Here's a fine example of a government subsidizing a soft drink industry by diverting funds meant for environmental protection. Sick nonsense.

Schools close and crops wither as historic heatwave hits south-east Asia

Travelling to Thailands seaside soon could become soaking up the sun and dip into onsen. That would be a new slogan, he said.

What courage looks like:

the human population has exploded its footprint over the years, but did you know we also have a massive 'hoofprint' Livestock now makes up almost 70% of all vertebrate mass on Earth

A report released by Carbon Majors on Thursday says that 57 companies were responsible for 80% of the worlds CO2 emissions from fossil fuel and cement production between 2016 to 2022.

"Climate policy discussions are too often reduced to physical impacts and technical or economic fixes. In the process, root causes and wider development priorities are often neglected."

Why policy makers need to stop treating climate change in isolation

Staff at France's EDF question involvement in futuristic Saudi city

Some employees of French energy giant EDF want the company to reconsider its involvement in a hydro-electric plant in the Saudi desert that would power Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's futuristic megacity Neom, following concerns over the project's sustainability and alleged human rights abuses

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Measurements from land-based instruments and airplane-mounted radars in Greenlands far northeast reveal the extent of ice loss experienced by the 79 N-Glacier. The Alfred Wegener Institutes findings indicate that the glaciers thickness has reduced by over 160 meters since 1998...

Scientists Reveal What a Future 'Mega-Drought' in Australia Would Look Like

Ich habe in den letzten Jahren einige Tage mit 20C im Jnner in Erinnerung (heuer und letztes Jahr nicht, afair), aber 28C Anfang April, dass war noch nie!

Tesla Robotaxis. I was wrong.

Was March-2024 another record Global Average Daily Surface 2m Air Temperature Probably.

It definitely was for 60S-60N Average Daily Sea Surface Temp. Every day was above the previous daily record.

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Flood waters were rising in two cities in Russias Ural mountains on Sunday after Europes third-longest river burst through a dam, flooding at least 6,000 homes and forcing thousands of people to flee.

The Russian government declared a federal emergency in Orenburg, where the regional governor, Denis Pasler, said the floods were the worst to hit the region since records began.
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Does anyone know much about NZ greenhouse gas emissions data Trying to find the data source for graph in the factsheet DPMC released for Luxon's targets, and it doesn't appear to be either of the sources mentioned in the text.

Climate-warming gases being smuggled into Europe, investigation says

Masoum et al present the results of deglacial (22-6.5 thousand years ago) paleoclimate data assimilation in the CLIMBER-X climate model (that is, using temperature proxy data to guide the trajectory of the climate model). They compared the results using the GLAC-1D and PaleoMIST ice sheet reconstructions.

Fire in the desert

Fueled by invasive grasses and climate change, desert fires are growing larger and more dangerous.

It doesnt take a deep understanding of Buddhism to acknowledge that sickness, old age, and death are inevitable facts of life. Many of us know this intimately. However, we may not realise that the more we deny this truth and cling to a fantasy of perpetual health and youthfulness, the more we suffer.

This fantasy (and the denial of change and decay) is one of the most important drivers of humanitys disastrous impact on the biosphere.

Sawfish in Florida are Spinning in Circles until they Die - Why

Zambians Feel the Personal Consequences of Climate Changeand Dream of a Sustainable Future

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this letter to the editor says it all.

Physics will do what physics does. It cares not for policy.

The alternative interpretation is less generous to the Governments motivations. This understanding posits that the review is seeking a predetermined outcome that the Government doesnt believe the commission will deliver: A recommendation to weaken the methane targets

The US aims to crack the code on scaling up production

" capacity could increase twentyfold by 2050, generating 10% of the countrys electricity... s administration has also funded new projects aimed at pushing forward the next generation of geothermal that aim to make the energy source available anywhere, not just easy-to-reach ."

Worlds largest oil exporter invests in US shale gas
Bloomberg reported last week that state-owned Saudi Aramco has agreed to a buy a 25% stake in Sempra Energys Texas liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal at Port Arthur.

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'We want to help': Why climate activists are trying something new

by Chloe Veltman
April 5, 2024

"There's a scene in 's 1882 drama An Enemy of the People that takes place at a public meeting. The residents of a spa town are trying to prevent a local doctor, Dr. Stockmann, from telling the truth about a factory that's polluting the local water supply.

"That's the moment when, one recent evening, a stood up from his seat in the audience. It was during a press night for the current production running at Circle in the Square Theatre on Broadway.

"'I object to the silencing of scientists!' said Nate Smith as he walked toward the stage wearing a T-shirt bearing the logo of . He was the first of three members of the group to disrupt the show that night."

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If you consider the CO2 emissions of the Deccan Traps that killed the dinosaurs against what we emit, it looks a little reassuring. Like we still have time.

Until you read the time period of the emissions.

"It was a lava flood. Imagine a landscape stretching beyond the horizon. They were constantly active, releasing a steady flow of massive amounts of poison and lava. Interrupted by much more violent and deadly eruptions."

Researchers find the link between human activity and shifting in western North America Simply put, the study shows that the rise in temperatures caused by is changing how air moves in the atmosphere. This, in turn, affects the weather patterns that influence winter conditions in western North America and contribute to recent more frequent extreme weather events. This research thus highlights the urgent need to address .

The Guardian: The French aristocrat who understood 100 years before and even worried about

'A ray of hope': Forest destruction in Brazil and Colombia has fallen 'dramatically' - Sky News

How do we preserve natural habitats

The author, Grant Ennis, covers a lot of important ground in this book. Most of it is dedicated to showing the reader exactly how we have got into multiple crises and why it feels like we cant get out of any of them.

Much of this can be traced back to Margaret Thatcher and her assertions There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women
This of course is not a statement of fact, but more of a statement of how Corporations & Billionaires want things to be. Once people see themselves as individuals then they are less likely to organise into groups and to fight inequality and injustice. As individuals we see problems like the obesity crisis as personal ones, that can be fixed by exercise and good habits. We see the climate crisis as something that can be fixed by reducing our individual carbon footprint. We see a plastics crisis that can be fixed by individuals recycling. As we all know, this doesnt solve the underlying problems.

Grant points out We have an over production problem, not over consumption problem If we were not overproducing stuff then we would not be consuming this intensely. We have to stop the over production, if we want to solve the multiple problems that our planet is facing. This can only happen if people come together organise and call out the Corporations & Billionaires and the Politicians they have put in power. These Politicians write rules and laws that result in us subsidising over production. This over production is not the result of Free Markets and Competition, its the result of Tax payers subsidising it.

Corporations, Billionaires and their paid Politicians have us running round thinking we can, as individuals, pressure corporations into change through consumer campaigns. However, researchers at Florida Atlantic University published a paper in the Joural of Business Research examining 502 consumer campaigns and discovered that they have no long-term financial effects, concluding that they do not, on average, inflict any financial loss on the target. They dont work!

We have been lead to believe that just voting is enough for a healthy democracy. This has been a convenient boon for authoritarians and anti-change corporate interests. Viewing democratic participation strictly through the lens of electoral politics narrowly frames citizenship around the ballot box while crowding out attention to association and petition. Voting and other forms of participation in electoral politics comprise only a fraction of citizens duties. Corporations gain when we frame the individual act of voting as the only criterion for citizen action. Voter turnout is a poor indicator of democratic health all North Koreans vote but no one would argue that North Korea is a beacon of democracy.

In the book Grant talks about the other many tools and ways that Corporations, Billionaires and their Politicians keep us distracted and confused. Concepts like
Multistakeholderism. The idea that its not one entity that is to blame, but a coalition of many. Global Warming Organiser and Nobel Prize nominee Greta Thunberg observed how assigning shared blame and problem-solving responsibility undermines our ability to assign genuine blame and seek genuine solutions: Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we have all created, but that is not true. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame, and someone is to blame. The idea that we have all created the problem, and therefore all must solve it, is a con.

The Its complicated and we need to do all of the above to fix this, narrative has been hugely successful in fragmenting our efforts to stop these global problems. When in truth what we need to do is go after the biggest problem first. We need to go after the biggest issue, the worst perpetrators. And in most cases that means, we get our politicians to stop us subsidising the problems and make the Corporations responsible for them solving them.

With The Nine Devious Frames Grant splits the many techniques that Corporations, Billionaires and their Politicians continue to use to prevent real productive action. Denalism, Post-denialism, Normalisation, Silverlinings Anyone who has been holding truth to power for a while will instantly recognise them. When you read these frames you will no doubt recall the many, many times Conservative Media & Politicians have used them. These frames highlight just how much lying, misinformation, deviousness has been used to perpetuate all these problems for so long.

Grant finishes up talking about the many ways we can come together. Examples of whats been done before and who is doing stuff right now. Its important because not all protest and organisation is productive. Grant points out Protests are not meaningless but we often mistakenly view them, rather than the organized movements behind them, as harbingers of change. Like focusing on the hammer and disregarding the arm that swings it, we too often fail to nurture the organized movements critical to protests success. We too often witness, and accept the notion of, individuals protesting without the backing of a cohesive organized movement. Long-term movements made up of numerous, close-knit, tiered organizations are capable of staging results-generating political demonstrations. Protests alone are not those movements.

In my opinion, what all this should result in, is fast food companies being made responsible for obesity and they should have to pay for all the health impacts. As well as ending subsidies, companies that make plastic and sell plastic should be responsible for its recycling and clearing up of our oceans. Fossil Fuels Companies are most responsible for Climate Change and must pay for the impacts as well as be responsible for reducing their emissions, year on year, in line with scientists recommendation. Road builders, operators, petrol and car companies are responsible for road accidents, environmental & health impacts and should be fixing the problems.
I dont expect any of these wishes to be implemented over night but unless we start in the right place, with the right understanding, real change will not happen. Unless we start with 5% reduction year on year. A 5% contribution year on year to impacts and externalities, these problems will continue to get worse. Nothing else is actual progress. For 50 years we have known all these problems about obesity, traffic deaths, climate change, plastic pollution and they have all gotten worse, because we dont go after the root cause. The corporations responsible and their subsidies.

This change will never happen unless we organise and work together. We are fighting a bunch of Corporations, Billionaires and their paid Politicians with unimaginable wealth and power. More than we have seen in all history. But change can happen. Who would have thought that Gods & Kings could ever be toppled, but they were. We have to understand how we are being fooled. How to come together and how to force genuine change. And if we learn to organise an overcome these problems, who knows what we can achieve, social justice world peace

I highly recommend you read the book and recommend it to your fiends. You can find Grant in the #Fediverse

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Don't keep doing what isn't working. This from TIME magazine (hardly the most radical source):

Have we stepped off the cliff

28-ton, 1.2-megawatt tidal kite is now exporting power to the grid

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