Apr 2, 2023
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The fossil fuel industry received more than a TRILLION dollars in direct subsidies in 2022, and some say if the impacts on the climate and environment were factored in, that number would be nearly six times higher. But, if we take the subsidies away, asks the fossil fuel industry, then how will people be able to afford to heat their homes?
5-22-24 Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland held a live hearing on how the fossil fuel industry continues it's 50 year effort that provides misinformation and disinformation on how the burning of fossil fuels creates climate change. They have announced a civil referral to the US Justice Department in an effort to hold the industry accountable for their role in creating the climate crisis. This live hearing was aired by PBS Newshour and the sound from questions asked was poor.
4-3-24 Pet Buttigieg on the Brian Taylor Cohen podcast makes it clear why we need to rapidly move to EV vehicles. YES, it is about politics and fossil fuels
3-14-24 Financial Times: As the world moves towards greener energy, a recent report suggests economies heavily reliant on oil and gas risk losing trillions of dollars in revenue. But reducing this dependence on fossil fuel revenues requires significant investments in new technologies, retraining the workforce, and diversifying sources of income. And as the FT’s Jamie Smyth explains, that may not be easy.
12-23-23 The US was for decades the exemplar of free market globalisation. That changed with Donald Trump’s 'America first' agenda. President Joe Biden’s landmark Inflation Reduction Act continues the push for re-industrialisation by using tax credits, loans and grants in a bid to create a domestic clean energy supply chain. The FT looks at three companies using IRA incentives to invest in the US and examines whether the legislation signals the end of globalisation.
Matt Chorley speaks to Noam Chomsky about the war in Ukraine, asks if the left have been too soft on Putin. They discuss Corbyn's election performances, and what hope Noam holds for the future of humanity
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I look at the rise of fossil fascism and ecofascism on the far right. As the world gets warmer and fossil fuels become increasingly untenable there are now glimpses of two trends within the far right that are a reaction to climate change. Ecofascism and fossil fascism.
I leaned heavily on the book White Skin, Black Fuel which you can find here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3812...