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Tropical forests can recover surprisingly quickly when allowed to regrow naturally

Studies indicate regrowth can be achieved in 10 to 20 years. Unfortunately, leaders at the recent COP26 leaders have only pledged to halt deforestation by 2030. Photo: A 32-year-old forest on former pastureland in northeastern Costa Rica. Robin Chazdon, CC BY-ND 09 December 2021 | Various Authors | The Conversation Tropical forests are among the world’s best tools…

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Electric cars won’t save us. Or the planet

Suzuki: Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another Photo: Scharfsinn86 / iStock / Getty Images Plus (cropped) 17 November 2021 | DAVID SUZUKI | Now Toronto Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s…

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In 2017, the US military purchased 269,230 barrels of oil a day

None of these totals, in the US or most other countries, are included in COP, past or future. But maybe they will all go solar real soon. 12 November 2021 | JANGIRA LEWIS | Earth.org US military pollution is a significant contributor to climate change. If it were a nation state, it would be the…

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The consumerism that destroys life is also the cause of the environmental emergency

Decades ago, corporations and governments invented the traits we now call ‘human nature.’ COP26 has shown ‘consumers’ that buying something ‘different’ is not working. 13 November 2021 | Graham Peebles | Euroasia Review The natural environment has been poisoned, vandalized and trashed in accordance with the demands and values of the all-pervasive socio-economic system, and…

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A car is a car is a car. It is time to move on

How long will we continue trying to ‘buy’ our way out of the global mess? It is lazy and foolish. We need to rethink everything. Photo: In Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, centre, is putting bikes at the centre of her transport policy. Photograph: Stéphane de Sakutin/AFP/Getty Images 10 November 2021 | Oliver Milman | The Guardian…

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The 1% produces 15% of the world’s carbon emissions

On average, they emit over 70 tonnes of carbon dioxide per person every year, 30 times more than we can each afford to release Photo: A superyacht, kept on permanent standby, as some billionaires’ boats are, generates around 7,000 tonnes of CO2 a year.’ Photograph: Valéry Hache/AFP/Getty Images 10 November 2021 | George Monbiot | The…

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Want to Go Green? Stop Flying Your F-35 on Family Vacations

Did you know that we can personally save the world if we stop eating meat and cutting down trees? Did you know that the fighter jet you fly on your daily commute can burn through hundreds of gallons of fuel per minute? Photo: Christian Cachola / US DoD flickr 09 November 2021 |Doug Weir, Benjamin…

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Big Media: the move to ‘nudge’ viewers to ‘decarbonise’ our lifestyle

If you thought media had stopped reporting ‘news’ and will now instead ‘nudge’ viewers to change their lifestyles, you were not wrong. Photo: screenshot: The Power of TV: Nudging Viewers to Decarbonise their Lifestyles 09 November 2021 | BRENDAN O’NEILL | Spiked TV news used to be about informing people. Now it’s about manipulating us….

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How Clean is Green? Not Very

A single Tesla Model S contains as much lithium as around 10,000 mobile phones. An electric car requires six times as many critical raw materials as a combustion engine. And further to this… our entire attitude about ‘green’ is absurd, really. Countries like the UK are betting on wind power but climate change is altering…

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Dear COP26: On the road with methane hunters in Texas

Most of the politicians have returned home, many on their private jets, but today we join Mark Stone from Sky News who goes to Texas to talk to people who are monitoring the impact of methane gas on our planet. 03 November 2021 | Mark Stone | Sky News The frontlines of this climate crisis…

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Exxon might contribute to its $100 billion Houston carbon capture plan

Welcome to The Green Economy. Exxon is pushing for a carbon capture scheme without even a rough estimate as to how much they might be ‘willing’ to contribute. Photo: An oil refinery outside of Houston. Exxon Mobil is proposing building a carbon capture project along the Houston Ship Channel. (Getty Images) 01 November 2021 |…

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Dear COP26: The children of Madagascar are on the brink of famine caused by climate change

Politicians love invoking ‘plausible denial.’ They are too busy, wheeling and dealing and kissing babies to know what is happening ‘in the world.’ Share this item with your ‘leaders’ before they head home on their private jets. 02 November 2021 | Alex Crawford | Sky News Madagascar is on a frontline where there are no…

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