Nike Pledged to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint. It Just Slashed the Staff Charged With Making That Happen.
"Before the layoffs, #Nike had missed its own targets for reducing its contribution to global warming. Its #emissions have instead grown slightly since 2015.
Nike’s retreat from sustainability threatens to upend its carefully crafted image as a brand working to address #ClimateChange, not one that is making it worse."
@CelloMomOnCars It feels like more and more brands are exposing themselves as fair weather climate champions at a time when the weather is getting more and more extreme. Something to do when there's plenty of profit to be made, yet the first thing to get cut when belts need tightening 😒
Nothing like a government mandate to make companies do the right thing. See the difference between the fuel efficiency mandates in Europe (smol cars, higher EV sales) and the US (SUVs).
"State officials told publishers to remove some references to climate change from textbooks used in Florida's public schools."
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped." (#Orwell, #1984)
"We will not issue new licences to explore new fields, and will not revoke existing oil and gas licences. We will manage existing fields for the entirety of their lifespan."
First, climate change came for the strawberries
Then, climate change came for the corn
Then, climate change came for the wheat
Then, we all died because we did nothing
"Following an executive order from President Joe Biden, in a significant shift, the new standard will require #FEMA to factor in the impact of #ClimateChange on future flood risk when it decides where and how it’s safe to build.
The new rule will result in higher-elevated and better-fortified buildings, and could help break a cycle of destruction and reconstruction that has cost the government billions of dollars over the past few decades."
With a compromised #MAGASCOTUS, students in many red states will be indoctrinated with #ChristianNationalism, #climatechange denial, a whitewashed history, hatred of ppl other than white Christians...
OK's top EDU official Ryan Walters says the state's social studies standards are going to be overhauled by a committee that includes Dennis Prager, David Barton, Steve Deace & Kevin Roberts.
@DemocracyMattersALot Fossil fuel company CEOs are yukking it up indeed, laughing all the way to the bank. Like the video shows, they’re not worried at all Because they put the blame on us: “ you’re letting us get away with murder, you dumb bitches“
"We find it curious that earthlings seemed so happy to document the death of their planet," the planetary traveler wrote in their report to headquarters. "We conclude that their blind positivity and cheerful propensity accelerated their decline. Sad."
There's been a few very hot summers in England's now yellow and pleasant land, and with not too many homes with air conditioning, a lot of people can't escape the heat. And of course the sewage issue has made the place decidedly less pleasant.
Let's hope voters remember this when wind turbines are proposed near their homes.