Climate Catastrophe

Hmm. WSJ says “copy free link.” Are they deceiving me? Still asks you for a subscription when you click? Bastards!

Something like what you say. Somehow freeing up additional funds by offering loans at below market interest. Still, if the plan is to fold this challenge into the traditional First World to Developing World lending, which is already viewed with suspicion in the developing countries by the very people most likely to favor climate actions, one can see the enormity of the challenge.

Probably work related restriction

global warming they said… my city is a hot mess today

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David Beckham plants kiss on Princess Of Wales at Earthshot Prize | Metro News
Beckham walked from Qatar for this,what a hero FFS

The ‘rich and the great’ showing us the way forward yet again.

Hypocrisy Hypocrite GIF by Lagoona Bloo

Just two million years ago.

Greenland “would have averaged between 11 and 19 degrees Celsius higher than today. But Greenland was at the same latitude as it is now…”

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Fuck snow…it’s everywhere just when I need it not to be :rage:

just remember, that global warming has existed for thousands of years.

10,000BC, there was a sheet of ice over North America that was 20feet thick.

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looks good in cartoon form. I believe it. also believe Earth will exist for another billion years until the sun gets too hot and scorches the planet.

Oh the Earth will exist. Not so much the inhabitants.

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That’s alright. AI Musk will save us. :no_mouth:

Doesn’t happen to diesel buses.

No, never.

Any Aussie’s got insight into this story?

It’s an unfocused mess of an article that in its 1000 words never actually expresses why the movement exists…why using Kangaroo products is more problematic than other sources of leather.

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Very interesting documentary on BBC last night, The Oil Machine.
No doubt change needs to happen, but definitely not as straightforward as many think.

Wonder how many people are aware how much their pension funds are invested in energy for example.

Very true. Whenever people start complaining about greedy shareholders and particularly with regard to the utility companies, I remind them that they are almost certainly taking the profits too into their pension funds. Are they going to call up the fund holders and tell them they will accept a lower pension as they don’t want those profits in their pension fund? I have never had anyone say they will yet.

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That’s the talk done. Now how about walking the walk for once?

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Me neither. Multinational companies and corrupt states will do everything they can to annihilate this beautiful declaration, won’t they?

In seven-eight years, if we are still around, we’ll likely notice that more primary forest lands will have been destructed, more animal species will have disappeared, and that the pace of our march towards self-destruction will have yet accelerated.

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Yup.
Double standards and contradictions.

Ban oil…as long as it doesn’t affect me :joy:

I don’t think that negates the people who care enough to actually do that. Furthermore, it’s quite easy to overlook the fact that the whole system structurally reinforces inequality, since the compensation for the fund managers and executives constitutes a higher proportion compared to what any individual receives in their pension.

In any case, with regards to the utility companies, they’re only doing what the government permits them to do.