Why the Petronas LNG deal is environmentally reckless, fiscally foolhardy, and socially irresponsible.
B.C. premier highlights support for Trans-Pacific trade deal | CBC News
B.C. Premier Christy Clark expressed her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal during a visit to a fish market on Wednesday.
We can’t leave it to billionaires like Bezos and Bloomberg to solve the world’s problems | Simon Jenkins
It’s up to government to tax and spend for the good of all, and not the mega-rich seeking a warm glow, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Social Influence and Action — Jen Christiansen
I’m wary of climate solutions that are hyper focused on the action of individuals as opposed to systems and corporations. Do you experience carbon footprint guilt every time you board a plane to visit family too? Well, that whole schema was a product of the PR firm Ogilvy & Mather for British Petroleum. It was an effort to shift focus away from oil companies and onto individual responsibility to lower greenhouse gas emissions. For more, read “The carbon footprint sham” by Mark Kaufman for Mashable in 2021, and “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook” by Rebecca Solnit for The Guardian.
Big Oil braced for global warming while it fought regulations
As major oil companies fought efforts to address climate change, they were quietly safeguarding their own billion-dollar infrastructure from rising seas and warming temperatures.
Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain's ‘Billionaire Media’
Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons "literally buying democracy"
Liberalism Won't Admit What it Actually Stands For
As Europe swelters, Paris judges say consumers aren’t to blame — TotalEnergies is
A Paris judicial tribunal has just ruled on a case brought against TotalEnergies by environmental groups and the City of Paris. The judgment does not halt the company's fossil-fuel expansion. But it does something the industry has spent half a century resisting: it holds TotalEnergies legally responsible not just for the emissions from its operations, but for the emissions produced when the oil and gas it sells are ultimately burned.
The geopolitical fight to come over green energy
The struggle for sustainable energy will soon put China, the US and Europe on a geopolitical collision course. But moving away from fossil fuels is a Herculean task, and a greener politics will not transcend tragedy.
The Climate Movement Isn’t in Retreat, It’s Under Attack…and It’s Time to Fight Back | Newsletter
In 2020, a source shared a presentation with me from an internal branding workshop they’d been asked to attend for bp. It was fascinating for a number of reasons, not least because it indicated that the oil major felt genuinely threatened by a surprising new enemy: young people. There have always been ebbs and flows […]
What State Farm and Liberty Mutual Don't Want You To Know
Shell and Exxon's secret 1980s climate change warnings | Benjamin Franta
Benjamin Franta: Newly found documents from the 1980s show that fossil fuel companies privately predicted the global damage that would be caused by their products.
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The great oil inflection
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‘The damage is done’: global oil crisis has changed fossil fuel industry for ever, IEA chief says
Exclusive: International Energy Agency’s Fatih Birol, the world’s leading energy economist, also says UK should largely forgo North Sea expansion
