Getting Real

I'm interested in leaving the planet in good shape for future generations. #BLM #ClimateActionNow #Degrowth
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[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

"As long as politicians and corporate leaders drag their feet, we are all losing. We must demand more. Time is up. This is THE ISSUE of our time and we must get it right."

https://t.co/A9XTPOiMy7

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#Ableg

Effective tomorrow; Danielle Smith will be silently re-implementing a fuel tax that is 433% MORE than the federal carbon levy.

This will cost Albertans an average of $450 per household.

Zero rebates.

Danielle promised us she would NOT raise taxes.

She lied
#Abpoli

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

You can be an ally to Isreal and not a supporter of Netanyahu's authoritarian genocidal project. How is that not obvious?

[Jason Scott 🇨🇦 @JasonOnTheDrums]

#Ableg Fact:

On January 1, 2024, Danielle Smith raised gas taxes by 13 cents!!

On April 1, 2024, Danielle Smith will AGAIN raise gas taxes by another 4 cents!!

Tell me again how Danielle Smith is making life more affordable for Albertans?

#Abpoli

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

@JasonOnTheDrums Danielle Smith doesn't care about Albertans. She needs to go ASAP.

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

The US Added 1.2 Million EVs To The Grid Last Year, & Electricity Use Went Down

https://t.co/o8qtrRkx8a @cleantechnica

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

@mzjacobson @FastCompany Nice

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

This new electric plane design is proposed to seat 90 and travel 800 km

https://t.co/QyvSsM8C8C @FastCompany

[John Raymond Hanger  @johnrhanger]

"The world just doubled installed solar capacity in a mere 18 months!" It could double again in two years. Amazingly wonderful!
https://t.co/1Pjy5y6340

Credit @AssaadRazzouk

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

@albertaNDP Stop voting for the UCP and others who care nothing about the people they govern.

[Alberta NDP @albertaNDP]

Rural Albertans are speaking out against the UCP’s reckless plan to gamble away their pensions.
Here’s what one woman had to say to Danielle Smith last weekend: "I'm just getting sick and tired of this."

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

This all-electric hydrofoil ferry saves energy by going airborne and "barely makes a sound as it glides over a metre above water"

Carries 30 passengers at 30 knots, reducing "energy per passenger-km by 95%" vs diesel ships transporting passengers

https://t.co/gx1kODzGBg

[Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson]

Batteries starting to replace fossil gas plants worldwide

"Giant batteries that ensure stable power..becoming cheap enough to make developers abandon projects for gas-fired generation"

1st half 2023 "68 gas projects put on hold or cancelled globally"

https://t.co/ZqJZfsHLkz

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Los Angeles voted 12-0 to ban new drilling and to close all 5,000 existing oil and gas wells in the city. This is a historic victory by @STAND_LA and all citizens over the oil industry and environmental racism.

IT CAN BE DONE! Who's next?

#ActOnClimate #climate

[ScientistsForXR @scientistsx.bsky.social @ScientistsX]

Today scientists came back to parliament to talk to their MPs about New Oil&Gas.

Let’s start with a clear statement:
No one is asking that the current supplies of Oil&Gas are turned off overnight.
Not JSO, not the International Energy Agency, no Scientist, not the UN. No one!🧵

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

@MichaelEMann @afreedma @axios No surprise, and geo-enginering is now needed.

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

US support for Isreal's attacks on non-combatents in Palestine, and especially its lack of support for a ceasefire will lead to terrorist attacks on the US. No question. Very misguided politics.

[The Tyee @TheTyee]

“There’s basically nothing in this deal for Alberta except ruined mountains, contaminated water, and a massive clean-up bill.”

https://t.co/iiDo6upsvH

[Getting Real @gettingrealblog]

@politicalham She cares about the short term profits of one industry. And seeks to kill the transition that is underway and creating jobs. Criminal.

[Bill McKibben @billmckibben]

This terrifying video comes from a resort city in Argentina, where temperatures were 99 degrees yesterday, latest in a series of massive heatwaves

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Big 3 Automaker profits:

2013: $19 billion
2014: $16 billion
2015: $26 billion
2016: $27 billion
2017: $25 billion
2018: $26 billion
2019: $22 billion
2020: $20 billion
2021: $31 billion
2022: $37 billion
2023 (so far): $33 billion

So yes, they can afford to pay workers more.