Aarne Granlund: Also in Europe and Finland at that, our land use and household consumption are in other realms compared to sustainability. The way people use energy and materials on the middle class average is like triple overshoot from the physical carbon budgets — yet there is some work and understanding.

right wing think tanks are making thinly veiled threats of political violence, the Supreme Court has neutralized the regulatory power of broad swaths of government, and the fate of the executive branch depends on whether the 81 year old atop it can learn to breakdance or something. Happy July 4th

We’re still not even at 1.5°C of global heating on the decadal average. The future seems challenging when the politics are already like this.

SSP3 is the worst no-policy pathway available. Similar trends in the EU right now and much of the rest of the world has never been democratic to begin with. www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-ho...

Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change - Carbon Briefwww.carbonbrief.org Over the past few years, an international team of climate scientists, economists and energy systems modellers have built a range of new “pathways” that examine how global society, demographics and eco...

Certainly doesn't bode well

Decarbonizing the global energy system according to the physical requirements of the Paris Agreement targets would be incredibly hard without politics that are this bad

Also in Europe and Finland at that, our land use and household consumption are in other realms compared to sustainability. The way people use energy and materials on the middle class average is like triple overshoot from the physical carbon budgets — yet there is some work and understanding.

Mostly at the local and regional scale. I’d be selling it all out by dooming any outcomes especially with the massive societal co-benefits

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