This hashtag could help get the point across in terms of mass atrocities against human life.
#CarbonBombs as a weapon of mass destruction - the destruction of human life is slower than for atomic bombs and chemical/biological weapons, but just as lethal in terms of #BodyCount s.
#CarbonBombs are huge oil, gas and coal projects that would drive the climate past internationally agreed temperature limits with catastrophic global consequences.
“Despite the UK’s seemingly ambitious #climate plans, it is astonishing how much money has flowed from UK banks to companies worldwide developing the biggest climate-wrecking and damaging projects since 2016,”
Fatima Eisam-Eldeen, a lead analyst at the Leave It in the Ground Initiative
Today, I learned about a very interesting project put together by Data For Good and éclaircies: https://www.carbonbombs.org
It explains the concept of #carbonBombs and provides transparent data and visualization about the world's biggest #fossil fuel extraction projects, and their links with #companies and #banks !
It comes with maps, graphs and figures that highlight the 425 fossil fuel projects around the world that will generate more than 1 gigatonne of CO₂ emissions during their lifetime.
" Environmentalist movement Extinction Rebellion is leading a week-long campaign in the UK targeting the global #insurance industry.
Without insurance cover, drilling for oil and gas would struggle to continue.
“However, what’s really worrying is that they are also insuring new projects that are referred to as #CarbonBombs like the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline,” says Tooze."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/homelessness-data
Q-
What would Congress do with #2Trillion dollars
900B “Defense”
900B off budget like Veterans affairs
300B for annual genocidal activity in Palestine.
A-
1. Protect #CarbonBombs shipping lanes
2. #Genocide for water, oil and gas
3. Expand #kleptocracy in resource intensive area
4. #SurveillanceCapitalism to #CriminalizeDissent and #ClimateMigrants
5. More #PoliceAndPrisons.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-offshore-drilling
#DeterioratingCarbonSinks: Biden’s #CarbonBombs in the Gulf, begun under #TFG: continues to treat the Gulf as a region where community #health and well-being can be sacrificed to allow continued #oilandgas production."
https://www.propublica.org/article/west-virginians-could-get-stuck-cleaning-up-coal-industry-messes
NoTHiNg tO SeE hEre! ☀️🏖️
#KleptocraticLegalMoves: Environmental groups have pleaded with the Biden administration to focus on the reclamation crisis in the #coal fields. But nearly three years into his term, President Joseph Biden still hasn’t nominated a director to lead the agency charged with enforcing the mining reclamation law.
#CarbonBombs #TragedyOfEnclosure #DeterioratingCarbonSinks #PublicHealthImpacts #BlackLung
New Study: #FossilFuels Disproportionately Impact #Black, #Brown, #Indigenous, and #Poor Communities Throughout The Supply Chain
#CarbonOffsets, #CapAndTrade, #CCS and Other “#CarbonCentric” Policies Fail to Mitigate Air and Water #Pollution
by Tyler Kruse
June 5, 2023
"The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy.
WASHINGTON DC (June 5, 2023)–"A new peer-reviewed study details the risks of President Biden’s support for expanded fossil fuel production and exports. Despite campaign promises to take on fossil fuels, Biden has approved massive extraction projects and allowed a surge of crude and LNG exports. Against the backdrop of attacks on environmental justice in Congress – including the recent rollbacks to NEPA in the Fiscal Responsibility Act – and the Supreme Court’s undercutting of the Clean Water Act, the study titled 'Fossil fuel racism in the United States: How phasing out coal, oil, and gas can protect communities' finds that fossil fuels impose unfair and unjust health harms on Black, Brown, Indigenous and poor communities.
"The study identifies the public health harms as well as the disproportionate impacts on communities at each stage of the #coal, #oil, and #gas lifecycles – #extraction, processing, transport, and combustion. It was authored by experts from Greenpeace USA, Salem State University, and Taproot Earth and published in Energy Research & Social Science.
"The publication draws from 200+ academic studies which reveal a consistent pattern: fossil fuel pollution is associated with #asthma, birth complications, #cancer, #respiratory disease, heart conditions, and premature mortality. Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities bear a disproportionate burden of these harms. These same communities are hit hardest by the impacts of the climate crisis.
"Additionally, the study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing #GreenhouseGas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy. Black, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, and low-income populations already have an elevated burden of exposure to air pollutants that can harm the respiratory system known as PM2.5, a pattern that is consistent across nearly all emission source types. Poorly designed climate policies could concentrate this pollution in community 'hotspots' even as overall carbon emissions decline.
"Dr. Tim Donaghy, research manager at Greenpeace USA and a co-author of the report, said: 'Fossil fuels harm both the climate and our health and must be phased out as fast as possible. But if our climate policies only focus on reducing carbon, we are missing an opportunity to greatly improve health in impacted communities. Carbon-centric policies being pushed by the oil and gas industry won’t alleviate fossil fuel racism and could worsen it for communities who already bear the brunt of the industry’s pollution. A better approach is to shift the focus to the root cause of both carbon and pollution, which are fossil fuels themselves. Policymakers should explicitly mitigate air and water pollution, advance #EnvironmentalJustice, and meaningfully include historically targeted communities in climate policy-making and implementation.”
"Noel Healy, professor of Geography and Sustainability at Salem State University and co-author of the report, said: 'Alarmingly, Biden is approving new #drilling at a faster rate than the Trump administration. This includes approving '#CarbonBombs' at the #AlaskaWillow and the #LNGAlaskaProject, and recently breaking a major G7 climate promise by financing an #Indonesian #OilRefinery. Continued approval of harmful and #Extractive fossil fuel licenses is a catastrophic climate and public health failure.'
"The study argues that #SystemicRacism enables the fossil fuel industry to avoid paying the true cost of its pollution by passing it on to communities of color. It identifies fossil fuel racism as a subset of environmental racism characterized by the disproportionate and racialized effects of climate change, fossil fuel extraction, transportation, processing, and consumption on Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor populations.
"The fossil fuel industry is fueling a public health crisis that disproportionately affects communities of color and low-income communities. Healy said: 'We can tackle the #ClimateCrisis, improve public health, and confront systemic racism by phasing out fossil fuels and enacting a #GreenNewDeal.'
"The study makes the following recommendations:
- The U.S. should implement a managed phase out of fossil fuel production to drive absolute pollution reductions in ‘#SacrificeZones’ and to align our policy with 1.5°C pathways.
- Enact a Green New Deal to halt climate change and build a more just and regenerative economy.
- Protect and expand democratic spaces."
#EnvironmentalRacism #BigOilAndGas #WaterIsLife #CorporateColonialism
The study concludes that policies solely focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions without reducing fossil fuel usage could fail to reduce local air and water pollution, fail to alleviate public health harms, and end up perpetuating the racially inequitable impacts of the fossil fuel economy.
https://newrepublic.com/article/176917/fossil-fuel-companies-plowing-ahead-profit-israeli-gas
What would #KenSaroWiwa say- from #CarbonBombs to #CarpetBombing: The Tamar site sits about 12 miles off the coast of northern Gaza, where Israel’s Ministry of Energy has created a dire fuel shortage that has made aid work there virtually impossible amid a worsening humanitarian crisis. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees has reportedly run out of fuel.
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