I never understood the obsession with big oil. Oil and gas firms have strong lobby power but it's actually the economics of cheap fossil fuels and nations' desires to out-compete each other in growth and industry that are driving the demand.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2024
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And the world reacts exactly like Americans when there is a school shooting.
Thoughts, prayers, some aid, pearl clutching & zero actions.
And we're killing ourselves by not changing what we each can.
We need to act globally AND personally.
How can you expect people to act when the world around them continues burning through resources at a break neck pace?
One of mcdonalds in my city recently got turned into some sort of a light show/amusement parks for not more than a month. Thousands kilowatt hours wasted, millions of LEDs, tons of steel and plastic, fuel to transport it here and there. All to promote a brand everybody already knows. Now go tell children to take shorter showers.
The UN seems to be running out of vocabulary to describe how serious the danger is.
"they should've sent a poet"
No it won't, you misunderstand COP meetings.