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System Change Not Climate Change: Climate Crisis Commentary for April 2020
Socialist Action / 18 hours ago
By JAMES FORTIN
Australia still has dinosaurs. We didn’t know what to make of this when
we heard it. Thinking fossilized, we were mostly right. The
“dinosaurs” were actually “dinosaur trees,” the very last remaining
stand of prehistoric trees on that continent, heroically saved by
firefighters during the recent Australian wildfires. But it isn’t the
trees that are fossilized, it’s the Australian political leadership.
They still deny that climate change exists. Dinosaurs.
Lighting up for climate. A Colorado brewery is testing technology that
would capture carbon dioxide emitted during fermentation. The CO2 would
be chilled into a liquid and delivered to pot-growing facilities where
it would be released to speed photosynthesis of the plants. Ultimately,
the goal is to spread the use of the process to avoid spewing 1 billion
tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by 2030. Knowing this
mellows many right-out.
Bill McKibben, 350.org founder, on why fossil fuel divestment: “Because
money is the oxygen on which the fires of global warming burn. We’ve
done a good job fighting the fossil fuel industry head on, but it’s
always going to be a tenacious battle—Exxon doesn’t know how to do
anything else, so they will fight to the last bridge. But the big banks,
asset managers, and insurance companies? They’re just trying to make a
little more money off the destruction of the earth… But it’s simply not
OK for them and Liberty Mutual and BlackRock and the rest to keep trying
to cash in on climate destruction.”
No hop-ing around the facts. An environmental engineering professor at
the University of California, Davis, says consuming liquor has less of
an environmental impact than drinking beer, mostly as a result of the
refrigeration needed for beer but not for spirits. The greenhouse gas
emissions from producing one six-pack is about equal to driving a car
eight miles. The professor’s conclusion: When you drink booze, you
drive less.
And then there is enlightened Idaho. Boise, Idaho has been ranked 13th
on the list of fastest-warming cities in the U.S. by Climate Central, a
nonprofit climate science organization, outpacing places like Houston
and Minneapolis. Yet even as 97% of climate scientists agree that
human-caused climate change is occurring, only 25 percent of Idaho
Republicans concur. Little wonder that Idaho stands alone as the only
state to strike climate change from its classroom teaching guidelines.
More Signs of the Times. A recent climate supporter in Seattle provide
this poster advice to the town’s bankers: “U cannot breathe money.”
And in Rio de Janeiro another climate defender provided an educational
illustration: a sign that said “Rio 2050” and showing the city’s
landmarks underwater, with the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue’s head
poking out.
Certainly nothing uncertain about this “uncertainty.” Interior
Department Deputy Secretary Indur Goklany was appointed by Donald Trump
to “review” the agency’s climate policies. His simple plan – fudge the
reports. His method — insert misleading language into scientific
reports casting doubt on many elements of climate change. Interior
employees have mocked his activity as “Goks uncertainty language.”
Certainly appears to be climate denialism.
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