Critics say millions of dollars are being spent by local governments on offsetting when it should be the last resort
— Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/24/australia-councils-sydney-melbourne-brisbane-buy-overseas-emissions-offsets
Even MalcolmTurnbull says only result from carbon trading will be merchants bankers even richer.
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Any capacity left for demand in Australia? When will it happen?
US military aims for net zero by 2050 but with a carbon footprint greater than some 140 countries critics say it needs radical change
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/10/pentagon-us-military-emissions-climate-crisis
“The White House is expected to request military budget more than $770bn for the next fiscal year.”
Such large budget makes required Climate Action unaffordable. Instead of rest of world being commanded military budget must increase, when will USA be told to decrease?
In 1999 the historic district of Pontevedra, a picturesque city of 85,000 residents in northwestern Spain, was clogged with traffic, its air filled with exhaust fumes and the cacophony of automobiles. Things are very different now.
— Read on au.news.yahoo.com/spanish-city-offers-a-road-map-for-a-future-with-far-fewer-cars-205417140.html
The key to reducing traffic, he believes, is preventing unnecessary cars from entering in the first place — by eliminating on-street parking, restricting speed of travel to a crawl, and putting in one-way streets with narrow lanes for cars and wide sidewalks for people, while claiming more public spaces for pedestrians and lighting them well.
Past the tipping point. Most existing fossil burners become not wanted.
Scientists are replacing crops and livestock with food made in factories from microbes and water. It may save humanity’s bacon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
— Read on amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/08/lab-grown-food-destroy-farming-save-planet
so no need to worry about adapting to meals of insect protein, just add water and electricity into reactor vessel then dehydrate to just another kind of flour, with something like meat, if required, cultured.
It’s not as if we have a choice. Farming has done most damage to Planet, ever closer to complete breakdown. How can we keep doing the same old thing and expecting different result?
South Australia became famous for a statewide blackout, but years on it’s had enough renewable energy to power the entire state for a week — and one expert predicts the technology could power it for a month by next year.
— Read on www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-19/renewable-energy-production-hits-new-record-in-sa/101788694
“A major milestone would be an annual measurement — South Australia getting more energy from wind and solar than all others and that will happen probably in about four to five years time,” Mr Mountain said.
Rhetoric around hydrogen has become ever more overblown.
— Read on about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-the-unbearable-lightness-of-hydrogen/
All you ever wanted to know about NO FUTURE for hydrogen(except in brain ferment with politicians, sucked in by lobbyists and shonky financiers)
https://about.bnef.com/blog/liebreich-the-unbearable-lightness-of-hydrogen/
Canada keeps its promise to end taxpayer subsidies for international fossil fuel projects by December 31. The next steps matter, too. But this is still a win.
— Read on energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-solid-first-step-to-end-fossil
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