"Rather than working to fight the climate crisis, which is a cause of the #insurance industry’s growing costs, many insurers are still investing large portions of their increasing premium pools in fossil fuel companies, the undisputed drivers of #ClimateChange. Some insurers have continued to finance new oil and gas projects while simultaneously turning away homeowners in high-risk climate zones. "
"#NewYork’s bill would prohibit insurers from underwriting new fossil fuel projects, require them to phase out support for existing projects, and force insurers to divest from fossil fuel companies. "
"Critically, the proposed legislation includes provisions aimed at protecting communities from #bluelining — the emerging practice of financial institutions “increas[ing] prices or withdrawing services from regions they perceive to be at high environmental risk.” Bluelining overlaps with the same racist patterns of disinvestment established by #redlining, the “systemic practice of excluding communities of color from economic opportunities based on their race.”
"70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture;
78% of global ocean and freshwater eutrophication is caused by agriculture (eutrophication is the pollution of waterways with nutrient-rich water);
94% of non-human mammal biomass is livestock, so there are only 1.3 wild mammals per 15 livestock animals; and,
71% of bird biomass is poultry livestock, so poultry livestock outweigh wild birds by a factor of more than 3-to-1."
Good Climate News! Advocates celebrated Monday after a Boulder, Colorado judge rejected attempts by ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy subsidiaries to dismiss a landmark lawsuit that seeks damages for the harms the fossil fuel companies have inflicted on the climate and local communities.
We're pleased to offer a teaching guide for Youth v Gov, the documentary about the Juliana v. United States lawsuit, in which 21 young people are similarly suing the US Federal government over climate change. These resources are great classroom tools for putting climate litigation news into context.
About ten years ago a friend told me #ClimateCrisis activists were going about it all wrong. Stop talking about saving the environment, the environment will be just fine after we are dead and gone. What we are trying to save are humans. Human survival. Nobody cares about the environment. Asking people to draw that conclusion themselves is too much.
There has been a shift to talk about human survival lately but it keeps focusing on how poor people are disproportionately affected by #ClimateBreakdown as if the existence of capitalism itself isn't proof enough that the rich don't care how many poor people die.
We need to focus on the rich nations dying. The news sort of ignores it though. China getting flooded didn't really get in my radar much... But then it's those people, not real people... Just like how we thought covid affected those people up into Italy got hit.
Every instance of rich countries getting hit by #ClimateChange needs to be amplified out the wazoo on every social media platform we can. Then we need to talk to every RW crazy uncle, aunt, grandpa and if we can't convince them to vote for a good guy, discourage them from voting at all. Just shit talk about how everyone is bad and they should stay home. Do whatever you need to do. All is fair in love and war and this is a war on all our lives.
We need different strategies and we need to be all in this together. Let's stop attacking each other over minor differences while the oligarchs kill us.
A newly identified tipping point for the loss of ice sheets in Antarctica and elsewhere could mean future sea level rise is significantly higher than current projections.
"The aim is to have some 82,500 tons of grain in storage by the end of the decade "so that we then have enough grain for three months’ consumption by #Norway’s population in a crisis situation that may arise,” Pollestad told Norwegian broadcaster NRK."
Yes, sounds to me like an acknowledgement that supply lines are not as robust as they used to be, so it's time to move away from the "just in time" model.
I mean, why not remove some brittleness in the way your country is set up.