Eastern Tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), female, dark color form
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2017-08-10 166AAA3
“Intel Report Details How the UAE Spent Hundreds of Millions to Influence U.S. Foreign Policy”
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““A Carbon Bomb”: Movement Grows Against EACOP East African Pipeline Funded by France’s Total & China”
The rich and their politicians aren’t stupid. They know the truth of our planet’s dying.
By not stopping the actions that caused this death they are signaling they consider themselves better off living as they have and moving to their bunkers - when they’re wealth can no longer insulate them from the consequences of their climate lead collapse of the biosphere - than the existence they would face in a world where they would have to compromise their position by joining an attempt by everyone to save what we can of this world. Apparently, attempting to save the world would involve a existence worse than life in a bunker.
Their choice to maximize their continued comfort assumes we will die. Billions of people will die. They know that. But don’t care. They consider us inferior and available for sacrifice for their well being. And they have the politicians to enforce this choice.
I suspect the French conglomerate Total informed Ugandans pipeline decision makers that they as well could afford the same preferred choice regarding their future on our dying planet if the project were allowed to go forward.
Uganda is a success story of the Republican Party of America and it's "Family" a christian values group in Washington:
"Stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline"
"“A Carbon Bomb”: Movement Grows Against EACOP East African Pipeline Funded by France’s Total & China"
Excerpts:
" profits, all of them are going to go to the corporates, because the way you make money in the oil business is either you charge taxes over the barrel, per barrel of oil that’s being sold — and they are not doing that, because they’ve already given a tax exception for 10 years. "
"the impacts that are going to be faced for the people, the impacts on the environment, the impacts on health. And they’re [Uganda] the ones who are going to be shouldering all of these issues, " Corporations take all the benefits and the costs are socialized without a meaningful increase in the ability of Uganda to pay for them. "
This is how you get a "Sacrifice Zone"
Jamie Dimon and Wall St kin must NOT be allowed to finance ANY part of this pipeline. They’ve done enough damage destroying the Amazon.
The world’s people canNOT afford to wait for lawsuits to get the U.S.’s vile 2 parties to act like humans beings on the climate. Sue but impose EXTENSIVE sanctions on the US before we’re all dead. Issue arrest warrants for US politicians!
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Another cost of a meat diet:
“Sanitation Co. Accused of Using Child Labor in JBS Slaughterhouses”
“These 15 meat and dairy companies emit almost as much methane as the EU
Tyson, Nestlé, JBS Foods and other food giants should have stricter emissions tracking, experts say”
“Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth
Biggest analysis to date reveals huge footprint of livestock - it provides just 18% of calories but takes up 83% of farmland”
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“11-Year-Old Licypriya Kangujam Confronts U.K. Minister over Criminalization of Climate Protests”
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“Sign now: Banking on Amazon Destruction
The Amazon rainforest is at a tipping point. Banks must adopt an Amazon-wide exclusion policy for oil.
In May 2021, Amazon deforestation hit a record high – all while oil & gas extraction continues to accelerate deforestation and forest degradation in the region. But the oil & gas sector isn’t the only culprit driving the Amazon to irreversible destruction.
JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Citigroup all scored “F’s” and are at “very high-risk” of funding the destruction of the Amazon in a scorecard report by Stand.earth and Amazon Watch.
Despite some of these banks having deforestation policies and screening processes set-up to manage the risk of negative environmental and social impacts, they’re still providing investment and financing to oil & gas companies in the Amazon. These loopholes in their environmental and social risk (ESR) policies are keeping them in business with companies involved in corruption, human right’s violations and biodiversity loss.”
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Food for thought:
Consider that you were going to screw over all the people on earth and take shelter underground. One way to ensure your safety is to be sure there isn’t anybody on the surface that’s try to get at you. One way to do this is to make sure everybody on the surface is either dead or without a doubt dying real soon. That’s why they keep oil and coal alive and thriving. That’s why the incrementalism in the face of a dire end. They continue to lie. Understate the problem. Deny. Delay required action. All while hoarding the most cash they can to set themselves up with the maximum possible insulation against what they have wrought. They want to get us as close to the edge of a swift, severe, calamitous, thoroughly deadly biosphere collapse as possible. They want to minimize the risk of the rabble being left behind taking action that might be inconvenient or ruinous to their plans. But they do have plans to suspend democracy if we threaten the elites. They will very likely use the military against the 99% if they have to. After all, if they managed our approach to the terminal surface conditions they’ll be fleeing we are all as good as dead anyway,…in a short amount of time at that
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“Five countries have cost world $6T in global warming losses,”
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“Ninety percent of all counties in the United States have experienced a weather disaster over the past decade, and these climate-fueled events have caused more than $740 billion in damages.”
“9 in 10 US counties have experienced a climate disaster in the last decade, report finds
Climate change is here and “all taxpayers are paying for it.””
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“Qatar, and its hosting of the World Cup, is peak globalisation. Our environment cannot support an international tournament in the desert - the players arriving in chartered aeroplanes and other bigwigs landing in private jets; teams training in air-conditioned compounds and armed convoys escorting them to sealed stadiums; the heat kept out thanks to always-on refrigerants spewing carbon into the air.”
“Qatar World Cup - one last party before the world burns”
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