We're confronted with complex and confusing choices in our daily lives in the name of acting on climate. My new book, "Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit", clears a path through the clutter surrounding our daily efforts to do the right thing
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In short: The “Alliance to End Plastic Waste”, backed by 65 companies including Exxon and Shell, is doing an amazing job at, well, not doing anything about ending plastic waste
It's what greenwashing on steroids looks like
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One-third of Pakistan is still submerged. The US pledged $30m in aid
US approved $50.5 BILLION in aid after 2013's Superstorm Sandy which hit NY, NJ and Connecticut
US is responsible for 20.3% of cumulative global emissions, Pakistan less than 1%
#ClimateCrisis #LossAndDamage
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Source report: “Alliance to End Plastic Waster – Barely Credible”
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A reminder that just 20 companies gift us more than half of all single-use plastic waste worldwide. The top 20 includes ExxonMobil, Dow, Sinopec, LyondellBasell, Reliance Industries, Braskem, Total and Formosa Plastics
All are members of the Alliance. Of course they are
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The branding is designed to sell us bullshit: The Alliance’s Twitter handle is . Think they meant - but that was taken by a rock band
Frankly, this level of greenwashing - nothing short of stratospheric - should be criminalized
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Remember that plastic (99% made from oil) has now been found in:
-the water we drink
-the air we breathe
-the clothes we wear
-the food we eat
-our organs including our lungs, spleen, kidneys
-our blood
-maternal and fetal placental tissue
And they know that
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My favorite statistic: The top 10 producers of single-use plastic, all members of the “Alliance to [Do Anything But] End Plastic” do not even remove or recycle 99.99% of their own plastic waste
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Its track record is one of deception: The “Alliance [Pretending and Not Very Well] to End Plastic Waste” removed, in its first 3 years, precisely 0.0004% of the global plastic generated in those 3 years
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… then failed to meet it by a gigantic distance: The “Alliance to End Plastic Waste” achieved an incredibly telling 0.04% of its own goal
They don't care, and they don't care if we know that they don't care
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The Alliance set a ridiculously negligible recycling target …
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The Alliance boasts 65 companies from the plastic supply chain; starting with Big Oil (e.g. ExxonMobil, Shell), the Chemical Giants (e.g. BASF, Dow), the plastic container and packaging companies (e.g. Berry, Sealed Air) and the consumer companies (e.g. PepsiCo, P&G)
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Just read a piercing report by
In short: The “Alliance to End Plastic Waste”, backed by 65 companies including Exxon and Shell, is doing an amazing job at, well, not doing anything about ending plastic waste
It's what greenwashing on steroids looks like
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Norway is keeping its last Arctic coal mine open: "previously, there was no possibility for profitable operation. However, it is different now”
Norway's double-speak on climate can be breathtaking but not this time: It's Nero-way
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New study: US proxy for a carbon price, the “social cost of carbon”, used by Government to stress policies that affect emissions, should be $185, 3.6 times the $51 in use
“We are [of course!] vastly underestimating the harm of each additional ton of CO2”
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Quite the headline: “Oil industry condemns first US fee on greenhouse gases”, protesting $1,500/ton methane charge to clamp down on pollutant 80 times worse than CO2
The oil industry is shocked because it’s so used to destroying the planet free of charge
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“The amount of plastic produced in one year is roughly the same as the entire weight of all 7.7 billion people on earth.”
From ’s new book: Saving the 🌍 without the Bull 💩
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California approves flurry of aggressive #climate bills, adopting $54b in climate action measures to stop adding CO2 to the atmosphere by 2045
California is doing what Europe should have been doing for a decade and once again leading the world by example
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The UN's World Meteorological Organization said one site in Sindh, Pakistan, reported 1,288 millimeters of rain so far in August, compared with the monthly average of 46mm - that's 28 times as much
Think about that for a minute. That's an entirely different world
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My review of 'Saving The Planet Without The Bullshit' by
Our actions are still not enough.
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In Germany, 3 months of super-cheap public transport cut CO2 emissions equivalent to powering 350,000 homes for a year - simply by cutting trips around town in petrol cars
If your roads are free for petrol cars, your public transport should also be free
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This arrived this past week.
All ready to notes for my upcoming review.
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While 45m Pakistanis drown, Europe dries up and China and the U.S. West bake in historical heatwaves and megadroughts, all worsened because we're burning fossil fuels, direct government support for fossil fuels doubled to $700b in 2021 versus 2020
Insane
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Update: As of right now, literally one-third of Pakistan has been completely submerged by historic flooding
"It's all one big ocean"
What climate science conservatively thought may happen in a decade or two or in 2050 or even 2100 is happening right now. RIGHT NOW.
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Biblical-scale floods in Pakistan
>45 million people displaced
>1,000+ deaths
>900,000 livestock deaths
>800,000 houses, 210 bridges destroyed
1-in-1,000 years extreme weather events seem to happen weekly, hurting most those who had little to do with fueling the #ClimateCrisis
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How do you ditch stinky gas and its warmongering DNA? Build massive renewables hubs - what Germany and Denmark are setting out to do with new $9bn offshore wind power hub to power 4.1 million homes
This is what the EU should have done 5, 10 years ago
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Golf courses take up more space than solar in the UK - and likely in most top 10 golf countries:
1 US: 16,752 golf courses (c. 10,000 km2!)
2 Japan 3,169
3 Canada 2,633
4 England 2,270
5 Australia 1,616
6 Germany 1,050
7 France 804
8 Korea 798
9 Sweden 662
10 Scotland 614
Insane
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Much more in chapter 15 of my book, "Saving the Planet Without the Bullshit", in bookstores from Thursday: "A luxury cruise liner is a stinking floating dumpster"
The book can be ordered here: smarturl.it/qflhdj
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47 cruise ships emit 10 times more sulphur dioxide in European waters (2017 data) than all of Europe’s 260 million cars combined
That's just 1 of 3 air pollutants discharged from the ships’ smokestacks
Price they paid for emitting all that poison: Zero
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Good climate news this week
1 California, Washington ban new petrol cars from 2035
2 South32 ditches big Australian coal mine boost
3 Hainan bans sales of petrol cars by 2030
4 Spain enacts energy-efficiency law
5 France bans fossil fuel ads
6 Delhi to make 80% of buses electric
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Good climate news this week
1 Biden signs historic climate bill into law
2 Uniper forced to drop Energy Charter Treaty lawsuit against Netherlands
3 Petronas ups renewables to 40GW by 2030
4 Massachusetts in 5.6GW offshore wind goal
5 EV-charging investment soars to $4.8b in 2022 twitter.com/AssaadRazzouk/…
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China upped its already colossal #renewables plans this weekend: it's doubling wind and solar by 2025 (vs. 2020) to exceed 50% of total energy use, also by 2025 - adding each year more renewables (150 to 200GW) than the entire electricity base of all but 8 countries
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“A revolution is under way. Some 42 offshore wind farms are operational, providing 11GW of power. A further 93 are in development or planning, to provide 95GW”
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Get your hands on a myth-busting handbook to the climate crisis, from one of the world's biggest green influencers.
#SavingThePlanetBook by - coming to bookshops this Thursday 🌎
Pre-order now!
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Biblical-scale floods in Pakistan
>45 million people displaced
>1,000+ deaths
>900,000 livestock deaths
>800,000 houses, 210 bridges destroyed
1-in-1,000 years extreme weather events seem to happen weekly, hurting most those who had little to do with fueling the #ClimateCrisis
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In other news
>Pakistan: 33m affected by historic floods, 900 dead
>Sudan: Torrential rains affect 150,000
>Afghanistan floods kill 180
>Extreme drought dries up rivers across the globe including China, Iran, Germany, Iraq, US
>5th consecutive year of drought in Horn of Africa
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Jaw-dropping: Record 11GW in UK renewables coming online over next 5 years deliver electricity at £48/MWh, 11% of cost of running gas power - saving people billions
This is the case across most countries and should be widely reported - except it isn't
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Recurring story everywhere: In South Korea, just covering parking lots (the most inefficient urban space anywhere) with #solar can power all electric vehicles in the country
"Governments neglect locally available space for producing renewables"
koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/202 #climate
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