All we have to do is:
* Grow the forests by 5-15%
* Raise crop yeilds by 40 - 60%
* Get hundreds of million electric cars on the road by 2050
* Get CO2 emitted per unit of electricity to fall by at least 90%
* Switch to diets high in vegetables
* Only eat meat from animals raised through intensive farming
Simple, or so says the calculator from this group. The detail is a bit iffy, well non-existent, but if the calculator says we will be fine then why not?
Err, could it be that replanting forest will take up food producing farmland? Could it also be that raising crop yields by up to 60% is impossible? How about where is the electricity to come from for all those eco friendly electric cars? How is the CO2 per unit going to be dropped by 90%, what technology will be used? All the evidence is that as countries grow richer their populations move away from veg to meat diets, how will that be reversed? Where will all these intensive farms for the meat be located? And what about global population size? As ever the subject is conveniently bypassed.
Rather than just reporting these ideas as viable solutions, with a good dose of feelgood factor thrown in, it is time the media forced these goons to provide hard evidence. We need details of the figures, statistics, and the technologies, processes and methods which will be used to achieve these dreams.
I did check, and it is not April 1st yet.