1/2 Glasgow Council thinks it's good because it will close a limited number of city centre roads for 6 hours, whilst simultaneously allowing #Ford Motors to cover itself in a cloud of #greenwash
#Democracy is far more than voting every so often. As one person, you can't change society, or sustain a policy, if the majority of people in the society don't agree with you ?__& or, for example, aren't aware that a change is needed.
Democracy is a numbers system. Change enough minds that #ClimateChange is a serious threat, & the government will listen (if they want to stay in power)
But, that influence goes both ways. Some politicians & industry workers influence people using #greenwash
From today's local newspaper via Bay Area Newsgroup...
"The brand-new vehicles (buses), which could arrive as soon as the end of 2024, have water as their only tailpipe emissions....
There's just one problem: Most of the #hydrogen that is currently available is produced from #fossilfuels, and that causes more of the #greenhousegas emissions that hydrogen buses are supposed to reduce."
Why is social media awash with rich or wannabe rich people's agenda's
Rich people's finger prints are all over social media. Many film's are littered with product endorsements & capitalist ideologies.
The rich persons finger prints are all over the crime scene that is #ClimateChange & over consumption
Is being rich & lying positively correlated? The more rich someone becomes, the more they believe in their own bullshit? The more they are biased towards spreading #greenwash?
#Greenwash bullshit claiming "I'm A Living Green Wall" on a cardboard wall to which dead, dried & dyed moss has been hot-glued. The fake "#LivingGreenWall" is inside a retail outlet of a large (€15 billion revenue, 100,000 employees) multinational. There is no natural light, with plastic plants decorating the café and lobby.
The bullshit undermines their many #sustainable & #circular retail claims, and ridicules genuine #ClimateCrisis responses.
As #COP28 prepares to pave way for massive expansion in the market for #CarbonCredits, campaigners have warned that they now represent “as big a threat to #IndigenousLands as logging and mining.” #IndigenousRights org #SurvivalInternational said: “COP28 could be the “Blood Carbon COP”, when governments, big business & conservation NGOs work together to boost the carbon credits market, rather than seriously address real causes of the #ClimateCrisis.
While critics are right many #art & #cultural institutions have been used to #greenwash#energy & other firms reputations (see latest row of funding at the #NationalPortraitGallery), the real problem here is the UK's lack of strategic & stable support for our cultural sector.
So, in one sense the critics are right but this has become a sort of victim blaming - galleries & other institutions have to get funds from somewhere but what's on offer may not be problem-free
Dear Mr Gianni Infantino, I would hereby like to reiterate my sincere #FuckYou
FIFA just decided to organize #WorldCup2030 in Spain, Portugal, Morocco AND SOUTH AMERICA -- yes, you read that right!
This time they are not even trying to #greenwash their madness, but invent a new concept, #peaceWashing:
«In a divided world, Fifa and football are uniting, a great message of peace, tolerance and inclusion”.
Biomass power stations burn plant material to produce steam to drive a turbine. UK's largest power station, Drax, is a former coal-fired power station converted to burn wood pellets. Drax imports most of its wood pellets, by clearfelling irreplaceable old-growth forests in Canada
UK classifies biomass wood pellets as "renewable" despite biomass releasing 8% more CO2 than coal
BANK OF AMERICA: STOP FINANCING METHANE GAS EXPANSION!
You wouldn’t call #coal “natural rock” but #BigBanks — and their #FossilFuel clients — love to #greenwash#Methane gas (or #LNG) as “liquefied natural gas” to mask the massive impacts on health and climate. Methane gas is a #climate superpollutant that can cause serious health impacts.
Methane gas is the fastest-growing fossil fuel sector in the world at exactly the time
More good #ClimateProgress news as EV sales are sizzling in Germany. EVs were 37% of sales in August, up 78% compared to August 2022.
Fully electric vehicles were 32% of sales! Germany is 5th largest auto market in world. China is the biggest auto market, twice USA's, which is the 2nd.
This #ClimateWeek, I've noticed that the #nuclear lobbying industry on social media has been trying to #GreenWash their bread & butter.
Just try to keep this in mind if nothing else as they do: Jaw-dropping: the United Kingdom is spending $3 billion/year, for 100+ years, to decommission the nuclear plants that they already have with still no waste storage plan!
Every dollar towards nuclear vastly delays decarbonization compared to that same money invested into renewables and transmission.
Al Gore warned us some two decades ago that we faced an “Inconvenient Truth.” We didn’t heed his warnings, and now he warns us again. Will we heed it now?
There's been plenty of 'heeding' and next to no action because #fossil#capiltalism retains power.
At this stage, I can only see #revolutionary change forming the 'we' needed to disempower fossil capitalism and prevent the slide into fascism and a general state of war and #climate catastrophe.
As more forests burn due to global heating, many people will try not to think too much about this 🫣, & instead they will be thinking about their next jet-set holiday 🤔
As #tourist companies "adapt" their #greenwash to the new "normal", that they contributed towards causing with, for example, aiming to get more "bums on passenger flight seats" with their fake carbon offsetting schemes, l expect they will have their sights on cooler locations that are less probable to burn.
I was having a conversation with someone I had just met the other day when he said an ignorant opinion that he apparently believed was true (he wanted it to be true). He said, to paraphrase "My diesel car must be about carbon neutral by now"
Fact "X" amount of CO2 is emitted to construct the car (resources, power, etc). "X" amount of CO2 is emitted for fueling & using a diesel car
What disinformation ( #greenwash ) had this adult heard that made him believe in nonsense?
In a nutshell, they are instruments to 'short #sustainability' - Yes, betting on our own self-destruction.
The more the World fails to achieve its carbon reduction targets, the more valuable these useless credits will be... but they have ZERO effect in reducing the CO2 in the air.
So we will end up with an overheated and unlivable planet, humanity at the brink of extinction... and a big pile of money...
Pathetic.
Carbon credits are the brainchild of someone who when presented with a disaster about to happen, doesn't search for solutions, but ways of profiting from it.
I don't even want to think about the new universe of carbon credit derivatives, futures, swaps and crypto tokens that will be build around this empty concept.
We need actual ways of removing CO2 from the atmosphere, so the big bucks and brains should be going to those ideas instead.
No more time and money spent on moving CO2 from left to right for a fee. This does not help at all.
Some ‘renewable’ UK incinerators are more polluting than coal stations
Exclusive: #Waste firms and councils accused of ‘greenwashing’ with false claims over burning #rubbish for #energy
'#Greenwashing’ incinerator firms are burying evidence that burning #HouseholdWaste for energy can be more polluting than coal-fired power plants, openDemocracy can reveal.
Waste companies promote #incinerators as generators of ‘renewable’ or ‘low-carbon’ energy but evidence from their own monitors shows that the UK’s 57 incinerators emitted more than seven million tonnes of fossil-based #CarbonDioxide last year, largely from burning #plastic
More than half of incinerated #plastic is either “readily recyclable” or “potentially recyclable”, according to analysis of waste.
Feel like I’m very much a minority voice on here that appreciates how Apple is a privacy protecting company compared to its competitors. I’m not the hard-liner zealot that dominates this space who practices the Stallman dogma even though I’m a fairly well-known privacy zealot. You can reply-guy me till you’re blue in the face but you’re not changing my mind on this.