Lytton, BC, CA, which set national and global temperature records this week, burns to the ground in wildfire.
This seems to be doing the rounds today. Not that it’s a surprise to anyone but at least we have video evidence of their decades long criminal fuckery.
#ExxonKnew
ICYMI
ETA: ack! @politeruin I owe you a carbonated beverage, and sorry I missed your post… aye carumba…
The Chancel and Piketty charts say much (though cited as being from 2015) (SEI/Oxfam charts are from 2020, thanks), and North America has massive responsibility to own up to, and has course corrections to make, stat.
But y’all knew.
The intersectionality of class and carbon though is also something most of us here know or sense.
A good case can be made that rather than the Anthropocene, we should be discussing the Capitalocene. But apart from being ungainly, that neologism also has the tendency to direct analysis towards the rather abstract concept of “capital”. One of the bracing effects of the kind of sociologic al sketch offered here is that rather than “capitalism” it focuses attention on classes, on groups of people, on us. Few readers of this newsletter will not find themselves in the crosshairs of this analysis.
Touché.
ETA: I stopped by Thomas Picketty’s home page and he’s involved with this:
Really interesting experiment: they had half of the residents represent future generations.
“And if you think that, then it’s pretty hard to see why the case of temporal distance would be any different,” Greaves continued. “If there’s a child suffering terribly in 300 years’ time, and this is completely predictable — and there’s just as much that you could do about it as there is that you could do about the suffering of a child today — it’d be pretty strange to think that just because it’s in the future it’s less important.”
A fire in the Gulf of Mexico has burned out of control for eight hours, reportedly due to a burst underwater gas line near an oil drilling platform.
Sympathy for those in the Pacific Northwest, and Canada.
‘Must be hot when the picnic tables are melting’
…that’s in Edmonton, where the record daily low for July is -1.7 °C or 28.9 °F …
ExxonMobil Foundation & Corporate Giving to Climate Change Denier & Obstructionist Organizations (a spreadsheet):
The Marxist academy indeed… /s
That’s pretty fascinating, but the folks who need to know this won’t be bothered at all.
Shoulda held out for more money.
I mean, sheesh, Harvard? Totally sold themselves cheap.
Not that Harvard is alone by any stretch… just read this article, and the list of climate hijackers is long. Most of them will be long dead before the human suffering is experienced by a majority of the human population.
tl;dr =
Late stage capitalism leverages manufactured doubt, right out of the tobacco industry’s toolbox, to de-legitimize science [again], for the fossil fuel industry.
The Guardian just puts the receipts in prose.
And not even all the receipts.
Tell it, Greta! Tell it!
