Are we under an imminent existential threat?
By Arno Schneider – Agricultural Engineer and director of Acrimat
Technological advancement and climate change
The goals of the countries participating in the Climate Conferences are always the same and are already publicized. With each COP that passes, we will have to pay for more and more emission-neutralizing medicines.
At COP 27 it became clear that we were not making much progress in carbonizing the atmosphere.
If, however, science has confirmed that we are heading towards drainage promoted by anthropogenic causes, with disastrous consequences warned by the Climate Panel, this same science will be able to resolve all these issues.
There are three main anthropogenic emissions of climate gases. Oil consumption from extraction, refining and burning of fuels, energy production and individual use, including all agricultural activities and deforestation.
Vehicles with internal combustion engines, which consume fossil fuels, were replaced around 10-20 years ago by electric vehicles. The process will be extensive and inexorable.
The oil industry, responsible for most climate pollutants, will almost disappear.
Energy production, a major emitter of EGE, will tend to be almost completely clean. Biofuels, such as wind and solar energy, and atomic energy, coming from nuclear fission and fusion, will be the champions of energy production. A technology that will promote greater fastening security and economic viability for the foundry.
In agriculture, three technological themes, produced by Brazilian research, all consider the impact of productivity and ambience: direct planting, which helps to progress in the off-season; large terraces, which control erosion and allow machine traffic in all directions and the ILPF (Crop–Livestock–Forest Integration) project and its combinations, recently named by Embrapa suppliers.
In particular, the use of ionophores, the reduction of the idea of abatement, the integration of pasture-forest and the reform of pastures, are technologies with a direct impact on the coal balance.
With regard to deforestation, what has only been assumed will be fully resolved when a standing forest is worth more than a stolen forest. The carbon credits market will solve this problem.
All of these technologies are either already in use or will be made viable in the next one or two decades and if they precede the announced climate catastrophism.
However, if you do this, it is necessary to use some technology that reduces the CO2 that already exists in the atmosphere. The most promising, called DAC, directly sucks CO2 from the atmosphere. There are 19 experimental plants in operation. It still remains to make gas capture economically viable.
The installation of catalysts in factory ducts also favors the trapping of gas directly during its emission.
It is also necessary to consider that you will not give up food security or the comforts you have achieved.
Proof of this is the reactivation of dozens of coal-fired plants in Europe following a gas outage in Russia.
Environmental sustainability does not need to be romantic, emotional or poetic. Commercial interests, ideologies or other biased components must be eliminated. Science, through new technologies for each productive sector, will have to prevail and will be decisive in solving the announced climate crisis and catastrophism.
Since Malthus, in the 18th century, the prophets of chaos have done badly.
The great judge of this impasse will be science.
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