 Net zero climate change means balancing human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with removals from the atmosphere, primarily by cutting emissions drastically (to near zero) and then absorbing the rest (like CO2) through forests or technology. |
Only by treating “climate change” as a profoundly theological issue can we discover—in part by rediscovering—a better understanding and appreciation of nature and ourselves.
Panic, fear, and loathing concerning atmospheric warming and the “existential” threat alarmists claim it to be have failed so far to encourage a reconsideration of modern man’s relationship with the natural world and the Promethean attitude toward it that has prevailed in Western civilization since the 16th century. The current project to replace fossil fuels with “green” energy signals merely a change of technique in the effort to manage, adapt, control, and repurpose nature to humanity’s material ends, rather than an early attempt at reimagining our relationship with nature and the way in which we think about it.
All that has changed in mainstream thought is a greater attention to how the human race might learn to be less wasteful, destructive, and irresponsible in its exploitation of nature, while maintaining the West’s historically unprecedented levels of production, consumption, comfort, and profit and at the same time “leveling up,” in current British jargon, the non-Western nations by encouraging them to substitute “clean” energy for the dirty kinds.
The green movement—the scientific and governmental parts of it, anyway—is not proposing to replace human arrogance vis-à-vis nature with humility, as environmentalists have been urging for a century or more. Rather, it is raising arrogance to a higher level by assuming that humans are capable of dominating and controlling nature even more completely in the future than they did in the past, repairing the damage already done while simultaneously preventing further harm in future centuries by their quasi-divine powers of imagination, invention, manipulation, and control.
In short, the new project is one of dominating nature by healing it, instead of by continuing to injure it.
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