G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline set

Germany decides to shut down and ban nuclear power plants, it's in the news in the past 2 days.

Meanwhile, Japan decides to open up its closed nuclear reactors, and more nuclear energy is required.

Germany went forward with the fear of nuclear elements and closed many plants, quite influenced, by the Fukushima tsunami. They went toward banning nuclear energy. Meanwhile, Japan rests on it. Doesn't push sustainable energy to eliminate nuclear energy, then pushes for more nuclear energy.

That's about as telling on the Japanese apathy of her government and people as anything I've ever seen as evidence.

G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline set

Of course. They don't want to upset their main donors and lobbyists - oil, gas industry - too much.

G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline set

Just pledges, just more talks and talks. Can't quite fossil fuels addiction for most of economy.

Germany did decide to quit fossil fuels. It is going forward. Perhaps not all the G7, but the precedent for a country to do this is there.

Japan lags behind and is promoting the opposite. Germany is researching how to try and contain the nuclear waste it has, with stoppage of further nuclear power by shutting down its plants...how to find the proper earth material which won't leak the material and bury it.

Meanwhile, Japan wants to dump nuclear waste into the ocean.

This proves, it isn't just up to a G7 regulation or rule, it's up to countries and individuals to go forward. This is as big an issue for Japan as guns are for America. A stubborn and ridiculous money making venture drives nationalism and BS. Guns and killings, as severe as they are in the USA, could be a relative blip compared to the damage by continued nukes and waste in Japan.

Japan should have been dumping the tritium into the ocean from the start instead of saving it up and causing a worldwide panic to the ignorati.

STAND UP for nuclear everyone. The energy returned on energy invested is 100 to 1. Soon-to-be-piling-up-in-junkyards renewables are at around five to one or maybe 3.5 to one. Going that route will be like going back to the dark ages when 95% of the people were poor and the 5% who were rich stole from the poor.

traditionally when we’ve made energy transitions it has resulted in an increase in efficiency. first wood, then coal, then gas, diesel etc. with each transition increases in lifestyle and living standards rose dramatically. The next logical step is carbon free nuclear power.

Carbon free nuclear power? Wow, reel em in, nuclear power propaganda!

No way a carbon free nuclear power idea can be done. Before the global crisis occurs, plants won't be built quick enough. The only way to reduce fossil fuel emission is to get them to zero, first. That won't happen before enough nuke plants existed to make it a carbon free world of power.

and oh...nuclear power plants create what is known as a nuclear disaster by dangers along with the waste product generated being massive. Massive now, and even more in the future? Nope. Critical thinking says the information and facts tell that in no way can nuclear build up be a good thing for the earth. Nada.

The cost to build new nuclear plants and the time it would take to actually replace fossil fuels would be impossible to implement. Logistically, it can't be done. Reason enough why this can't be done, but worse, of course, is the obvious vulnerability not only to natural disasters, but to malicious acts with the state of conflict world wide, in addition to possible crazies who carry guns and just want to kill people.

Pro nuke is a ridiculous solution for Japan, the country most affected by the nuclear bomb and a tsunami that threatened a good portion of the country and the world.

Japan needs to reduce its fossil fuel emissions, absolutely. It should not promote nuclear power and add more to their nuclear energy production as an excuse for sustainable carbon free energy.

The realization of fossil fuel emissions lowering is an obvious need. More nuclear power plants to replace it is insane.

With a push for nuclear production, trying to close one environmental problem and opening it up with another, is a zero sum solution, at best. There are way too many reasons why it is the wrong solution. For one, a nuclear disaster can do multitudes more damage than fossil fuel emissions.

Japan's emphasis on wind and solar power is not great enough. It should have been prioritized after Fukushima, along with eliminating fossil fuel emissions and lessening nuclear power requirements.

"The most important progress we have made is clearly the fact that we agree to move away from non-carbon-offset fossil fuels," she told AFP.

Which means no progress.

Everyone is focused on the arms race. No sense spending on averting global warming when you can use the money instead to buy arms.

What should be obvious to all, including G-7?

Wants vs. Needs

Clearly our Wants represent our highest values but in time of pandemic, global proxy wars, elevated inflation, massive deficit spending and central bank money printing, elevated crime, worsening demographics, supply chain constraints, energy and food shortages, unprecedented weapons proliferation, banking stress/crisis building, terrible geo-political environment, debt buildup and levels historical in nature, etc.

Guess what? Needs win every time, survival, hence 2022 manmade CO2 emissions record setting, coal production record setting, even in a not-so-great slowing global economy etc.

2023 more of same, slowing global economy, ALL risks rising, especially Winds of Global War. G-7's painted in a corner, everyone can see civil unrest building across G-7, it's clearly a failed path with failed leadership, sad reality.

CO2 concentration is 0.04% of the atmosphere. The other, larger concentration greenhouse gas is water vapor.

More CO2 makes more water vapor, multiplying the amount of heat not radiating into space. We don’t know how to reduce water vapor, so that leaves CO2.

The real problem is people.

The folks advocating higher birthrates are most responsible for CO2 increases because all these new people need energy and need to eat, adding even more CO2 needed to support them because forests (CO2 sinks) are replaced with agriculture and the CO2 it creates. A double whammy again.

Humans are an infestation on the planet. We need less people, not more.

Less people equals less CO2, less pollution, less trashing of land and oceans. Look around you - people, people everywhere.

If I believe that, I believe the moon is made of cheese! It seems like noise to me!

Japan needs to reduce its fossil fuel emissions, absolutely.

Japan is way down the list on emissions. If it went to zero, it wouldn’t make a dent in global emissions.

China builds two coal-fired plants every week.

Look at the population and CO2 emission curves. The reason is right in front of everyone’s faces.

host Japan leading a pushback against the most ambitious proposals discussed

In the not-distant future, Japan will be the last developed country with smokestacks and new gasoline-burning cars on the roads.

It's odd how Japan usually sets the most ambitious environmental targets, and then when specific measures are put on the table, it starts moving backward. Action is harder than words, it seems.

G7 pledges to quit fossil fuels faster, but no new deadline set

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in the not-distant future, Japan will be the last developed country with smokestacks and new gasoline-burning cars on the roads.

It's odd how Japan usually sets the most ambitious environmental targets, and then when specific measures are put on the table, it starts moving backward. Action is harder than words, it seems.

Agreed, NEW COAL fired power generation THIS YEAR in Tokyo. Shrinking countries LEAST likely to invest in clean energy, most likely to restart dangerous legacy nuclear, concrete and steel ONLY 12+ years OLDER now.

But reactors now FAR safer because they say so...and no more earthquakes either, amazing!

Japan's energy consumption's dropping for most of this century after all; Action speaks LOUDLY - Talk's CHEAP!