{"id":119644,"date":"2023-12-18T07:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/op-ed-cop28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T07:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T05:25:57","slug":"op-ed-cop28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/op-ed-cop28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: COP28 \u2014 hope or hype? \u2018Last gasp\u2019 or get it right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nGlobal environmental summits all have one thing in common \u2013 Nobody\u2019s satisfied with the results. If you check out the news feeds, you\u2019ll see that nobody even agrees on what COP28 achieved. The real sticking point, as usual, was fossil fuels. The problems of pollution and contamination alone justify the end of carbon-based fuels. Air pollution, the most truly useless byproduct of fossil fuels, kills about 6,7 million people a year worldwide. Thanks to pollution, if you don\u2019t smoke, you\u2019re effectively \u201cpassive smoking\u201d a few packets a day, just without the tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>Note: It amazes me that nobody has made any effective connection to the rapid rise of respiratory diseases and pollution. It looks like waddling around the obvious. The US is one of the top 10 major sufferers but is still politically groveling to the fossil fuel line, for absolutely no good reason. Politics is no longer about human survival. The EPA is ignored by the conservatives for \u201cbusiness reasons\u201d, aka lobbies. The absurd US \u201cleft\u201d apparently won\u2019t condescend to address global disasters, being too interested in achieving absolutely nothing on other issues.<\/p>\n<p>This 19th-century technology is also sacred to Big Money. It just happens to be poisoning the Earth. The world is experiencing an OD of carbon in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels are very old tech. They\u2019re the last gasp of the Industrial Revolution. The technology already exists to replace fossil fuels as energy sources in just about all applications. The fossil fuels will inevitably go the way of all old tech. They\u2019re no longer efficient and they never were safe in health terms. These are the original HAZMAT materials, explosive and corrosive, poisonous, and polluting since day one.<\/p>\n<p>Politically, fossil fuels are rapidly becoming non-viable. Ask a Millennial or Gen Z about fossil fuels, and you\u2019ll only get one response. It\u2019s a simple problem \u2013 If you want a world to live on, don\u2019t poison it. You\u2019d think that was pretty comprehensible. Apparently, it isn\u2019t. Fossil fuel stakeholders seem to be totally lacking in understanding of carbon chemistry.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/op-ed-cop-28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right\/article\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/world\/op-ed-cop-28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right\/article\">DJ<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/op-ed-cop28-hope-or-hype-last-gasp-or-get-it-right\/\">Op-Ed: COP28 \u2014 hope or hype? \u2018Last gasp\u2019 or get it right?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7812,555,797,12671],"class_list":["post-119644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cop28","tag-csr-news-en","tag-hope","tag-hype"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}