Glad that you hit the positives to. As you all know, far too often, climate journalism is all about tut-tuting minor things while missing major ones (Hey, Big Oil), and only focusing on the negative. You came at the story from multiple directions too -which is great.
Thanks as always for your stellar and interesting reporting. Absolutely, that Temu ad was alarming on so many levels. To counter the maddening narrative of cheap goods, they should be required to link to Annie Leonard's great work on the "Story of Stuff." Cheap goods are anything but cheap.
"Out of everything you saw, what do you remember most? For me, it’s an infectious jingle from an e-commerce company called Temu—a company that reportedly sends more than a million packages around the world every day"
YES!! Temu was driving me insane, not just because of the ad and it playing like 5 times, but because of its business model and this was also the first thing I thought about. Just basically stuff that is super cheap, so being poor quality or even breaking actually benefits them from incentivizing repeated buying. Which is terrible for the mentioned reasons.
Also really awesome to hear you on that podcast. I was particularly interested in your explanation of the effects of things like pausing LNG exports on other countries climate plans, adhering more to the Paris agreement for example, but I think the conversation switched to something else. I'm curious about your longer thoughts on that, just if you want to of course.
But great reporting on the Super Bowl being "climate friendly"!
Wow - so many angles here. Thanks for getting into the thinking around scope 1, 2 and 3 layers of the impact here too. Although that's probably too tough and abstract to clearly outline!
I live near a small airport in the Phoenix area, and we always know when an event is happening by the amount of private aircraft, especially jets, that fly in and out. The last Superbowl we had here was absolutely insane, but many other golf, baseball, and car sale events are bad as well. The wealthy fly in, the wealthy fly out, without giving a rat's behind about others impacted by their wealth and emissions. We live in a dual society where the people that emit the most don't have to care, and they continue to profit from fossil fuel production. For the rest of us, our insurance premiums have doubled and we look to the future of 120 degree summers. Oh and as a former resident of Colo, I have to remind everyone that there is no climate friendly downhill skiing either............
We need much more responsible media and les from the the out-of-control activists that feed them the lies.
We need to keep a sense of perspective and avoid the climate emergency rhetoric as its just not reality and is a criminal act of misinformation creating worthless panic.
Most marketing is jumping on the Climate emergency band wagon. And its warped virtue signaling nonsense.
We need to stop blaming all weather and natural disasters on climate change as in the main things associated with the naturally warming planet are improving the human condition.
A good example is the fires in Hawaii that had zero to do with climate change. But I guess everyone wants to be a victim instead of realising that the fires were the fault of the inhabitants not the climate.
Our focus should be on pollution control with better fossil fuel technologies, but not at the expense of prosperity. CO2 is a benefit not a threat.
Making our society less dependent of the use of energy through smart design of buildings and other infrastructure is a worthy goal but we need to wise up to the scam about EVs and W&S as they will not solve anything.
The only reliable sources of energy are fossil fuels and nuclear and we need to move forward with these or it will be a huge problem for humanity.
Glad that you hit the positives to. As you all know, far too often, climate journalism is all about tut-tuting minor things while missing major ones (Hey, Big Oil), and only focusing on the negative. You came at the story from multiple directions too -which is great.
Excellent newsletter today. well done.
Thanks as always for your stellar and interesting reporting. Absolutely, that Temu ad was alarming on so many levels. To counter the maddening narrative of cheap goods, they should be required to link to Annie Leonard's great work on the "Story of Stuff." Cheap goods are anything but cheap.
"Out of everything you saw, what do you remember most? For me, it’s an infectious jingle from an e-commerce company called Temu—a company that reportedly sends more than a million packages around the world every day"
YES!! Temu was driving me insane, not just because of the ad and it playing like 5 times, but because of its business model and this was also the first thing I thought about. Just basically stuff that is super cheap, so being poor quality or even breaking actually benefits them from incentivizing repeated buying. Which is terrible for the mentioned reasons.
Also really awesome to hear you on that podcast. I was particularly interested in your explanation of the effects of things like pausing LNG exports on other countries climate plans, adhering more to the Paris agreement for example, but I think the conversation switched to something else. I'm curious about your longer thoughts on that, just if you want to of course.
But great reporting on the Super Bowl being "climate friendly"!
Thank you for highlighting these two-faced companies and celebrities who often lead the world in waste!
Wow - so many angles here. Thanks for getting into the thinking around scope 1, 2 and 3 layers of the impact here too. Although that's probably too tough and abstract to clearly outline!
I live near a small airport in the Phoenix area, and we always know when an event is happening by the amount of private aircraft, especially jets, that fly in and out. The last Superbowl we had here was absolutely insane, but many other golf, baseball, and car sale events are bad as well. The wealthy fly in, the wealthy fly out, without giving a rat's behind about others impacted by their wealth and emissions. We live in a dual society where the people that emit the most don't have to care, and they continue to profit from fossil fuel production. For the rest of us, our insurance premiums have doubled and we look to the future of 120 degree summers. Oh and as a former resident of Colo, I have to remind everyone that there is no climate friendly downhill skiing either............
We need much more responsible media and les from the the out-of-control activists that feed them the lies.
We need to keep a sense of perspective and avoid the climate emergency rhetoric as its just not reality and is a criminal act of misinformation creating worthless panic.
Most marketing is jumping on the Climate emergency band wagon. And its warped virtue signaling nonsense.
We need to stop blaming all weather and natural disasters on climate change as in the main things associated with the naturally warming planet are improving the human condition.
A good example is the fires in Hawaii that had zero to do with climate change. But I guess everyone wants to be a victim instead of realising that the fires were the fault of the inhabitants not the climate.
Our focus should be on pollution control with better fossil fuel technologies, but not at the expense of prosperity. CO2 is a benefit not a threat.
Making our society less dependent of the use of energy through smart design of buildings and other infrastructure is a worthy goal but we need to wise up to the scam about EVs and W&S as they will not solve anything.
The only reliable sources of energy are fossil fuels and nuclear and we need to move forward with these or it will be a huge problem for humanity.