Following the release of new internal documents, Sharon Eubanks told the Senate Budget Committee that there is evidence for a DOJ climate case against Big Oil.
Your reader Anne's cats are cute, but I am more than a little alarmed at their hunting prowess of which she boasts. Please ask her to bell them up or keep them indoors! The climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis (and insect apocalypse, now that we're using appropriately strong language) are multiple symptoms of the same crisis, and we biodiversity scientists have been increasingly involved in research definitively showing, with kittycams and GPS trackers, the impact of domestic cats runs into literally hundreds of millions, possibly billions of birds, mice, shrews, geckoes, lizards, dragonflies, and other creatures - every year. In one study of which I was a part, a single city (Cape Town, South Africa) was conservatively estimated to lose around 12m creatures a year to domestic cats. This ain't som'tin cute. It's an almost unmitigated disaster for our natural world. Even my puppy wears bells whenever he goes outside, to give squirrels and songbirds advance warning.
I keep my cat inside and give him exercise chasing toys indoors. Birds are too precious - and insects now as well - to expose them to so many feline predators.
Amen - enough of the human-subsidized predation. File this along with fossil fuel emissions under "Large scale toxic effects humans have on the biosphere."
The central component of both tobacco and oil is profit: "We know this is killing you/the planet, but damn - look at all the money we're making! Consequently, we'll lie, cheat, steal, divert, distract, and whatever else we can do so we can continue to earn our profits!" And America cheers.
Many of us blame capitalism; I submit it runs much deeper than that. When a society conflates wealth with virtue, as ours does, we make the accumulation of wealth an ethical endeavor. This, in turn, treats the most deviant methods used to procure wealth as principled behavior, and more significantly, attaches negative values to anything that curtails this accumulation of wealth. Thus a 14 year old girl who feels strongly about maintaining the earth's health is pilloried by vast swaths of society and efforts to combat the proven, devastating effects of climate change are labeled alarmist and foolish.
And, of course, this same culture holds the individuals who participated in this massive, self serving deception as paragons of civilized society. They not only enjoy the ill-gotten wealth their duplicity has obtained, but they are also treated with a much higher level of respect and admiration than those of us who attempt to live by genuine moral principles.
Indeed, stepping for a moment outside the question of climate change, perhaps the most obviously immoral and duplicitous public figure to come along in decades was recently elevated to the position of chief executive of our nation - and may very well replicate that feat. Because after all, God must favor and endorse anyone who can afford to be flown around in a private airplane with his name emblazoned on the side and gold faucets in the bathrooms inside, right? I mean, just think of all the hard work and energy it took to earn all that cash!
Don't hope for a quick resolution here. How many years did it take for the DOJ to get a ruling on tobacco? Given that the world can't maneuver without fossil fuels yet, this will likely take a lot longer to see justice.
Unless you are a religious fanatical climate emergency activist that won’t listen to any reason It is very hard to fathom how the fossil fuel industry can be held responsible for climate change.
It would be like blaming the auto industry for drunk driving!
The only mistake the FF industry made was getting sucked into making promises that it could not keep.
Although the law courts are jammed up with stupid cases… there are no written laws existing that say that generating CO2 is a crime, although there are industry standards and goals that have been set… but they are goals to try to meet with some taxable consequences…. but they are not criminal laws.
Also, the FF industry is demonstrating far more realism than lies.
It is telling the truth when it says we have currently no available technologies to meet those NetZero goals mainly dreamt up by climate zealots.
Also, the statement that meeting NetZero will be economic suicide is also very correct.
In some way we welcome the court cases as it provides a chance to expose the hoax of the climate emergency industrial complex.
The position taken in court will be…
There is no climate emergency scientific consensus. So its worth pursuing the growing scientific evidence that CO2 and other GHGs may NOT be a prime driver of climate change and also that a naturally warming planet and the increase in CO2 is good news. And that the NetZero goals are highly unnecessary as well as being technologically unattainable and economically unviable.
Eventually your sins will catch up with you and you will need to go to confession and the penance will be reciting “I believe in the climate change emergency 100 times” while you wait for ever for your EV to charge, and wonder how you are going to pay for food and clothes after the ravages of NetZero inflation.
Great article, Arielle.
Your reader Anne's cats are cute, but I am more than a little alarmed at their hunting prowess of which she boasts. Please ask her to bell them up or keep them indoors! The climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis (and insect apocalypse, now that we're using appropriately strong language) are multiple symptoms of the same crisis, and we biodiversity scientists have been increasingly involved in research definitively showing, with kittycams and GPS trackers, the impact of domestic cats runs into literally hundreds of millions, possibly billions of birds, mice, shrews, geckoes, lizards, dragonflies, and other creatures - every year. In one study of which I was a part, a single city (Cape Town, South Africa) was conservatively estimated to lose around 12m creatures a year to domestic cats. This ain't som'tin cute. It's an almost unmitigated disaster for our natural world. Even my puppy wears bells whenever he goes outside, to give squirrels and songbirds advance warning.
I keep my cat inside and give him exercise chasing toys indoors. Birds are too precious - and insects now as well - to expose them to so many feline predators.
Amen - enough of the human-subsidized predation. File this along with fossil fuel emissions under "Large scale toxic effects humans have on the biosphere."
Forgot to paste a good fairly recent review link (though it doesn't give a total estimate): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cats-kill-a-staggering-number-of-species-across-the-world
The central component of both tobacco and oil is profit: "We know this is killing you/the planet, but damn - look at all the money we're making! Consequently, we'll lie, cheat, steal, divert, distract, and whatever else we can do so we can continue to earn our profits!" And America cheers.
Many of us blame capitalism; I submit it runs much deeper than that. When a society conflates wealth with virtue, as ours does, we make the accumulation of wealth an ethical endeavor. This, in turn, treats the most deviant methods used to procure wealth as principled behavior, and more significantly, attaches negative values to anything that curtails this accumulation of wealth. Thus a 14 year old girl who feels strongly about maintaining the earth's health is pilloried by vast swaths of society and efforts to combat the proven, devastating effects of climate change are labeled alarmist and foolish.
And, of course, this same culture holds the individuals who participated in this massive, self serving deception as paragons of civilized society. They not only enjoy the ill-gotten wealth their duplicity has obtained, but they are also treated with a much higher level of respect and admiration than those of us who attempt to live by genuine moral principles.
Indeed, stepping for a moment outside the question of climate change, perhaps the most obviously immoral and duplicitous public figure to come along in decades was recently elevated to the position of chief executive of our nation - and may very well replicate that feat. Because after all, God must favor and endorse anyone who can afford to be flown around in a private airplane with his name emblazoned on the side and gold faucets in the bathrooms inside, right? I mean, just think of all the hard work and energy it took to earn all that cash!
Always amazed with the way reporters, with commitment, always show the truth to the people. Again, very good work. Thank you.
Sue Big Oil for all the $ billions they have stolen from all of us! It won't help the climate, but they need to pay up!
Methane: better than coal in the same way that being beat into a coma is better than being beat to death....
Feel free to use :)
Charge them all.
Don't hope for a quick resolution here. How many years did it take for the DOJ to get a ruling on tobacco? Given that the world can't maneuver without fossil fuels yet, this will likely take a lot longer to see justice.
Nice work. Amy’s statement—100%. I also believe RICO could be used against Capitalism—conspiring to do harm (exploitation).
So when will Congress sue the Covid vaccine makers? They made people sick and have killed people.
Unless you are a religious fanatical climate emergency activist that won’t listen to any reason It is very hard to fathom how the fossil fuel industry can be held responsible for climate change.
It would be like blaming the auto industry for drunk driving!
The only mistake the FF industry made was getting sucked into making promises that it could not keep.
Although the law courts are jammed up with stupid cases… there are no written laws existing that say that generating CO2 is a crime, although there are industry standards and goals that have been set… but they are goals to try to meet with some taxable consequences…. but they are not criminal laws.
Also, the FF industry is demonstrating far more realism than lies.
It is telling the truth when it says we have currently no available technologies to meet those NetZero goals mainly dreamt up by climate zealots.
Also, the statement that meeting NetZero will be economic suicide is also very correct.
In some way we welcome the court cases as it provides a chance to expose the hoax of the climate emergency industrial complex.
The position taken in court will be…
There is no climate emergency scientific consensus. So its worth pursuing the growing scientific evidence that CO2 and other GHGs may NOT be a prime driver of climate change and also that a naturally warming planet and the increase in CO2 is good news. And that the NetZero goals are highly unnecessary as well as being technologically unattainable and economically unviable.
More on this position at:
https://friendsofscience.org/pdf-render.html?page=2954
A positional Paper.
Take Back Manufacturing – Climate Realism (brainzmagazine.com)
https://www.brainzmagazine.com/post/take-back-manufacturing-climate-realism
Church of the Fanatical Climate Emergency Activist. Finally, a religion I can get on board with!
Eventually your sins will catch up with you and you will need to go to confession and the penance will be reciting “I believe in the climate change emergency 100 times” while you wait for ever for your EV to charge, and wonder how you are going to pay for food and clothes after the ravages of NetZero inflation.