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Category: Climate Crisis

  • Dale Vince abandons funding Just Stop Oil for Labour

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    Just Stop Oil protesting in London 6 December 2022.
    Just Stop Oil protesting in London 6 December 2022.

    Donor Dale Vince is abandoning Just Stop Oil and is instead intending to fund a campaign encouraging young people to vote and to vote Labour. He claims

    The dividing lines have been drawn: Labour is green, the Tories are not. A vote for anyone other than Labour, or no vote at all, is a vote for another Tory government – this time with a mandate to pursue its anti-green crusade. Preventing that from happening is the only way to “just stop oil”.

    I fundamentally disagree with him. I see no evidence that the Labour Party under Keith Starmer is in any way ‘green’. The Red Tories have made huge efforts to be indistinguishable from their Blue brothers and their intention to continue with Rosebank shows that they are in no way green and totally willing to analing Murdoch and the fossil fuel industry in exactly the same way.

    9.40pm: A vote for Labour is a vote for the wolves dressed as sheep covert Conservatives and most definitely not a ‘green’ vote. It is so important to use votes to register support for climate action but that is certainly not done by voting Labour. I suggest that Dale Vince is blind to Labour’s obvious and glaring flaws.

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  • World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days

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    Canadian wildfire 2023
    Canadian wildfire 2023

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66857354

    The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found.

    On about a third of days in 2023, the average global temperature was at least 1.5C higher than pre-industrial levels.

    Staying below that marker long-term is widely considered crucial to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change.

    But 2023 is “on track” to be the hottest year on record, and 2024 could be hotter.

    “It is a sign that we’re reaching levels we haven’t been before,” says Dr Melissa Lazenby, from the University of Sussex.

    This latest finding comes after record September temperatures and a summer of extreme weather events across much of the world.

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66857354

  • Extinction Rebellion NL pauses daily A12 highway blockades awaiting a decision on government fossil fuel subsidies

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    Extinction Rebellion NL image reads STOP FOSSIELE SUBSIDIES
    Extinction Rebellion NL image reads STOP FOSSIELE SUBSIDIES

    Extinction Rebellion pauses daily A12 highway blockades; Hague mayor relieved

    Extinction Rebellion (XR) is suspending the blockades on the Utrechtsebaan (A12) in The Hague. The group of activists will await a vote in parliament on Tuesday on a motion in which Suzanne Kroger (GroenLInks) and Raoul Boucke (D66) asked for a phase-out plan for fossil fuel subsidies. The Hague mayor, Jan van Zanen, called it a relief.

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    Fossil subsidies are schemes like tax discounts and excise duty exemptions for the fossil fuel industry. If the motion is not adopted, the daily blockades will resume, XR said. The climate activists consider the motion “recognition that politicians also see that 39.7 to 46.4 billion euros in fossil subsidies annually cannot be defended.”

    In the motion, the two parliamentarians ask the government to draw up scenarios before the Christmas recess for ending the subsidies “in the term of 2, 5, and 7 years.” For each scheme, the government must also indicate how many negative consequences can be mitigated and which “national measures” can be taken if subsidies are fixed in a European context. Kroger and Boucke called fossil subsidies an “obstacle in the transition to a climate-neutral society.”

    XR blocked the A12 highway in The Hague for the 27th day in a row on Thursday. Dozens of demonstrators were again arrested. 

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  • Memo to England and Wales Green party

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    It’s very easy to despair at you despite being supportive. Please stop being so nice and instead try to get some some serious political clout to save the planet. Be practical instead of nice and accomodating. So with those split roles, split them so you have X addressing these issues Y addressing these issues … got it?

    The sort of pitch to take. Make speeches with catchphrases to grab the headlines. You could discuss desperate times needing something actions, votes wasted on the 2 main parties because their policies are indistinguishable, climate deniers and destroyers, denying and destroying the planet … get the idea?

    Announce looking into electoral pacts – those desperate times again. FFS get as many MPs elected as you possibly can – desperate times.

  • Rishi “Seven Bins” Sunak

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