“Halting the Vast Release of Methane Is Critical for Climate, U.N. Says
A major United Nations report will declare that slashing emissions of methane, the main component of natural gas, is far more vital than previously thought.”
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“Reducing methane pollution from the oil and gas industry is one of the most important ways to slow climate change and cut health-harming local air pollution for the millions of people who live near oil and gas operations.
Urge your members of Congress to put EPA back to work regulating potent methane emissions from oil and gas operations.”
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“Russia's parliament is full of bs! Russia's forests cannot trap CO2 when they are now emitters!
"That report states that, because of this melting process, the Arctic is now contributing some 1.1 billion to 2.2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually to the world’s atmosphere. That’s equal to the yearly carbon contribution of countries like Japan, on the lower end, and Russia itself, on the higher end.
Russia is also seeing more frequent forest fires, particularly in the Arctic, which also release massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air. Last year, forest conflagrations in the world’s polar regions released more than a quarter of a billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere."”
“Russian parliament adopts law aimed at limiting greenhouse gasses
Russia’s lower house of parliament this week adopted a law that would limit greenhouse gas emissions via an initiative that officials say would be a first step towards carbon regulation in the country.”
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“BP Gas Project Threatens Unique African Biodiversity Hotspot”
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“Such a deep drilling project has never been attempted before in Africa, but previous research shows deep sea gas production can cause long-lasting damage to fragile ecosystems such as coral reefs.”
“BP is planning to drill for fossil gas on edge of world’s largest cold-water coral reef”
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“It’s ridiculous to talk about freedom in a society dominated by huge corporations. What kind of freedom is there inside a corporation? They’re totalitarian institutions - you take orders from above and maybe give them to people below you. There’s about as much freedom as under Stalinism.”
~Noam Chomsky
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It's no coincidence that this is occurring when global wealth concentration hits a similar all time high:
"A report released Friday by the United Nations Refugee Agency finds that more than 82 million people across the globe were forcibly displaced by war, persecution, the climate crisis, and other factors by the end of 2020, a record high that one international aid group called "an epic failure of humanity."
The U.N.'s annual Global Trends in Forced Displacement assessment estimates that girls and boys under the age of 18 account for 42% of the 82.4 million people who have fled their homes in search of safety and basic human dignity. Nearly a million children were born as refugees between 2018 and 2020, the report shows.
Though the deadly coronavirus pandemic led countries around the world to close off their borders to refugees and asylum-seekers, many people still fled across national lines in 2020, the ninth consecutive year in which the number of forcibly displaced people has reached a record high."
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“Today, 1% of the world is a barely livable hot zone. By 2070, that number could reach 19% — where billions of people call home.
#ClimateAction is a critical solution to the world's worsening displacement and refugee crisis. #WorldRefugeeDay”
“The Great Climate Migration Has Begun”
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“It’s the Iron Collar of the Corporate State Until the People Collar the Congress”
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“The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea”
“Before the 17th century, people did not think of themselves as belonging to something called the white race. But once the idea was invented, it quickly began to reshape the modern world.”
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“It's Raining 'Forever Chemicals' Around the Great Lakes, Scientists Find”
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