Newsom’s Big Oil Lawsuit Targets Roots of Climate Crisis

In New York, Gov. Newsom said repeatedly, “The climate crisis is a fossil fuel crisis,” receiving well-deserved applause at the otherwise staid Climate Ambition Summit. This is important, because many people do not know that more than 85% of U.S. greenhouse pollution comes from oil, gas, and coal

Other leaders should follow Gov Newsom

https://www.citywatchla.com/state-watch/27790-newsoms-big-oil-lawsuit-targets-roots-of-climate-crisis

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate #California #USA #US

Michael Benton's book Extinctions argues mass die-offs are creative, because they pave the way for new organisms

This is true but is only comforting from a geological perspective: living through one would suck

(Good thing we aren’t causing one, eh?)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25934550-400-extinctions-review-a-fast-paced-story-of-going-extinct-on-earth/

A fair go, #Australia. Be the Voice. #VoteYes for recognition of #Indigenous Australians and a #VoiceToParliament. 🖤💛❤️

#UluruStatement #WriteYes #VoteYesAustralia #BeTheVoice #YoureTheVoice #JohnFarnham

Link to the Vote Yes campaign ad on the Uluru Statement from the Heart's YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/br8dB_0z3Fk

@StillIRise1963

Getting off carbon would cost less than that.

In Canada, Trudeau is spending $25 billion to make oil pipes bigger, make oil ports bigger so he can export oil faster, burn oil faster..

A city councillor, Jack Layton, got a million dollar windmill built in Toronto as a demo, it serves 500 familes, 500 homes.

1 million - 500 families
1 billion - 500,000 homes
25 billion 12,500,000 homes

And that's just the money being spent on the pipeline, not subsidies.

#climate

title text: Of course you get an ice cream cone for the swimmer too! You're not a monster.

(https://xkcd.com/2821)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2821)

"The scale of ecological destruction cannot be overstated," Nature Conservation Council representative Clancy Barnard told the inquiry.

"We have a choice to make — do we protect native species or allow an introduced feral animal to lead to their destruction?" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-23/wild-horses-senate-inquiry/102754926