Earth ‘can no longer sustain’ intensive fossil fuel use, Lula tells COP30

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/leaders-turn-heat-fossil-fuels-073456593.html

33 comments

  1. Earth never could, it was a transition from whale oil to hopefully something better.

  2. After the speech he flies home in a big private plane. 

  4. Earth can, but not humanity. Earth will recover in time but humans are running dangerously close to the edge 

  5. “*We learned a lesson from this problem. We are not going to buy just one plane, but we need to buy several planes. So that Brazil, which is a large country with 8,5 million square kilometers […] we need to prepare ourselves. We cannot be caught by surprise.*“, said Lula in an interview with O Povo radio. [https://www.aeroflap.com.br/en/Lula-wants-more-planes-to-transport-the-president-and-authorities/](https://www.aeroflap.com.br/en/Lula-wants-more-planes-to-transport-the-president-and-authorities/)

  6. Lets all fly to Brazil to have a useless summit that achieves nothing lmao

  7. People need to understand something. Climate change will not “destroy” planet earth. It will kill off life on the planet; Earth will bounce back and be just fine after we’re all gone.

  8. We should have properly pursued nuclear energy decades ago.

    Even today nuclear energy is going to be required. Germany has spent 500 billion euros and 15 years on their energy transition only to fail. [They are current at 315 g CO2 per kWh.](https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/12mo/monthly)

    [Meanwhile France is at 26 g CO2 per kWh](https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/FR/12mo/monthly).

    26 < 315. Every rational minded person should look at those two metrics and conclude nuclear energy is going to be required.

  9. The earth will be fine. It’s the animals and plants that live here that are going to have a rough time.

  10. Yeah well the guys in the drivers seat seem ok with it, I just fuckin live here man 🙁

  12. says the president of a country that has burned away HOW much of the rain forest for farmland?

  15. We can’t have lithium mines either find a better solution. As of now both gas and electric are shit. 

  16. Anyone else’s dyslexia briefly make them ask what an effete protocol droid had to do with our climate problems?

  17. Yes but Brazil has been brutally cutting its own rainforest for decades. How about putting an end to that before piping up?

  20. The road to a climate summit is paved right through the biggest forest.

    This fossil fuel is not so much the issue, yet greed is. We should, perhaps unfortunately, use less energy. Unless we want to sprint to a situation where we need to fight for survival – Mad Max style.
    We’ve seen and measured the positive effects during Covid lock-downs. But we, as a species, can’t help ourselves: because economics. For example: We have this very efficient LED’s. It not only replaced the lightbulb, but we basically all have panels full of them in every home, and panels in the pockets and even plaster the sides of sky scrapers with these things.. because: efficient, for the likes, for the fun, and for ad revenue.

  21. Let me get this straight. “Can no longer sustain” means that we’re still going to keep doing it, right?

    It’s not like we’ll suspend any factories or planes or cars or anything just because we say we can’t sustain it.

  22. Petrobras (the Brazilian state energy company) is one of my employers biggest clients, to the point I’ve been to Brazil twice in the last year *while* he was president to install offshore oil and gas flex pipeline.

    These people are so full of shit. 😂

  24. This bustard cut one million ton of trees to make a four lane highway, just for one climate conference.

    Stop the climate change madness.

  25. Make the world better, release the antigravitational technology from recovered UFO’s alongside the Epstein files.

  27. It doesn’t need to sustain it. It needs to allow us to survive just long enough that those at the top can guarantee they will be the last to suffer its consequences.

  30. but the wealthy can be resilient to climate change. so politicians will proceed as normal

  32. Oil is used for so much today (plastics, fertilizers, fuel) that it seems unreasonable to expect societies to stop using it. This is besides the fact that oil consumption has grow every year for the past 60 years (except for a small Covid dip), renewables even if they we’re cheaper than oil cannot replace its uses.

    We’ve got the AI Hail Mary and if that’s doesn’t work, humanity will simply have to deal with and get used to global warming as best as possible, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, has worked so we’ll in the past.

  33. Come on aliens! Either wipe us out, or give us zero-point energy.

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