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🇺🇸 Woohoo! The USA is setting another record! More oil and gas than ever, baby! 😧
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The United States is poised to extract more oil and gas than ever before in 2023, a year that is certain to be the hottest ever recorded, providing a daunting backdrop to crucial United Nations climate talks that hold the hope of an agreement to end the era of fossil fuels.

The US’s status as the world’s leading oil and gas behemoth has only strengthened this year, with the latest federal government forecast showing a record 12.9 million barrels of crude oil, more than double what was produced a decade ago, will be extracted in 2023.

Records will also be broken this year for gas production, with a glut of new export terminals on the Gulf of Mexico coast facilitating a boom that will see US exports of liquified natural gas double in the next four years.

Tellingly, the US government expects this frenzy of oil and gas activity to continue at near-record levels right up to 2050, a point at which scientists say planet-heating emissions must be eliminated to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown. A third of the world’s planned oil and gas expansion in this period will occur in the US, a recent report found.

“They say they want to be leaders on climate but then do the opposite,” said Jerome Foster, a climate activist. “It’s a mixed record and it’s really sad to see. President Biden said he would be the climate president, but we aren’t seeing that. He’s not keeping his promises."

Biden may have provided a popular boost to renewable energy in the US, but displacing a firmly entrenched fossil fuel industry via a carbon tax or other regulations remains a political no-go area.

Instead, Biden has been handing out oil and gas drilling leases on public lands at a rate comparable to Donald Trump, with the emissions from 17 large projects permitted by his administration, including the controversial Willow oil complex in Alaska, set to cause more than 3.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases over their lifetime.

Jeff Merkley, a Democratic senator from Oregon, said US negotiators will be “unable to lead the phaseout of fossil fuels” at COP28. “Not only do we produce more oil and gas than any other country, but Team Biden is greenlighting one fossil project after another,” said Merkley. “The US is devoid of any moral authority to phasing out fossil fuels.”
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FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/27/us-oil-gas-record-fossil-fuels-cop28-united-nations

#USA #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #CO2 #Emissions

I'm thinking about all this in relation to the question I get all the time about the fediverse: "ok, but who's gonna pay for it?"

Answer: we are. We already are.

But deeper, the question I get implies that, unless we turn all this over to corporate for-profit systems, it will all fade away.

And the deeper answer is: the forms of non-capitalist organization are older than capitalism and will outlive capitalism.

More:

“On a global level, [there is] much cause for genuine optimism and belief when appreciating on the wonderfully vibrant and creative, the forms of organisation that are emerging from within communities across the world. When attention is paid to see and understand these 'alternatives', the dominant propaganda that we live under a 'neoliberal capitalist' order becomes ever more hollow and shallow.” (White and Williams, 2014, p. 964)

From White and Williams 2014, "Anarchist economic practices in a ‘capitalist’ society: some implications for organisation and the future of work":

> "rather than capitalism being all encompassing within modern life in western society, the prevalence of non-capitalist exchanges means that actually existing anarchism already exists for many."

taking a look around the fediverse, I find a lot of non-capitalist exchanges....

I am a Native Hawaiian begging you not to vacation to Hawaii, cause OUR HOMES BURNED IN LAHAINA, the US military POISONED OUR WATER, and MY HOME MAY BECOME UNINHABITABLE SOON due to overuse. WE DON'T NEED A SHIT JOB, WE NEED OUR HOME AND WATER! STAY THE FUCK HOME!!!

US Treasury Department says Iran relies on brokers, front companies to finance proxies across region, including Hamas.#BusinessandEconomy #Hamas #Hezbollah #Israel-Palestineconflict #Iran #MiddleEast #UnitedStates #US&Canada
New US sanctions target illicit financial network aiding Iran, military

For those trying to reach the US on foot, the deadly winds of Tehuantepec are just one among myriad existential threats.#Opinions #LatinAmerica #Mexico #US&Canada
Walking to America

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Guarda, il profilo, guarda

@ChieseBrutte
Ricordo che la chiesa di Faraone era risultata vincitrice lo scorso anno ma esclusa per motivi tecnici.
Tutti gli amanti delle chitarre, degli scacchi e forza 4 non posso non votarla!

@GustavinoBevilacqua @ciccio2000 @sirvoe

@ChieseBrutte daje che parte la rimonta tipo Berlusconi 2013!!

FORZA CHIESA FARONE!!

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Secondo il rapporto “The Emissions’ Aristocracy” di Carbon Market Watch, presentato alla vigilia della Cop28 di Dubai, trenta aziende (tra cui Eni e Enel) sono responsabili da sole di più di un quarto delle emissioni di gas serra registrate in Europa nel 2022. Ma le «quote gratuite» previste dal Sistema di scambio delle quote di emissione permettono loro di inquinare gratuitamente o addirittura traendone profitto

https://altreconomia.it/laristocrazia-delle-emissioni-europea-cosi-i-grandi-inquinatori-non-pagano/

#CrisiClimatica #Eni #Enel #Cop28 #UE

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La scorsa settimana #FSFE ha consegnato a Tabea Rößner, presidente della commissione per gli affari digitali del parlamento tedesco, la lettera aperta per il diritto a installare qualsiasi software su qualsiasi dispositivo.

Scopri di più nell'articolo:
https://www.wikimedia.it/news/installare-qualsiasi-software-su-qualsiasi-strumento-come-diritto/

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