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Just 10 financial actors hold the key to climate change | Waterloo News
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This is all, unfortunately, a microcosm of the problems we face. We’re up against a system that views and treats hyper short-term profits as more important than our collective future. We’re up against corporations and ways of doing business that would ignite the planet before letting their profits fall – and that’s exactly what they’re doing. We, t... See more
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Three-quarters of global heating is caused by burning fossil fuels. Everything else we talk about – planting trees, carbon captures, carbon offsets – is just rearranging deckchairs.
The thing we’ve got to do to avoid hitting the iceberg is to end the fossil fuel industry as quickly as we can. The problem with not protecting the interest of the worki... See more
The thing we’ve got to do to avoid hitting the iceberg is to end the fossil fuel industry as quickly as we can. The problem with not protecting the interest of the worki... See more
Ian Tucker • Peter Kalmus: ‘As a species, we’re on autopilot, not making the right decisions’
Fighting Exxon is key, and we’ve done it with some success, but we’re well aware that Exxon is going to fight to the last breath. Their business model depends entirely on digging stuff up and setting it on fire. And so they’ll fight for the right to combust. But there’s no reason for Chase or Citi to fight to the end. They make some money off this
... See moreAyana Elizabeth Johnson • What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures
The leadership at oil and gas interests in particular have shown scant regard for the health or survival of organized human civilization. You might say that their aim is in fact to ‘soak the planet in the maximum amount of fossil fuels’.58
Paul Behrens • The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
Though these actions are worth taking, a fixation on voluntary action alone takes the pressure off of the push for governmental policies to hold corporate polluters accountable. In fact, one recent study suggests that the emphasis on small personal actions can actually undermine support for the substantive climate policies needed.3 That’s quite con
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