Tonight, After #TheOilMachine, an audience member who identified as oil company employee pointed out that there was a role to play for their industry in transitioning to renewables.
@TessaKhan’s reply: “It’s very rarely the incumbent industry that disrupts itself.”
“Lawyers and justice advocates found fresh evidence and testimony in Indigenous communities and sustainable villages, pressing a new theory of law aimed at recognizing the rights of nature” https://t.co/JO6HsyeRn8
After being lured to PA with $1.6 billion in state tax credits, being awarded a state air permit to issue more volatile organic compounds than that emitted by the Clairton Coke Works, the “cracker” plant is getting the easy ride from officials as fracking” https://t.co/aqkc0Lqw4a
“Food is the No. 1 material sent to landfills ea year…
As states require households and businesses have access to food scraps collection, how do we avoid contamination? It’s through tools like compostable food service products and packaging…” https://t.co/us71ap2HuD
Watch this octopus, filmed by EVNautilus at a depth of around 1,600 meters (5,250 feet), stretch its tentacles to form a huge balloon.
Nature is amazing. Protect it.
#ActOnClimate#climate#biodiversity#oceans#GreenNewDeal
"The top 5 historical emitters—US, China, Russia, Brazil, & India—caused $6 trillion in damage since 1990, about 11% of average annual global gross domestic product. US emissions are responsible for at least a 1% decline in Pakistan’s potential GDP—equivalent to about $33 bn"
More than half the fields my daughter plays soccer on are artificial turf, and more and more of the 'dryscaped' yards in LA put in plastic grass. "Boston bans artificial turf in parks due to toxic ‘forever chemicals’" https://t.co/p0tyu0Qg7B