Climate fatalism is just as wrong as climate denial

As I have written recently, “tactical” levels are used by fossil -friendly governments (or fossil fuel industry itself) to force a culturally wide sense of helplessness.

Performance fatalism is different. This is the big name figures and large social media accounts (often specialized in a self -defining subject ”apocalypse”Mind) Make the inevitability of climate change and the meaninglessness of alleviating loudly.

While these messages are ultra -viral, their authors claim that they are malignant truth narrators who produce non -popular reality bindings. These people have not resulted in a convergent evolution between coal, oil and gas companies with the award mechanisms, messages of corporate social media, but not in the league with the fossil fuel industry.

A recent statement from a very important name in the environmental movement gave them new energy.

According to experienced environmentalist David Suzuki, it is too late to stop climate change. In an interview with Canada Outlet iPoliticsSuzuki said: “Now, it’s too late. I haven’t told the media before, but it’s too late… Focusing on politics, economy and law is doomed to fail because they are based on people.”

While saying that he did not give up the “immediately years, and that he did not call the“ revolution ,, the basic message is clear in the title of the article: ”David Suzuki says that the struggle against climate change is lost”.

Hyperactive “climatic.apokalypse”Instagram account has a few hundred thousand followers, definitions In this way: “89 -year -old David Suzuki says it’s too late to stop climate change. The struggle disappeared. It’s time to prepare for those who come.” More than 100,000 likes.

These moments of popular helplessness shine during collective instability and stress. Michael Moore released extremely shitty documentary Planet of people In the middle of the first wave of Covid-19 Pandemi. Packed the worst performance exhibitions deadnessIt was full of eco-fascist population control ideas and disinformation, but perfectly timed and had millions of viewers.

The message of climate fatalism is as wrong as the worst climatic denials. It is ridiculous to claim that it is “too late to stop climate change. We know that it is possible to prevent the release of greenhouse gases. The atmosphere heats up in response to the volume of the greenhouse gases we have pumped into it. The less we add, the less heating.

If you accept the basic science that explains how we worse, you should accept the basic science of how we stop making things worse. It is almost a strange linear relationship:

In addition, we know that since the 1990s, the collective policy of all our species, technology and activism efforts have led to a significant reduction of dependence on the burning of fossil fuels compared to the parallel universe where we have not done anything.

When can you see this opinion Carbon emissions of the world compared to the spread of spaghetti of scenarios published years ago. We avoided both the worst and the best scenarios and ended somewhere in the middle:

This The last study found that policies implemented to date have reduced global emissions. [carbon dioxide equivalent] Compared to a world without impact reduction policies ”, equivalent to 4% of the total global emissions of the 2020s. Working Group Three “There is a high level of solid evidence that reduction policies have a distinctive impact on emissions,” the report allocates a few pages.

A good part of this is particularly about the surprisingly rapid growth of the wind and the sun; Change assumptions In the IPCC’s own scenarios, he leaned less to renewable energy and electrification and less fossil fuels, carbon capture and nuclear.

Especially in the electricity sector, supply and demand are fully matched. If it produces new wind power or solar energy Somethingproduces something else little. In the regions of the world with increasing demand, renewable energy sources draw aside from fossil fuel growth and renewable energy sources accelerate the death of fossil fuels in stagnant or falling demands.

In both cases, wind and solar pushes fossil fuels, and the main task at hand moves to adequate progress from inadequate progress. Australia power sector It is a good example of the simple truth that renewable energy actively reduces the combustion of coal and gas:

Donald Trump’s choice is reminiscent of the first year of Covid-19. A deep concern and instability blanket affects the US and countries with close ties. In this haze, Fatalists find new purchases. Regardless of the intentions of Suzuki, his interpretations fueled the feelings of real and serious helplessness and despair.

In Ferhalism, there is a danger that goes beyond creating dejection and justifying inertia. It is a blessing for both the authoritarian, fascist governments and fossil fuel industry, which is based on a few of the feelings of despair and despair, both of which realize how fragile their ruling grip are.

There is an increasingly clear agreement between direct connections and eco-fascist elements between the “Doomer” communities. A self -defining “apocalypse” itself recently defined They themselves as “eco-nazi :: The only and the only solution of the problem is to make the Earth a unmanned region.” Social media algorithms are ominous for me to strengthen the physical horror of climate effects loudly and insist that there is nothing we can do to stop these effects later.

Times bad. Suzuki’s statement is more inspired by a bowel response to Trump and any desire for social fame. However, bad times should trigger new power to understand our agency. Climate Reduction Beating Bead End does nothing but help employees to make this wrong expression correct. There is nothing mandatory about coal, oil or gas. We know that the fossil fuel economy is bleeding, and only if I succumb to the continuously repeated inevitability message, it can survive.

Yes, there are discussions about deeper systemic, transformational changes that need to accelerate the elimination of dangerous fuels in human societies. None of this is not important that Doomer-Boomer Nexus insists, but is not too late to stop fossil fuels.