Shell has abandoned plans to cut oil production each year for the rest of the decade, in a shift in approach to firmly target fossil fuels and increase payouts to shareholders under its new chief executive, ....
Recent moves by #SaudiArabia, #Russia and #China have raised fears that the #USdollar could lose its preferred status for #oil trading. And yet alternative national currencies aren’t that appealing. Could a Bitcoin-like currency do better? Featured Story: An opinion piece by David Z. Morris, titled: “The Petrodollar and Its...
How much longer are we debating whether renewables are stable and dependable enough to power the world? https://wapo.st/43PVbxv [free to read] #oil#climate#MbS
We don't have climate change because you used a straw. We have climate change because corporations and billionaires with gigantic carbon footprints refuse to acknowledge they have more than enough wealth and ought to stop contributing to the problem at the very least. Telling you it's your fault is deflection. #ClimateCrisis
There is a gas leak a few feet from the #emergency entrance of #MichaelGarron Hospital.
A friend is an inpatient there.
Still, another good reason to switch our heating and hot water to technologies that don't use #naturalGas. Reduce the use.
@rbos I think that new buildings, and all those condo high rises being built everywhere should not tap into the natgas infrastructure.
We should follow New York's example and ban it in most new buildings.
Time to write our reps, etc. and push for change. Less use of #fossil fuels.
“our principal motivation in this paper is concern that IPCC has underestimated climate sensitivity and understated the threat of large sea level rise and shutdown of ocean overturning circulations” #auspol#climate#environment#gas#oil#fossilfuel #Australia
Had a nice conversation with Matt Haugen about my new book #OilBeach in his newsletter, Terrain, “exploring political ecology, planetary crises, and what is to be done”
It's funny that The Guardian are seen as left-leaning and green-leaning. In an age where the Overton Window has been dragged so far to the right, you only have to idle in the centre to look like a leftist. Here's a Guardian column describing Rob Newman's hilarious but scrupulously researched History of Oil as...
> a view that only Marxists, conspiracy theorists or eco-fundies could nod along to unconflicted
"amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is underway, challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels....a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales, environmental justice, climate, pollution, health, extraction, land rights, workers’ rights, systemic racism, and toxic colonialism"
Shell drops target to cut oil production as CEO aims for higher profits (www.theguardian.com)
Shell has abandoned plans to cut oil production each year for the rest of the decade, in a shift in approach to firmly target fossil fuels and increase payouts to shareholders under its new chief executive, ....
#MarketsDaily #Crypto Roundup - Featured Story | The #Petrodollar and Its Discontents Point to #Bitcoin's Role in the #Financial Future (podcasts.google.com)
Recent moves by #SaudiArabia, #Russia and #China have raised fears that the #USdollar could lose its preferred status for #oil trading. And yet alternative national currencies aren’t that appealing. Could a Bitcoin-like currency do better? Featured Story: An opinion piece by David Z. Morris, titled: “The Petrodollar and Its...