How much trouble do we need to be in, before we admit we are in trouble?
Author: Andy Rowell
World’s Largest Fund Manager Loses $90 Billion Betting on Fossil Fuels & Climate Chaos
BlackRock is the world’s largest fund manager, which has nearly US$6.5 trillion of assets under management. BlackRock may be wealthy, but that does not make it wise.
Remembering green heroes & fighting anti-green “zealots”
Two people from polar opposites of the political and ecological spectrum are in the news.
EIB’s Shareholders Must Adopt its Draft Policy & #StopFundingFossils
In these dark times, with daily doses of bad news of our growing climate emergency, we have to celebrate every climate victory we get. And last Friday there was one such victory.
Temperature records are being shattered, so why do we still drill?
“What we describe as a record heat-wave in a few decades, we will simply call that summer. A typical summer’s day will be like the most extreme day we have seen in our lifetimes, at this point.”
Meet Boris, the UK’s Climate-Denying New Prime Minister & “Donald Trump of Britain”
No wonder Trump and the Republicans are excited at Boris Johnson becoming the UK Prime Minister. He is one of their own. He is cut from the same cloth. He is a climate denier.
A letter to the future from a glacier that is no more
As our climate emergency deepens, as the once great Arctic icescapes melt before our eyes, and once majestic glaciers break up and melt and disappear, we are left to put plaques in their place to lament our lost world.
After Firing Top Regulator, Will Newsom Seize His Chance to Lead California Off of Oil?
The new Democratic Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is coming under pressure to make good pre-election promises to rapidly move the state away from fossil fuels.
“Reckless” Trump’s drilling leases could emit more carbon than EU does in a year
Since taking office, the Trump administration has offered close to 378 million acres of public lands and waters for oil and gas leasing, which is more acreage than any other administration in history.
“This victory is for my ancestors. It’s for our forest and future generations.”
The Waorani people of Ecuador have won a historic victory in court protecting half a million acres of their territory in the Amazon from oil drilling.