ConocoPhillips plans to install “chillers” into the permafrost — which is thawing fast because of climate change — to keep it solid enough to drill for oil
Biden’s Fossil Fuel Moves Clash With Pledges on Climate …
Fear not: the chillers will use less oil than the drills will liberate.
We’re exposed to [endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs)] through what we eat and drink, the air we breathe, and the products we put on our skin. … Present-day sperm count data speaks not to the chemical environment today, but to the environment as it was when those men were still in the womb. That environment is undoubtedly becoming more polluted.
The more we demand from this planet, the more we get: climate change, pandemic, infertility… Can you hear cackling? I can hear cackling.
The UK government … has proposed a bill which would give the police extra powers to use against protests, based on a government report which focused on disruption caused by Extinction Rebellion and protests against fracking, a badger cull, and the construction of the high-speed rail line HS2.
https://theconversation.com/what-happened-when-italy-criminalised-environmental-protest-158014
This report gives the green-light to more surveillance on campaigners and a new label – “aggravated activists”. Its definition includes campaigners seeking political or social change “that involves unlawful behaviour or criminality…or causes an adverse economic impact to businesses”.
– potentially anyone who causes disruption to any of a company’s business activities can find themselves included within it.
If you act in any way that diminishes a business’s profits, your liberty will be similarly diminished. Better for Britain.
The bill would establish Louisiana as a “fossil fuel sanctuary state” and ban local and state employees from enforcing federal laws and regulations that negatively impact petrochemical companies.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/09/louisiana-bill-fossil-fuel-sanctuary
Fossil fuels are indeed at conservation status ‘threatened’, from those trying to extinguish them. Hydrocarbons have a right to liberty and freedom of combustion.
The last post was a while ago, but the daftness continues unabated…
A video showing Wayne LaPierre, the polarizing head of the National Rifle Association, shooting but struggling to kill an African bush elephant
Video of N.R.A. Chief Wayne LaPierre Shooting an Elephant Draws Criticism – The New York Times
What exactly is in his job requirement, if not the ability to shoot straight? Distressing buffoon. Disappointing that the counter-project to arm bears is underperforming.
Ecomical 