@golgaloth given that Labor has reinstated the Methane Led Recovery I would have to say the anti climate action lobbying is definitely working. #fossilfuels#labor#alp
The pandemic babies who were born in 2021 will probably never see a world that resembles the one we’re inhabiting now. For those who think we’ll have established a colony on Mars by then and will be shuttling humans that direction, I say wake the fuck up and take care of the planet you’re already living on. JFC.
In the 1880s, the mark of consumption among elites was replacing gaslights for electric ones. Today it is the replacement of electric ones for useless decorative gas lights that constantly burn. We see these in many wealthy neighborhoods in Chicago.
I really don't know about the mechanics of this system. Nor do I know anything about the people. Just always find such fixtures strange.
Meanwhile in Papua New Guinea, finding that export markets for coconuts are contracting, PNG is now using what was once a key export as a biofuel.
Not only is this a demonstration of the innovation that can be forced by circumstance, it is likely to reflect an interest in finding alternatives to fossil fuels across the world.
We'll be seeing a lot more stories like this as human ingenuity side-steps fossil fuels for the green transition.
#Microsoft#FossilFuels#BigTech#DataCenters#Environment: "For nearly a decade, Holly Alpine (née Beale) loved working at Microsoft. Shortly after finishing college, in July 2014, she landed a job there as a technical account manager. Less than four years later, Alpine was leading a program that invests in environmental projects in the communities where Microsoft’s data centers are located. She was also helping organize a worker-led sustainability group called the Sustainability Connected Community, which would grow to nearly 10,000 Microsoft employees worldwide by late 2023.
But at the end of last year, Alpine reached a painful decision: She could no longer ethically work at Microsoft. On January 24, 2024, Alpine sent an email to Microsoft president Brad Smith, CEO Satya Nadella, and several other senior company officials, letting them know why.
Writing on behalf of herself and a colleague who resigned at the same time, Alpine told the tech giant’s top brass that the two were quitting in “no small part” due to Microsoft’s work for the fossil fuel industry aimed at automating and accelerating oil extraction."
Ministers in charge of the UK’s climate policies met with fossil fuel companies and lobbyists over 100 times last year, four times as much as they did external climate scientists, campaigners, and charities.
These ministerial oil and gas industry meetings came as the government backtracked on several policies designed to meet the UK’s 2050 net zero emissions target.
The federal Labor government is in a toxic abusive relationship with the fossil fuel industry - and many people will pay the price for their addiction to this coercive relationship.
We have a corrupt, weak leadership who do not have the courage to fulfil their claim to make Australia a ‘renewable energy superpower’ - we are being gaslit we ‘need’ gas to get us there.
Hope alone is not going to save our kids and their from the fossil fuel giants - it’s time for bold action
It may only be mid-spring but right now although little #electricity is being generated by #wind (2.5 GW or 7.8% of #UK demand) a very healthy 8.6 GW or 26.6% is being met by #SolarEnergy. #Gas is down at 5.7 GW or 17.6%.
The growing global recognition of the human right to a clean environment “is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitatio…
Between 2015-21, Alberta (Canada), to 'encourage' Shell's investment in the province, allowed the Oil company to register (and sell!) double the amount of carbon credits related to avoided emissions at it's facility in the province;
Dignified as a 'subsidy', but effectively allowing 'phantom' carbon credits to be used to off-set real emissions through the market for carbon credits.
Thus more emissions legitimated & a juicy profit for Shell. Another scam!
Chart: How British electricity supplies are shifting decisively away from #FossilFuels
"There continue to be periods when fossil fuels are indispensable for maintaining secure electricity supplies. Yet as the country shifts towards the current government target of a “fully decarbonised” grid by 2035, those periods will become increasingly unusual."
Disinformation follow up! https://youtu.be/8ONGuJCIkpQ?si=fGQE-JAHD4k1wbfo
Highlighting fear campaign by
Atlas Network (interestingly not mentioned by name)
The #fossilfuels industry:
• manufacture doubt
• thrive on our fear
• promote idea they are the only thing between us & dystopian chaos eg promote #gas as #energy transition
• created myth they are working for us
• fuel fear of the other eg anti immigration #politics#statecapture#auspol
Outgoing UN Expert Calls for Global Grassroots Movement to Dislodge ‘Diesel Mafia’ (lighthouse-eco.co.za)
The growing global recognition of the human right to a clean environment “is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitatio…