Stir Crazy! Episode 90: Today we are joined by TRNN visual producer Andrew Corkery, TRNN climate reporter Steve Horn, Principal Research Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne Anitra Nelson, Executive Director of the Centre for Environmental Justice and Development in Kenya Griffins Ochieng, and Kentucky State Rep. Attica Scott. Hosted by Kim Brown.
This article/video segment is published as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate crisis.
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4% of all mammals are wild, 4% of all energy is renewable, 15% of energy will be renewable by 2040
Solar and wind are 2% of all energy because electricity is only 19% of all energy
Fossil fuel use has been 80% of all energy for over 25 years
Greenhouse gases are up 45% in 30 years, 86% of wildlife has been wiped out in 50 years
With 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu, covids et al are here to stay
Livestock use somewhere up to 80% of antibiotics, causing 50% of animal to human infectious disease
Weather = flash floods + flash fires + flash droughts + flash mobs
Climate = 30 years of weather + you don't got time to worry about climate
Mass Extinction Numbers
1 million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction ( Nat Geo 2019 )
97% of great fresh water species gone since 1970 ( Guardian 2019 )
96% of mammals are livestock and human ( Ecowatch 2018 )
96% of tigers gone in 100 years ( IFL Science 2019 )
90% of elephants gone in 100 years ( Hurriet 2019 )
90% of lions gone in 100 years ( African Impact 2019 )
90% of Leatherback sea turtles gone since 1980 ( Earth Watch undated )
90% of Monarch Butterflies gone in 20 years ( Inhabitat 2014 )
80% of Antarctic Krill gone in 30 years ( Research Gate 2005 )
77% of Eastern lowland gorillas gone since 1996 ( Treehugger 2020 )
68% of world’s wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 ( Mongabay 2020 )
50% of Marine vertebrates gone since 1970 ( WWF 2015 )
50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985 ( Live Science 2012 )
40% of Giraffes gone since 1990 ( NRDC 2019 )
40% less insects in next 30 years ( PNAS 2019 )
4% of mammals are wildlife ( Vegan News 2020 )
700 Marine Species Might Go Extinct Because of Plastic ( Green Planet 2019 )
500 vertebrate species of less than 1,000 individuals ( PNAS 2020 )
500 species of animal have gone extinct since 1900 ( RD 2019 )
Green Energy Sources & Numbers
2020 : 2% of global energy is solar and wind — after 20 yrs trying ( IEA stats 2020 )
2025 : 66% of the world will live in water stressed areas
2020 : 50% of world's thermal power capacity is threatened by water shortages
2040 : 15% of global energy will be renewable
2050 : 28% of global energy will be renewable, at best — assuming no snags or snafus
2050 : 600 ppm CO2 BAU = 2X safe limit of 300 ppm set by James Hansen
Dams and bio-energy are ecological disaster zones
80% of river life is gone and water proxy wars are in Africa and Asia
50% of Euro Nord renewable electricity comes from burning imported trees
We can’t burn forests for electricity to save us from the climate
We can’t build wildfire suppression big enough to handle future wildfires
Forest fires will burn faster than we can plant trees
We burn corn, soy and palm oil in cars and will do so until 2030 so far
We burn recycled plastic and paper for electricity and call it recycled electricity
Plastic harms the plankton that produce 10% of earth's oxygen
In the last 20 years, petrochemical demand grew 7X human population growth
We don’t have enough land for bio-energy and we're losing soil and water too fast
To get 30% of energy from algae ponds would take a country the size of Argentina
To get 20% of global energy from solar in 30 years, we need panels 3X faster than now
By 2050, there will be 78 million metric tons of solar panel waste, generating 6 million metric tons of new solar panel waste annually. Standard electronics recycling methods don’t cut it for solar panels.
( Wired )
By 2040 not even half of all cars will be electric
Sources: Loki's Revenge Blog Extinction: Beginners Guide
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REAL CLIMATE JUSTICE = 100% PRIVATE GLOBAL CARBON UBI = 0% FOR GOVERNMENTS
Private carbon dividends were first proposed by James Hansen and several economists 10 years ago
The key to effective private dividends is a monthly rebate deposit to citizens only
Not to corporations or governments, that's why corporations and governments hate it
27 Nobel Prize winning economists support Hansen's dividends, including:
3,589 U.S. Economists, 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and
ALL 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers
He said private monthly dividends would unite left and right to reduce emissions faster than any other way
Kim,
Go high, stay dry.
Kenya is beautiful. Let's hope it doesn't
happen.
What is happening has been planned,
in one way, or another. But, not
for the reasons you believe.
There is more to this than racial
injustice.
God be with all.
Good show, guys!!!
To avoid running out of resources and to avoid deadly resource wars that can lead to human extinction, lots of painful measures are needed to stop cancer behaviors: regulation of all reproduction, regulation of all consumption, lifespan limits, death penalty, etc.
I always ask for paper bags for groceries because if it doesn’t get recycle if it gets dumped in the landfill it will break down in less then 6 months
This was an incredible episode and every guest had great perspective to bring to these essential conversations
The same Idiots who claim infinite growth is real, are the same Morons who believe Trickle Down Economics help the poor, having 3 jobs just to make ends meet while they sip wine from a yacht is the American Dream.🙄
IT IS NOT PER SAY CAPITALISM. IT IS GREEDY SELFSERVING LEADERSHIP THAT IS IN CAHOOTS WITH CORRUPT CORPORATE VULTURE GREEDY CAPITALIST. So what are the solutions?????
IT'S NEVER TOO LATE me amigos!!!! Do you think America would be different if there was many seats in Congress held by INDEPENDENTS breaking the back of the 2 party hyper partisanship??? 67% of Americans politically identify as Independent. Tell me where is the Independent headquarters. Don't you just love a 2 party system that have archaic state laws that make it extreamly hard for others to participate in a political process?? Lets ask Elon Musk if he will rent office space and let us the American people hang a INDEPENDENT shingle out in Austin Texas with high speed internet build a very very cheap studio and rock the world. As Nina Turner says "Come on somebody" it's not that difficult, what, ya don't give a fuck about the Earth and all of humanity. A new day a better way, We can do something big, a all inclusive world wide populist movement that puts eco sustainability at the top of the list.. Let the revolution continue. It will be televised… televised… https://youtu.be/kz6WxTH-p3o
Green Party is the only way to vote against the interests of ExxonMobile, Goldman Sachs, Raytheon, Aetna, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), etc.
Perhaps one of the biggest hurdles to actually addressing the inevitable environmental collapse is the fact that the overwhelming majority of people believe in this myth, with an essentially religious-like faith, that someone, somewhere will develop a magical technology that will miraculously solve the problem without anyone actually having to do any sacrifice despite there being absolutely zero empirical evidence to suggest that such a pursuit is underway or that it is even possible… All the while forgetting or ignoring the fact that technology s what created the problem to begin with. Anyone who attempts to refute this statement has yet to point to any specific or tangible evidence saying otherwise and is only capable of referring to nonspecific and ambiguous "advanced technologies" that they can neither describe or cite.