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Category Archives: Energy
Shell knew (half a century ago!) that CO2 was a problem
Fossil fuels are the very bedrock of our global civilization; but oil and gas ‘production’ is nothing of the sort: it’s not production, it’s extraction. Those who ‘produce’ these resources are profiteering from their historic control of them, and actually … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Climate, Communication, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, History, Phlyarology
Tagged climate change, denial, Justice, lies, Shell
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The future is now, and it is us; we must choose to act.
Posted in ... wait, what?, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, perception, Strategy, Water
Tagged act, AGW, climate change, now
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Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expert Courtesy of Guardian News & Media Ltdunder guardiansyndication Open Licence Terms The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure … Continue reading
Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050
“Man announces he will quit drinking by 2050”: A thoroughly brilliant parody of the COPout26 farce.
The author of this text (not me BTW) deserves much kudos; our Glorious World Leaders, on the other hand, badly need to stop shovelling horseshit. Continue reading
The green way to blog longevity via image optimisation
Image optimisation is a neat blogging trick that’s easy to learn and quick to implement. Here’s how to do it – and, more importantly, why you should consider it. Continue reading
Posted in Computers and Internet, Energy, Environment, Strategy, Tech tips
Tagged bandwidth, data storage, environment, green, images, optimising, photographs, pictures, resize, speed
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The Magnitude of the Challenge
With the COP26 climate summit due to kick off in Glasgow on Sunday, here’s a stark warning of what the future holds in store for us all if our global ‘leaders’ fail to come through (as I fully expect them … Continue reading
There is no ‘planet B’ – yet we’re using it already
Happy§ Earth Overshoot Day! Time to celebrate: we’re now using almost three-quarters of ‘planet B’. Shame it doesn’t exist. Back in 2014, I wrote a set of edicts I would apply ‘If I ruled the world‘. One of those (#4) … Continue reading
Green Party 10-point climate plan
Blatantly stolen from the Green Party 10-point climate plan: This is what real climate ambition looks like The Green Party has been proposing radical and necessary action on climate change for the past three decades. We were talking about these … Continue reading
Posted in balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Communication, Core thought, Economics, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, News and politics, Strategy
Tagged climate, climate change, Green Party
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Banks found complicit in rainforest destruction
Since 2009, 19 banks — despite having policies on advancing human rights, sustainability, and climate change — have financed US$10 billion for approximately 155 million barrels of dirty crude destined for refineries in the United States. But they aren’t only … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Biodiversity, Climate, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, Strategy, Water
Tagged Amazon, rainforest
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How to solve all the world’s problems
We’ve never been here before. As I think the majority of us all aware, our world is facing a series of global crises, which include (but are not limited to): climate change the unremitting attack on the world’s rainforests the … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, balance, Core thought, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged crisis, global, government
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