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Femke Groothuis
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Wavemaker for Ex’tax - tax pollution, not people! ex-tax.com | inclusive circular economy
Hollandex-tax.comJoined October 2008
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Zoe Broughton
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'I'm doing this for my son' Hundreds of @JustStop_Oil supporters blocked Waterloo Bridge for a second day. #ClimateEmergency #climatechange #juststopnewoil #juststopoil #protest @GeorgeMonbiot @ChrisGPackham @GretaThunberg juststopoil.org/2022/10/02/jus
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AukeHoekstra
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First let's plot that on my somewhat famous solar growth graph. To the left old graph, to the right the new one. I can't be bothered to update it every year but as you can see it's (again off the charts).
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2018 UPDATE of my series about @IEA versus reality in solar PV Once again reality is steeply increasing and once again the IEA is having none of it Don't these guys ever learn? This has been going on since 2002 Seems their models simply can't conceive of exponential growth
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Peter Thomson
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Everything is connected. From chemical & plastic pollution, to overfishing, habitat loss, ocean warming, death of coral & rising sea levels. All have the same anthropogenic origins, arising from our long record of disrespect of Nature & everything she provides. Huge changes reqd.
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Follow the Money
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Grootgebruikers betalen ongeveer evenveel waterbelasting als een groot huishouden: iets meer dan 100 euro, in totaal. Plannen om de belasting te verhogen, hield de industrie tegen met succesvolle lobby. In samenwerking met De Nieuws BV
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Industrie lobbyt succesvol tegen leidingwaterbelasting: burger betaalt de rekening
Dankzij een succesvolle lobby betalen industriële grootverbruikers nauwelijks belasting voor immer schaarser wordend leidingwater. De overheid legt de rekening bijna volledig bij de huishoudens, die...
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Femke Groothuis
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‘Carbon pricing reforms can protect the poor while supporting economic growth, for example by using some of the revenues to compensate vulnerable households and the remainder for labor tax cuts or productive investments.’ #taxshift
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IMF
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More countries are putting carbon pricing at the center of their mitigation strategies as the world seeks to avoid a climate catastrophe. Read more at #IMFBlog. bit.ly/3v6dHTw
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National Geographic
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As climate change allows ticks to expand their range northward, more people are encountering them—triggering an increase in tick-borne diseases, including some that are difficult to diagnose and treat
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Why tick-borne diseases have reached ‘epidemic proportions’
Infections have more than doubled in the U.S. since 2004, afflicting many patients with long-term memory problems, overwhelming fatigue, and even red-meat allergies.
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‘roughly 80% of the river’s flow is used for agriculture, and most of that for thirsty crops like alfalfa, which is mainly grown for cattle, both in the U.S. and overseas.’
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NaomiOreskes
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We are 150 feet from 25 million Americans losing access to the Colorado River. #climatecrisis latimes.com/environment/st