A history of ‘unrealized’ peaks
> The idea of oil supply peaking, or so-called peak oil, surfaced as early as the 1880s, with some predicting a looming exhaustion in the US due to the demise of the Pennsylvania oil fields.
> Throughout history, repeated predictions of peak oil supply have repeatedly been moved further into the future, and at ever-higher levels.
> In 2024, oil supply continues to expand, driven by improved economics and continuous advancements in technology that have helped lower costs, open up new frontiers and add new reserves. Moreover, there are no concerns about the available resource base, which is large enough for this century and beyond.
> Ultimately, peak oil supply has never come to pass, and predictions of peak oil demand are following a similar trend. Time and again, oil has defied expectations regarding peaks. Logic and history suggest that it will continue to do so.
Note: "Logic"?
On the occasion of the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16) in Colombia this week, we've rounded up resources from our cohort of Red Natural History Fellows that can help us understand and break from false solutions and carbon colonialism.
> This week, scientists, conservationists, and public officials from 196 countries are in Cali, Columbia for the UN Conference on Biodiversity (COP16), discussing how carbon markets and other so-called “nature-based solutions” to climate change can be implemented at the global scale.
> But as governments and corporations throw their faith behind carbon offsets, one thing has become clear: not only are these schemes proving to be ineffective tools for mitigating climate change, carbon offsets are also displacing Indigenous and other local communities living in the world’s most vulnerable ecosystems––clearing the way for further extraction in the lungs of the Earth. (...)
New research is helping anti-genocide activists identify and target the corporations enabling and profiting from the war in Gaza.
> In late September, half a dozen activists with the group Voices Against War chained themselves to turnstiles inside the lobby of Chevron’s offices in Herzliya, Israel, just north of Tel Aviv. Reading from prepared remarks, a spokesperson for the group said that they were Israeli citizens “horrified by the genocide that is being committed in our names” and accused Chevron of “fueling the genocide in Gaza with hundreds of millions of dollars in tax payments, fueling energy apartheid throughout Palestine and destroying our planet’s climate along the way.”
> They hope that the combined movements for Palestinian liberation and climate justice will finally bring the genocide to an end.
> More recently, researchers with the Gastivists Collective, who focus on the intersection of climate and oppression
> Activists from both the Palestinian liberation and climate justice movements have already begun to seize on such connections, as is evident in the case of Citigroup, one of the largest financial institutions in Israel and one of the largest investors in fossil fuels in the world. Furthermore, Citigroup board member James S. Turley is also on the board at Northrop Grumman, which manufactures fighter jets for the Israeli military, as detailed by Genocide Gentry. Parker says that these connections inspired a series of actions against Citigroup.
Climate change is embedded in the history of colonialism and capitalism. Reflecting on this history allows to better understand the carbon market.
> Climate change is embedded in the history of colonialism and capitalism. Reflecting on this history allows to better understand the carbon market.
> Coal and colonialism > > The science unequivocally says that burning fossil fuels is the leading cause of the climate crisis. Based on historical and per capita emissions data, a comprehensive study estimates that industrialised countries in the Global North are responsible for 92 per cent of the excess emissions driving climate breakdown. Not everyone in the Global North is equally responsible, however. Just 75 investor-owned companies are responsible for about a third of worldwide emissions, and just 125 billionaires emit 393 million tons of CO2 each year. That is more than the 2022 emissions of Chile and Argentina combined.
New research is helping anti-genocide activists identify and target the corporations enabling and profiting from the war in Gaza.
> New research is helping anti-genocide activists identify and target the corporations enabling and profiting from the war in Gaza.
> In late September, half a dozen activists with the group Voices Against War chained themselves to turnstiles inside the lobby of Chevron’s offices in Herzliya, Israel, just north of Tel Aviv.
> International oil and gas companies supply 35 percent of Israel’s crude oil. Among those companies are not only U.S. ones — such as Chevron, which supplies 8 percent of Israel’s crude oil — but others with consumer-facing businesses in the United States, including BP (also 8 percent), ExxonMobil (6 percent) and Shell (5 percent). Chevron, Shell and Exxon all hold stakes in the Caspian Pipeline, which delivers oil from Kazakhstan to Israel via Russia, the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. And BP holds a stake in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline, which delivers oil from Azerbaijan to Israel via Georgia, Turkey and the Mediterranean.
> The understanding of such supply chains can aid activists in disrupting them, according to Rowell.
> In June, South by Southwest announced that it would be severing partnerships with both the U.S. Army and the weapons manufacturer RTX (better known as Raytheon) after more than 80 performers withdrew from the annual festival in protest, explicitly citing the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Similarly, Human Rights Campaign quietly removed weapons manufacturer Northrop Grumman from its list of corporate partners following a protest against the gay rights advocacy organization’s “pinkwashing of the war machine” in February.
A University of Michigan study of a city in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds that the necessary process of decarbonization is repeating and recreating colonial inequalities.
Heat-related deaths and diseases rising due to climate change, experts warn | Lancet report says average person experienced 50 more days of dangerous temperatures than normal due to climate crisis.
Lancet report says average person experienced 50 more days of dangerous temperatures than normal due to climate crisis.
The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
>Introduction > >Published annually, the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and providing an independent assessment of the delivery of commitments made by governments worldwide under the Paris Agreement. All content on this page is either Open Access or has been made free to read with registration.
Because opposing voices tend to dominate these debates, Greenlight America will inform supporters about plans in their communities.
> Because opposing voices tend to dominate these debates, Greenlight America will inform supporters about plans in their communities.
> Matt Traldi, CEO and co-founder, said he takes inspiration from the way the labor movement prioritizes local voices and focuses on organizing. He was a co-founder of Indivisible, an advocacy group formed to counter the policy agenda of Donald Trump, and previously he spent a decade working for labor unions.
> The ability of local and national groups to collaborate was essential and Greenlight helped to bring the parties together, she said. > > “Local folks provide firsthand knowledge of the proposed projects, community concerns and tight-knit relationships with local elected officials,” she said. “The statewide and national groups bring lessons learned from other communities, relationships with the solar industry and legal and policy expertise.”
> Some environmentalists worry the Rhyolite Ridge Lithium-Boron Project could drive a rare wildflower to extinction, highlighting the trade-offs of the energy transition.
> But Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director at the Center for Biological Diversity, said the conservation group plans to challenge the final permit in court. (...) “The Endangered Species Act does not have carve-outs if we really, really want the minerals that are going to drive a species extinct.”
> Some environmentalists have also raised alarm about the mine’s water consumption, given a historic drought gripping much of the American West.
> The mine is scheduled to become fully operational in 2028;
> The Biden administration has taken a flurry of steps to boost domestic mining for lithium and other critical minerals used in green technologies. On Thursday, the Treasury Department also finalized a rule making mines for critical minerals eligible for generous federal tax credits.
The global push for biomass that can be burned for energy is causing concern about the price Indonesia's forests are paying.
> The global push for biomass that can be burned for energy is causing concern about the price Indonesia's forests are paying.
That part was hard for me too.
The problem is not that they are not actively working on solving this Zionist war, the Israeli apartheid or its settler colonialism.
The problem is that they don't have a decent position on the topic, so they are trying to discard it all together.
For those focused on the Israel-Gaza war, she has tried to emphasize the stakes of the climate crisis. “I mean, don’t you want to pass down a better world to the next generation?”
So for those focused on the Israel-Gaza war, she tried to change the topic. Terrible approach.
A better world to the next generation? While Zionists have been destroying the world of their neighbors with bombardments for over a year and keep doing so with no end in sight? While Zionists are actively participating in an effort to eliminate the next generation of Palestinians? So the actual suggestion is to disregard these facts, for a better world for everyone, except Palestinians.
Enough for sure, but not for the reasons mentioned in this article.
For those focused on the Israel-Gaza war, she has tried to emphasize the stakes of the climate crisis. “I mean, don’t you want to pass down a better world to the next generation?”
So for those focused on the Israel-Gaza war, she tried to change the topic. Terrible approach.
A better world to the next generation? While Zionists have been destroying the world of their neighbors with bombardments for over a year and keep doing so with no end in sight? While Zionists are actively participating in an effort to eliminate the next generation of Palestinians? So the actual suggestion is to disregard these facts, for a better world for everyone, except Palestinians.
Enough for sure, but not for the reasons mentioned in this article.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14697365 >Invidious link
Apparently fake social media accounts boost Azerbaijan before Cop29 | Linked accounts on X push petrostate’s posts about climate summit and drown out criticism
Exclusive: Linked accounts on X push petrostate’s posts about climate summit and drown out criticism
> The last climate summit, Cop28, was also held in a petrostate, the United Arab Emirates. In the runup to that conference, an army of fake social media accounts promoted and defended the UAE. Countries failed to agree to “phase out” fossil fuels at Cop28, as many wanted, instead choosing the weaker ambition of “transitioning away from fossil fuels”.
More than 2,000 Israelis have signed this letter, published in 11 languages, asking the international community to use ‘every possible sanction’ to ‘save us from ourselves’
Nature is in rapid decline but here are five ways to make positive change.
I need evidence
Maybe The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow could be a nice start?
Check out this video and/or download here
Coincidentally, I'm also queer, an immigrant most of my life (since childhood actually and in several places), and I am most probably neurodivergent, but never had the money to check this out officially.
I think understand what you say. Still, the way I see things if we do a statement/analysis mentioning humans I believe we are condemned to arrive to the wrong conclusions if we only take into account the dominant civilization/culture. Or see things through its narrative.
I'm not saying to discard its importance. I'm just saying it's equally important to take into consideration broader inputs through time and space, to try to have a clearer picture.
Something like that.
No, I don't agree with this at all. It tells us something about capitalism. It tells us something about how the U.S. are nowadays. Nothing more, nothing less.
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency, which “assists” European countries in “border management, control and security”, is 20 years old tomorrow ~ from Contre Attaque ~ Frontex is a tool for European countries, with an outsized budget of 845 million Euro in 2023. The objective is to strengthen ...
Gaza Strip, Palestine — With the war on Gaza being dubbed the first livestreamed genocide, gruesome images of Palestinian bodies shredded by Israeli bombings circulate the internet daily. More than 52,000 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, including those still buried under the rubble, with th...
> Gaza Strip, Palestine — With the war on Gaza being dubbed the first livestreamed genocide, gruesome images of Palestinian bodies shredded by Israeli bombings circulate the internet daily. More than 52,000 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, including those still buried under the rubble, with the actual death count likely as high as 186,000 or more. A third of those killed by Israel are children and around 100,000 Gazans have been injured. Of the 2.2 million Palestinians in the 25-mile long coastal enclave, [2 million](2 million) have been forcibly displaced at least once since in the last year. (...)
Gaza Strip, Palestine — With the war on Gaza being dubbed the first livestreamed genocide, gruesome images of Palestinian bodies shredded by Israeli bombings circulate the internet daily. More than 52,000 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, including those still buried under the rubble, with th...
> Gaza Strip, Palestine — With the war on Gaza being dubbed the first livestreamed genocide, gruesome images of Palestinian bodies shredded by Israeli bombings circulate the internet daily. More than 52,000 Palestinians have been confirmed killed, including those still buried under the rubble, with the actual death count likely as high as 186,000 or more. A third of those killed by Israel are children and around 100,000 Gazans have been injured. Of the 2.2 million Palestinians in the 25-mile long coastal enclave, [2 million](2 million) have been forcibly displaced at least once since in the last year. (...)
Replicating another racist, toxic, unnerving hate fest 75 years ago, Trump held a vitriolic rally Sunday in New York vowing to end "the migrant invasion of our country." His best people echoed him: Puerto Rico is "a floating island of garbage," Harris "the devil," and Dems "degenerates (we) need to ...
I think I understand how you feel, in the sense I had a similar despair when I first landed in this community. Then I took a look around in this instance and found the slrpnk wiki page. Even just reading it was soothing for me, in a realistic way. If you feel like, take a look at it.
Please do keep in mind that Zionists and Jews are not synonyms. Jews have been opposing Zionism since its inception and keep doing so in large numbers. See also:
Our Approach to Zionism - JVP - Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace is guided by a vision of justice, equality and freedom for all people. We unequivocally oppose Zionism because it is counter to those ideals.
On top of what you say, I would also suggest the following:
What is Solarpunk | Solarpunk is a Revolt of Hope Against Despair | ...
I'm not sure I understand. This article talks about the Amazon fires and the criminals they mention are those that have been illegally ranching cattle there? Not the major deforestation companies for example? Did I perhaps miss something?
I am a bit conflicted with this article. One one hand I think I understand the intentions behind it, but It seems to me that it confuses opportunistic vanguardism with pragmatism.
Yes, Lenin managed to convince enough people to hijack the February Revolution and concentrate all the power to the party himself. To my understanding, he accomplished that mainly by using the wording of the actual bottom-up revolution. So the problem for me is not a matter of principle(s), but how to be sharp enough as a movement not to be fooled by people using a familiar narrative, while trying to achieve their own goals. Something like that.
Edit: Meaning, "pragmatism" was the bait. Nothing more.
It would be great if these approaches would actually contribute in a meaningful way. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be the case.
This is an article with some relevant info:
Climeworks’ “Mammoth” vacuum cleaner is not a solution to the climate crisis
Climeworks’ newest DAC plant, Mammoth, is purported to capture ten times the amount of CO2 as Orca; some 36,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. (...) If 36,000 tonnes sounds like a big number, it’s not: It equates to one one-millionth of our annual global emissions. Even if Climeworks and other DAC companies do build hundreds of these DAC plants, it would not equate to even one per cent of current annual global emissions.
From our world in data on CO2 emissions:
we now emit over 35 billion tonnes each year
May I add that these notes where provided to the NYT by the Israeli military?
Minutes of Hamas’s secret meetings, seized by the Israeli military and obtained by The New York Times,
So after all the debunked fabricated lies that Israel has spread thanks to the press during the last 12 months, are we supposed to take what the IDF gives in good faith?
It looks like the U.S. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo was released
Although an Israeli judge granted his release from police custody, he was ordered to remain in the country until October 20, allowing investigators more time to bring additional allegations or to further interrogate Loffredo,
Israeli police had held Loffredo, an independent journalist from New York, on suspicion of assisting an enemy in war, a serious allegation that carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or death,
“The claim that Loffredo and The Grayzone represent Israel’s enemy in wartime merely suggests that the Israeli government views the American people and free press as a legitimate target,”
The statement also called on the U.S. State Department to come to Loffredo’s defense, saying that the U.S. “has an obligation to defend its journalists who are merely adhering to their ethical obligation to inform the public of pertinent facts.”
One desired outcome — if the movement were to gain enough support — would be to deprive big-time polluters such as BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Shell of the funds they need to keep investing in new oil and gas fields.
In relation to the above passage of the article, here is what the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement has to say about Chevron:
Chevron has been the main international actor extracting fossil gas claimed by Israel in the Eastern Mediterranean since it acquired Noble Energy in 2020. With its extracting activities, Chevron is implicated in Israel's policy and practice of depriving the Palestinian people of their right to sovereignty over their natural resources. Chevron’s extraction activities generate billions of dollars in revenue for apartheid Israel and its war chest, helping to fund the ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, as well as its regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid and military occupation. Chevron fuels apartheid and environmental devastation.
The BDS Movement issued a call to boycott both Siemens and Chevron in 2022, with campaigning around Chevron previously focused on divestment. Now, we are calling on supporters of Palestinian rights and climate justice to escalate pressure on Chevron by boycotting Chevron gas stations and gas stations owned by Chevron, including Texaco and Caltex. There are thousands of Chevron, Texaco, and Caltex gas and petrol stations worldwide. (...)
Edit: that's the article from January 2024
BDS movement Calls for a Consumer Boycott of Chevron-branded gas stations
U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts || Council on Foreign Relations || 31 Mai 2024
Israel has been the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign aid since its founding, receiving about $310 billion (adjusted for inflation) in total economic and military assistance.
I would argue that Zionists started killing children in 1947.
See: The Nakba: Five Palestinian towns massacred 75 years ago
Israel’s siege now blocks 83% of food aid reaching Gaza, new data reveals
New data has revealed the scale of aid obstruction, and the consequential drastic fall in aid entering Gaza. This is driving a humanitarian disaster, with the entire population of Gaza facing hunger and disease, and almost half a million at risk of starvation.
Data analysis by organisations working in Gaza has found that as a consequence of the Israeli government's obstruction of aid:
- 83% of required food aid does not make it into Gaza, up from 34% in 2023.This reduction means people in Gaza have gone from having an average of two meals a day to just one meal every other day. An estimated 50,000 children aged between 6-59 months urgently require treatment for malnutrition by the end of the year.
- 65% of the insulin required and half of the required blood supply are not available in Gaza.
- Availability of hygiene items has dropped to 15% of the amount available in September 2023. One million women are now going without the hygiene supplies they need.
- Only around 1,500 hospital beds in Gaza remain operational, compared to around 3,500 beds in 2023 which was already well below sufficient to meet the needs of a population of more than 2 million people. By comparison, cities of similar size, such as Chicago and Paris average 5 to 8 times more beds than in Gaza.
- 1.87 million people are in need of shelter with at least 60% of homes destroyed or damaged (January 2024). Yet tents for around just 25,000 people have entered Gaza since May 2024.