EdCos

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NEVER AGAIN: for everybody, please.
Nationalize the U.S. Fossil Fuel Industry to Save the Planet

Turning the biggest oil companies over to public ownership would serve several goals at once, including climate resilience.

The American Prospect
DO SOMETHING:
The most important number of the climate crisis:
420.1
Atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 31 October 2023
Source: NOAA
Daily Cartoon: Wednesday, November 8th

“This new drug can cause memory loss, but only about things concerning the Sackler family.”

The New Yorker
America's Simmering Cauldron

The rise in bigotry and hate reminds us what's at stake as the 2024 election beckons

America, America

Keeps going UP; not enough being done.

The most important number of the climate crisis:
420.1
Atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 31 October 2023
Source: NOAA

A Smoking Gun for Biden’s Big Climate Decision?

Bill McKibben on a new analysis from Robert Warren Howarth that suggests that liquefied-natural-gas exports may well be worse for the environment than burning coal.

The New Yorker

Harlan Crow and a few billionaires have provided Clarence Thomas with: 

-38 destination vacations

-26 private jet flights

-6 helicopter flights 

-Yacht voyages

And we're going to let Thomas rule on Moore v. US, which could permanently shield billionaires from a wealth tax?

"Never forget that it only takes one political, economic or religious crisis for women's rights to be put in jeopardy. Those rights are never to be taken for granted; you must remain vigilant throughout your life."

Simone de Beauvoir

Read @dwallacewells on the magnitude of this year's #wildfires in #Canada.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/magazine/canada-wildfires.html

"By the end of September, more than half of the world’s countries could fit inside the land burned."

"For every single resident of the Northwest Territories, 220 acres of forest burned."

"Pilots flying water bombers often watch the water evaporate before it even reaches flame."

"The Canadian fires…released more carbon than all [137 listed countries] combined."

#Climate #ClimateCrisis

‘It’s Like Our Country Exploded’: Canada’s Year of Fire

Endless evacuations, unimaginable smoke and heat, 45 million acres burned — is this the nation’s new normal?

The New York Times