Why rich people use so much more energy
Why rich people use so much more energy
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It’s mainly all the traveling, says a comprehensive new study.You will need at least a few decades more of this pandemic, if you really want to see any "healing of the Earth.”
We have raped and plundered it a lot. Three months will not change shit. And with the latest relaxation of pollution laws, the raping and plundering is ramping up again as we speak.
"There’s Something in the Water tackles the impact of a longstanding, underreported environmental disaster on Black and Indigenous Nova Scotians."
Ellen Page’s New Documentary Is a Shocking Exploration of Environmental Racism
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"There’s Something in the Water" tackles the impact of a longstanding, underreported environmental disaster on Black and Indigenous Nova Scotians.“Coronavirus exposes that we can do things differently. We must not go back to the status quo.”
Tackle climate crisis and poverty with zeal of Covid-19 fight, scientists urge
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Actions taken to suppress coronavirus reveal what measures are possible in an emergency, say experts“The label “ecofascism” may have a certain convenience, but instead of chasing a new phantom, let’s home in on the real, more dangerous and more powerful enemy. Only by understanding what we’re up against can we build a just and environmentally sound world.”
It’s Not “Ecofascism”—It’s Liberalism ❧ Current Affairs
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In March 2019, a mass shooter in New Zealand killed 51 people at two Christchurch mosques. In the 74-page manifesto containing the rationale for his murder spree, he mixed environmental concern with e...Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry
Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry
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The American Petroleum Institute sought the EPA’s help for companies hurt by COVID-19. One former EPA official called the suspension “an open license to pollute."“The plastics industry, for example, is using the COVID-19 pandemic to try to save what has become in many peoples' minds a global villain—the single-use plastic bag.
Their actions come after a growing number of states and cities have banned plastic bags or slapped fees on their use in retail and grocery stores. Plastic bags and all kinds of other plastics are choking the oceans, with microscopic bits of plastic getting into human bodies, giving the industry a bad reputation. And plastics manufacturing and incineration are contributing to global warming.
But seeing an opportunity in the global crisis, the Plastics Industry Association has asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to declare the bans on plastic bags a health risk, and "to speak out against bans on these products as a public safety risk and help stop the rush to ban these products by environmentalists and elected officials that puts consumers and workers at risk."
The industry cites studies or reports, including at least one paid for by the plastics industry, that claim dirty reusable bags spread germs. Those are findings that are disputed by others, including Greenpeace, which describes the industry efforts as "a profit-driven distraction."
Polluting Industries Cash-In on COVID, Harming Climate in the Process
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Airlines, farmers and plastic bag makers look for relief amid the pandemic. But the coal industry, and wind and solar energy concerns, lose out in the relief bill.Because we need some good news to inspire us
Camera traps in trees reveal a richness of species in Rwandan park
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Camera traps set high up in trees in Rwanda’s Nyungwe National Park captured 35 different mammal species over a 30-day period, including a rare Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii), a small ca...Timeline Photos
Read up on how the use of fossil fuel for agriculture allowed human population to grow far above the natural and sustainable carrying capacity of the planet.
Those things are not mutually exclusive. Overpopulation is clearly an issue, as are the variety of destructive systems we have put in place.
There are 6 billion+ people here because of oil...we're way over carrying capacity and going to crash in my lifetime.
Humanity has the potential to fulfill a vital ecological role, we don’t need to be parasitic
Gonna have to disagree on this one, while we may not be a virus you cant deny that humans are a parasite on this planet, we ruin it more and more and when it's on the brink of being destroyed we look for the next one
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Federal Judge Orders Environmental Review of Dakota Access Pipeline
Federal Judge Orders Environmental Review of Dakota Access Pipeline
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In a major victory for environmentalists and indigenous water protectors, a federal judge ruled Wednesday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act when it p...Once again, the environment gets sacrificed on humanity’s altar.
...actually, make that *capitalism’s* altar.
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a sweeping suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws Thursday, telling companies they would not need to meet environmental standards during t...
What do you think capitalists will say when climate change becomes too severe to ignore? We need a revolution so we don’t have to find out.
“Incredibly, the EPA statement does not even reserve EPA's right to act in the event of an imminent threat to public health,” Cynthia Giles said.
EPA suspends enforcement of environmental laws amid coronavirus
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a sweeping suspension of its enforcement of environmental laws Thursday, telling companies they would not need to meet environmental standards during t...“Research published this week in Environmental Science & Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society (ACS), concludes that trash buried in landfills or incinerated can be an important source of antibiotic-resistance genes in the air. Discarded medications accelerate the evolution of resistance in the bacteria that is found normally in garbage, and that endangers people who live downwind.”
Burned or buried, garbage spreads antibiotic resistance
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New research shows that breathing near a site where trash is burned or buried may be dangerous to your health.The planetary water crisis can be hard to grasp for those of us who are fortunate enough to live where water is not a scarcity, but it is a hard reality for people in much of the world, and intricately entwined with both the climate crisis and the COVID 19 pandemic.
Rosa Lyster · Diary: Where water used to be · LRB 21 March 2020
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I’d always thought people were being metaphorical when they said that Mexico City was sinking, or at least that the..."Some digital events already exist. Earth Day Network, along with climate initiative Exponential Roadmap and the social network We Don’t Have Time is hosting the third annual #WeDontHaveTime online climate conference during Earth Day Week, April 20–25, with more than 20 hours of live talks and events.
Many other groups are now following this line and shifting their activism online.
“What the climate movement is doing now is organizing all our action digitally through digital takeovers, digital strikes, digital solidarity, videos, online content,” said Jamie Margolin, co-founder of Zero Hour. “Everyone is on their phones now so we can completely take over the internet; Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Tick-Tock, Facebook - everything.”
How To Be A Climate Activist During A Pandemic
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The fight against climate change isn't going away; it's going online.How about a little good news for a change?
'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law
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"This is what the tribe has been fighting for many months. Their fearless organizing continues to change the game."I like the positivity. This is awesome.
Solidarity with all frontline workers! Workers who continue to keep our society running during this crisis need big raises, and they need additional protections in place, immediately.
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'This is not a game': Perdue plant employees walk out over COVID-19 concerns
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Almost 50 employees walked out Monday morning say some workers on the production line were in contact with people who tested positive for COVID-19In a slow moving crisis like climate change, those in power can lie and manipulate the truth in order to avoid systemic change. In a fast moving crisis where the consequences are clear, they are forced to defend their actual position: the economy is more important than people’s health and well being. We must end the destructive system that will prioritize profits over the lives of our most vulnerable and we must recognize that it will also prioritize profits over the long term habitability of our planet.
Here it is, right on schedule... www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1167341
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change
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When the COVID-19 pandemic is past, societies may adopt some important measures that would lower emissions, from more teleconferencing to shortening global supply chains. But the most lasting lesson m...soil is usSOIL IS US
We owe our existence to soil. In a sense, we are animate consciously-aware expressions of the life generated by soil. Without soil there would be no terrestrial life forms on earth.
Four-hundred-and-seventy million years ago fungi cytoplasts united with bacteria and algae to become lichen and launched their mutualistic partnership upon a vast single continent of rock. They know longer waited for weatherization to wash nutrients to the sea. They colonized the rock and became the primogenitors of pedogenesis. The Permian forests grew from the soil lichen first built---laying down the coal oil and shale we burn today. Back then the CO2 in the atmosphere was 7000-8000 ppm. Deep soils teeming with life drew CO2 down to as low as 100ppm. Soil gave rise to hydrologic systems. Established the balanced climate in which our species evolved. Yet, to judge by our actions, soil is the most under-valued and abused of all the natural resources at our disposal. The last 30 years have seen an explosion in exciting new panoramas of research into the complex mutualism between plants and the soil biome. We now know that through photosynthesis plant roots deliver a 3rd or more of the sugars plants produce to the soil microorganisms. This liquid carbon drives the vast food web of our biosphere. The soil carbon sponge is designed to be the repository of excess carbon. It is the living library out of which all our dreams of existence are spun. We have come to understand that fungi are a keystone species in this hidden world. And that the conventional agriculture we have developed over the last 60 years has reduced that soil fungal population by 90%. We have degenerated degraded and desertified ½ of the terrestrial planet that is not covered with ice. If we restore this land just think of how much carbon we could draw down.
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Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
Insanity.
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Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots.The state of our oceans
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World Meteorological Office report just released confirms warmer, more acidic oceans and continuing sea-level rise.Come out and do something "dramatic" with us!
We strive to not only create a just future for future generations, but to build a joyous, reflective, and accessible movement along the way. Taking action and building strong community relationships are some of the best antidotes to despair!
‘There is one important takeaway from the coronavirus as it relates to climate, though. Sophia Geiger, a 17-year old climate activist from Washington, DC, tweeted this week: “Imagine if the media reported on the climate crisis like it does on the coronavirus. Headline news every day, constantly releasing an updated death toll, analysing whether world leaders are doing enough, most importantly, making public believe this is something to take seriously.”’
Why don’t we treat the climate crisis with the same urgency as coronavirus? | Owen Jones
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No Cobra meetings, no sombre speeches, yet the consequences of runaway global heating are catastrophic, says Guardian columnist Owen JonesSpace images show drastic drop in China pollution as coronavirus shuts factories‘This is the first time I have seen such a dramatic drop-off over such a wide area for a specific event,’ says Nasa scientist
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The study reported on in this article predicts the Amazon rain forest and African rain forest will be SOURCES of carbon dioxide by the mid-2030s.
"Our modelling of these factors shows a long-term future decline in the African sink and that the Amazonian sink will continue to rapidly weaken, which we predict to become a carbon source in the mid-2030s."
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Tropical forests' carbon sink is already rapidly weakening
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The ability of the world's tropical forests to remove carbon from the atmosphere is decreasing, according to a study tracking 300,000 trees over 30 years, published today in Nature.Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
Tropical forests losing their ability to absorb carbon, study finds
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Amazon could turn into source of CO2 in atmosphere by next decade, research suggests
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This is great news! The Green New Deal for Vermont still has a chance to move forward this session.
"The bill proposed last month by Sen. Anthony Pollina, P/D Washington, would raise $30 million a year from the state’s top 5% of earners over five years. Pollina said about 16,000 wealthy Vermonters earning between $200,000 and $500,000 saved about $237 million a year because of recent federal tax cuts, or an average of $33,000 a year each. Under Pollina’s bill, they would contribute about $3,000 a year, or 10 percent of their tax cuts, to Vermont’s Green New Deal."
Push on to keep Green New Deal alive
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MONTPELIER — Activists urged lawmakers Thursday to support a Green New Deal for Vermont as a way to fund immediate steps to address climate change.Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe
Wet’suwet’en Isn’t Just About a Pipeline, but Keeping Indigenous Women Safe
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Evidence shows a link between the presence of resource extraction workers who live in temporary 'man camps' and violence against Indigenous women and girls.
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
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The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
Former UN Climate Chief Calls For Civil Disobedience
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The woman who led the negotiations for the Paris Agreement has called in a new book for political engagement on climate change that goes well beyond the voting booth.Photos taken 9 days apart from each other. Pressure must be kept on the globe’s largest polluters— fossil fuel companies and the defense industrial complex.
'Antarctica Melts,' NASA Says, Showing Effects Of A Record Warm Spell
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Taken just nine days apart, two images illustrate the impact a recent warm period had on the Antarctic Peninsula. NASA says such warmth "has become more common in recent years."Believe it or not, springtime is coming, and its time to think about planting. In addition to movement building, we should be learning to regenerate the spaces around us. Check out this amazing farm in Maine that sells tree seeds that are cold stratified (ready to plant), in addition to trees that are ready to plant.
Lets do some regenerative planting this spring! If this sounds like your type of thing, send us a message. We don't publicly announce everything we have going on...
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Longest Railway Shutdown in Canadian History Entering it's 8th day | Real People's Media
Longest Railway Shutdown in Canadian History Entering it's 8th day | Real People's Media
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Tyendinaga Mohawks Seek Peaceful Resolution TYENDINAGA MOHAWK TERRITORY – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police invaded Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia on February 5th, 2020 to enforce a ...Not all heroes wear capes
Boring photo—but exciting evening. Montpelier City Council votes unanimously to declare climate emergency!
RCMP arrest Unist'ot'en matriarchs during ceremony to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls
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There are five Wet'suwet'en clans and 13 house groups. The Unist'ot'en (Dark House) is one of three houses within the Gilseyhu (Bull Frog) clan.In Memoriam: 28 Indigenous Rights Defenders Murdered in Latin America in 2019
In Memoriam: 28 Indigenous Rights Defenders Murdered in Latin America in 2019
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Bumblebees' decline points to mass extinction – study
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Populations disappearing in areas where temperatures are getting hotter, scientists sayFor those who don't have time to read all of the read articles out there, here's the take-away in terms of what we can do: "Prof Jeremy Kerr, of the University of Ottawa and the study’s senior author, said: “This work also holds out hope by implying ways that we might take the sting out of climate change for these and other organisms by maintaining habitats that offer shelter, like trees, shrubs or slopes, that could let bumblebees get out of the heat."
I don’t see anyone around here doing much of anything and I am getting really sick of it. I know we aren’t supposed to blame and shame but wtf is wrong with everyone? I’ve just had it. The sooner humans are gone the better so mama earth can get on with fixing all the messes we made. 😭