I just finished reading Tim Witon’s new book ‘Juice’ a dystopian tale et in the future when most of civilisation has collapsed and survival is raw and the only human concern. Check out his recent interview on The Storeymaker Institute. We appreciate his clear words and urgent plea for all of us to put nature and survival at the centre of our attention ahead of profit making and consumerism.
Australian author Richard Flanagan just won the A$97,000 Baillie Gifford Prize but declines prize money due to his concerns about the prize being sponsored by the fossil fuel industry investment.
2024 is on the track of becoming the world’s hottest year again. It is time to change our world, decarbonising our life and everything that needs changing in the process of doing so.
- Jan-Sept 2024 global average temperature 1.54 (±0.13) °C above pre-industrial level
- Long-term warming measured over decades remains below 1.5°C
- Past 10 years are warmest on record and ocean heat rises
- Antarctic sea ice second lowest on record and glacier loss accelerates
- Extreme weather and climate events lead to massive economic and human losses
What do you do to make it happen? What do you do personally do to phase out fossil fuels out of your own life? https://www.positive.news/society/how-to-phase-fossil-fuels-out-of-your-life
It is time to change things! Government and big corporations will not do it, rather pursuing their profit driven fossil fuel supporting ventures. It’s getting hotter and we experience more devastating nature effects with tragic and catastrophic human inpacts. https://www.leadstory.com/v/2024-on-track-for-another-world-heat-record-this-year-202411717
If not us, who? If not now when?
Source: Press Release 19 February 2024: https://www.globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/us-european-big-oil-profits-top-quarter-trillion-dollars-invasion-ukraine/: In total, Shell, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies have paid $200 billion to shareholders since the invasion of Ukraine, funnelling cash to investors as more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians were killed and millions of households across Europe struggled to keep the lights on.
Conflict is at the heart of this profit and cash handout bonanza for the fossil fuel producers. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made already high wholesale gas prices skyrocket, driving historic gains for oil and gas producers. So much so, that 2022 saw US President Biden accuse the industry of “war profiteering” while UN Secretary-General Guterres warned that the companies “have humanity by the throat”.
UK-based Shell and BP have made £75 billion profit between them while Ukraine has been mired in conflict. This would be enough to cover all of Britain’s household electricity bills for 17 consecutive months – all the way until July 2025.