And a ton of land. When I talked with Sarah Elkind, the urban environmental historian, she described an event she attended on Signal Hill about 8 years ago. This oil company was describing well pads, where their drilling equipment is situated, and how proud it was to have made their well...
Just Stop Oil's "civil disobedience" strategy is similar to the ones of fellow climate groups Extinction Rebellion (XR), Animal Rebellion and Insulate Britain. Many XR activists are now involved in JSO. "XR isn't part of Just Stop Oil," Ms Brown explained. "But there are XR people in...
George Monbiot: Just Stop Oil is right, and the government is wrong. But because Just Stop Oil is trying to defend our lives against the fossil fuel companies, it finds itself at odds with the politicians who are sponsored by those fossil fuel companies. Recently, the Tory Party has taken...
In addition, state lottery proceeds are often used to fund government programs that can be more adequately funded through other sources of revenue. Lotteries were first introduced in the Low Countries during the 15th century as a way to fund town fortifications and help the poor. Since then, ...
around the world, the nuclear industry was ramping up. Even with all of the well funded opposition that it has faced, nuclear energy now supplies the world with the energy equivalent of 12 million barrels of oil per day, roughly equal to the energy output of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait ...
From the NY Times article “U.S. Unlikely to Use the Ethanol Congress Ordered“: Two years ago, Congress ordered the nation’s gasoline refiners to do something that is turning out to be mathematically impossible. To please the farm lobby and to help wean the nation off oil, Congress manda...
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At the end of the day these are privately-funded missions and the entrepeneurs behind them can do what the hell they want with their – and their Shareholders’ – money. So, where are we at the end of this discussion? Best case scenario: this is a lot of fuss over nothing. It will...
The pushback from the regulators was so great that Intel funded AMD to remain solvent for few years. The successes that we see today from AMD is Lisa Su’s but there is a whole lot of history as well as bad blood between the two companies. Lot of lawsuits and whatnot. Lot of cross...
Climate change will necessitate evermore frequent and complex managed retreats in the future, and drafting policies that are equitable and just for those r