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It would be useful if they paid their taxes, too.
And paid their workers better. Or maybe even treated them decently. How’re those warehouse employees that are having to go to the bathroom in bottles, because they don’t have enough break to walk to the bathroom and back without sanctions? Funny how Amazon warehouses always pop up in communities with high poverty rates, where people have no choice but to tolerate their employment, that at times borders on modern day slavery.
I think every company and individual must think of the climate and planet in this decade especially.
TWENTY YEARS what a ridiculous timescale, how about you do it in 5, and while you are at it pay some taxes. Oh and stop exploiting your workers quite so badly.
Yeah, right. Including the pollution from plastics and chemicals of the stuff they sell?? Or end slavery of the many workers elsewhere? Who believes Bezos?
Absolute lies; the current government there is torching its jungles like there’s no tomorrow.
This is like listening to a drunkards new years resolution; onerous and uninspiring.
I will return after a few moments to check out all the classic climate denialist arguments.
glad that now finally it’s trendy to actually do something about the climate but we dont have 20 yrs lol
Greenhouse gases went up 45% in 30 years. By 2025: 66% of people will live in water stressed areas. Water stress will threaten 50% of thermal powered electricity. Water stress will threaten 30% of planned hydro electricty. Fossil fuels have been 80% of global energy for over 25 years. Electricity is 20% of global energy. Renewable electricity is 4% of global energy. Solar & wind electricity is 2% of global energy. North Euro solar panels work 11% of the time. North Euro onshore wind turbines work 22% of the time. North Euro offshore turbines work 30% of the time. The F-35 fighter jet works 11% of the time.
From 1971 – 2018 earth heating averaged 0.47 watts/m².
From 2010 – 2018 earth heating went up 46% to 0.87 watts/m².
This is called rapid heat acceleration — or in Olde English, “Ouch that burns!”
By 2040 15% of global energy will be renewable. By 2050 only 30% of global energy will be renewable, assuming all goes well. We must stop burning 50% of fossil fuels in 10 years to survive. This cannot be done. Most solar solar panels will become un-recyclable garbage generating 6 million tons of waste per year by 2050.
*Green Energy Euro Fraud*
In the last 10 years the US cut emissions more switching from coal to gas than Europe did investing in renewable energy.
Europe gets 60% of its renewable energy burning stuff.
Europe burns 80% of the world’s wood pellets for renewable electricity
Europe burns 80% of its recycled plastic & paper for electricity
Europe burns 50% of its palm oil shipments in cars & trucks
Out of earth’s 1.2 billion vehicles only 6 million are electric
Electric cars and batteries will have no positive effect on climate whatsoever
Weather = flash floods + flash fires + flash mobs + flash infections
Climate = 30 years of weather
There are 23 billion chickens on earth, if one sneezes we all get the flu
500 years ago there were so many cod fish John Cabot thought they would capsize his ship
400 years ago there were more Caribbean sea turtles by weight than buffalo on the plains
300 years ago Passenger pigeon migrations would block out the noon day sun
97% of great fresh water species gone since 1970 ( Guardian 2019 )
96% of mammals are livestock and human by weight ( Ecowatch 2018 )
96% of tigers gone in 100 years ( IFL Science 2019 )
90% of elephants gone in 100 years ( Hurriet 2019 )
90% of lions gone in 100 years ( African Impact 2019 )
90% of Leatherback sea turtles gone since 1980 ( Earth Watch undated )
90% of Monarch Butterflies gone in 20 years ( Inhabitat 2014 )
80% of Antarctic Krill gone in 30 years ( Research Gate 2005 )
77% of Eastern lowland gorillas gone since 1996 ( Treehugger 2020 )
68% of world’s wildlife has been wiped out since 1970 ( Mongabay 2020 )
50% of Marine vertebrates gone since 1970 ( WWF 2015 )
50% of Great Barrier Reef gone since 1985 ( Live Science 2012 )
40% of Giraffes gone since 1990 ( NRDC 2019 )
40% less insects in next 30 years ( PNAS 2019 )
4% of mammals are wild ( Vegan News 2020 )
Sources for all these statements can be found at Loki’s Revenge blog on wordpress.
You can also find a massive research library there on how pollution is affecting our youth
*support James Hansen’s monthly private carbon dividends*
27 Nobel Prize winning economists support James Hansen’s private monthly dividends, including:
3,589 U.S. Economists, 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve and ALL 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers
If I had a nickel for everytime I didn’t know what was going on
I would wonder where all the nickels are coming from
— Loki 2020
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Lead the target to hit the target. Cap fossil emissions relative to 2019 below 90% in 2021, 80% in 2022 down to 0% in 2030.
It’s what the science says is the right path. It’s where the marketplace is trending. It’s what consumers want. Oh, and you make more money for spending less.
And once the hard activism stops they just nicely forget they ever made such a promise
All that matters is how much less there will be tomorrow than today. Transfering the problem to the next person when you retire is meaningless.