"If #Biden continues his current course, extraction of the lithium, copper, cobalt, nickel, graphite, and manganese vital for a green-energy transition will come at the cost of Indigenous lands and trust... it could also cost Biden the election."
"Oil in the North Sea is expected to be net-energy negative by 2031. This means that in 2031, it’ll cost more energy to extract the fossil fuels than we would gain by using them, rendering extraction unfeasibly expensive. Yet, rather than use our remaining years of access to these fuels to turbo-charge new energy infrastructure, fossil fuels are being extracted and burned for business as usual: quick cash. Around the world, the lights will go off in nations that don’t have back-up renewables. That’s most of them." https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-04-15/the-oil-crash-is-coming-sooner-than-we-think/ #oil#JustTransition#LightsOff#PeakOil#ukpolitics
EFI on behalf of the Commission has made an explainer (for cocoa in Côte d'Ivoire). They account for cooperatives. They say local cooperatives need to keep "deforestation-free" beans and derivatives segregated.
“…by having a poverty of the imagination we actually hold back just solar energy transitions.
We don’t believe enough in utopian visions to act in line with them. And if we don’t do that we don’t actually create the possibilities for them to flourish…”
#SiddharthSareen
discusses building out solar energy capacity on the Cultures of Energy pod
“the good life is not something that you set up as a future target for 2030, then run toward in a phased manner. The good life is something you start trying to practice in the here and now because you’re trying to bridge from existing, suboptimal, difficult circumstances and infrastructures and inequitable distributions of power… to a better world. you can’t do that slowly and then suddenly all at once. You have to do that by taking on the difficult stuff as your starting point… “
Need some smart people to help me out here. I MIGHT BE WRONG, WILLING TO LEARN
this might be considered a problematic opinion but for a very long time I was pro nuclear energy. by no means do I think we are ready to transition to nuclear, in the current Pol economy... but I do feel that there needs to be more research into how to dispose nuclear waste, minimise harm to communities, etc etc. for it to eventually become a viable solution. (1/n)
That is also a very ideal scenario in which a country spends time studying nuclear and doesn't do some weapon development on the side.
But today I saw an indigenous activist posted a reel that called nuclear a false solution. I am conflicted. Not now, but at some point we must aim for nuclear energy right? (2/n)
and statistically (I realise I sound like a STEM bro here) nuclear energy has led to significantly lesser fatalities as compared to other renewables.
And unless there isn't more research, we will never be able to completely reduce the number of fatalities. We aren't ready for power plants, but calling it a false solution and preventing research feels short sighted.
The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.
“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.
Interestingly, the law firm supporting Apache Stronghold is the same firm that supported Hobby Lobby in their quest to deny employees access to birth control.
And the two cases share something in common: they're based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
“Hobby Lobby shows that RFRA is very powerful,” says attorney Joe Davis. “This case is an opportunity for the Supreme Court to make good on the promise of RFRA.”
If the case gets picked up by the U.S. Supreme Court, and Apache Stronghold wins, this would also help clarify substantial burden, giving a better indication of how much the first amendment really applies to #Indigenous people.
If Resolution Copper wins, they'll turn Chí’chil Biłdagoteel into a nearly 1,000 feet deep, 2 mile wide crater.
"...now is not the time to move away from fossil fuels when the country is still reliant on them"
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Let's try that logic in another domain:
'Now's not the time to kick my opiate addiction, while I'm still reliant on it'
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-Wouldn't we suggest a variety of measures to wean someone off it?
And in the context of the article, if there were measure available for pain control in the longer term that were not addictive, wouldn't we be recommending them for new situations?
"When mining companies like Resolution Copper kill places like Oak Flat, they kill us, by taking away both our way of life and spiritual connection to the land — and that is the worst way to die. That is not what we want. We want to stay connected; we want to live here freely as our ancestors did."
--NAELYN PIKE
San Carlos Apache Tribe executive assistant, Apache Stronghold member
Remember when Prime Minister #JustinTrudeau dared propose a #JustTransition for Alberta's workers and BOTH candidates for Premier attacked him for it? I do. That's a leadership failure clear across the political spectrum right there
Been thinking of my late mentor & collaborator Dr. Saleemul Huq & wondering what he would have had to say about #COP28. Or how his presence there might have informed, inspired, interrupted different discussions, as it had in all prior COPs. Pretty sure he would have had scathing words at the end.