Pat SteadmanThe conversation we should be having…
Gladwyn d’Souza#capitalismiskillingtheplanet: operates multiple billion-dollar businesses dedicated to fueling unhinged consumerism of fossil fuel-derived plastic products; tells the rest of the world to be “realistic” about climate solutions.
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/exxon-orwellian-emissions-oil-production/
#BipartisanClimatePolicy: in the Orwellian world of Big Oil climate-speak where “carbon emissions” means whatever you want it to, where investing in climate solutions is a façade, and where global standards of living are forecasted to rise the hotter it gets.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176431/iea-report-fossil-fuel-peak-2030-chevron-hess
#ReformTheMedia: relatively rosy scenario on track to warm by 2.4 degrees Celsius (4.3 degrees Fahrenheit), well above Paris... investment in #fossilfuels is on track to be double
#MoreBigLies: If there is a true scandal about #Covid19 #vaccines, it’s that 2.2 billion people remain #unvaccinated around the world because the #greedy #pharmaceutical companies (often with the support of powerful #governments) have forced poorer countries into #unfair, #predatory contracts rather than allow them to #manufacture the vaccines at a lower #cost.
#MakingPoorPoorer #ManufacturingPoverty #HealthcareIsAHumanRight #capitalismiskillingtheplanet
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/liberal-anti-vax-rfk-jr/
Vietnam War, bad idea in '55, like the China 'conflict' today:
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/09/10/world/biden-vietnam-g20-summit
#StrongmanCapitalism #DemocracyIsntProfitable #PetroOligarchsAreRICO #ExportingEmissions #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs #CapitalismIsKillingThePlanet #StopCriminalizingDissent
Pollinators@chu Well said. Repeat three times. #CapitalismIsKillingUs, #CapitalismIsADeathCult, #CapitalismIsKillingThePlanet, #GretaThunberg
“#Employers are operating with no consequence”: #Wagetheft was also a problem in the #healthcare industry ($28.4 million); #construction ($27.6 million); #janitorial services and #retail stores ($5.9 million each); and supermarkets and convenience stores ($5.8 million).
#CareEconomy #BetterWorld #AllJobsShouldBeUnionJobs
#CapitalismExploitsLabor #capitalismiskillingtheplanet
https://www.propublica.org/article/thousands-of-new-york-workers-have-been-victims-of-wage-theft
#NewWorldOrder: The #alternative to U.S. and #Western #imperialism is mostly #tyrannies- #CarbonAddicted #economies, hegemonic projects to stop #dissent at home- Patrick Bond.
#NoHonorAmongstThieves #EastWestDuopoly #CapitalismIsKillingThePlanet #RaceToTheBottom #WarsForOil #PetroDollarCentricClimateChange
#ProEmissionBloc
#FistBump
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/21/brics_summit_expansion_dedollarization_agenda
South Africa Hosts Major <span class="caps">BRICS</span> Summit as Bloc Eyes Expanding in Global South to Counter Western Powers
BRICS — the five-country bloc of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is holding a monumental summit in Johannesburg this week where the group will discuss a number of major issues, including expanding membership and how to improve financial cooperation. Over 40 countries have expressed interest in joining BRICS, and 23 countries have formally applied to join the bloc, including Saudi Arabia, Iran, United Arab Emirates, Argentina, Indonesia, Egypt and Ethiopia. The summit is a “very unstable situation,” as member countries vary greatly on priorities and many potential candidates for membership are “mostly tyrannies, carbon-addicted economies,” says Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. “Some of these machinations are hegemonic projects to stop dissent at home and actually call for a unity that does not benefit the masses,” says South African activist and scholar Trevor Ngwane, who criticizes BRICS as “projecting a false hope to the masses” for posing as an alternative to U.S. and Western imperialism.
#CapitalismIsKillingThePlanet #capitalismiskillingyou #GaiaRising #RightsOfNature
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14082023/texas-brazos-river-captive-and-contaminated/
Texas' Brazos River, Captive and Contaminated - Inside Climate News
This is part of Drifting Toward Disaster, a Texas Observer series about life-changing challenges facing Texans and their rivers. One January day in 1971, Sharron Stewart stood with two friends on the banks of the Brazos River in Freeport, near where the 800-mile river empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It was the stretch of the Brazos where […]