Biden Should End the Fossil Fuel Industry’s Secret Weapon
Using a little-known provision of trade agreements, oil and gas corporations are able to pit their profits against democracies and our climate. It’s time to end the practice. There is…
Fossil Fuels
The Fossil Fuel Proliferation Threat
Climate change negotiations and debates are characterised by some curious features. For one, there are interminable stretches of discussion that never seem to feature the agents of cause. Chatter about…
Terracidal But Ignored Carbon Debt From Gas Exploitation By The World & Climate Criminal Australia
In Humanity’s present slow-motion suicide the World resolutely ignores the immense and ever-increasing Carbon Debt due to fossil fuel exploitation. In particular the inescapable Carbon Debt from gas exploitation alone…
Can We Abandon Pollutive Fossil Fuels and Avoid an Energy Crisis?
Similar to the two navigational hazards mythologized as sea monsters in ancient Greece—Scylla and Charybdis—which gave rise to sayings such as, “between the devil and the deep blue sea” and…
To Keep Fossil Carbon Out of the Air, Just Stop Pulling It Out of the Earth
Expectations for the 2021 COP26 climate summit were always low. They had dimmed even further by the time the prominent climate activist Vanessa Nakate of Uganda spoke from the main…
The Clean Energy Transition Is a Big Time-Wasting Lie
“(W)e haven’t even started to talk about what might be ‘possible’ and are still mostly arguing about what is ‘feasible without compromising economic growth.’ These are of course extremely different…
Your Hard-Earned Money Is Going Towards Subsidies For The Biggest Pollutors- Big Oil companies
Even today, the fossil fuel industry remains one of the biggest contributors to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, raising the temperature of the earth by 1.5 degrees which is…
Paris Goals Likely To Fail If Fossil Fuel Production Is Not Controlled
Washington based think tank and advocacy group Oil Change International in association with 14 other climate change groups have come out with a very relevant report which assesses the fossil…
Fossil Fuels: At What Price?
We often read comparisons between the prices of solar energy or wind energy with the prices of fossil fuels. It is encouraging to see that renewables are rapidly becoming competitive,…
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