Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from #climate change
“Finally, maybe for the first time anywhere, Vermont is going to hold the companies most responsible for climate-driven floods, fires and heat waves financially accountable for a fair share of the damages they’ve caused.”
The world has enough FF projects planned to meet global energy demand forecasts to 2050 & govts should stop issuing new oil, gas & coal licenses, acc to a lg. study aimed at pol leaders.
A rare moment when a video title is not clickbait. Great report from DW Planet A on energy system inefficiencies. I've wonder whether talking more about efficiency and waste to climate skeptics might bring them on board with green policies. Personally, I don't care how we do it, as long as we get to the same end result of a more sustainable world.
"#Climate-induced disasters, in the shape of devastating floods and excessive rains, have increased the burden of #malaria manifold, registering an alarming spike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province [#Pakistan] in the preceding year of 2023.
Data compiled by the Public Health Department puts that in startlingly concrete terms: KP's malaria burden more than tripled in one year, a jump from 150,000 cases in 2022 to 500,000 in 2023, Dr Roghani disclosed."
"Natural gas producers are planning for a significant spike in demand over the next decade, as artificial intelligence drives a surge in electricity consumption that renewables may struggle to meet alone." #AI#climate#ClimateCollapse#environment
Our account goal is not to be popular. Our goal is to inspire a few people to be the change about composting and hope that with a domino effect, they will inspire others.
This is why we have decided to stand for a few topics that are not related to composting.
We want LGBTQIA people to feel included here as I have myself a few letters of the umbrella. It is about to be #PrideMonth and we will celebrate this event.
We stand for the fact that the #climate crisis is a reality. We don't understand why we should follow the feelings of a few old men who are destroying this planet in the name of greed. Fuck that.
Also if democracy is about to be wiped out from the USA we will remind Americans that freedom is never a one-way road. Freedom should never be a privilege for a few people.
Nature-friendly farming keeping farmers in the green
‘The Impact of Extreme Weather on Scottish Agriculture’ commissioned by WWF Scotland shows that increased prolonged periods of hot, dry weather dramatically risk the profitability of Scottish farms, but by adopting nature-friendly farming practices this can be avoided
In my lifetime > 80% of all the wild animals on Earth have vanished; >1M species are on the verge of extinction. Since 1970, N America has lost ~1/3 of all our birds. Scientists have declared an insect apocalypse: As that “bottom of our food chain” vanishes, & it’s pollinators with it, threatens...
Humans, & animals raised by humans for food, are now the dominant species on Earth; 96% of all mammals left: us & livestock...
Conditions improved in south-central and northern areas of Kansas this week, while both extreme and severe drought expanded slightly in parts of western Kansas.
The state’s vacillating drought conditions over the past few weeks have affected some winter wheat crops. This week’s USDA Crop Progress report rated Kansas’ winter wheat condition at 11% very poor, 21% poor, 36% fair, 29% good and 3% excellent.
Do Not Make Working Folks pay for the transition out of the carbon dead end cull de sac that billionaires drove us into.
Like Biden, tax those that have done very well driving us up the one way street to firestorms and floods, and just buy the offshore wind-farms and heat-pumps. Just buy the solar roofs.
The GOP wants to accelerate climate change, while Democratic centrists are content with slowly embracing it. As hurricane season approaches, shouldn’t we be choosing life?
"Latin America is experiencing its worst dengue fever outbreak on record. Case numbers in the first 4 ½ months of 2024 are already 238% higher than they were by this time last year, which itself ended with a record 4.1 million cases, according to the Pan American Health Organization. Cases are more than 400% higher than the five-year average."