Can we save the planet from its current projection of 4.1 degrees centigrade by 2100? You bet. This interactive simulator lets you tinker with all the possible solutions that are available today. Experiment! (Look for the big blue button on the right for the SIMULATOR, which is often updated.)
Why Religious Advocacy?
There is a strategy behind the calls to organize people of faith. Both community and national organizers are seeking push public sentiment to a point of action.
Railroads’ Dirty Money
The railroad industry has spent billions of dollars for climate denial propaganda. They represent another piece of the puzzle of who is funding fight against climate change legislation. Coal represents up to one-third of of their haulage. Read the article here.
Voting by Climate Change
A candidate for U.S. Senate in Colorado has posted an ad that offers an apocalyptic version of climate change. This is the first election cycle where climate change is thrust forward as a primary issue. Hopefully, this election strategy will spread to other campaigns. Four minutes long.
Where Do You Bank?
Are you giving carte blanche to your bank to not only to continue to pollute the world, but actually increase the rate of carbon pollution? Where does your congregation or your organization bank. Use your money wisely: Financial Investment in the Fossil Fuel Industry 2019 REPORT.
Cup of Tea?
Love your tea? Don’t use a teabag. The teabag used today is a paper product infused with plastic to keep it from disintegrating. What could take away the joy of a cup of tea more than seven million bits of micro-plastic? Yum.
Under Counting Micro-plastics
The counting of micro-plastics in the world’s oceans is off by a magnitude of 5x to 7x. New research using a bucket instead of a net to collect samples sends the count exponentially skyward.
You can read the primary document or just the summary at the beginning: Link.
Corporate Deception
Leaked audio of a private meeting confirms that Coca-Cola Inc. has no interest in recycling plastic bottles because the best methods will cost the company money. None of us should be surprised, yet there are two immediate takeaways.
- Free market forces are not going to save the environment.
- Duplicity is the preferred policy of corporations, pretending to support environmental projects while sabotaging them wholesale behind the scenes. For another example, see Shell.
As for the religious response, the antithetical values on display are:
- Greed
- Deception
- Hypocrisy
- Denial of responsibility to community and world
1966 Coal Industry predicted Climate Change
A university faculty member was about to toss out a large pile of dated journals that no one appeared interested in keeping. One man did, scooping up the lot. One article from 1966 predicted climate change from the burning of coal and its effects on the globe.
They knew and did nothing but fight expected regulations.
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