Before obtaining the required permits, Diversified Energy began installing cryptocurrency mining infrastructure on one of its thousands of well pads.
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by Gary Gardner
Last week the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued what Greenpeace International called the “final warning” in the global effort to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7° Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. After three decades of increasingly insistent wake-up calls, the Panel laid out the sobering reality: Meeting the temperature goal set by the global community in 2015 is impossible without an immediate response, “a quantum leap in climate action,” in the words of United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
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The fact that the IPCC incorporates in its core business risks of failure to the Earth system and to human civilisation that we would not accept in our own lives raises fundamental questions about the efficacy of the whole IPCC project. If low risks of failure are taken as a starting point, “net zero 2050” Continue reading »
The double question implied throughout Herman Daly’s work as an economist is this: “Is the economy for the people, or are the people for the economy?” nomy for the people, or are the people for the economy?”
“I’ve always known that it was the right thing to do, and paying this price is the right thing to do as well. It had to be done,” one ex-prisoner tells Josiah Mortimer Insulate Britain protesters locked up for defying a judge’s ban from speaking about climate change and fuel poverty have told Byline Times […]
The record-breaking roundups of iconic Western mustangs are a gift to ranching and mining interests.
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New research shows 116 new government-approved fossil fuel projects due to start before 2030 will emit 4.8 billion tonnes of emissions by then. That amount is vastly more than proposed reduction in emissions; ‘clearly, Australia’s climate policies are not working’. Australia’s newly approved fossil fuel projects and government policies that permit pollution will make it Continue reading »
Breaking the power of the Lawn Industrial Complex.
Recent laws encourage recycling old plastic into new products. But verifying recycled content relies on tricky math.
The 120 lawyers signing a ‘Declaration of Conscience’ are slammed by Daily Mail as 'woke'