My Design For Secret 7" This Year! I Did This For ‘Virginia Plain’ By Roxy Music. So Pleased To Have

My design for Secret 7" this year! I did this for ‘Virginia Plain’ by Roxy Music. So pleased to have been involved again - read more about the project here.

We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

A line graph titled "Easy PV: How Solar Outgrew Expectations." The graph shows two types of lines: the predictions vs. the reality for the solar capacity added each year, in gigawatts. The graph includes the statement "On average, actual installations have been more than three times higher than their five-year forecasts." This is true, and the grarph shows the rate is only increasing. In 2023, the graph shows there were about 350 GW off solar installed. The 5-year prediction from 2023 said that we'd end up around 450 GW by 2030. We hit over 600 GW in the first half of 2024.

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

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