On April 30 2021 Hauwei Technologies sponsored a program Great Minds Talk: How Far to Low-Carbon Living? The participants in this discussion were Lord Adair Turner, chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, Prof Steve Keen, Honorary Professor and Vice President Research, University College London, and Paul Scanlan, Chief Technology Officer, Huawei Carrier Business Group. The moderator is Rebecca Rice, Associate Director at BCW Global.
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Lord Turner chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of major power and industrial companies, investors, environmental NGOs and experts working out achievable pathways to limit global warming to well below 2˚C by 2040 while stimulating economic development and social progress.
Thu, 29 Apr 2021 00:00 UTC
The gods have certainly made those elites managing the west mad, but whether or not the entire world will have to pay the price of their insanity yet remains to be seen.
Many people couldn t help but laugh when Biden told the Boris Johnson on March 26 that the USA and it s NATO allies should create an infrastructure plan to rival the Belt and Road Initiative post haste. What would such a program look like? How would it be funded when the USA is so embarrassingly bankrupt? Who among the nations of the world would ever consider buying a ticket onto such a sinking ship?
Many people couldn’t help but laugh when Biden told the Boris Johnson on March 26 that the USA and it’s NATO allies should create “an infrastructure plan to rival the Belt and Road Initiative” post haste. What would such a program look like? How would it be funded when the USA is so embarrassingly bankrupt? Who among the nations of the world would ever consider buying a ticket onto such a sinking ship?
It took a few weeks for details to finally emerge, but by the end of the April 22-23 Climate Summit hosted by Biden, John Kerry and Anthony Blinken, it has become abysmally clear what delusions possessed the poor president.
Greta Thunberg versus Bill Gates on saving the climate
Different paths lead to carbon emissions reduction, and while one path might be the right choice now, another might take the lead later
By Adair Turner
Some people say that to avoid the threat of catastrophic harm to human welfare posed by global warming, we must radically change our behavior cease flying, use bicycles and give up red meat. Others believe that new technologies can deliver carbon-free growth.
So, who is right: Climate advocate Greta Thunberg, who is in favor of the former course, or Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, who just wrote a book advocating the latter?