Jancovici : Will technology save us from Climate Change ? MIT Media Lab - 23/02/2021 on HackerTube: recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 separate months, 2021–2024.
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Jean-Marc Jancovici gives an MIT Media Lab talk on whether technology can save us from climate change. He argues from a physical view of energy that economic growth, energy use and climate impact are tightly linked.
Recommended in climate and energy threads as a numbers-based explanation of why energy underlies growth and emissions.
“Interesting related presentation on what is energy and how it relates to the economy from a physical point of view”
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Jancovici is a legend. Listenening to him and reading his latest comic book ( Le monde sans fin ) made me very aware of climate issues and directly influenced my behavior. He deserves to be better known by international audiences. Here are some of his talks in english: - [link] - ▶ this video
in “France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors” · View on HN
Interesting related presentation on what is energy and how it relates to the economy from a physical point of view ▶ this video Note: presented in a controversial way, that's the style of this speaker
in “All poverty is energy poverty” · View on HN
If you can suffer the french accent, I believe Jean-Marc Jancovici is making some good points about this issue : ▶ this video
in “Rapid Green Energy Transition Will Likely Result in Trillions of Net Savings” · View on HN
You can try talks from this guy, he's a french energy and climate expert. I found that he explained very well the root of the issue between growth, energy and climate impact. Here is a talk he did for the MIT media lab in english: ▶ this video
in “Principles of Green Software Engineering” · View on HN
Indeed you have to look at the figures, no amount of wordage without computation will get you a true answer, still calling someone or something deplorable is, I am sorry, a dog-whistle. So to clear the air I propose you look at this substantive set of answers: [link] (cc to english should work ok) ▶ this video
in “Fukushima Reactor: TEPCO robot aims to extract nuclear fuel” · View on HN
I pulled that number as an exaggeration to illustrate the fact that even if "our civilization" survives (whatever it may mean), it doesn't mean things are going to be OK. Even if you make that 50% it's still not great news in my book. I've read Dire Predictions written by members of the IPCC, the famous Limits to Growth and I follow the works of Jancovici, a French engineer specialized in these issues (here is a talk in English he did for MIT Media Lab: ▶ this video ) Do those qualify as biased sources to you?
in “The good things in the current age in tech” · View on HN
> What's the argument against researching it? It's a diversion. They're all stopgap measures with no real long term application. You can paint all the road white and add artificial clouds, if you continue to live like resources are unlimited and pollution isn't an issue you'll sooner or later hit another problem. If we don't take care of the root cause we're bound to fail. Unlimited growth and exponential energy usage isn't possible in a closed system. All these new "green" economy, "green" growth, &c. are perpetuating the idea that we're going down the right path and simply have to tweak a few variables to go from "catastrophic failure" to "idyllic paradise" I don't think people truly understand how fucked we are and how deep the problem runs. ▶ this video
in “Can Geoengineering Fix Climate Change?” · View on HN
The current trajectory has locked us into 2C+ of warming. Even if some magical technology appears out of nowhere and allows us to start capturing and sequestering carbon at the gigaton volumes required to make a dent we're still locked into 2C+ of warming. [1][2] At this point it is no longer a matter of doing enough, it's a matter of actively adapting to the reality of a warmer planet because no matter what we do 2C+ warming is an immutable fact. 1: ▶ this video 2: [link]
in “There’s Still Time to Fix Climate–About 11 Years” · View on HN