Environmentalist Mike Berners-Lee urges individuals to confront family and friends consuming news from unreliable sources, advocating for social embarrassment regarding misinformation. Addressing climate change, he critiques political deceit equating it with abuse and highlights the ineffectiveness of 29 COP conferences, attributing their failure to the fossil fuel industry’s manipulation. He emphasizes that the technological solutions for an energy transition and food system improvements are available, challenging the narrative of rising global energy needs and insisting that the climate crisis requires sincere acknowledgment of deceit.
People need to confront friends and family reading news from untrustworthy sources; we must make it socially embarrassing to be connected with nefarious news outlets.
The lack of progress on climate issues stems from political deceit and we should start treating it like any form of abuse that deserves condemnation.
Despite 29 COP conferences, there is no evidence of progress on reducing global emissions; these have been compromised by the fossil fuel industry's efforts.
We do not face rising global energy needs, and the technology required to solve the climate crisis already exists; energy transition is feasible.
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