Category: environment

“Banking on Climate Chaos”

“Last year was the hottest year on record, but that did not stop global banks from walking back climate pledges and significantly increasing fossil fuel financing. Over 65 banks across the world, including CIBC, TD Bank, and Royal Bank of Canada in the top 15, have committed $10.8 trillion to fossil fuel financing since 2016 …

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Jeffrey Sachs – listen to this

from “Emergency Skin” by N. K. Jemisin

” … the Founders told us that the Earth died because of greed. That was true, but they lied about whose greed was to blame. …” “What the Leaving proved was that the Earth could sustain billions, if we simply shared resources and responsibilities in a sensible way. What it couldn’t sustain was a handful …

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Climate Records Broken in 2024

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/12/27/climate-records-broken-2024   (Pity the title.  ‘Breaking a record’ sounds like such a good thing, a positive achievement.  Should be called ‘Worst Ever’ occurrences or something.)

Chip Manufacturing and Global Warming

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/12/25/taiwan-struggles-to-reconcile-climate-ambitions-and-chip-manufacturing (There may well be better articles out there, but this one caught my eye…)  

Extrapolations – highly recommended

It’s on AppleTV.

The Overstory, Richard Powers

from The Overstory, Richard Powers … eyes toward the wilderness … [He] sees slabs of light through the trunks where there should be shadow all the way to the forest’s heart.  … [He investigates then] stumbles back through the curtain of concealing trees … “Have they been clear-cutting, up the valley?” … “Shit, yeah.” “And …

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It’s as simple as this – “Polluters do not …”

“Polluters do not deserve to live.  That’s the first thing children are taught: Do not foul the life system.”  from “Touchdown” by Nancy Kress  

Too stupid to live

Forest fires and heat waves all over the planet, so we need all the trees we have to absorb the CO2 that’s causing the forementioned forest fires and heat waves, and this guy cut down godknows how many trees then set fire to them in order to provide meat for those who still eat it …

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Great bit from The Onion

https://www.theonion.com/raid-recalls-entire-line-of-insecticide-after-realizing-1828656335