Fast-Fashion’s Environmentally Destructive Habits
Fast fashion is cheap for bad reasons.
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More Climate Change Refugees Means More Walls
Yves here. We’ve pointed out that since the early 2000s, Defense Department analyses have been anticipating climate-change-induced mass migrations. As this post describes, they are happening at at an accelerating pace. By Todd Miller, who has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and the NACLA Report on […]
Read more...Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future
The insane trajectory of the energy cost of bitcoin mining.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Carmegeddon for Tesla
The monthly moment of truth for automakers and for Tesla, the results ain’t pretty. This is where hype goes to die.
Read more...Q & A: What Price Do We Put on Our Oceans?
Interview with Erik Solheim, on agenda for UN Environment Assembly, starting tomorrow, that will discuss measures to clean up the oceans.
Read more...Science Suggests We’re Making Fish Homicidal Through Antidepressants We Flush Into the Water
First a lobster with a Pepsi tattoo, now fish made mad by meds in the water.
Read more...Life After Coal
In Germany’s Appalachia, the last coal mine is closing.
Read more...Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Burning of Fast Fashion Clothes to Fuel Power Plants is Troubling
Debunks recent news accounts touting fueling power plants with defective fast fashion rather than fossil fuels. Much more is required.
Read more...Bitcoin -> Energy Use -> Pollution
Bitcoin uses a computation system to prevent fraud, but computation takes energy, which damages the environment, all at an increasing rate.
Read more...Gaius Publius: The Building Is Burning and All the World’s Babies Are In It — Using Force to Fight Climate Change
It’s going to take force to fight climate change and there’s little time to waste. Asking and negotiating won’t do the job.
Read more...Tesla’s “Semi” Truck: Perspectives from the Cab and the Truck Stop and the Dock
Looking at the Tesla Semi from the driver’s perspective.
Read more...Gaius Publius: In Surprise Move, Norway’s $1 Trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund May Divest From Fossil Fuels
Would a Norway sovereign wealth fund divestiture from fossil fuels be a tipping point among investors?
Read more...Gaius Publius: New Study – “Natural Gas” Has No Climate Benefit, Will Make Things Worse
Debunking the myth that natural gas will reduce carbon emissions.
Read more...Scientists: Population Growth “Primary Driver Behind Ecological and Societal Threats”
A bit late in the game, experts are finally depicting population growth as the driver of threats like climate change.
Read more...Puerto Rico Update: Roads, Power, Water, and Money
Updating on Puerto Rico, which will require at least $23 billion in aid, according to PROMESA’s Financial Oversight and Management Board
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