According to Time: Call for Global North Nations to Divest from Fossil Fuels Totally by 2040

"Call for Global North Nations to Divest from Fossil Fuels Totally by 2040"

by ben bussewitz

first published 1 October 2024

revised and published 9 October 2025

There is a profound, planet-preserving, and sound scientific consensus: are the developed countries of the Global North able to completely stop using fossil fuels-- coal, oil, and gas-- by 2040 (about 15 years from now), then we will offset all the detrimental effects from manmade global warming/climate change.

Given this truth, there is no alternative choice.  There are possibilities of great catastrophes, global warming to continue unfettered or without it totally ceasing (which is a true possibility, as we see, given multiple parties working together toward shared ends).

The fossil fuel industries are aiming to prevent this from happening, lobbying politicians with egregious sums, to perpetuate the existing system of energy infrastructure.

This kind of egregious, non-ethical standard, allays the hopes of the people, for World Civilization to come to a place past the way, in the goodness of our days, in which we have come to this crossroads-- climate warming or climate peace, global chaos and catastrophe or global harmony of Nature.

This is imperative: to collectively function, to in harmony and many parties collaborating, to work together to speak for the people's will in our 2025 World Civilization: to bring a cessation to global climate change!

Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industries are developing genetically-modified organism (GMO) plants that are capable of maintaining photosynthesis and growth at levels of climate change/global warming above four-five degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial temperatures.  This is indicative of their cynical, cataclysmic plan of maintaining the same system of energy infrastructure while profiting from it moreover-- while they could simply transition into a green energy infrastructure that is capable of allowing natural organisms/plants to grow, not to mention offsetting all the deleterious effects of climate change/global warming.

Interestingly enough, the same people who are investing in attaining ways in which GMOs can grow in higher temperatures are the people who began the conspiracy of climate change denial.

And they keep paying the politicians, who set the stage for the rhetoric of the nations, to continue to state that we can continue to utilize fossil fuels, as though we are naive and unaware of the harm that it has caused and is slated to cause are we to continue to not carry out: systemic energy infrastructure change to a green planet model.

What does it take to create systemic change?

It takes a paradigm shift on the part of the collective and voiced will of the people, along with the leaders who represent them and put into place their will (in relation to what they say and propagate broadly) in a way that brings out greater environmental awareness.

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All around the world, in every nation, there are electric cars.  Flying across the sky, there are electric airplanes.

Every building has a roof.  Why not fill them with solar panels in an authentically aesthetically-pleasing manner? 

The breeze blows throughout the air.  Why not a global plethora of windmills?

Here are two of my suggestions.

Moreover, there is an action-plan in elite echelon's of the university in the Earth Studies department that is to bring about systemic structural change that will alleviate global warming and bring about a green transition to a sustainable climate planet-model.  (However, the professors and scientists who occupy this ownership of this great blueprint, know that they cannot put it into effect without the broad and sweeping support of the global citizens throughout the world.)

Alas, we have the tools we need.  Let's do this together, a people as one, The World as One.

article by Ben Bussewitz