India plans to fell ancient forest to create 40 new coalfields
Modi’s dream of a ‘self-reliant India’ comes at a terrible price for its indigenous population.
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#Comment: Those who scream "future!" the loudest, support the past the hardest. Once they are done, all left of this planet will be rubble and a few shitty robots. But the leaders of such corporations are too busy to notice, as they are having fun with their child-slavery friends.
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Oligarchic green-washing - a new Olympic discipline?
The wanna-be "world government" western technocratic oligarchs may have many things - but dignity, taste and sanity are certainly not among them. Bad comedy at best.
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Symbolic image from the dying oil age: Turkish Natural Gas Explorer Escorted By Warships
Turkey’s Defense Ministry has released pictures of the seismic vessel Oruc Reis escorted by five Turkish naval units. “The Turkish Armed Forces have taken all necessary measures… to protect our rights and interests under international law in the maritime zones under our jurisdiction,” the ministry said in a statement.... (via)
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The Monster Exane BNP Paribas Note On Electric Cars
...And Exane BNP Paribas has a monster note on electric cars that downgrades BMW and Schaeffler, raises Valeo and hikes its Tesla target to $1,550. “Your next car may not be electric. But the one after could well be”, it begins, before moving on to a dictionary definition of disruption. Better batteries mean electric vehicle margins will be above internal combustion within two to three years” meaning “dramatic market share shifts lie ahead”, it says:
The collision of a green new political era with the arrival of ‘million mile’ batteries is set to turn EV economics on its head. As EV residuals and margins rise above that of ICE, radical market share shifts lie ahead. We look for those that can thrive – and those that may struggle to survive. Green New Politics: Europe’s New Deal meets a US Blue Wave
This autumn could mark a defining moment for decarbonisation as Europe’s Green New Deal and a potential US Blue Wave drive radical policy changes. We now expect Europe’s 2030 CO2 targets to be further tightened, with a review due by June 2021. To comply, we see European BEV penetration at 40% by 2030. Meanwhile a Biden Administration looks set to kick-start US EV adoption – the Democrats climate crisis plan even recommends 100% ZEV sales by 2035....
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Oil giants' production cuts come to 1 million bpd as they post massive writedowns
The world’s five largest oil companies collectively cut the value of their assets by nearly $50 billion in the second quarter, and slashed production rates as the coronavirus pandemic caused a drastic fall in fuel prices and demand.
Saudi Aramco's second-quarter net profit plunges 73.4% on lower oil prices
Saudi Arabian state oil group Aramco (2222.SE) on Sunday reported a 73.4% fall in second-quarter net profit, a steeper drop than analysts had expected, hit by lower crude oil prices and declining refining and chemicals margins, as the coronavirus hit demand.
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China's energy infrastructure mapped
Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy has released its latest China Energy Map, an open-source, interactive chart of the country's energy infrastructure. The map was created by Shih Yu (Elsie) Hung, a research manager at the Baker Institute Center for Energy Studies, and Gabriel Collins, the Baker Botts Fellow in Energy and Environmental Regulatory Affairs at the institute. "We are releasing the Baker Institute China Energy Map in the hope that an open, comprehensive and regularly updated source of vital China energy infrastructure data can help facilitate improved analysis by a broad range of participants," they wrote. The map, first released in February 2019 as the China Oil Map, "tracks nearly 4,000 energy facilities in China—it serves as a great resource of facility-level data to both academia and general public," Hung said. Project Website. Map.
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Scientists Predict There's 90% Chance Civilization Will Collapse Within 'Decades'
The team of researchers believes that the end of civilization will come within decades. In the new study, which was published in Nature, the researchers wrote, "Clearly it is unrealistic to imagine that the human society would start to be affected by the deforestation only when the last tree would be cut down." Before humans started to dominate the world, the planet was covered by 60 million square kilometers of the forest but now there are less than 40 million square kilometers of forest, revealed the study. As trees and forests play a huge role to balance Earth's ecosystem, fewer forests will cause more deduction of oxygen from the blue planet and create an unwanted change in the food chain. "It is highly unlikely to imagine the survival of many species, including ours, on Earth without [forests]," the study added.
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One football pitch of forest lost every second in 2017, data reveals
Global deforestation is on an upward trend, jeopardising efforts to tackle climate change and the massive decline in wildlife
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Worldwide 99% of everything bought is no longer in use after 6 months.
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Western Bumblebee Population Drops Up To 93% Over the Last 20 Years
The western bumblebee is one of around 30 bumblebee species in the western U.S. and Canada. Now a federal review "unveils an alarming trend for the western bumblebee population, which has seen its numbers dwindle by as much as 93% in the last two decades".
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The true price of pesticides is unaffordable
The European Union has banned many active pesticide ingredients due to damaging health and environmental effects. With leading global agrochemical firms seeking new markets to conquer, developing countries urgently need strict controls.
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“7 More Planets”: 8 Shocking Facts From The G20 Food Footprint Report
1. If everyone ate the way G20 countries do, we would need 7 more Earths.
2. Only India and Indonesia have diets that our planet’s resources can support.
3. Report makes clear that food & diet are key to solving climate change.
4. Flexitarian diet could reduce global carbon budget by 40%.
5. US, EU, Australia & Argentina are biggest culprits for carbon-intensive diets.
6. If G20 countries chose more sustainable diets, 11 million lives a year could be saved.
7. Policymakers MUST price in climate crisis in national eating guidelines & food pyramids.
8. Food-related emissions in G20 countries go down by 50% by 2050. -
Solar advocates are starting a guerrilla solar movement to combat the notion that one should have to pay for energy.
Related: Wikipedia entry - Book: Solar Guerrilla - Constructive Responses to Climate Change
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Fuckcars: Car tyres are major source of ocean microplastics – study
More than 200,000 tonnes of tiny plastic particles are blown from roads into the oceans every year, according to research. The study suggests wind-borne microplastics are a bigger source of ocean pollution than rivers, the route that has attracted most attention to date. “Roads are a very significant source of microplastics to remote areas, including the oceans,” said Andreas Stohl, from the Norwegian Institute for Air Research, who led the research. He said an average tyre loses 4kg during its lifetime. “It’s such a huge amount of plastic compared to, say, clothes,” whose fibres are commonly found in rivers, Stohl said. “You will not lose kilograms of plastic from your clothing.”
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Fuckcars: Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the Word
When you drive, tiny bits of plastic fly off your tires and brakes. Now scientists have shown how all that road muck is blowing into “pristine” environments like the Arctic. Today in the journal Nature, researchers model how microplastics from our cars are travelling from densely populated regions into the environment.
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Shale boss says US has passed peak oil
"The shale sector has not been gifted with discipline" - Matt Gallagher
US crude production has already peaked, according to one of the country’s leading shale executives, as producers battered by the price crash shun new output growth and start trying to become profitable. Matt Gallagher, chief executive of Parsley Energy, one of Texas’s biggest independent oil producers, said the record output level struck earlier this year would be the high-water mark. “I don’t think I’ll see 13m [barrels a day] again in my lifetime,” the 37-year-old Mr Gallagher told the Financial Times.
