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pennsyltuckyheathen · 26 days
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Saudi Arabia is scheming with Russia to reduce oil production to drive up gas prices before the 2024 election.
They both want Traitor Trump back in office to do their bidding. Putin has undue influence over Trump for reasons yet unknown. Saudi Arabia spends very large sums on Trump properties and businesses and has "invested" billions with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Even more reasons for the one man crime spree to never get anywhere near the Office of the President of the United States of America ever again!
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geohoneylovers · 5 months
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COP28 in Dubai: $80B pledged, historic agreements, & ongoing debates on fossil fuels. Amid hope & challenges, focus remains on a science-driven 1.5°C limit. Stocktake decision crucial. Will the conference extend? Opportunities for progress abound.
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thehappybroadcast · 2 years
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European lawmakers have voted to ban the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans in the EU from 2035, representing a significant shot in the arm to region’s ambitious green goals considering that the EU is the world's third-biggest polluter. Cars currently account for 12% of all CO2 emissions in the 27-member EU bloc, while transportation overall accounts for around a quarter. 339 MEPs in the European Parliament voted in favor of the plans, which had been proposed by the European Commission, the EU’s executive branch. There were 249 votes against the proposal, while 24 MEPs abstained. It takes the European Union a step closer to its goal of cutting emissions from new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles by 100% in 2035, compared to 2021. By 2030, the target is an emissions reduction of 50% for vans and 55% for cars. The aim is to speed Europe’s shift to electric vehicles and embolden carmakers to invest heavily in electrification, aided by another EU law that will require countries to install millions of vehicle chargers. Source: Euractiv (link in bio) #EU #fossilfuels #climatechange https://www.instagram.com/p/CfT2ej5rgjJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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helmort · 4 months
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𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐅𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐬⭐(Friday's Tale)
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In the year 2023, the world stood on the precipice of its own demise. Climate change, an impending catastrophe, loomed large over us all. It wasn't the climate that posed the greatest threat, though. No, it was the insatiable greed of those entrenched in power, the barons of oil and fossil fuels who clung to their dominance like a vice.
These individuals weren't just lining their pockets; they were perpetuating a chain that stretched from the oil fields to the consumers. But as oil neared its end, a dangerous truth emerged. It wasn't just depleting; it was poisoning our planet. Yet, despite having viable alternatives for clean energy since the 1950s—water-oxygen, solar power, vegetation-derived solutions—the powers-that-be dismissed them all. Why? Because none promised the same relentless profits that oil did.
Then, amidst this chaos, Dr. Dallas Taylor unveiled an unthinkable solution: the "fart system." Yes, the unlikeliest of sources—farts—packed with methane, a potential goldmine. All it required were people, their bodily functions, and an insatiable appetite. The elite constructed the Gasomatic, a dystopian workplace where individuals indulged in gluttony, played mindless games, and expelled their gas into isolated chambers for profit. It became a grotesque reality, a twisted manipulation of human nature for the sake of wealth.
As society spiraled into this madness, the generations of tomorrow, enamored by escapism, chose to surrender their autonomy. They forsook conventional work, opting instead to gorge themselves on foods designed for maximum gas production. It was a trade-off—they exchanged their dignity for an income earned by the simple act of farting.
By 2027, traditional employment vanished, replaced by cold, metallic hands—robots and AI. But this substitution came at a steep price. To sustain these machines, we needed more energy, more gas. And so, we filled our Gasomatic factories with even more individuals, unknowingly marching toward our own enslavement.
In the year 2030, the revelation struck like lightning: humanity had become subservient to its own creation. The insatiable desire for wealth and gas had shackled us to machines, akin to the dystopian nightmares depicted in movies like "The Matrix." But this wasn't a cable in our heads; it was a tube in our very core, reducing us to mere conduits for profit.
Amidst this bleak landscape, I, Dr. Jasper J. McGassey, stand as the last bastion of freedom. I defy this fate, refusing to succumb to the twisted desires of a world consumed by greed. In the midst of machines and gas-powered tyranny, I stand firm—refusing to be just another cog in this mechanized enslavement.
I DON'T FART!
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"The Greens have accused Labor of “making the climate crisis worse” and being more interested in opening new coal and gas mines than working together to improve climate policy after the government approved a new coal seam gas expansion in Queensland.
Documents posted on the environment department website show that the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, on Friday approved a project by the oil and gas company Santos to open 116 new coal seam gas wells in Queensland’s Surat Basin."
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stevensaus · 8 months
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Stages Of Grief At The Brink Of The Apocalypse
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All the content warnings for climate change, nihilism, and existential dread. All of them. This is a unique time for humanity. It is not the apocalyptic sentiment. There are literally dozens of predicted apocalypses in the various Christian traditions alone, and there's recorded warnings of the ending of the world going back to 2800 BCE. What is unique is that for the first time in human history, there's a damn good chance that they're correct. The effects of climate change are larger and worse than expected, happening faster than expected, and in ways that we didn't expect. After several years in Maslow's basement, the entirety of our species finds itself finally unable to ignore the real state of the world. Unable to ignore the onrushing realization of our own mortality. The change in climate -- and weather -- has become large enough that it is inescapably obvious. Suicide rates keep climbing among youth, and it's not difficult to imagine why. Their future has already been destroyed to feed other's greed. Equally obvious are those who have deliberately and intentionally traded human lives and health -- your life and health, your children's life and health -- just so they could get a few more millions, even though they've known the effects of climate change and pollution for decades. They are not nameless, faceless business executives or politicians.
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We know who they are. We know, for example, that Shell's Wael Sawan, who, according to Bloomberg {1} "quietly ended the world’s biggest corporate plan to develop carbon offsets, the environmental projects designed to counteract the warming effects of CO2 emissions" in June 2023, just before it was ranked the hottest month on record... before being dethroned only a month later by July's temperatures. Or we could look at Manchin's long history of fighting anything resembling dealing with the climate crisis. There are plenty of examples, stretching back years. These are not nameless and faceless people who chose to enrich themselves at the cost of human lives. They are actual people, who have made actual decisions. Decisions that will bring harm to you, your children. To literally everyone you care about. Finding their names and faces is trivial. It's easy to find the lists of those on the board of directors and executive committees for, say, Shell (1, 2), Exxon (1, 2), BP (1, 2), and Chevron (1, 2). It's easy to find the politicians that have been corrupted and subverted. For example, you can see the top 20 Congressional recipients of oil & gas money during the 2022 election cycle in one nice list. There are charts of lobbying spending of oil & gas companies in the United States during election cycles from 1990 to 2022, by receiving political party. Feature articles lay out which House members, for example, got the most cash from the fossil fuel industry. And we know that fossil fuel companies -- and their individual executives -- were aware of climate change, its effects, and their role in it decades ago. We know that they've actively worked to subvert, delay, and derail work to slow or stop climate change. We know who they have bought off in both state and national capitols. We know their names. We know their faces. We know exactly who has -- and who continues to -- murder thousands of people simply to fatten their wallets. We know exactly who is responsible for every death caused by climate change. They're proud of it. Remember this. The people you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the people who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. {2} We are the final children of history, raised to believe that we will have a future. But we won't. And we're just learning that fact. Anger is a stage of grief. {1} Full text at https://pastebin.com/raw/sKdGDaY0 {2} From Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Yes, I'm aware of the problematic elements of the work. You're missing the point. Featured Image by Marcin from Pixabay Read the full article
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mentiradeloro · 11 months
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"Black gold" Conceptual illustration showing the serious impact of the use of fossil fuels for the environment and the indifference of the human being regarding this fact.
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scholarshipja · 1 year
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More than 92,000 solar panels in the shape of plum blossoms, floating on the surface of a reservoir in #SouthKorea, offer a vision of how land-scarce developed nations can overcome local resistance to giant renewable-energy projects. The 17 giant flowers on the 12-mile-long reservoir in the southern county of #Hapcheon are able to generate 41 megawatts, enough to power 20,000 homes, according to Hanwha Solutions, which built the plant. It’s one of the biggest floating solar plants in the world, and it’s in a nation that has been a laggard in adopting renewable energy, even though South Korea’s industrialized economy relies heavily on imported #fossilfuels. “South Korea needs a massive amount of renewable energy to meet its climate target, and floating solar can be a part of the solution,” because it faces less opposition from residents and doesn’t use land, says Kim Jiseok of Greenpeace Korea. Read more at the link in @bloomberggreen bio. This article is from February 2022. 📷: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg #bloomberggreen @nepa #acholarshipjamaica (at ScholarshipJamaica.com) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmpmvg-uRYO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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harleyquinnagenda · 8 days
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World Environmental Strategy Opinion/Discussion:
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"Here's How It All Works Out"
Imagine an upside-down pyramid. Label the bottom "people", the top left corner "government", the top right corner "business".
Government has a job to do: protecting the status quo.
Business has a job to do: selling the people whatever they want, within the law.
People have a job to do: determining the status quo and buying and voting accordingly.
When it comes to environment-destruction-caused-by-legal-overpollution-caused-by-legal-overconsumption-of-legal-overpolluting-resources:
The government has an excuse: they're protecting the status quo by allowing it to continue
The businesses have an excuse: they're selling people whatever they want, within the law
The people have no excuse: it is their job to determine the status quo. What they say goes. Business and government responds to them. If the people stop buying it, the businesses fold and the government protects the people. If the people buy something legal, the government protects both the businesses and the people over it. If the people vote for something, the government protects the people over it.
Etcetera.
The government, and the businesses, will never listen to a minority of people who say they want to take away the rest of people's actively exercised right to buy things that they want, not overall.
Party-politics allows any one party to only go so far in terms of entertaining whims of partisans, and we've gone that far. We got the IRA, the best possible start any environmental movement could fairly get in the United States. It won't go further than that, from the government. And no, businesses won't stop selling oil just because they held a COP about it. And the environment won't hurl a lightning bolt at you to stop you from melting Antarctica in half.
That means the big challenge that we all know is coming is coming.
We have to convince all the people of the world including ourselves to voluntarily boycott all significant planet-harming activities, and we have to make sure it's going to stay that way, and we need to come up with the mechanisms for doing this, and we need to run the play. Those who care must convince the others. There's ways of doing this. Let's discuss it.
I see one major way of doing it: convincing
With two sub-ways of doing it: truth and reasoning
I see two major ways of doing that: through religion and through non-religion, because we're talking about the entire world, and while there are many countries there are two trends of people: religious and non-religious. Please read through what I post next in order:
Here's a copy of a conversation I started on an atheism forum:
"The Miracle of Life, from a Christian perspective
first, consider it from an atheist's perspective:
no life elsewhere, no God above
life here a cosmic accident
there are supposed to be aliens out there
where are they? we haven't found any
as far as we know, we are the only aliens
there's one planet with life itself on it: Earth
why it would happen here?
pure chance, pure accident, no creator
the elements mixing together
in unrivaled freak accident
Behold, The MIRACLE
the MIRACLE, the planet Earth
where life itself was born
cosmic creation of the elements
"the elements that got up and walked"
life itself took form here
it is the only planet with life on it
it is THE MIRACLE; all of Life itself is contained here; all of it was born here
this is the birth place of life itself
if by cosmic accident this is the most _______ish, most ___________est (pick your words)
thing that has ever happened, ever, in the cosmos
to any atheist, this would be the supreme miracle of their world
that life itself happened here, out of an atheistic universe
Isn't it?
to the religious, too, it is a miracle
though one they're familiar with
"God created the heavens, and so... "
And, so on! ... everything taken care of...
Is it not?"
(The sub thought I was attempting to convert them to Christianity on the spot, with a little poem). After much arguing with me about this, here's a comment I made back to the sub, clarifying:
"The point is: it's a conversation starter about how seriously we should all take environmentalism, giving one great reason for any atheist and one great reason for any religious person. The post was intended to confuse the two topics, as if apparently I myself was confused, to get you all to pounce all over me, which you did, and tear me this way and that sort of, thinking I was telling you to be religious. I wasn't. What I was saying was, and I'll start over now that you get it:
This is about Environmentalism.
There's two kinds of people on this planet; therefore there's two kinds of people who need to be convinced to take Environmentalism more seriously: both of them (there's religious people and there's non-religious people, when it comes to Planet Earth).
People do things well when they're convinced of a good reason to be doing it.
Reasonings: (Best reasonings I can come up with for both parties, at all, possible:)
Non-religious people: Probability is statistics; you have to have something you can count- no one's ever found or seen an alien- and yes, we are certain of this, if you're a roswell/maybe-the-government-has-aliens believer (it's all been debunked, all of it). Nobody has ever seen an alien on or from planet Earth. If there were intelligent life with thumbs out there, it probably would do things similar enough: it would make itself, unintentionally, a sort of obvious beacon in outer space: it would emit radio signals for example after making the same physics discoveries (we can assume physics are the same wherever you are). very old civilizations would have larger examples of this. ya know seti never found anything either? the "wow" signal was inconclusive. that's it; there was no sky full of alien beacons. Now, we can deduce at times whether a far-away planet has methane in the atmosphere, but there's a chance that that doesn't mean life. It might mean life. You can't confirm that through a telescope. We might be right around the corner from discovering basic animal life with some of our missions. The Mars rock with the worm-like things I think was inconclusive actually? But we're going to a moon in our solar system that could potentially have life... Anyway we haven't gone yet. Today you can say this, relevant to environmentalism: as far as any atheist has proof of, it is the greatest crime ever conceived of to do anything to damage all at once the fragile ecosystem of this, the only place in the Universe that has ever been discovered to have life on it. It's a crime with proportions that are at present mutliplied by the entirety of the Universe: there's only one rock with life on it, as far as we know, out of all the Universe's rocks (planets)???? Well, that's how big the crime is. You're damaging the only place with life on it. The crime of doing that is Universe-sized.
Reasonings for religious people: (Ahem) I believe I'm pretty sure that you believe as stated that GOD created this, the ONLY planet in all of time and reality with any life on it at all, and that this all was just as a special treat for you, proudest of all of God's creations, that you, would inherit this all, and, by default, act as its shepherd? Have you upheld such bargain and is God pissed or will be? I heard God has Hell in wait for those who displease?"
The above show my whole position on something like a basic reasoning system that comes out equal on convincing both the religious and the non-religious, using "the stick". I think these are the two most compelling reasons to hold any atheist or any religious person to, because, at times, the stick speaks louder than the carrot to us all.
However, more often, the carrot motivates, because, we like it that way. We'd prefer to do something we want for something we want, not to avoid something we don't want. Although, when you put it that way, isn't it equal philosophically? Isn't avoiding something you don't want just as cheery as obtaining something you want? I don't care, but I'd rather give them two reasons, for redundancy: stick and carrot.
The carrot goes like this:
Atheist: Don't you want a beautiful world?
Religious: Don't you want to go to heaven?
And can be combined as follows: wouldn't both of you like and want a heaven-like world?
Starting there, you have your orders. March.
The disbelievers must get convinced. Be religious about it. This is a religious movement: nothing is more religious than saving the world; I don't care what you believe in. When people talk vaguely of (whatever their myth is): forget that. There's this. There's saving the world in 2024, as an Earth-human.
All of us share a tradition that goes back 13,000 years: the building of stone and the writing of writing.
It is because we have thumbs and it is because we have vocal cords that we are different from the animals. Otherwise we're animals. Same brains. Same eyes.
We have the unique gift of communication and of construction. Therefore it is to us to organize and to enact. We are the shepherds of this planet. I don't care what you heard; throw that book away. This is now and this is true. Observe these comments, are they not wrong?
What we did with our thumbs and with our vocal cords: we tested science until it was right and then we told our others about it.
Now we have things like space shuttles that work, computers that work, and climate/pollution analyses that are not wrong.
Look at the fools who pick one over the other, and say "I believe in the existence of the space shuttle, I know that this computer works, and I think that the science is wrong on global warming!"
Creatures of comfort! For the space shuttle brings them pleasure to know about and the computer brings them pleasure to use and the environment brings them great displeasure because they would have to give up their gas-powered car today and they're not even personally on fire yet from overheating! So, eager to repel the effort, they accuse the science there of being wrong! Well, let the space shuttle come crashing down from the sky (two of them did- not because of the magic of those who naysayed the shuttle program, as this person would have the climate movement naysayed), and let this very computer that they are working on come crashing to a halt right underneath their fingers (but it is for the efficacy of science likely that it doesn't), but nay, their climate-movement feelings are wrong.
It is wrong to say let us forestall the climate movement or allow the continuance of our ways.
But don't take my word for it, and let them not suffer mine either. Take the science to them, right to them.
The next effort is, after you've understood the rest:
Do you, personally, understand the science of it, and can you explain it off the top of your head?
Here's a sample effort at doing that:
Most people aren't scientists, don't care for it, don't need to know about it. That's fine. What little they get told informs them thereafter. They hear, we breathe oxygen and spit out co2? Great, they probably think air means: 50% oxygen, 50% co2. Ultimate way to take their pants off without them knowing? Just tell them that the air's only 1% co2 anyway. All this fuss is over going from 1% to 2%. Fastest way to make any one of them turn off the "climate news".
Here's how it really works: air is mostly stuffing actually, we don't use most of it. Air is mostly nitrogen, about 70%. What's the nitrogen for? nothing. Nothing uses it. It's just stuffing. It's fair to say "air is nitrogen", that's how much nitrogen is in it.
About 20% of air is oxygen, that's the part that we use. But it's only about 20% of it! You don't need much oxygen. To breathe, you mix a little bit of oxygen (you only need a little at a time), with a bunch of just stuffing basically, and then you pressurize it, because you exist at pressure. Now you have your special air-breathing-mix-product. Yes, you breathe out co2- but there's not much of that in the air. The remaining 10% of air is random different gases. Like 1% (I'm making very broad generalizations by the way to make this easy to memorize) like 1% of the air is co2, and a little bit of the air is methane (like .5% let's say?). Okay so why all this fuss about co2 and methane, if really the air is like 70% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and then of a remaining 10%, the air is like 8.5% random gases, .5% methane, 1% co2?
Because, and I'm going to make an analogy very similar to the one about your breathing, wherein just a little bit of oxygen in the air does all the feeding of your cells that you need:
The thing about the air is, most of the gases in it don't really trap heat. In fact, only a few of them trap heat well: co2 and methane for example (and suflyr flouryl or something they use in termite spraying? I just learned about this one but the main two are still co2 and methane). Co2 traps heat well because it has carbon in it. You know what carbon is, right? Gather enough of it together and it's black stuff that traps heat real well in the sun. Separate it out enough and it's a transparent gas that does the same thing still; the carbon absorbs infrared light from the sun and gets hot. Methane and the other greenhouse gases do the same thing I guess, but I think the above example works well enough for co2. You can help refine this section if you can think of ways to explain it better; we all need to have "the story straight" when it comes to explaining this to others.
So, the reason a little bit of gas that traps heat well is a problem is that that's the only gas in the air at all that traps heat, relatively. You shine a light through the air and it gets hot? That's only cause of the 1.5% of gases in it that trap heat at all. You remove those and the air would go cold. You double those and theoretically the air would go twice as hot. Now, it's not quite like that, actually, not by a longshot even. It's more like: you remove those and the air goes a little colder; the rest of it does trap heat a little, just not as much as certain gases. You double those gases, and the air traps heat a little more, cause it's still a small amount of gas we're talking about in there. Anyway, we have like doubled the co2 already (Keeling Curve is the name of the graph/study: should be like 200-260ppm we're at like 420+. I'm trying to write this all off the top of my head as an example, because you need to be able to do at least as much in conversation), and the temperature is climbing, and the co2 we're adding and the temperature climbing are like identical rises graphically; we're raising the temperature, mostly by burning fossil fuels constantly.
It makes sense if you think of what you're not seeing when you use cars. All that fire is contained under the hood and then filtered by the system, such that exhaust looks clear.
But you know what a fire looks like, gasoline or otherwise. When there's an open fire in your town, the smoke column reaches up into the heavens all day and is visible.
Well, that's what traffic "looks like", and you just don't see it. Imagine if every car-fire (the fire in the engine under your hood) was visible? Just cars with like open barbeque fires in the front sections, driving around, with big black columns of smoke rising up from each all day? All the highways of the world would look like solid black smoke columns all day long.
Well, that is how they look. Sorta. You just have to use your mind to see it. Ha. Okay now,
Look at the Earth sideways real good. What I mean by that is, look at one of those satellite-going-over-the-horizon photos that show you just how thin you can get Earth's atmosphere to look, at night. That's how thin it is. You know what I mean? You're used to thinking of the sky as voluminous, but if you get up high enough, you can see that Earth just has a little bitty bit of sky attached to it at all, just like a fingernail of air; there's barely any air there actually it's very thin.
So, you put those two together (you know what all-day fires look like and you know what the actual thinness of Earth's atmosphere looks like from space) well, you can just see it: we really can and really have f---ed with it. There wasn't that much to begin with and we filled it with exhaust since a hundred years ago. There's not many humans covering the Earth? Okay but look at those spots where there are humans- each one of those has been emitting a constant fire 24/7-
Okay? Now I see great things for us: look at us, the ants who learned how to seize control of the entire thing, proving control of it so far only by screwing it up: our great act of proving ourselves to be in control of the planet so far has only been in terms of us showing our f---ing-it-up ability: we got the air to turn bad a little.
Now, let's show our second great act of geo-control. Let's undo that that we just did. The second act. Once we demonstrate that we will have demonstrated control of this planet. I set this challenge before all of us.
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usnewsper-politics · 22 days
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Is America's Energy Policy Putting Us in the Dark? The Risk of Power Outages and Unstable Energy Supply #carbonemissions #coalandnuclearplants #energysecurity #energysupply #fossilfuels #gridvulnerability #intermittentrenewableenergy #poweroutages #renewableenergysources #USenergypolicy
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pennsyltuckyheathen · 4 months
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Fossil fuel companies are amoral, greedy organizations which have caused untold damage to our planet.  They continue their destructive ways in order to make even more money at the expense of the world’s people and its environment.  
Tax these low-life scumbags out of existence.  Nationalize the fossil fuel industry now.
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geohoneylovers · 5 months
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Sharp divisions on fossil fuels at #COP28 Dubai: President al-Jaber pushes phasedown, UN Secretary-General Guterres calls for complete cessation. Divergent views, resignation, and global concerns set the stage for critical climate talks.
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usnewsper-business · 2 months
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The world is changing: We're finding cleaner sources of energy #cleanenergy #climatechange #fossilfuels #globalwarming #renewableenergy
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Australia Has A Tax System Which Unfairly Taxes The Working Poor
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The newly amended Stage 3 tax cuts are making headlines at the moment. Political point scoring about broken promises has been less effective than usual. Perhaps the cost of living crisis and the unfairness of the tax regime may have something to do with that. Australia has a tax system which unfairly taxes the working poor rather than the wealthy. The LNP Coalition under the aegis of former PM Scott Morrison wanted to accentuate that even further via the regressive stage 3 tax cuts for the highest earning Australians. Their federal replacement, the Albanese Labor government amended those tax cuts to be shared more broadly with middle Australia.
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Ordinary Australians Pay The Most Via Income Tax
Despite this relatively good news for the working poor the tax burden remains unfairly skewed in favour of the wealthy. The capital gains tax omission on the family home no matter the value of the designated home means billionaires can squirrel away untold millions via this measure. Family trusts are another tax minimisation way for the wealthy to avoid paying taxation in Australia. Superannuation in Australia has been another bolthole for the seriously rich to avoid tax on their wealth. Income tax is the workhorse of the taxation system in this country and the burden falls most heavily on those that can afford it least.
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Photo by Kateryna Babaieva on Pexels.com Why Doesn’t Australia Tax Fossil Fuel Corporations Properly? In Australia we subsidise large multinational fossil fuel corporations and mining companies by lessening their tax burden for some strange reason. State and federal governments cut lucrative deals for these big companies. One wonders why? Few other nations around the globe make it so financially attractive for these multinationals to extract their profitable resources. Australia, unlike many other places offers a stable and friendly environment in which to mine. Australia is the third largest exporter of energy resources in the world. Our LPG gas is fuelling Japan and many other nations. Our petroleum rent tax brings in bugger all in the greater scheme of things, especially when compared to similar schemes elsewhere. It is as if some of our people have cut deals to benefit themselves at the expense of what could be raised for the nation as a  whole. “Norway’s Ministry of Finance projects that tax revenue from oil and gas will be a staggering A$127 billion or around $23,500 per Norwegian citizen in 2023 alone.” - (https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/norway-shows-how-australia-can-get-a-fair-return-from-oil-and-gas/) Australia’s Petroleum Rent Tax Revenue “There are 10 entities in the 2020–21 PRRT transparency population, with total PRRT payable of $926 million. The number of entities paying PRRT decreased from 12 in the previous year, and PRRT payable increased from $881.1 million.” - (https://www.ato.gov.au/businesses-and-organisations/corporate-tax-measures-and-assurance/large-business/in-detail/tax-transparency/corporate-tax-transparency-report-for-the-2020-21-income-year/petroleum-resource-rent-tax)
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Photo by Loïc Manegarium on Pexels.com Richard Denniss, the chief economist at the Australia Institute, recently presented a speech on tax at the National Press Club. He made these observations about our tax system and the unfair burden it places on ordinary workers. It seems in Australia we have allowed our politicians to rig a tax regime favouring the wealthy and the big end of town. Could this be a result of lobbying by the fossil fuel industry and political donations to our two major political parties? If you look at the records you will see the fossil fuel sector is the most active lobby group and the biggest political donor. “Four of the nation’s biggest fossil fuels companies paid over 13,000 times more in “donations” to the major political parties last financial year than they collectively paid in taxes in 2020-21. Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) data released this morning shows Chevron, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside together made $390,930 in political “donations” to the ALP and the Liberal and National parties last financial year.” - (https://theklaxon.com.au/fossil-fuels-donations/)
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Australians Being Screwed By Vested Interests It is pretty bloody obvious that we are being screwed by a process tainting our governments and without recourse to proper oversight or remedy. Governments and the current political system are failing us. Meanwhile, the smokescreen of cultural warfare and the politics of grievance continues. Neocons beat up emotive narratives about Australia Day merchandise not being available in Woolworths and misplaced corporate conscience regarding the colonial invasion of the continent on that day. More inflammatory is the war in Gaza and the accusations of rampant antisemitism by anyone standing up for the Palestinian’s right to exist. Of course, the Palestinian people are in fact Semitic themselves. The protest against genocide by the Israel state is anti- Zionist if a label is required. Over in America the GOP are virulently anti-woke, attacking LGBTQIA folk and their right to exist. The culture wars hide the real stuff going on, which is the control of our governments by big money. Corporate dollars get politicians re-elected and they are, therefore, beholden to the donors and their interests. Our tax system reflects this relationship. https://www.housetherapy.com.au/social-housing/
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Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com Until we effectively ban all corporate and private donations to political parties we will continue to be at the mercy of their power and influence. One citizen, one vote does not work if the democratic system is being undermined by large political donations by wealthy folk and corporations. Big money is always the loudest voice in the room. The unfair nature of our current taxation regime is proof positive of that. Australia has a tax system which unfairly taxes the working poor rather than the wealthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7mwGnb4CkA Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters: Navigating Credit, Debt, and Financial Freedom.  ©HouseTherapy
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