That decentralized and self-hostable platforms like Lemmy are fringe does not give me hope for the future of social networks on the Internet.

Extraction limits are the only thing that will limit anthropogenic emissions, and soon. Unfortunately, Earth system own dynamics begins to dominate greenhouse emissions, so that’s not going to change things.

Solar and wind are only relatively cheap if you don’t need to buffer. Unfortunately, you do. And electricity production is only a fraction of primary energy use. Concrete, steel, glass, fertilizer, chemistry, diesel and bunker fuel for shipping and mining. Can’t make new renewable infrastructure without fossil extraction.

He can’t make the unextractable extractable. Nor can he make consumption stop. In terms of the Keeling curve, the impact is exactly zero.

What else did you expect, honestly? The only limit is increasing nonviability of tight resource extraction. (Un)fortunately, we’re almost there.

Indeed https://www.artberman.com/blog/lets-stop-arguing-about-an-imaginary-energy-transition/