New data indicates that methane is pushing us past the Cloud Tipping Point and that means an addition 8C of warming.
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Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2017-07-29 763aaa
All the electric vehicles in the world won’t save us from complete extinction. The emphasis on EV’s in America is primarily in deference to big corporation’s profits. That’s why the Inflation Reduction Act will kill us all. What we need, isn’t necessarily what is the most profitable for existing pools of wealth:
“Electric vehicles alone won’t take us to a decarbonized future”
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“Alaska lawmaker censured for asking if fatal child abuse saved taxpayer money”
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“Many U.K. grocers limit some fruit and veggie sales as extreme weather impacts supply”
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“US Strike Activity Surged in 2022 as SCOTUS Workers' Rights Ruling Looms
"The right to strike is a critical source of worker power, but that right could be under further threat from the Supreme Court," warned one expert.”
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“Report Urges Biden to Stop Aiding Big Oil 'Ploy to Prolong the Era of Fossil Fuels'
A new analysis warns that the Biden administration is helping facilitate a boom in methane gas exports—despite the dire climate consequences.”
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“Groups Launch World's First-Ever Climate Lawsuit Against a Commercial Bank
The French bank BNP Paribas "continues to write new blank checks to the largest fossil fuel companies without setting any conditions for an oil-free, gas-free ecological transition," said one campaigner.”
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“Moderna's 2022 Windfall a 'Scandalous' Result of Pandemic Profiteering, Campaigners Say
One advocate said Moderna's windfall was a "direct result of the company’s refusal to share vaccine technology with the Global South, even when it was clear that global shortages would be deadly."”
The CEO of Moderna is Stephane Bancel
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“it brought in over $19 billion in revenue and $8.4 billion in profits in 2022 thanks primarily to its Covid-19 vaccine, which was made possible by federal funding and government technology.
"U.S. taxpayers and people all over the world should be furious," Maaza Seyoum, Global South convenor of the People's Vaccine Alliance, said in response to Moderna's earnings report. "It was built on decades of publicly funded research into mRNA vaccines. And it was developed in partnership with the U.S. National Institutes of Health. This should be the people's vaccine, available and affordable to everyone, everywhere, not a goldmine for Big Pharma."
“Moderna's revenue in 2022 alone is equivalent to the combined health budgets of 68 countries," Seyoum noted. "Already, the company expects to make more from the vaccine in 2023 than the combined health budgets of 42 countries." As CNBCreported, "Moderna has contracts on the books for $5 billion in Covid vaccine deliveries for 2023."
Moderna sold $18.4 billion worth of its coronavirus vaccine—the company's only product on the market—last year while rejecting calls to share critical technology with the rest of the world, denying low-income countries the ability to quickly produce lifesaving shots for their populations.”
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“Humanity Faces Converging Debt Crises
High levels of global debt are likely to turn what could be a controllable shift from expansion to contraction into a blowout of unfulfilled expectations and obligations, leading to widespread suffering.”
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