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Growth — an economic term which must die before we do
A recent comment by the chief executive of Mercedes-Benz, Ola Kaellenius, captures why carbon emissions continue to rise, despite all the noise about binning fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy.
While Europe is backtracking on trade with China, because supply line fragility was tested to breaking point, a heady combination of relying on too few suppliers, plus a pandemic and Russian invasion, Herr Kaellenius was honest enough to say it was unthinkable for almost all of German industry, to decouple from China, it makes no sense.
It certainly makes no sense, when nearly 40% of your market is in China and you’re being paid to sell more cars.
Richard Heinberg’s article, published by Resilience.org, explains clearly that the issue with decarbonisation and the fact that the world is currently going the wrong way is because of a lack of sacrifice.
Sacrifice will ultimately come in different forms, one way has to be looking for an…
