“Investment in coal — the dirtiest fossil fuel — is set to rise 10% this year as energy security grows increasingly fragile due to the Ukraine war”
Northern Pearly-eye (Lethe anthedon)
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2020 7/11 _F2A1544aaa
“A Warning About The Coming Shortages Of Diesel Fuel, Diesel Exhaust Fluid And Diesel Engine Oil”
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CONSIDER ISOSTATIC REBOUND CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE:
“Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors of devastating quake”
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“Economists Are Calling For Human Sacrifice Now
To satisfy the inflation gods, there must be blood”
“The masters of the universe insist that to satisfy the inflation gods, we must sacrifice workers to unemployment. Obama’s Treasury Secretary Larry Summers recently said, “We need five years of unemployment above 5% to contain inflation… or one year of 10% unemployment.” Just remember that for every 1% unemployment goes up 40,000 people die.”
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“Dept. of time to Blame the Poor: An honest headline would read: Corporate-captured politicians fume: “Corporate profits must be protected at all costs, especially from the workers who create 100% of those profits.” But since when are corporate-controlled media outlets honest?”
“Inflation Is Soaring — Get Ready for the Rich To Blame the Poor
Follow the money if you want to know the actual source of the cost-of-living crisis”
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SCOTUS killing the “regulatory state” includes regulating how corporations use fresh water
And you can bet if it can be used to extract fossil fuel for fracking so that it can be exported, water will be used before fracking before you will be allowed to drink it:
“The pandemic will be forgotten quickly. Food shortages are taking center stage globally. And water shortages are to follow. And you can't grow food without water, Supply chain issues can be resolved, but climate change cannot. The Four Horsemen are riding, and coming to a town near you.”
“Water Shortages Will Destroy Society
Global food shortages are getting worse by the day”
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“This could be the coolest summer of the rest of your life”
“Summer started with an oppressive heat wave. Get used to it. In Minnesota, temperatures soaring above 100F buckled streets and shattered car windows. Thousands of cattle perished in Kansas. Extreme heat waves have struck many parts of the US, Europe and China, threatening lives, increasing the risk of wildfires, and testing the limits of electric grids. So while this summer might be unbearably hot, it may be one of the coolest summers for decades to come.”
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“Energy is the most important input to our economy. In fact, energy is the economy. Without it our ‘machines become statues and our workforce turns into a corpse’. The problem is that we have most probably reached peak oil extraction in 2018, and natural gas is about to be peaking soon. To that add depletion, the first course in the banquet of consequences with inflation.”
“Why the World Economy Hasn’t Collapsed… Yet.”
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“We live in an “opulence bubble”? “Opulence” is a formal term economists use to mean “things we don’t really need.” Or “things made with hidden costs.” That bubble is now bursting. Our entire economy is that bubble. We’re an industrial civilization on a dying planet. How much longer do you think it can really go on?”
“It’s Not Just the Planet That’s Facing Extinction, Our Economy Is Too
Our Dirty Industrial Economy Was the Greatest Bubble in Human History, and Now It’s Popping”
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“A small handful have decided we call live without the world and species as we’ve known it,… for ever
Ever since CNN’s new overlords at Warner took over, the network has pushed the story line that it is moving “back to the center” and away from its alleged leftist orientation. Its author quotes new head Chris Licht saying, “We are truth-tellers, focused on informing, not alarming our viewers.” Among the problems with this viewpoint is the fact that the “truth” these days is in itself decidedly alarming, as one of America’s two major parties is seeking to destroy democracy and replace it with a fascist cult.”
“Altercation: Will the Oligarchs Who Own the U.S. Media Save Democracy? Don’t Bet on It.”
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“Lake Mead’s water levels have reached a new low. This time, the reservoir’s levels are as low as they were back in 1936 when it was developed. Water levels last month stood at 1,047.69 feet—that’s more than 20 feet below levels at this time in 2021. The alarmingly low water levels could also form a “dead pool,” which is when there isn’t enough water left in the reservoir to generate hydroelectric power and for the water to flow downstream.”
“Lake Mead Could Soon Form a 'Dead Pool' as Water Levels Drop to Extreme Lows
The reservoir on the Arizona-Nevada border is at its lowest level since the 1930s.”
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“After a year of reporting on the tax machinations of the ultrawealthy, ProPublica spotlights the top tax-avoidance techniques that provide massive benefits to billionaires. A look at the top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steve Ballmer.”
“Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale”
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And take a guess what country (Joe Manhin’s America) would export them the coal?:
“Russia’s chokehold over gas could send Europe back to coal”
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“Ecuador's capital has been virtually paralyzed by demonstrators, and the government says it has lost control of a small city in the Amazon to protesters wielding guns, spears and explosives.”
“Ecuador Roiled by Protests Set Off by Rising Fuel and Food Prices”
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“Levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
“Methane levels surged in 2020 despite lockdowns”
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“Clarence Thomas, one of the five conservative justices who voted to strike down Roe, also made it clear that he wants the court to revisit same-sex relationships, marriage equality, and queer rights. Why stop at abortion when the whole 20th. century is up for grabs?”
“Clarence Thomas Says Why Stop at Abortion When We Can Undo the Entire 20th Century
We knew LGBTQ rights were under attack. The Supreme Court just confirmed it.”
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The kernel of civil war has been sown
“Trump promised Republicans a Court conservative enough to overturn Roe so long as they tolerated his corruption and criminality. It worked”
“Trump’s Big Payback”
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“Heat Waves Around the World Push People and Nations ‘to the Edge’”
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“I think the American people should see that the corporations abandoned them long ago. That people will have to build their own economies and rebuild democracy as a living democracy.
The corporations belong to no land, no country, no people.
They have no loyalty to anything apart from the baseline – their profits.
And they profits today are on an unimaginable scale; it has become illegitimate, criminal profit- profits extracted at the cost of life.”
Vandana Shiva
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