Tag: earthmatters
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Earth Matters: Unmet emissions pledges imperil planet; many local eco-advocates elected on Tuesday
Back in 1972, the Club of Rome-commissioned “The Limits of Growth,” a report that argued the world’s economic system could not continue its current rate of growth because of resource constraints and environmental matters. The report presented various outcomes for what could happen when the growth of industrial civilization collided with finite resources. Without big changes of direction,…
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Earth Matters: Young Georgians push climate in runoff election; Exxon thinks we’re stupid
Earth Matters is a Daily Kos compendium of wonderful, disturbing, and hideous news briefs about the environment. • U.S. will hold climate summit next year as it seeks to rejoin Paris Agreement: During the very, very busy first 100 days of the Biden-Harris administration, the United States will host a climate summit. President-elect Joe Biden…
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Earth Matters: ZETA pushes for all electric vehicle sales by 2030; Portuguese youths sue on climate
• Twenty-eight companies join forces to drive for all electrical car revenue by 2030: With names such as Tesla, Lucid, PG&E, ConEdison, along with Uber, the firms have formed that the Zero Emission Transportation Association (ZETA) to search 100% electrical car sales in just a decade. Not only passenger automobiles, but also the whole line-up of light-,…
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Earth Matters: Critics nix Facebook’s climate hub; speculation soars over Tesla ‘Battery Day’
Earth Matters is a Daily Kos compendium of amazing, upsetting, and horrible news briefs about the environment. • Facebook starts Climate Science Information Center. Critics aren’t impressed: In a media release, Facebook announced it plans to fight disinformation with a new climate heartbeat designed “to link individuals with science-based info, and an ambitious new web zero emissions…