The ETS too is a scam. It's a way of conjuring up vast sums of imaginary credit on the basis of tree planting or forest protection or fugitive methane reductions etc, when these things will achieve nothing, and in twenty - thirty year's time, much of that money will need to be paid, by guess who? - the public. NZ has given away tens of billions of dollars worth of emission credits to our most polluting industries which will still be there in 2050!! In the meantime, vast acreages will be planted in ecologically dead pine forests in New Zealand Ireland, Scotland etc. The money involved is to be counted in trillions of dollars.
Our politicians, business leaders, even our commentators bar a few exceptions are all in on this. - with politicians, sometimes it's just greed, eg party contributions, vested interest, sometimes ignorance - most politicians have little scientific intelligence, but mostly just they don't want to rock the boat, which of course is heading ever more rapidly to the rocks.
We have already passed 1.5 deg C in some measurements, as I said we would in 2015 after the Paris agreement, and I see 2 deg C reached by 2050, 3 deg by 2075, and it'll be around 4 to 5 deg C by the end of the century. Globel temperature has just passed a rubicon, a tipping point, and it's going to rise much faster fro now on. The cynics have it right, net zero is impossible in our present way of society, there are too many people for a start on the planet. Fortunately I won't be here when the whole planet comes more to resemble Easter Island in its dereliction.....
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