#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday

I love this quote, from an interview with Fredi Otto (link below), who works on attributing extreme events to climate change:

"'We've been brainwashed to think that 'freedom' is to live in concrete and drive a car. That's a very stupid definition of freedom.""

https://t.co/CNRh5xXgD4

#climate #cars

Carl Sagan, testifying before Congress 1985

"If you don’t worry about it now, it’s too late later on. We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems is now"

▶️ https://c-span.org/video/?125856-1/greenhouse-effect
#EndCoal #EndFossilFuels #LützerathUnräumbar

"Some argue that rapidly scaling back #FossilFuel production would leave billions of pounds of “stranded assets”, [and] would impoverish the public through a fall in the value of #savings and #PensionFunds.

The study found that in high-income countries two-thirds of the financial losses would be borne by the most affluent 10%.

Just 3.5% of financial losses from #StrandedAssets would affect the poorest half of Americans & could easily be compensated for by government."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/22/fossil-fuel-assets-loss-study

Fossil-Fuel Interests Try to Weaken Global Plastics Treaty

Good news: the world is discussing a treaty to stem plastic pollution. Bad news: fossil-fuel interests are trying to weaken it

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossil-fuel-interests-try-to-weaken-global-plastics-treaty/

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #Climate #plastics