Here's your daily reminder that marketing bullshitspeak like "leads the world on renewables" will always utterly fail to impress physics. The physics of the greenhouse effect cares about one thing and one thing only: the volume of greenhouse gases you emit.
Thus the correct headline is: "By burning ever more coal, the CCP regime leads the world to the climate grave."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/china-leads-renewables-dependent-coal-fired-plants/
As a vegan, I of course abhor the idea of dairy chocolate.
I post this only because the article describes how the candy industry cowardly refused to acknowledge climate change and clean up their supply chain. Instead, they chose to replace cocoa with palm oil kernel.
In other words, they now finance rainforest destruction to make their already extremely unhealthy products even less healthy.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/candy-makers-quietly-change-recipes-as-climate-change-hits-cocoa-industry
#BoycottPalmOil #Candy #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDestruction #Rainforest
Earlier this week, The Hershey Company announced that it is returning all of its classic brands to earlier milk and dark chocolate recipes. The move comes amid a growing backlash over the recipe changes and the use of chocolate alternatives in some of its candies. Deema Zein explores what’s behind this latest battle in the chocolate wars.
Always remember that large business is the enemy of everything good and progressive.
We often talk about billionaires, but they're merely a byproduct of big corporations. It's impossible to become a billionaire if you own a local grocery store or repair shop.
Small businesses have to get with the times to survive, but large monopolists are always in too-big-to-fail mode. They'll harm everyone for a bit of extra profit:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/02/google-ai-datacenter
"When abstract data becomes tangible — whether through a disappearing skating rink, a parched wetland or a vanishing stream — the urgency of climate change truly hits home. This kind of evidence and lived experiences must drive the action this moment demands."
https://theconversation.com/effective-storytelling-can-encourage-climate-action-from-policymakers-and-the-public-278522
"Mexico’s government is lying about the origins of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
On Monday, Greenpeace Mexico, the Mexican Alliance Against Fracking and the Mexican Center for Environmental Rights presented satellite images they captured. The images show that the root of the spill was actually a pipeline from Mexico’s state-run oil company, Pemex, and that a large oil slick appeared in early February."
https://apnews.com/article/gulf-of-mexico-veracruz-oil-spill-environment-pemex-pipeline-a38d99ba63e41a288c54afd0f82432c9
Environmentalist groups say Mexico’s government lied about the origins of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, accusations authorities promptly denied. The spill of off the coast of the southern Veracruz state has spread more than 373 miles and into seven nature reserves. The government said the spill started in March and the sources were a ship anchored off the coastal state of Veracruz and two sites from which oil naturally flows. A group of 17 organizations contradicted that claim and said on Monday that satellite images they captured show the root of the spill was actually a pipeline from Mexico’s state-run oil company, PEMEX, and that a large oil slick appeared in early February.
"While we were focused on state-level policy, the Trump administration was opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling, reversing vehicle emission standards, withdrawing from international climate agreements again, eliminating the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits, and staffing the EPA with fossil fuel executives.
We need a movement that can force Trump out of office."
https://www.sunrisemovement.org/movement-updates/rising-to-the-moment-why-the-climate-movement-must-tackle-authoritarianism
By: Aru Shiney-Ajay, Sunrise Movement Executive Director In early 2025, Sunrise launched a campaign to make polluters pay for the effects of climate disasters. This campaign had the usual strengths: a focused message, easy to villainize targets, and real opportunities for state-level wins. It allowed us to engage the public directly following climate disasters, when […]
I just blocked a trollbot for saying it's "childish" to criticize the German government's woefully insufficient climate plan because "it's the first step in the right direction."
It's childish to gleefully applaud Merz and Reiche. They work for the fossil fuels lobby, and now they want to greenwash their track record and evade responsibility by maybe or maybe not (remember, it's still just a plan) throwing a few eurocents towards the green energy.
"Greenpeace slammed the plan as insufficient, saying it relies mostly on "optimistic" projections, and Greens party MP Katharina Dröge dismissed it as "a blatant deception".
The government, Dröge said, had so far "opted for wishful thinking and dependence on oil and gas" - disastrous choices."
https://www.thelocal.de/20260325/environmental-groups-say-germanys-new-climate-action-plan-is-deceptive
Germany released its latest climate action plan, which purportedly aims to meet the country's goals of achieving significant emissions cuts by 2030 and later years. But environmental groups say the measures announced are not nearly enough.
"Parts of Kenya remain submerged. Floods have claimed at least 66 lives and forced more than 2,000 families from their homes. In the DRC, the Congo River reached its highest level in sixty years in 2024, leaving nearly two million people in distress.
It's a crisis driven by rising temperatures, the relentless expansion of fossil fuels, and decisions made by governments and corporations that knowingly chose to ignore the consequences."
https://www.greenpeace.org/africa/en/blog/60275/climate-crisis-in-africa-time-for-legal-action-has-come/
@liesvanrompaey Which is why I mostly ignore the whole thing and the surrounding noise.
People who still consider this crisis a mere affordability or convenience issue instead of acknowledging the harsh reality of climate destruction and mass extinction driven by their addiction to fossil fuels are inherently unreliable. They will turn our backs on us again as soon as the prices drop.
Whisper of Reason
