Jonathan Watts: The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly. #China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the #US try to turn back the clock.

#RenewableEnergy #Bigoil #fossilfuels #history #Iran #fascism
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables

The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly

China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock

The Guardian

@stux Secondary to politicians writing policy for #TechBros and #FossilFuels #grift #AbuseOfPower

Replace them with ethical #scientists

Brussels in March passed the 2040 climate target — 90% net reduction versus 1990 levels. Brussels in April agreed to import $750 billion of American oil and gas by 2028. Both facts cannot be true. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive was gutted in December under pressure from ExxonMobil, JPMorgan, and a US Ambassador who called it "economic suicide." Over 400 Inflation Reduction Act grants terminated. The Endangerment Finding dismantled. The US absent from COP30 in Brazil — the first time since 1995 no delegation went. https://twp.ai/9OWdYB calls it the most significant setback for US climate policy to date. The predatory financial machinery learned long ago: you don't repeal climate law. You make the trade terms worse than the law.

Full analysis →
https://twp.ai/4hrOM7

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #FossilFuels #EU #COP30 #Environment #ClimatePolicy #Divestment #Sustainability #EarthOrg #ClimateAction #GreenPolicy
The Peonies are two weeks early. Global warming is predominantly caused by human activities. Over 97% of actively publishing climate scientists agree that heat-trapping greenhouse gases emitted by human activity—primarily from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas—are the drivers of recent temperature increases. #globalwarming #climatechange #motherearth #peony #peonies #science #climtatescientists #changingweather #pollution #humanpollution #coal #oil #naturalgas #fossilfuels
Brussels passed a 90% climate target for 2040. Then signed $750B in US oil by 2028. Both cannot be true. Trade does what repeal could not. https://twp.ai/9OWdVi #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #EU #FossilFuels #COP30 #Divestment #Environment
Brussels passed a 2040 climate target — 90% net reduction. Then signed $750 billion in American oil and gas by 2028. Both facts cannot be true. Wendy maps how trade terms now do what repeal could not.
https://twp.ai/4hrOJe
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #EU #FossilFuels #COP30 #ClimatePolicy #Divestment #Sustainability #Environment #ClimateAction
What Survives the Morning: "Better Get Moving, Fast" — Or There Won't Be Anything Left Of Us Either

Witness urgent analysis from Wendy on survival, geopolitics, and what persists when the world fractures. Grounding practices for the overwhelmed.

Wendy The Druid
@peter Gathering #RootInfrastructure #scientists to counter the increasingly adverse effects the #TechBros and #FossilFuels industries are causing, is paramount. Rooting this in #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries, works hand-in-hand with this vital metric.
Coal Pollution Hurts Solar Panels, Just Like Your Lungs - CleanTechnica

Coal power plants produce aerosols that hover above solar panels, reducing the solar conversion efficiency of nearby solar arrays.

CleanTechnica
Coal Pollution Hurts Solar Panels, Just Like Your Lungs - CleanTechnica

Coal power plants produce aerosols that hover above solar panels, reducing the solar conversion efficiency of nearby solar arrays.

CleanTechnica
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/iran-war-energy-independence-fossil-fuels. "Donald Trump’s unjustified war on #Iran & the resulting global #fuel #crisis is a continuing reminder that true #energy #security & #independence will continue to elude us so long as we remain dependent on #fossilfuels." The problem is, #renewable energy = #electricity, & electricity = 21% of final energy #consumption, so even if ALL electricity was generated by #renewables, that still leaves a big gap filled by #oil, #gas & #coal, which supply #rawmaterials as well.
The Iran war reminds us: we’ll never be energy-independent with fossil fuels

Energy security comes from using local, renewable resources to power, heat and cool communities, as Ukraine is doing

The Guardian