","title":{"rendered":"Myth #19: Nate Hagens dismisses the insistence we can achieve Net Zero!! (by 2050 or any\u00a0date)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citizenactionmonitor.wordpress.com\/2021\/07\/02\/myth-19-nate-hagens-dismisses-the-insistence-we-can-achieve-net-zero-by-2050-or-any-date\/\">Myth #19: Nate Hagens dismisses the insistence we can achieve Net Zero!! (by 2050 or any\u00a0date)<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u201cWhen people use the term \u201cNet Zero\u201d it\u2019s mostly shorthand for maintaining economic growth while doing some magical technological salvation in the future.\u201d \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThere is an increasingly popular theme in climate change media called \u201cNet Zero emissions.\u201d The idea that by 2050 \u2013 or any date \u2013 we can both swap out our fossil fuel energy base for renewables, and, additionally, use complicated and yet-to-be developed technology to remove carbon from the atmosphere \u2013 together resulting in humanity reducing the current emissions of our 17 terawatt economic system to zero, in less that 3 decades\u2026. The waste from our current population and consumption levels is a dire problem. But thinking we can continue to consume at anything close to today\u2019s levels, and magically whisk away the waste products from a carbon-based economic system, is a myth. In a 17 terawatt economy, 80% powered by fossil fuels, Net Zero emissions is biophysically delusional; however, accepting this biophysical reality will [also] be politically delusional, so maybe we can meet in the middle.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2014<strong>Nate Hagens<\/strong>, from his Myth #19<\/p>\n<p>My transcript of this repost focuses on Nate\u2019s concise 5-minute review of the evidence that effectively refutes\u00a0<strong>Myth #19: \u201cWe can achieve Net Zero (by 2050 or any date!!\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Myth<strong>\u00a0#19<\/strong>\u00a0is one of 33 myths Nate delivered in his May 21st Earth Day talk titled,\u00a0<em>Earth and Humanity: Myth and Reality.\u00a0<\/em>The beauty of his 2hr, 52min long, information-rich Earth Day talk is that it is more of an indexed reference tool for recurrent consultation than a lecture meant to be assimilated in one sitting.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom of this post is a complete time-stamped list of the titles of all of Hagens\u2019 33 myths, plus his opening Introduction and closing Interventions (and Wild Ideas). The myths can be watched in any order \u2014 but, as Hagens mentions, the order decided on seems logical.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth #19: Nate Hagens dismisses the insistence we can achieve Net Zero!! (by 2050 or any\u00a0date) \u201cWhen people use the term \u201cNet Zero\u201d it\u2019s mostly shorthand for maintaining economic growth while doing some magical technological salvation in the future.\u201d \u2014 \u201cThere is an increasingly popular theme in climate change media called \u201cNet Zero emissions.\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/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":[2,3,4,6],"tags":[113,30675,12346,30673],"class_list":["post-58471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-liberty","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-citizen-action-monitor","tag-nate-hagens","tag-net-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471","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=58471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58472,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58471\/revisions\/58472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}