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.
"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
"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
The climate crisis has reached a point that the end of growth is inevitable. Either we hit the end of growth like hitting a brick wall or we can implement #degrowth as just and as equitable as possible.
#Decarbonization is likewise inevitable. We either transition to lower energy requirements or we will hit it like jumping out of a plane without a parachute.
The end of the capitalist mode of production will be either forced upon us by the climate crisis, or we build a better world for our children.
Transition is inevitable, but a #JustTransition is not. We have to actively choose it.
"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."
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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.
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
Finance ministers from Pacific Island nations met in Fiji this week for an Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers Meeting. After three days of deliberations, the ministers welcomed the Port Vila Call for a Just Transition to a Fossil Fuel Free Pacific. It will be taken to the Pacific Leaders forum later this year.
"...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?
I made this #BanFossilAds poster for a Brandalism campaign last summer about airline advertising, alongside some great work by other artists. My poster focused on greenwashing and business class travel.
More subvertising work on my website www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/subvertising
“…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
You might not initially expect this from Belgium or Wallonia, but honestly, this project and its progress in #Liège sound fantastic! #JustTransition#food#sustainability
(and they really put me in an optimistic mood, too!)
"#Climate campaigners in #California and beyond celebrated on Friday after the state Legislature affirmed its support for a resolution that urges the U.S. government to join a worldwide effort to develop "a #FossilFuelNonproliferationTreaty as an international mechanism to manage a global transition away from coal, oil, and gas."
Senate Joint Resolution 2 also endorses what advocates call a #JustTransition."