We’ve all heard the claim that decarbonizing our energy and transportation sectors will harm the economy. This narrative is critical to the far-right-wing’s claim that environmentalism is anti-capitalist, and, in particular, anti-American. But does it make sense? Granted, there are …
Tag: ocean acidification
World Peace
The reader who sent this question posed at left provided his one-word answer: Greed. I’m afraid he’s right. As Socrates said, “All wars are about money.” And as our annual military budget gets ever closer to $1 trillion, all that …
Tagged with: Big Oil profiting enormously from their actions that are warming our planet causing loss of land masses droughts fires desertification floods, consider climate change, loss of biodiversity, national security issues as climate refugees are forced to emigrate from their homelands, ocean acidification
Bucky Fuller Was Right, But…..
The problem that we face is some people are selfish by nature; they find hoarding resources to be fun and rewarding. Yes, the majority of people on this planet care about the well-being of others, but those who call the …
Chevron’s New Branding Campaign
Rebranding a company is an enterprise I’ve undertaken dozens, probably hundreds of times. The game here, of course, is to align the client’s organization with something that already exists in customers’ minds. Here we see Chevron calling itself the “human …
Subsidies To Oil Companies
A friend from the world of acting writes: I am sincerely naive about stocks, international finance, etc. My life has been about art and human rights so please accept this in a truly non-political sense. I don’t understand continuing subsidies …
Tagged with: Big Oil is doing everything in its considerable power to strong-arm Congress so as to remain embedded in our society, Climate Change, fossil fuels were what made the 20th Century what it was in terms of economic growth, loss of biodiversity, ocean acidification, oil industry is more than 100 years old, oil industry the wealthiest enterprise in human history, subsidies to oil companies, transition to energy resources
What Will We Do About “Dire Climate Predictions Around the Globe?”
Since its inception in 2009, 2GreenEnergy has been making predictions regarding our civilization’s response to climate change, noting along the way that there are several enormous impediments to progress: • Greed and disinformation. The corporate world, and especially the energy …
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America, Set Your Clocks Back
I’d say it’s more like 60 years. It’s a regression to the purely patriarchal society we had before the rights of women, LBGTQs, and people of color began to emerge. It’s what those on the radical right mean when they …
Producing Green Hydrogen and Renewable Natural Gas by Thinning California’s Forests
There are few news stories getting more attention than the devastating wildfire year that the Western United States is experiencing, with more than 4.1 million acres already scorched in California alone, more than doubling the previous record (2 million acres, …
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Oil Industry on a Propaganda Roll
What’s ExxonMobil’s motive for offering you to “test your knowledge about the oil and gas industry?” Is it: a) Providing Americans the opportunity to educate themselves on the breadth of the industry. This includes the value it provides to society, …
Dealing with the Pandemic Rationally
An apparently angry reader says: “PROMOTE THIS!!” I believe we can fulfill everyone’s objectives simultaneously, if we all acknowledge certain truths here: Yes, there is a 1.5% fatality rate, though many will suffer horribly, and a great number will live …
