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Is that sketch?uziq wrote:
https://twitter.com/talkRADIO/status/1452892180301889538
genius.
In 2004, the advertising company Ogilvy & Mather, working for the oil giant BP, took this blame-shifting a step further by inventing the personal carbon footprint. It was a useful innovation, but it also had the effect of diverting political pressure from the producers of fossil fuels to consumers. The oil companies didn’t stop there. The most extreme example I’ve seen was a 2019 speech by the chief executive of the oil company Shell, Ben van Beurden. He instructed us to “eat seasonally and recycle more”, and publicly berated his chauffeur for buying a punnet of strawberries in January.
You should never publicly berate your chauffeur. You need to be classy and do it behind closed doors like a married couple.uziq wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction
i don’t normally care much for monbiot, who often loses himself up a tree (often times literally) in his cork waistcoats with the eco-warriors. but this is a decent précis of the whole issue and a good write-up for cop26.
of especial relevance is his mention of ‘micro-consumerist bollocks’ and the shifting away from big systemic solutions to personal blaming and the insidious effects of the ‘personal carbon footprint’. this is literally what i’ve been saying to dilbert about systemic thinking over raging at conspicuous examples like david bloody attenborough. much bigger forces are at work, namely some of the most profitable businesses on the planet, to bury this stuff and maintain the status quo of extraction and pollution.In 2004, the advertising company Ogilvy & Mather, working for the oil giant BP, took this blame-shifting a step further by inventing the personal carbon footprint. It was a useful innovation, but it also had the effect of diverting political pressure from the producers of fossil fuels to consumers. The oil companies didn’t stop there. The most extreme example I’ve seen was a 2019 speech by the chief executive of the oil company Shell, Ben van Beurden. He instructed us to “eat seasonally and recycle more”, and publicly berated his chauffeur for buying a punnet of strawberries in January.
just remember guys, if we all start using paper straws, avoid international holidays, and shame our neighbours, we can sort climate change within the necessary time window of about 2.3 years. the oil companies will listen when oil demand from passenger transport drops by a few percent!Shell and BP, which together produce more than 1.7bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, have not paid any corporation tax on oil and gas production in the North Sea for the last three years, company filings reveal.
The oil giants, which have an annual global footprint of greenhouse gases more than five times bigger than Britain’s, are benefiting from billions of pounds of tax breaks and reliefs for oil and gas production.
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https://youtu.be/CSiz6kbIZkwunnamednewbie13 wrote:
I saved the planet by painstakingly sorting glass into proper bins in the 80s while nearby Tacoma's pollution kept Bruce Springsteen away.
Don't minimize that.
If we stop using their products Shell and BP will cease to exist.uziq wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/oct/30/shell-and-bp-paid-zero-tax-on-north-sea-gas-and-oil-for-three-yearsjust remember guys, if we all start using paper straws, avoid international holidays, and shame our neighbours, we can sort climate change within the necessary time window of about 2.3 years. the oil companies will listen when oil demand from passenger transport drops by a few percent!Shell and BP, which together produce more than 1.7bn tonnes of greenhouse gases a year, have not paid any corporation tax on oil and gas production in the North Sea for the last three years, company filings reveal.
The oil giants, which have an annual global footprint of greenhouse gases more than five times bigger than Britain’s, are benefiting from billions of pounds of tax breaks and reliefs for oil and gas production.
the way out of this crisis is through individual responsibility and the pulling up of one's ecological socks. talk of state intervention, governmental collaboration, or tackling the overweening power and influence of the major oil corporations is wishy-washy leftist claptrap from selfish hipsters.
https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-oil-petro … a-52834661In the last 10 years, companies including BP, ExxonMobil and Shell have invested $89 billion (€82 billion) in 210 chemical projects linked to America's shale gas boom alone, according to the American Chemistry Council. And a further 133 projects are being planned or in the process of being built.
Petrochemicals, which make up 99% of all plastics, are the versatile building blocks of modern life. Derived from petroleum and fossil gas, they are found in clothes, paper, fertilizers and cleaning products — and even food preservatives and medicine.
Petrochemicals are rapidly becoming the largest driver of global oil consumption, a report by the International Energy Agency found in 2018. They are set to account for a third of the growth in demand to 2030 and half of the growth to 2050, ahead of trucks, planes and ships.
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