Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China (and Won't Even Save the Planet)

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iow I am suggesting it is not the 1, 2 or 3 meter seal level that will get us it will be the death by a thousand cuts that will. Climate science has ignored those multiplicity of cuts leading to destruction of infrastructures and bark huts, loss of economic viability, supply chain ructions, social instability and riots, loss of homes roads grocery stores, and disruption or a total loss of food energy and water supply etc.

Bravely challenging the Establishment consensus ... forensically argued' - Mail on SundayThe British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The Babylonian positional numeral system differed from the later Hindu–Arabic system in that it did not explicitly specify the magnitude of the leading sexagesimal digit, so that for example the lone digit 1 ( ) might represent any of 1, 60, 3600 = 60 2, etc., similar to the significand of a floating-point number but without an explicit exponent, and so only distinguished implicitly from context. The zero-like placeholder mark was only ever used in between digits, but never alone or at the end of a number. [11] Pre-Columbian Americas Maya numeral zeroLumpkin, Beatrice (2002). "Mathematics Used in Egyptian Construction and Bookkeeping". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 24 (2): 20–25. doi: 10.1007/BF03024613. Hansen, Alice (9 June 2008). Primary Mathematics: Extending Knowledge in Practice. SAGE. ISBN 978-0-85725-233-3. Archived from the original on 7 March 2021 . Retrieved 7 November 2020.

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Common names for the number 0 in English include zero, nought, naught ( / n ɔː t/), and nil. In contexts where at least one adjacent digit distinguishes it from the letter O, the number is sometimes pronounced as oh or o ( / oʊ/). Informal or slang terms for 0 include zilch and zip. Historically, ought, aught ( / ɔː t/), and cipher have also been used. From the 13th century, manuals on calculation (adding, multiplying, extracting roots, etc.) became common in Europe where they were called algorismus after the Persian mathematician al-Khwārizmī. The most popular was written by Johannes de Sacrobosco, about 1235 and was one of the earliest scientific books to be printed in 1488. Until the late 15th century, Hindu–Arabic numerals seem to have predominated among mathematicians, while merchants preferred to use the Roman numerals. In the 16th century, they became commonly used in Europe. A recent 30 October 2021 article by Marian Wilkinson argues that the CCS will be used to greenwash gigantic LNG exports from Australia: Wallin, Nils-Bertil (19 November 2002). "The History of Zero". YaleGlobal online. The Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale. Archived from the original on 25 August 2016 . Retrieved 1 September 2016. These promised 'nature-based solutions' risk replicating the imperialist models which got us into this crisis in the first place – with countries in the Global South now acting as a carbon sink for pollution from the most industrialised nations.

Egyptian numerals". mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 15 November 2019 . Retrieved 21 December 2019. Reducing supply without reducing demand would result in price increases and greater economic volatility, he warned.The sum of 0 numbers (the empty sum) is 0, and the product of 0 numbers (the empty product) is 1. The factorial 0! evaluates to 1, as a special case of the empty product. [68] Other branches of mathematics The empty set has zero elements Mr Skidmore, the MP for Kingswood, told the Energy Institute’s International Energy Week conference on Tuesday it was crucial that the UK found a way to challenge “the corrosive narrative that somehow suggests net zero makes us poorer and colder – it’s going to make us warmer and richer”. In an April 2021 article in The Conversation, three climate scientists make a very persuasive case against the very notion of net zero: https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368. A couple of quotes summarise their argument:

There is much we can do, but Quaker meetings cannot eliminate their carbon emissions entirely without wider changes to our economy and society – that is why climate action means working for system change, not just individual change. To imply otherwise risks letting governments off the hook.

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Many APIs and operating systems that require applications to return an integer value as an exit status typically use zero to indicate success and non-zero values to indicate specific error or warning conditions. Even if this were to work – which is highly uncertain – the large-scale deployment of BECCS would risk pushing us beyond other planetary boundaries including freshwater use and soil health. Estimates of the amount of land required are as high as 3000 million hectares – twice the total amount of land currently under cultivation globally. You can find out more in this briefing from Friends of the Earth International (PDF).