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In honor of Earth Day, Vox launched a special Home Planet package. Here's the entire collection, which includes fascinating stories on giving up meat, fostering pigeons and the "Squirrel Census."
#EarthDay #ClimateChange #Climate #Green #GreenLiving
Home Planet
Stories that celebrate life on Earth and deeper ways of connecting with our shared home.Vox (Flipboard)
Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.Joseph Winters (Grist)
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
I hate articles like this. A vegan shopping bag toting, straw refusing person is not going to do jack for the #ClimateCrisis
Instead of writing about actual solutions to #ClimateBreakdown like going after oil producers, pointlessly large car manufacturers, fast fashion, or Amazon. The tail wagging writers doing the billionaires bidding has once again pinned the problem on you, the consumer with no agency except to pick one brand of potato chip over the other in a desperate attempt to reduce your plastic by micro grams while Bezos has bridges removed so he can float his yacht out to sea.
#MediaIsComplicit in #ClimateChange from doing Exxon's climate denial bidding back in the day to obfuscating the real problem now.
Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid 'pointless plastic'
Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too.CTVNews
It’s #EarthDay & I’m giving a talk all about the global food system & its impact on the environment.
The agricultural sector is one of the most significant + immediately scalable places to have impact.
Since my talk isn’t public, here’s a great piece from @globalecoguy & the good folks at Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/news/insights/how-food-and-farming-will-determine-the-fate-of-planet-earth
#climatechange #science #food
How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth
Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat.Project Drawdown
Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
Europe is warming twice as fast as global average, leading climate monitors say
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire.TheJournal.ie
Someone posted the following article a week or so ago. It touches on a topic many here might understand. Climate risk includes systemic shocks could trigger a break down in the global and even national economies. Locality is an insurance policy.
“Then there are things that can be done quickly, and locally. Communities that “had been doing some of this work before the pandemic hit were better able to adapt” to the 2020 disruptions…”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/180192/food-atlantic-ocean-climate-crop-failure-prepare
How to Avoid Food System Collapse
If Atlantic Ocean currents break down, the Northern Hemisphere could face crop failures. So why isn’t there a plan for that?The New Republic
#earthday
#ClimateChange
#gardening
#Allotment
Lethal heat in West Africa driven by human-caused climate change
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245524216/west-africa-heatwave-climate-change
How Oil Companies Could End Up Footing Bill For #Climate Disasters
“When a flood or wildfire hits, researchers in “attribution science” run computer models to help determine whether the disaster was caused or intensified by #ClimateChange.
As those models become more precise, other scientists are working to measure how specific companies, such as Exxon Mobil or Shell, have contributed to climate change through their historic #greenhousegasemissions.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawmakers-hope-to-use-this-emerging-climate-science-to-charge-oil-companies-for-disasters
Lawmakers Hope To Use This Emerging Climate Science To Charge Oil Companies For Disasters
This story first appeared at Stateline. A fast-emerging field of climate research...TPM
Climate change is already killing people and the toll is going to continue to rise.
#Climate
#climatechange
Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023
And that’s an extremely conservative estimate.Samantha Harrington (Yale Climate Connections)
Great to have such official accounts on the #Fediverse!
Main topics IMHO:
✅ reinforced public health and concrete answers to the #ClimateChange crisis
✅ Better protection of workers and better #wellfare against precariousness
✅ To welcome #migrants according to European values and its #humanist principles
✅ A more combative Europe against racisms, especially antisemitism and muslim-hatred politics
✅ Protection of #Ukraine from #Poutine's agenda
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction.
The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Climate #Environment
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lizard-population-declining-climate-change/
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction
A disappearing a lizard population in Arizona shows how climate change is fast-tracking the rate of extinction.David Schechter (CBS News)
The 12-month moving average of global mean temperatures has now moved slightly above 1.6 °C (2.9 °F).
#ClimateChange #globalwarming #temperature #climate
Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.
New today: A closer look at the #Texas Panhandle fire, and why it's a grim preview of our near future. From our friends at Sierra Club magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/
#wildfire #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol #weather #fire #drought #energy
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)
