Archive for August 1, 2018

Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part I

Aug 1st

Posted by sky in Climate Change

Society as Ecosystem in a Time of Collapse, Part I

 

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-07-30/human-predators-human-prey/

 

By Richard Heinberg, July 30, 2018

 

First of three parts

 

Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books including: – Our Renewable Future: Laying  the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy, co-authored with David Fridley (2016) – Afterburn (2015) – Snake Oil (July 2013) – The End of Growth (August 2011) – The Post Carbon Reader (2010) (editor) – Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last…

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America spends over $20bn per year on fossil fuel subsidies

Aug 1st

Posted by sky in Capitalism

America spends over $20bn per year on fossil fuel subsidies. Abolish them

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/jul/30/america-spends-over-20bn-per-year-on-fossil-fuel-subsidies-abolish-them

 

 

While we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground, America is giving the fossil fuel industry billions to extract more

 

Dana Nuccitelli

 

Mon 30 Jul 2018

“The OCI report noted that the Obama administration actually proposed to eliminate 60% of federal fossil fuel industry subsidies, but that proposal went nowhere for one obvious reason:

In the 2015-2016 election cycle oil, gas, and coal companies spent $354 million in campaign contributions and lobbying and received $29.4 billion in federal subsidies in total over those same years – an 8,200% return on investment.”

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