As Elizabeth Warren points out in this brief video, over the six years since the Paris Climate Accord was signed, the world’s 60 largest banks have poured $4.6 trillion into fossil fuel extraction. Of course, through accounting tricks and vague …
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India Not Happy with Carbon Tax
The plan of the EU and the United States to tax coal and other carbon intensive products is not sitting well with developing nations like India, as presented in the article linked above. India and other developing nations will be …
Coal Industry Amenable To Transition to Green Energy
From this piece on the coal industry: Coal country is in free fall and is pleading for help from Washington. That’s why the largest union in one of the dirtiest industries is broadly backing President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion green infrastructure package — …
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MIT’s Look at Civilization’s Megatrends
Here are 9 top megatrends as seen by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Tagged with: climate change mitigation, climate crisis, destroying public education, massive disinformation campaigns and denial of science, sustainability means meeting our own needs in a manner in which future generations are able to meet theirs, Water a stressed resource, water shortage and drought
Climate Deniers Still Exist, and They Make Lots of Noise Wherever They Go
As suggested here, it’s still possible to find climate deniers with PhDs after their names. There aren’t many, but they still do exist. Patrick Moore, for instance, was interviewed last year on Fox and Friends and said, “The whole climate …
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In the Adoption of Cleantech, the Carrot May Be More Effective Than the Stick
The “gloom and doom” messaging (including, often, my own) that pervades so many texts on environmentalism comes at a cost in terms of motivating its audience. In particular, the effect of scaring people about a phenomenon that is cascading over a …
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Optimism and Climate Change Mitigation
I attended a meeting of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby in Santa Barbara this morning, where our small group joined 189 others around the country on a videoconference. This virtual gathering featured two fabulous speakers who both made compelling and uplifting …
