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Big Oil’s Big Lie About Who Caused the Climate Collapse

28Nov

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Environment, USA

Big Oil’s Big Lie About Who Caused the Climate Collapse

BY EVE OTTENBERG Oil pollution in Lago Agrio. Photograph Source: Julien Gomba – CC BY 2.0 Veganism isn’t the answer to climate change, nor is eschewing air travel. Both help, but don’t tackle the problem systemically. Ending drilling oil and gas wells would zap emissions much more effectively, but since every little bit counts, it’s a good idea to encourage people to reduce their carbon footprint. Encourage, not shame. And renouncing shaming especially goes for those who insist that having children unacceptably raises a person’s carbon footprint to the level of a climate problem. It doesn’t. And the word for the harangue that it does is eco-fascism. The very problematic concept of one’s carbon footprint is the subject of Sami Grover’s new book, We’re All Climate Hyp...

Polluters Urged to ‘Pay Up’ for Climate Damage as Economic Devastation Awaits World’s Poorest

25Nov

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Environment, World

Polluters Urged to ‘Pay Up’ for Climate Damage as Economic Devastation Awaits World’s Poorest

"It's time for rich nations and polluters to pay up for loss and damage" sustained by the Global South due to the human-driven climate crisis, said the aid group behind a new study. JULIA CONLEY As global leaders marked "Adaptation, Loss, and Damage Day" at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland Monday, a new study detailed the vast scope of economic damage that awaits the world's most vulnerable economies if the Global North continues burning climate-heating fossil fuels while offering only "paltry" support for poor nations. Commissioned by Christian Aid and authored by Marina Andrijevic, a researcher at Humboldt University in Berlin, "Lost and Damaged" details "the likely extent of economic damage to the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations in...

Capitalist leaders at COP26: ‘Full steam ahead to climate catastrophe!’

23Nov

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Environment, Europe, USA

Capitalist leaders at COP26: ‘Full steam ahead to climate catastrophe!’

Tina Landis Download PDF flyer Photo: Protest in Glasgow. Credit — The Left (Flickr) Tina Landis is the author of the book Climate Solutions Beyond Capitalism. As the COP26 UN climate summit comes to a close, we are once again left with empty promises and a vague path forward to avert climate catastrophe. The corporate media is celebrating that for the first time in the 26 years of climate summits, the agreement coming out of Glasgow explicitly calls out fossil fuels as the cause of climate change. The bar couldn’t be lower. Current emissions reduction pledges — which are non-binding and not enforced — have us on track for around 2.4 C warming over pre-industrial levels, which would be catastrophic. 1.5 C warming is the threshold that scientists wa...

Let the Sun Shine: Making Solar Power Work

21Nov

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Environment

Let the Sun Shine: Making Solar Power Work

BY JOHN K. WHITE Photograph Source: Bjoern Schwarz – CC BY 2.0 Now that the dust has settled on the COP26 Glasgow meeting, can we say anything has changed? The powers-that-be tell us there are pledges for 85% reduction in deforestation, reduced methane emissions in 80 countries, and an end to financing of overseas fossil-fuel projects by some countries. There was even a call for more US-China cooperation, despite one leader slagging off the other’s no-show. Alas, all a little vague with no enforcement mechanism to ensure compliance. Essentially, “the check is in the mail” or more “blah, blah, blah” as Swedish climate crusader Greta Thunberg reminded us yet again. One meme doing the rounds may have put it best, “Number of years leaders have been coming to COP – 26, number of...

Why our climate isn’t jumping for joy after COP26

20Nov

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Environment

Why our climate isn’t jumping for joy after COP26

The climate conference ended with a watered down promise to phase down rather than phase out coal-powered energy generation and only the most powerful countries got to finalise the pact. By: Vijay PrashadBy: Zoe Alexandra 31 May 2021: A giant work of sand art, self-funded by British artists Sand In Your Eye, on New Brighton Beach in Wirral, Merseyside. (Photograph by Christopher Furlong/ Getty Images) Two major gains took place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow, Scotland, which concluded on 13 November: the first was that there would be another COP in 2022 in Egypt, and the second was that the world leaders expressed their aspiration to keep global temperature below 1.5°C alive. These were, however, the only gains made at the end of COP26 to address the press...

Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Nazi Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine

13Nov

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Environment, Human Rights, ZIO-NAZI

Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Nazi Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine

Bill Gates Should Know Better: How the Israeli Occupation Ravages the Environment in Palestine Gates' obsession with 'innovation' might have blinded him from addressing other issues that Israel is also 'known for'—namely, being the world's leading human rights violator, whose horrific track record of racial apartheid and violence is known to every member of the United Nations. RAMZY BAROUD Those who are not familiar with how Israel, particularly the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, is actively and irreversibly damaging the environment might reach the erroneous conclusion that Tel Aviv is at the forefront of the global fight against climate change. The reality is the exact opposite. In his speech at the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Israel...

What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change, in Its Own Words

10Nov

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Environment, USA

What Big Oil Knew About Climate Change, in Its Own Words

BY BENJAMIN FRANTA Refinery, Ashland, Kentucky. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change – and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it. I pored over boxes of papers, thousands of pages. I began to recognize typewriter fonts from the 1960s and ‘70s and marveled at the legibility of past penmanship, and got used to squinting when it wasn’t so clear. What those papers revealed is now changing our understanding of how climate change became a crisis. On Oct. 28, 2021, executives from Exxon, BP, Chevron, Shell and the American Petroleum Institute faced questi...

Al Gore proposes mass surveillance to find climate change ‘culprits’

6Nov

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Environment, USA

Al Gore proposes mass surveillance to find climate change ‘culprits’

By Ken Macon | Reclaim The Net Former Vice President Al Gore promoted a technology developed by the Climate TRACE coalition that tracks greenhouse gas emissions. The technology can help identify those that are “most responsible for climate change” but the system is already being accused of being nothing but mass surveillance. Gore was vice president under President Bill Clinton. The Democrat has long been an advocate for measures to combat climate change. In an interview on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports, he touted the Climate TRACE technology, saying it would help reveal the identities of those responsible for greenhouse gases emissions. The government and climate change activists could use the data to hold greenhouse gases emitters accountable for “destroying” the en...

Media outlets campaign to get Facebook to censor climate “misinformation”

5Nov

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Environment, Media

Media outlets campaign to get Facebook to censor climate “misinformation”

By Didi Rankovic | Reclaim The Net A series of articles have been appearing lately in Big Media, piling pressure on Facebook to step up censorship of what’s considered to be “climate misinformation” on the giant platform. These reports published by the BBC, The Guardian, and The Verge – all citing and giving a lot of space to a study into climate-related content on Facebook produced by several fairly obscure advocacy groups – came shortly after Big Tech declared “climate misinformation” and “climate denial” to be its next censorship target. One of these groups, “The Real Facebook Oversight Board,” announced on Twitter that it is publishing a quarterly report that documents “Facebook’s harms on climate change.” The outfit, which states to be a part of the th...

Massive mobilization in Rome protests G-20 summit

5Nov

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Environment

Massive mobilization in Rome protests G-20 summit

Trade unions, progressive political parties, anti-imperialists, youth/student groups, climate activists, and others participated in the mobilization in Rome to denounce the neoliberal agenda of the 16th G20 summit that prioritize profits over people by Peoples Dispatch ‘You G20, We the future!’ (Photo: via Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) in Italy) Progressive sections in Italy organized a massive protest during the G20 summit that took place in Rome last week. On Saturday, October 30, during the opening of the summit, a massive protest rally titled ‘You G20, We the future!’ was held in Rome. Left-wing political parties, trade unions, youth/students groups, climate activists, and others took part. The protesters denounced the G20 summit, an international coordination s...