In case you missed it, (with full text too) ... Summary: Remarks by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the press conference launch of IPCC report. Description: I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today's IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning... Continue Reading →
For companies like BlackRock, the climate crisis is a valuable investment opportunity. They've positioned themselves to make money no matter how — or whether — governments address climate change. In his 2020 letter to CEOs, Larry Fink, the chairman and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, proclaimed that “climate risk is investment risk.” A... Continue Reading →
BlackRock Is Profiting Off the Climate Crisis
Agreements, not wars, start with a walk
As shared by Bill McKibben in previous blog post. By TERRY MOLLNER Ican feel it in my bones. I suspect you can also. It is the time in history for the people on Earth to speak with one voice: we want agreements not wars. It is time to end the killing of children, women and... Continue Reading →
The Secretary General of the UN models how to think about climate change I can remember when some of us organized what may have been the planet’s first truly huge climate march, with 400,000 people descending on New York in 2014. Then UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon came to walk with us for a few... Continue Reading →
The World’s Top Diplomat Has Had It Up to Here
Honest Government Ad | Carbon Credits & Offsets
The Australien Government has made an ad about its carbon-credits scheme, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. Source.
It’s not the end of the world. It only seems that way. Climate change is going to get worse, but as gloomy as the latest scientific reports are, including today’s from the United Nations, scientist after scientist stresses that curbing global warming is not hopeless. The science says it is not game over for planet... Continue Reading →
No obituary for Earth: Scientists fight climate doom talk
House Democrats grilled CEOs of Big Oil companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell, Wednesday about rising gas prices and profiteering from the Ukraine war. We get response from environmentalist Bill McKibben and speak with Ukrainian environmental lawyer Svitlana Romanko about how the war in Ukraine is impacting energy markets around the world. “These are predatory... Continue Reading →
Making a Killing: Big Oil Reaps Record Profits Using Ukraine War as Pretext to Hike Gas Prices
Experts say criticism of oil and gas’s ‘climate-blocking activities’ cut from final draft, reflective of industry’s power and influence The fossil fuel industry and its influence over policy was the major elephant in the room looming over the release of the third and final report, out this week, from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,... Continue Reading →
IPCC: We can tackle climate change if big oil gets out of the way
White House science office to hold first event on countering climate change denial and delay
Leading climate scientists will meet with officials in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will hold a first-of-its-kind roundtable with some of the nation’s leading scientists on Thursday to discuss the urgent need to combat the climate crisis and to counter arguments for... Continue Reading →
Devil Put the Coal in the Ground (Must Watch!)
When West Virginia broke away from Virginia in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War, its founders did not agree upon the Confederacy or the role of the state in the war. They were, however, united in their interests around the extraction and exploitation of the rich resources of the state – predominantly... Continue Reading →
Renowned author, social critic, and philosopher Noam Chomsky believes that human civilization is rapidly "approaching the most dangerous point" in its collective history, citing a conflagration of global crises that threaten to shatter the foundations of modern society. Chomsky, a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,... Continue Reading →
empowerment & inner transformation... 