People have been talking about reducing carbon output for a while and not doing it because the economics weren’t there. Now, it’s starting to happen because it’s profitable. Solar and wind have become cheap.

It needed to happen sooner and could have been done better. But, idiots platforming idiots isn’t really going to change this one way or another. I feel like these climate talks are primarily theatre. Probably always were. But in this case, that makes me hopeful. Why would we listen to a Saudi oil exec when we didn’t listen much to scientists explaining the impacts for decades? The money talks and it’s beginning to tell a slightly less hopeless story.

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/about-40-percent-of-the-worlds-power-generation-is-now-renewable

Today, I choose guarded optimism.

Proposed text: “All countries that are financially and culturally able shall in the near-term work to develop plans to phase through fossil fuel use in order to enhancify the prospects of reducing unabated emissions moving forward and thereby limit warming to 1.5°”

This just in: as a compromise, they opted for “phase sideways”

Here’s an idea, use ‘phase down’ and set a five year target.

There’s no conceivable way we could phase them out that quickly, so once the approach to doing that becomes clear, change the language to ‘phase out’ and outline the plan.