By 2024 could mean by the start of 2024. Pedantics can be annoying, but clarity is important, as it makes things hard to misinterpret or manipulate.
That is less than 30 days away. I'm not sure how you expect that to happen? A realistic goal would be to have a global decline in coal usage by 2025.
Not sure why this is getting down voted? It is a relevant post, regardless of opinions on AI.
And like 75%+ of humans.
Depends on the border.
See my other comments, but in regards to authoritian regimes, that doesn't go far enough. This isn't buying drugs or breaking into a pipeline construction site. This directly threatening the economy and control of authoritarian nation states that have their economy almost completely reliant on oil that will imprison, torture, or kill someone in their way. Completely different game. World Cup vs your municipal league.
If you are a climate journalist or activist, just stay out of authoritarian places unless you are willing to be tortured or killed. Unless you have CIA/MI6/NSA/GCHQ level skills or whatever your country calls those things, you are in over your head.
Here is the thing. Being wrong leads to torture, imprisonment, or death.
That is the minimum as a tourist or business that doesn't intersect with their interests.
As an activist or journalist, when they review the visa application, that puts a target on them. They are a direct threat to the control that these governments will do anything to maintain. In the aforementioned book, Mitnick cited a case where he was in Columbia. Someone entered his hotel room while we was at dinner and swapped out the drive in his laptop with their own.
Another case showing the power of the state to find someone they don't like. A drug kingpin in Australia was caught because even though he had several burner phones, he sometimes used more than one burner phone within too short of a time frame at the same physical location. Their police were able to use the cellular data to find him, even though he went through none of the phones were tied to his identity. This is just a criminal nuisance, not someone that threatens their economy, reputation, and control.
Possibly, but not because of what is accomplished there. If anything it will be the optics of holding it in a place where fossil fuels is literally half of their economy and it being run by a fossil fuel executive.
This shows we can't rely on governments and corporations to fix it for the benefit of humanity.
Costs for renewables is going down. Support for ending car dependency and reducing meat consumption is growing.
Recent data shows that the majority of humans want to do something.
What does all this mean? In places where we can make a difference, it means YOU and I need to get to work. Be broken record on social media. Influence decision makers at work (greener is cheaper in many cases, so not a hard sell), become active in local politics where you have a better chance to influence things.
Here is the thing, the more we reduce the demand for oil, the less power and influence they have, so the easier it gets to make progress.
We don't need a savior, we need an army of regular people all doing their parts. The larger the army grows, the more it will be socially unacceptable to drive a canyonero and other harmful activities.
I appreciate what he is trying to do, but hiding from a state actor in 2023 is VERY hard to do. A lot harder than a clean phone. It is SO much more than that.
I highly recommend the late Keven Mitnick's book The Art of Invisibility to anyone that could be at risk of this. If anything about the cautionary stories about the TINY mistakes that landed people in hot water.
Basically, the only way to be anonymous with a phone in am authoritarian regime is to walk to a place that sells them without being seen by cameras, pay someone cash to go buy a burner and prepaid service card for you with cash, and never use it in physical proximity to any device tied to your identity in any way and never anywhere where someone can ID you or on camera. Only use it for calls and text. For Internet stuff, only use public WiFi connecting through ToR, but even that requires some diligence. That is just scratching the surface.
TLDR: Assume an authoritarian regime is omniscient within their borders. Play by the rules unless you know what you are doing. Don't piss them off. Don't mildly annoy them.
If you have never worked in infosec, worked in IT operations in a TS environment, worked in intelligence, worked in security/operations of some super secure environment like a CA, or worked as a detective AND have hirable tech skills, can understand everything at DEFCON/Black Hat at a basic level, or have practically memorized everything in the aforementioned book and updated since it's release in 2017, you don't know how to hide and you WILL end up on the rack.
Burning ethanol still produces CO2? Ethanol is less energy dense than the fossil fuels in gasoline/petrol. How does this translate into fuel? This is the 3rd story today with claims that either don't make sense or I'm not getting.
Not a chemist, but it seems like the alternatives to a carbon based combustion reaction are GHG CO2 and the deadly CO. I'm not sure how it is possible to use fossil fuels without emissions?
This all comes back to school board elections. How much information is typically available about school board candidates?
I agree. Carbon capture should be used to offset really hard to replace uses of fossil fuels, like aircraft.