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It’s important—in this year that has seen #globalwarming come fully to #life—to describe accurately what’s happening on #ourplanet. And one key thing is: the number of places #humans can safely live is now shrinking. Fast. The size of the board on which we can play the great game of human #civilization is getting smaller.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-ever-smaller-board

#CorruptRobertsCourt #CorruptPoliticians #PetroOligarchs #FarRightWinningElections
#AbolishTheElectoralCollege
#CitizensUnited #CigaretteScience #ClimateRefugees

An Ever-Smaller Board

On which to play the human game

The Crucial Years

#Intersections: The tone of the #utility industry filing is that the #industry is committed to the #energytransition and is moving as fast as it can, much different than the stance of #conservative opponents. #CCS and #hydrogen may NOT be available for widespread use in the 2030s — or maybe ever. Unlike the #stateAGs.

https://legal-planet.org/2023/08/14/epa-climate-rules-the-utilities-chimes-in/

#PetroOligarchs #ALEC #DarkMoney #KochBirchSociety

The Utilities Respond to EPA's Climate Rules - Legal Planet

There are three big takeaways from the utility industry’s comments on EPA’s proposed new climate rules. First, the industry seems to share progressive concerns about whether we can count on hydrogen and CCS (carbon capture and sequestration). Second, the industry doesn’t invoke the major question doctrine, making it clear that it does not view such … Continue reading "The Utilities Respond to EPA’s Climate Rules"

Legal Planet
Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns

Jeff Goodell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First, found ‘engine of planetary chaos’ in travels from Antarctica to California

The Guardian

Making #disaster though #kleptocratic sleigh of hand: More fire, flood, drought, heat waves, food loss, and spices extinction continue… because we accommodate #PetroOligarchs and #EmissionGrowth using fossil fuels 80 times worse than CO2! To replace by #fossilfuels. And growing as fast as renewables!

https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-carbon-emissions-2022

Report Shows 'Terrible Prognosis' as US Emissions Continue Rising Amid Climate Emergency | Common Dreams

For the second year in a row, U.S. carbon emissions increased in 2022—reversing a trend that was evident even before emissions declined significantly in 2020 during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.

Common Dreams
Technical limitations: Billionaires and #PetroOligarchs want to go to Mars so as to continue soiling the #OnlyPlanet we have. But they need to figure out how to orbit the planet safely first. https://thehill.com/policy/technology/3809353-stuck-in-space-russia-us-announce-plan-to-bring-cosmonauts-home/
Stuck in space: Russia, US announce plan to bring cosmonauts home

NASA astronaut Frank Rubio and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin will be getting a ride home from the International Space Station — but it may take a while.  The trio flew to the space station in a Russian Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft in September. In December, a tiny micrometeorite strike caused a puncture no…

The Hill
#Kleptocracy: The #indigenous aborted attempted potentate of Bolivia, of bird app infamy, hobnobs with sanctioned Russian #PetroOligarchs and MBS’s US money launderer at the #DictatorLove extravaganza. https://www.businessinsider.com/musk-spotted-pro-putin-russian-tv-presenter-world-cup-2022-12
Elon Musk spotted with pro-Putin Russian TV presenter at World Cup

Nailya Asker-Zade, who posted a selfie of her and Elon Musk to Telegram on Sunday, has been sanctioned by both the UK and Canada.

Insider
#KleptocracyExtravaganza: A $229B+ sports spectacle just ended where major players act as ambassadors to #dictators and work for #PetroOligarchs- who accommodate the racism and bigotry of fans and the host country's abysmal #MigrantLabor, #FreePress, #PoliticalPrisoners and #LGBTQ+ policies.
@andytiedye Car captive and declining transit already describe who we are. Making those traits also characteristics of the transit corridor causes other public policy goals to fail in favor of #PetroOligarchs.
Diplomacy is needed to resolve the #ClimateCrisis. A #FossilFuels phaseout would be a deescalation of the #KeelingCurve. Instead #COP27 was gaslighted with #ScienceDenial by including transition fuels for #PetroOligarchs. https://heated.world/p/how-fossil-fuel-influence-choked
How fossil fuel influence choked climate talks

At COP27, "the influence of the fossil fuel industry was found across the board."

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