Data points like this out of Vietnam help many grasp how it's possible that global GDP can decrease radically as we continue heat. The repeated destruction of infrastructure will send many economies into a tailspin. Projected global GDP loss at 2ºC = 17% (Burke et al, 2018) #ClimateCrisis

Tackling this issue is the #EnRoads interactive simulator from MIT Sloan, which shows comprehensively that relying on batteries to this extent simply won't work. But the heavy use of biofuels is not an oversight; it's a deliberate attempt to undermine the value and importance of hydrogen.

Yes, but none of these metals are actually produced in the EU or US, even if batteries were a 'silver bullet' to replace fossil fuels - which they emphatically aren't as the new MIT #EnRoadswww.climateinteractive.org/blog/analyzi...

Analyzing climate “silver bullets” with system dynamics

Debunk the magical thinking of 5 common 'silver bullet' climate solutions in the En-ROADS Simulator.

The preoccupation with 'electrifying everything' seems less and less viable as time goes on. Batteries are not a silver bullet, as the new MIT #EnRoads simulator shows explicitly - even if batteries were produced in the EU or the US which they are not because we don't have the materials

Batteries are not a silver bullet to cut emissions, as this MIT Sloan #EnRoads#hydrogenwww.climateinteractive.org/blog/analyzi...

Analyzing climate “silver bullets” with system dynamics

Debunk the magical thinking of 5 common 'silver bullet' climate solutions in the En-ROADS Simulator.

As the interactive MIT Sloane #EnRoadswww.climateinteractive.org/blog/analyzi...

Analyzing climate “silver bullets” with system dynamics

Debunk the magical thinking of 5 common 'silver bullet' climate solutions in the En-ROADS Simulator.

We use #EnROADS#ClimateLiteracywww.climateinteracti...

Analyzing climate “silver bullets” with system dynamics

Debunk the magical thinking of 5 common 'silver bullet' climate solutions in the En-ROADS Simulator.

We can model this in EnROADS - take a look: www.threads.net/@peterdutoit...

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We can show this in the En-ROADS simulator. Here we have taken several major actions: Subsidised renewable energy Energy efficiency in transport & buildings Electrification of both the above Planted....

In this #EnROADSen-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.htm...

In our climate literacy workshops we use the #EnROADS climate simulator to surface challenges that we will be facing in the very near future. Eg. as we continue to heat, there are some serious consequences to the global economy. Here you see the estimates of a reduction in global GDP at +1.54ºC 1/