All your servers run on Green Energy. Your cloud provider plants a tree for any VM you spin up. Your employer bought emission certificates for you and all your colleagues last christmas. And yet, the climate crisis seems to keep escalating year by year. What else can we do? This ignite talk might be disturbing, but will also try to offer some insight into our options.

1. ATTN
This presentation may be disturbing to some or all viewers.
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2. Let’s talk climate
And climate change
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https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/infographic-the-difference-between-1-5-and-2-degrees-warming/
Your Business Is Not Green Enough

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https://sustainability.yale.edu/explainers/yale-experts-explain-paris-climate-agreement
Your Business Is Not Green Enough

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https://klimawende.koeln/2022/08/22/unser-co2-budget/
Your Business Is Not Green Enough
1.5C goal
Has a 50% chance
With net 0 carbon
By 2030
A 2040 goal
Gives 67% chance
For 1.75C
Germany
Takes even longer

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https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571
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https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571
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8. @felix-frank.net / @felixf@chaos.social
https://bsky.app/profile/rahmstorf.bsky.social/post/3kcazrtnvez2o
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The sea has risen
By > 20cm
Since 1900
Half of this
Since 1980-ish
Satellite data
Indicates
An increasing trend

9. We Are Screwed
Or rather, we are screwing billions of people
in the global south
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1954663/rice-exports-primed-for-decade-low
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https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/1954663/rice-exports-primed-for-decade-low
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https://energiesysteme-zukunft.de/themen/debatte/sektorziele/
Your Business Is Not Green Enough
Germany has goals
In our Climate Laws
But in 2023
We missed them
already
…

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https://klimawende.koeln/2022/08/22/unser-co2-budget/
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But even if we hit
The goals are too
lax
Even for 2C

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https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/carbon-offsets-are-not-our-get-out-jail-free-card
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https://www.plugitinsolar.com/single-post/2018/11/28/What-Is-A-Carbon-Footprint
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https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Capital-investment-in-the-global-oil-and-gas-industry-USD-Million-The-source-compiled_fig1_339776313
Your Business Is Not Green Enough
Fossil Growth

17. Limit Business with
Automotive
Big Industry etc.
Get bills paid, but find your balance
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What can we do?
1) Economy

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Your Business Is Not Green Enough
What can we do?
2) Time

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https://letztegeneration.org/presse/pressebilder/
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Support Activism
What can we do?
3) Activism

20. @felix-frank.net / @felixf@chaos.social
Your Business Is Not Green Enough
Re-empower
marginalized
communities
What can we do?
4) Solidarity

21. Thank you
Find me on Mastodon or Bluesky
(for another little while legacy Twitter @felis_rex)
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