#fossilfuels
The value of envisioning the worst-case of climate disruption
"The fact that there's a small number of companies that make an enormous amount of profit off endangering us and our future, and that actively, historically covered up that information, that should have a lot of people very pissed off." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-20/climate-fatalism-in-wake-of-climate-risk-report/105780598
Davidson, J. P. L., & Kemp, L. (2024). Climate catastrophe: The value of envisioning the worst-case scenarios of climate change. WIREs Climate Change, 15(2), e871. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.871
#FossilFuels #climate #ClimateDisruption #FossilFuelIndustry #collapse #narrative #inequality #hierarchy #empires #growth #SocietalCollapses #MilitaryIndustrialComplexes #governance #StateOfEmergency #StompReflex #extinction #ClimateAction
@davidho Issue is always: for petroleum and gas companies, these costs are externalities. They continue to benefit, to top it off, from a 1.3 trillion dollar per year subsidy. Over one trillion dollars! Plus another 6 trillion dollars in indirect subsidies.
https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/08/24/fossil-fuel-subsidies-surged-to-record-7-trillion
Charlie Kirk was a fossil fuel industry plant
Big Oil's money gave Kirk a larger platform to spread baseless climate conspiracy theories—as well as other extremist views.
By EMILY ATKIN
https://heated.world/p/charlie-kirks-extremism-was-fossil #CharlieKirk #climateChange #fossilFuels #extremism #climateDenial #bigOil #conspiracyTheories #rightWingExtremism
Michael #Boulos & #TiffanyTrump hold no public office. But weeks after they stepped off the yacht, they stepped aboard Air Force One as #Trump made a state visit to #Britain. They were among the American dignitaries at #WindsorCastle on Wednesday. Michael Boulos entered the state dinner alongside Catherine, Princess of Wales.
US #government officials say he has caused diplomatic dust-ups in politically delicate parts of the world. Some senior officials have cautioned him to stay in his lane & to be mindful of seeming to mix family #business & #diplomacy — particularly as Michael #Boulos tells people that he’s pursuing business deals in #Africa.
The presence of his son & #TiffanyTrump on a luxury yacht owned by international billionaire executives is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of #government end & the #Trump family begins.
Career diplomats, #US allies & even some members of Trump’s inner circle have become concerned as #Boulos has conducted what at times has been freewheeling diplomacy in #Lebanon, in the Democratic Republic of #Congo & beyond.
The vessel is owned by the #billionaire #oil traders Ercument #Bayegan & his wife, Ruya Bayegan. Ms. Bayegan’s #energy company, #BGNInternational, stands to benefit from any increase in #Libya oil production.
Massad #Boulos is the face of the #Trump admin’s diplomacy in #Africa, a strategy that prioritizes cutting business deals over international comity & *the promotion of democracy*.
The yacht, the Phoenix 2, is a floating palace with two helipads, a swimming pool & an 18-foot bronze figurehead of a flaming phoenix rising from its bow. It is not available to charter. But when it last was, it rented for over $1.4 million per week, with the listing highlighting an Art Deco interior & custom Steinway piano.
#MassadBoulos traveled to #Libya in July as the #State Dept’s senior #Africa adviser. But as he talked to #energy executives & #government leaders, his other position was no less important. He was also the father-in-law of President #Trump’s daughter #TiffanyTrump.
That family connection was so significant that some Libyan officials had privately taken to calling him “Abu Tiffany,” Arabic for “Tiffany’s father.”
"Fossil fuels did not just overheat the planet, they destabilized democracies, rewired culture, & poisoned collective thought. Dismantling big oil is not just a climate fight, it is a fight for sanity."
#energy #climate #fossilfuels #society #culture
https://theearthly.substack.com/p/do-not-underestimate-the-role-big
#FossilFuels #ClimateChange
#AustraliaInstitute #ClimateRiskAssessment
"We're not trying to get off fossil fuels. We're still getting into them. All this talk of transition is fraud. We are still opening new coal projects, we are still opening new gas projects, while talking about decarbonising."
Australia Institute Executive Director Richard Denniss appearing at the Senate Environment Committee, 17th September 2025
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XG-4CXcYVw8
Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': Report
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-fossil-fuels-health-cradle-grave.html
> The extraction, transportation and burning of planet-heating fossil fuels have a huge impact on people's health that starts before they are born and lasts until they die, a report warned Tuesday.
Australia’s new climate adaptation plan:
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/national-adaptation-plan.pdf
Major Australian gas project extended until 2070
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpw1d2wdj84o
#FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #cars #Automobility #CarDependency #pollution #MobilityDesign #oilandgas #AmericanWayOfLife #CarMinds
> I support a climate damage compensation levy on the predominantly foreign owned corporations exporting fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) from Australia, to compensate Australians for the damage and increased cost of living they are causing.
https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisasterlevy?recruiter_id=1253339&utm_source=mastodon
#US Is Missing the Century’s ‘Greatest Economic Opportunity,’ #UN Chief Says
In apeech on #renewableenergy, António Guterres cited “clear market distortion” in favor of #fossilfuels by Pres Trump and others but called the transition to #cleanenergy economically inevitable.
President Trump pulled US out of the main international agreement to limit climate change and has, with Congress, sought to cripple domestic #wind and #solar power industries. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/antonio-guterres-energy-transition-speech-economics.html
https://archive.ph/2g5nc
Fossil Fuels: "The cost of inaction will always outweigh the cost of action."
"One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment has warned. "
"Heatwave deaths in Sydney, for example, would rise by more than 400 per cent under a 3C scenario, and would still double under 1.5C scenario."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/climate-risk-assessment-sea-level-rise-2035-target/105765456
#FossilFuels #FossilFuelSubsidies #ClimateBreakdown #disasters #biodiversity #Gondwana #rainforest
A "shameful betrayal" and a "climate fail:" Fury greets Labor's approval of giant fossil gas project https://reneweconomy.com.au/a-shameful-betrayal-and-a-climate-fail-fury-greets-labors-approval-of-giant-fossil-gas-project/
