Why can’t people just protest without causing disruption? Well, turns out peaceful protesting just gets ignored.
‘Academic research backs this up, showing a clear imbalance in the media coverage of disruptive and non-disruptive protest.
Theorists call this the “protest paragdim” and it serves two purposes: feeding a media that thrives on spectacle and outrage, while also helping to vilify protesters.’
I’m glad my parents did not have to live through the collapse we are experiencing.
I’m sorry that my children and my grandchildren will have to try somehow to survive it.
#India needs 2.5 percent of its GDP ($ 3.2 tn) to cut #emissions deeply. That's $ 80 bn a year.
"Estimates suggest that compared with a no policy action scenario that could increase India's carbon emissions to 3.9 gigatonnes by 2030 (from 2.7 gigatonnes in 2021), a balanced policy intervention can lower carbon emissions to 0.9 gigatonne by 2030, the report added."
Large majority of Indians are "alarmed" or concerned about #ClimateChange and ready to see climate action from their government.
“The implications of this report for India are significant, as it shows that the majority of the Indian public is concerned about global warming and supports #climate and #energy policies.
The “alarmed” and “concerned” segments are highly educated and younger than the rest of the categories.”
Our #Renewable future: Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent
Clean #Energy
"Our lives, communities, and economies changed radically with the transition from wood and muscle power to fossil fuels, and so it is logical that a transition from fossil fuels to renewables—
that is, a fundamental change in the quantity and quality of energy available to power human civilization—will also entail a major shift in how we live." https://www.resilience.org/resources/our-renewable-future-laying-the-path-for-one-hundred-percent-clean-energy/
Steven Milloy, a right wing commentator and activist has put forth a shareholder proposal for Chevron's annual meeting to rescind a nonbinding shareholder resolution from 2 years ago aiming to reduce scope 3 emissions. #ESG#FossilFuels
Full disclosure, I'm a Follow This member, and am using my position as a Chevron shareholder to vote for Follow This's proposals.
But I think it's funny how worked up he is about a nonbinding shareholder resolution and an "illegal" nonbinding international accord. #ParisAccord#climate#finance
Record Fossil Fuel Subsidies Reach $57.1B After Climate Election
New research shows fossil fuel subsidies over the forward estimates have increased to a record breaking $57.1b, up from the $55.3b forecast in 2022
As the federal budget approaches, future fossil fuel subsidies will cost 14 times the amount invested in the Australian Disaster Ready Fund, & more than the amount spent on the Australian Army
See inside the arty new bike tunnel that's the longest in Europe
Known as the Fyllingsdalstunnelen, the tunnel cuts through the Løvstakken mountain in the southwest Norwegian city, linking the residential areas of Fyllingsdalen and Mindemyren. Cyclists can continue on to the centre of Bergen using existing routes
German Leaders Promise That New Liquefied Gas Terminals Have a Green Future, but Clean Energy Experts Are Skeptical.
The government says that proposed onshore terminals could one day be converted to produce clean hydrogen. But that technology is in the embryonic stage, stirring worry that the terminals will simply prolong the use of fossil fuels.
Energy flows through (in from sunlight and then radiated away into space some time later - Earth is just a temporary stop-off)
Stuff/atoms/matter goes round and round
Every decision we make about a sustainable future should bear those in mind. We can’t change these rules, so we have to choose what we do to work within this system, like the rest of nature does. And this illuminates a lot of issues (see following posts). #climate#Earth#Energy
Mexico approves mining reforms to protect environment, Indigenous people.
Reforms to Mexico’s mining law limit harmful practices by extractive industries and improve protections for the environment and Indigenous peoples. But they’re also a far cry from the change activists had been hoping for.