Gladwyn d’Souza#TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence: Not only do billionaires personally emit one million times more greenhouse gases per year than the average person on Earth; their money often comes from high-emitting corporations that foster a global culture of excessive #consumerism....commonly use philanthropy as a way to publicly boost their own reputations, while they privately argue against heightened government regulation.
#Sufficiency: less toil, less #work, less production and less #consumption are the only way we’re going to continue surviving on this planet. To fight global warming, we really need to chill.
#BullshitJobs #ExportingEmissions #ExportingHumanRightsEmissions
#ObliviousConsumption #GuaranteedBasicIncome
https://annamercury.medium.com/work-sucks-why-are-we-still-obsessed-with-it-85133d26042
#Sufficiency: It’s a highly technical dispute. But it’s part of a larger conversation about how much #blackout #risk we consider acceptable in #modernsociety — and whether our #expectations should evolve in the name of preventing #climatecatastrophe- Sammy Roth
#sharing #transactiveenergyrate #microgrids #CommunitySolar #sierraclub #ObliviousConsumption #greencolonialism
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/13/cobalt_red_kara
#kleptocracy: the ore that these #children are digging that has #cobalt in it often has traces of #radioactive #uranium. So, the #publichealth #catastrophe on top of the #humanrights #violence on top of the #environmental #destruction is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the #moderncontext. And the fact that it is linked to #companies worth #trillions and that our lives depend on this #enormous #violence has to be dealt with.
#Modernity #electricalvehicles #KeelingCurve
#ObliviousConsumption
“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, an essential component in rechargeable batteries powering laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles. But those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. In an in-depth interview, he says the major technology companies that rely on this cobalt from DRC to make their products are turning a blind eye to the human toll and falsely claiming their supply chains are free from abuse, including widespread child labor. “The public health catastrophe on top of the human rights violence on top of the environmental destruction is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the modern context,” says Kara. “The fact that it is linked to companies worth trillions and that our lives depend on this enormous violence has to be dealt with.”
The major #technology companies that rely on this #cobalt from #DRC to make their #products are turning a blind eye to the #humantoll and falsely claiming their #supplychains are free from #abuse, including widespread #childlabor.
#AdvertisingIsPropoganda
#MarketingIsLies
#FalseClaims
#ObliviousConsumption
“Cobalt Red”: Smartphones & Electric Cars Rely on Toxic Mineral Mined in Congo by Children
The Democratic Republic of the Congo produces nearly three-quarters of the world’s cobalt, an essential component in rechargeable batteries powering laptops, smartphones and electric vehicles. But those who dig up the valuable mineral often work in horrific and dangerous conditions, says Siddharth Kara, an international expert on modern-day slavery and author of Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives. In an in-depth interview, he says the major technology companies that rely on this cobalt from DRC to make their products are turning a blind eye to the human toll and falsely claiming their supply chains are free from abuse, including widespread child labor. “The public health catastrophe on top of the human rights violence on top of the environmental destruction is unlike anything we’ve ever seen in the modern context,” says Kara. “The fact that it is linked to companies worth trillions and that our lives depend on this enormous violence has to be dealt with.”
#ObliviousConsumption: Another #solution to #homelessness, from the counties association, extolled by a media editorial, that comes back to funds = plans, goals and outcomes; which looks to silo #health #segregation #climatechange #parking #pollution #risk #income #domesticviolence as separate problems for the Governor to fund.
#keepitintheground: Verra #rainforest #credits used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big #corporations were largely worthless, often based on stopping the destruction of rainforests that were not threatened, according to independent studies. It also found evidence of forced #evictions at a flagship scheme co-operated by #Conservation International in Peru.
#GreenConservation #BigLie #humanrights #violations #redherring #ObliviousConsumption #corporatefraud #conservativevalues
In #poor countries the rising #middleclass is discovering that the first thing they want to buy when they can afford to is a #car. From Johannesburg to São Paulo, Bengaluru to Jakarta, the car is increasingly dominant. The fastest-growing #cities all over the world look more like Houstons than like #Amsterdams. And far more people live in them than in #America or #Europe. That is why unless we deal with the car, #climatechange is going to prove unstoppable.
Carmageddon: how cars make life worse and what to do about it. By Daniel Knowles. Page 23.
#ObliviousConsumption #taxtherich #HousePeopleNotCars #walkablecities #15minuteneighborhood
#ObliviousConsumption: "In a place like #Afghanistan, the pressing question is whether any #death can today be considered unrelated to #war," Stephanie Savell, Costs of War co-director and author of the report, said in a statement. "Wars often kill far more people indirectly than in direct combat, particularly young children."
'Death Outlives War': Analysis Estimates Post-9/11 Death Toll Tops 4.5 Million
"The United States government, while not solely responsible for the damage, has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in post-9/11 war zones," said the co-author of a new report.