199
Richest oil states should pay climate tax, says former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (www.bbc.com)
submitted 1 year ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/climate@slrpnk.net
22 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a feeling nations like Saudi Arabia, Russia, and America won't warmly embrace a British exPM's idea for a tax on one of their greatest resources to subsidize foreign nations. Especially when it's framed as their reparations for harming the world.

[-] FarraigePlaisteach@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago

The. British are also silent when it comes to paying reparations for their own misdeeds overseas, which unfortunately strips this statement of credibility.

[-] FireTower@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I found this quote from him pretty rich because of that:

"These producer states have done literally nothing to earn this unprecedented windfall. It represents one of the biggest ever transfers of wealth from poor to rich nations."

[-] fiat_lux@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Colonialist hubris at its most egregious. I bet he thinks England "earned" its colonies too.

this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
199 points (100.0% liked)

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.

5197 readers
670 users here now

Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.

As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:

Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
silence7@slrpnk.net