Sublime

sustainability

solar radiation management (SRM) and air capture

We can proceed fairly fast with the displacement of coal-fired electricity by natural gas (when produced and transported without significant methane leakage, it has a substantially lower carbon intensity than coal) and by expanding solar and wind electricity generation. We can move away from SUVs and accelerate mass-scale deployment of electric car

The advocates of green capitalism and “renewables” offer fraudulent assurances that, with oversight, resource extraction could be done without destroying habitats, ecosystems and human communities, but they know this will never happen.

of any damage being done to our capital stocks.3

mitigation monitoring and enforcement, it might be beneficial to focus on CH4 emissions that come from relatively large and well-identified sources, for example landfills, coal mines, and natural gas systems.

The overwhelming threat of climate change has amplified the sense that global capitalism is out of control or that the best we can hope for is to avert catastrophe.

However, safety concerns only give an incentive for mine operators to reduce CH4 in the mines below flammable concentrations rather than fully mitigating its release into the atmosphere.

When we disturb nature at its own scale—as with our “extinction engine” and greenhouse gases of recent times—we risk triggering apocalyptic forces. Like it or not, we now have to comprehend and engage the still Longer Now of nature.