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Kitchen Table Kibitzing: What's in Your Apocalypse Go Bag? [1]
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Date: 2023-09-28
What’s in your go bag for the apocalypse?
What you pack depends on whether you are prepping for a temporary displacement (toilet paper, paracetamol, passport) or the end of the world (whatever my husband is bringing; he’s looking up crossbows online as I write). But for both scenarios I have decided on my essentials: an insulated flask of dirty martini and several of the big 70g bags of Hula Hoops I usually save for weekends. The apocalypse is no reason to cancel my aperitif. What’s going in yours?
Macron launches ‘ecological plan’ to end France’s use of fossil fuels by 2030
Emmanuel Macron has unveiled a national “ecological plan” to reduce France’s greenhouse gas emissions by 55% and end the use of fossil fuels by 2030. Speaking after a special ministerial council at the Elysée, the French president said an extra €10bn (£8.7bn) would be put towards the 50-point programme, which he described as “ecology à la Française”. The plan was aimed at addressing the climate crisis while ensuring that France remained competitive in agriculture and industry, said Macron.
[Review] Our Fragile Moment. How Lessons from Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis
Studies of Earth’s past reveal a wild variety of climate systems. A world with alligators and palm trees in the Arctic. A world covered with ice down to the equator. A world of deserts, both oceans and land mostly barren. A world with a mild and exceptionally stable climate — the world where our civilization flourishes. In between these different worlds, a set of devastating mass extinctions, each driven by a rapid change in the composition of the atmosphere and the climate. Mann describes what happened in each of these cases, and why. And at every point he draws lessons for how our present climate could change. The main difference between most of the extinction-level events in the past and our current situation, he points out, is that we are changing the atmosphere orders of magnitudes faster. He is no prophet of doom, however, reassuring readers that the worst catastrophes can be avoided if (if!) we act vigorously to restrain our greenhouse gas emissions.
Twitter ranks worst in climate change misinformation report
The Climate of Misinformation report by Climate Action Against Disinformation looked at Meta, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter for their content moderation policies and efforts to mitigate inaccurate information such as climate denialism. The group, which is made up of dozens of international climate and anti-disinformation organizations including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, released the report to draw attention towards climate misinformation on major platforms and makes the claim that big tech has become a “complicit actor” in accelerating the spread of climate denial.
‘Climate villain’: scientists say Rupert Murdoch wielded his media empire to sow confusion and doubt
Scientists have described the media tycoon Rupert Murdoch as a “climate villain” who has used his television and newspaper empire to promote climate science denial and delay action. Murdoch’s outlets, including Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and The Australian, have long been known to promote doubts about the cause and consequences of the climate crisis. Scientists said this had caused lasting damage. Following the news Murdoch is stepping down as chairman of News Corp and Fox Corp, Dr Joëlle Gergis, a climate scientist at Australian National University, said: “It’s hard to think of another person who has single-handedly done more to muddy the public’s understanding of climate change.
It seems like the next big fight
To put it simply, with the invention of fracking, America—and Canada, and Australia—ended up with huge supplies of fossil gas. It’s not really needed—we could, more cheaply and much more cleanly, power the world with sun, wind, and batteries. But if that happened, the people who own these reserves would have to forego the hundreds of billions of dollars they could get for selling that gas. That is unacceptable to them; they would far rather break the planet. So they’re in an all-out sprint to get it to market as fast as they can, mostly by exporting it around the world. In the U.S., there are already seven giant LNG export terminals, and there are plans for at least twenty more, mostly along the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana and Texas, which are close by the giant gas fields of the Permian Basin. If this buildout continues, and if you counted the emissions from this gas against America’s totals, it would mean that American greenhouse gas emissions would not have budged since 2005. Under the arcane rules of global carbon accounting, exported hydrocarbons don’t count against our total—they’re the problem of the country that eventually burns them (in this case mostly in Asia). But the atmosphere doesn’t care; once burned, the carbon quickly disperses around the globe, heating the entire planet. Just a single proposed terminal that I talk about in the New Yorker piece—the so-called CP2 LNG plant proposed for Cameron Parish, Louisiana—would over its lifetime be associated with twenty times the greenhouse gas emissions of the huge Willow oil complex that Biden controversially approved earlier this year.
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