“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is.”
“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”
David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024
Conservative Party operatives are running a network of Facebook groups opposing London’s ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) that have become a platform for widespread racism and Islamophobia, as well as conspiracy theories and celebrations of criminal damage.
Environmentally sustainable plant-based dishes in restaurants and cafes?
"Occasionally ordering a plant-based meal instead of a meat dish can greatly reduce the environmental footprint of the global food system. Animal agriculture accounts for 56% of food-related greenhouse gas emissions but produces only 18% of calories and 37% of protein."
"This means a family of four ordering plant-based meat burgers instead of beef patties saves carbon emissions equal to driving from Brisbane to the Gold Coast."
Before everyone starts dissing #EVs and celebrating the #BMW's iX5 Hydrogen, believing that #cars are going to run on pure #water tomorrow, remember that the 2 primary methods of producing #hydrogen at scale are steam #methane reformation & autothermal reforming using oxygen and #CO2. From 'blue' (as aforementioned) to 'pink' or 'yellow', all production methods hide under the unicorn #green method, hurling us towards total #climatebreakdown.
Turning some #degrowth preconceptions on their head? Surviving #ClimateBreakdown won't be about seizing control of an unsustainable system
"The historically unique situation we are now in presents us with the need for a non-confrontational strategy, one that involves turning away and ‘ignoring capitalism to death’. (This does not deny the need to confront over specific threats, such as to log a forest.)" https://medium.com/postgrowth/a-friendly-critique-of-the-degrowth-movement-f0bd2297072d
So, we are basically "right on track" regarding the #CimateCrisis, as the #Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (#PIK) had analyzed in its scenarios in December of 2022:
#ClimateBreakdown (as we know it), as all likely-to-be-implemented #climate measures are completely unlikely to limit #GlobalWarming to +1.5°C. If we will manage to limit it to "just" +2.0°C is more unlikely by the month, as warming is probably still accelerating!
New #GlobalWitness analysis reveals that the oil and gas produced by Shell, Exxon, Chevron, BP and TotalEnergies between now and 2050 could cause up to 11.5 million excess deaths from extreme heat.
"The scientific evidence is stark that reducing #inequality is a fundamental precondition for addressing the #environmental, #health and social crises the world is facing. It’s essential that policymakers act quickly to reverse decades of rising inequality and curb the highest incomes."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3
Governments can’t just sign up to climate treaties to get positive headlines and then blatantly do the opposite.
There is no other way than coordinated acts such as those taking place today around the North Sea #oil producing countries to call the actions of dangerous two faced governments out. Our democratic representatives are complicit with #ClimateBreakdown.
No suprises…but everytime you hear about a transition being needed off oil, just remember the fossil fuel industry is paying for you to hear that, how long they’ve known the damage they are causing to the planet and how they’ve the kicked the legs out from under green technology, while continuing to use your taxes to subsidise their grubby expansion.
It follows on from the hottest January on record, the hottest December on record, and the hottest November, October, September, August, July and June on record.
Daily at the moment I find myself shocked anew at how little honesty we get from Tories, Labour or Lib Dems about the impending reality of #ClimateBreakdown.
The scale and pace of change needed seems beyond the comprehension of our politicians.
But would I vote for Just Stop Oil?
Doubtful with my choice of Labour and Green candidates in Norwich South…but elsewhere I might.