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9 votes
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Thailand to become first Southeast Asian nation to legalize same-sex marriage
44 votes -
Sweden's nuclear power goal is challenging but attainable – government wants 2.5 gigawatts of new capacity online by 2035
8 votes -
EU states push past opposition to adopt landmark nature restoration law
28 votes -
The US surgeon general wants tobacco-like warning labels on social media
28 votes -
Malaysia evicts 500 sea nomads in crackdown on migrants, activists say
9 votes -
The Christian right is coming for no-fault divorce
44 votes -
The controversy of carbon footprints
18 votes -
US policy ideas for lifesaving technologies
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Powerful climate change deniers knowingly committed heinous crimes, and they should be put on Nuremberg style trials
I'm gonna try to be brief. This is the worst I've ever felt, weather-wise, in my life, and it's only the start of summer. It's heavily negatively affecting both my physical and mental health. I...
I'm gonna try to be brief. This is the worst I've ever felt, weather-wise, in my life, and it's only the start of summer. It's heavily negatively affecting both my physical and mental health. I can't even properly work. I don't have AC. I can't afford it. Everybody around me is suffering very similarly.
I've been following climate crisis for years, but I've never thought I'd see such an extreme worsening this early. Even if I knew in theory that anomalies like this could happen, as it's very widely agreed upon that they would, it's much different to live through. It's hell on earth.
I'm one of the luckier ones, relatively speaking. There are over hundred thousand people dying from heatwaves each year. It's probably much higher than officially reported, because most governments don't track heatwave deaths. Millions and millions of people in India have been experiencing bigger and bigger water crises. Just in 2019, 600 million people faced a water crisis in India.. Hundreds of millions of people in Africa are suffering due to climate change related climate extremes and food security crises.
I also just found out that a location in Antarctica exhibited 70F (38C) higher than normal temperatures this year. Faster than expected, right?
I think this is inexcusable. Oil companies and such knew what was coming. There are countless documents and studies detailing this. Here are a few.
- Exxon confirmed global warming due to their emissions was happening in 1982.
- American Patroleum Institute similary knew in 1980.
- Exxon knowingly spread climate change denialism in response (source 1, source 2)
- Even in 2015, Exxon was dodging responsibility, telling people to "read the documents". So, two scientists, Geoffrey Supran and Naomi Oreskes, did that. And found out that Exxon acknowledged global warming in the internal documents, while they denied it in public (article 1, source 2). In other words, it's been empirically shown that they fucking manipulated the public with full knowledge.
- Exxon is not alone. ExxonMobil, Chevrontexaco, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Conocophillips spent 3.6 billion dollars for lobbying in US alone during 1986-2015.. 61% of these expenditures are after 2006, when climate change started becoming a hot topic. So, when they attracted attention, they doubled down.
- Another document is of American Patroleum Institute from 1998, showing they intentionally focused on exaggerating the uncertainties of climate science in front of the public.
- Big Oil still opposes science and us. A study published in 2019 shows that ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Chevron, BP, and Total spent 1 billion dollars on lobbying and branding after the 2016 Paris Agreement.
- Oil companies are not alone. A study examining the 2000-2016 time-frame in US found that "fossil fuel and transportation corporations, utilities, and affiliated trade associations" are all major climate lobbyists. Only 3% of the total climate change lobbying was done by environmental organizations and renewable energy corporations.
These crimes are inexcusable. The people responsible should pay for them. And these should be treated as crimes against humanity and the planet, of the highest degree. These people don't deserve anything but to pay. They are the evil, who, in great awareness, have unreversibly damaged the planet, caused untold suffering. They still continue to do this, and even if they stopped now (hah!), their evil will continue to haunt humanity and a myriad of other species for unimaginable generations.
They should pay.
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Brussels is gambling that tariffs on Chinese EVs are a prod, not a punch
15 votes -
Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’
32 votes -
NY Governor Kathy Hochul’s decision to suspend congestion pricing is absurd
33 votes -
The macroeconomic cost of the UK's Conservative government
5 votes -
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids
51 votes -
EU expected to impose import tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles
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Sweden is set to become the second EU country to ban bottom fishing in marine protected areas
16 votes -
The case for NYC's congestion pricing
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Sweden and Finland have moved to relax strict laws that govern the sale of alcohol, while preserving wider state monopolies
9 votes -
Thousands of homeless people removed from Paris region in pre-Olympics ‘social cleansing’
16 votes -
Joe Biden Environmental Protection Agency issues $900 million to US schools for clean-energy buses
21 votes -
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pitches mandatory national service at eighteen
37 votes -
Celebrities like Elon Musk and Taylor Swift might soon be able to hide their private jet flights from online sleuths
47 votes -
Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
21 votes -
School choice programs have been wildly successful under Ron DeSantis. Now Florida public schools might close.
25 votes -
Donald Trump trade advisers plot US dollar devaluation
18 votes -
Electric bikes are about to get more expensive in the US
8 votes -
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
17 votes -
America must face reality and prioritise China over Europe
9 votes -
Joe Biden administration commits $3.4 billion in funding to San Francisco Caltrain extension
28 votes -
No wrong doors
14 votes -
How did Helsinki make transit work in the suburbs?
9 votes -
EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
17 votes -
Houston has seen a gentle density revolution since the 1990s. Allowing neighborhoods to opt out of citywide reforms was crucial.
18 votes -
US President Joe Biden raises tariffs on $18 billion of Chinese imports: EVs, solar panels, batteries and more
23 votes -
Seattle’s law mandating higher pay for food delivery workers is a case study in backfire economics
18 votes -
German court says far-right AfD is suspected of extremism
23 votes -
New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
9 votes -
OpenAI considers allowing users to create AI-generated pornography
20 votes -
I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope
26 votes -
Google begins enforcement of site reputation abuse policy with portions of sites being delisted
16 votes -
Sweden has a global reputation for championing high taxes and social equality, but it has become a European hotspot for the super rich
19 votes -
Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly
16 votes -
Denmark to liberalize its abortion law to allow the procedure until eighteenth week of pregnancy
22 votes -
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron, in Kyiv, promises Ukraine aid for 'as long as it takes'
18 votes -
New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
33 votes -
Canada bet big on immigration. Now it’s hitting the brakes.
31 votes -
Colorado lawmakers approve broad, nation-leading Right to Repair law
22 votes -
US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say
75 votes