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Expedia CEO Peter Kern has led the online travel agency for three years, from its pandemic nadir to the post-COVID surge in travel. With that experience, one trend he says he doesn’t see changing anytime soon is people traveling like there’s no tomorrow. What’s more, he says, people talk a good talk about climate change angst but are not modifying their behavior much

https://fortune.com/2023/10/06/expedia-ceo-travel-climate-change-rewards/

#MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate


The priority should therefore not be to replace every car with its electric equivalent but rather to rethink mobility in general

It’s true that fully electric vehicles do not emit waste products but the batteries that supply energy to the vehicle are made of minerals like lithium and cobalt which have an impact on climate change.

And those mines have incredible environmental and health impacts in the places that they exist

https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/09/17/why-tech-companies-are-wrong-to-think-electric-cars-are-a-solution-to-climate-change

#pollution #ecology #environment #climate


"Urban forest restoration by trial and error is costly, and resulting failures are both discouraging to practitioners and condemning of future funding approval. Instead, we propose an evidence-based approach developed with partners and practitioners, informed by, ecologists and applied through practice oriented principles."

#KiriWallace, #BruceDClarkson

https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2019.1637352

#Aotearoa #NZ #research #ecology #NativeReplanting #UrbanForest


Quoting because I don't think I can get to them and the rest of the conversation is important. Saying "WE are consuming the oil" is technically correct as no other species on Earth has figured out how to do it, but this observation and four quarters gives you a full dollar.

Ultimately people use what is affordable for them, including availability and cost. Using alternatives to fossil fuels is currently more expensive, whether in research, time or straight up money. There are several reasons for this, subsidies and marketing playing no small part, but boiling this question down to personal responsibility is either ignorant of the larger picture or incredibly privileged as in "if I could do it, anybody else can easily do it".

#Environment #Ecology #ClimateChange #FossilFuels


Sure, I am aware of the greenwashing and B.S.
But as I say WE are consuming the oil.
@doctormo


Siberia swelters in record-breaking temperatures amid its ‘worst heat wave in history’

(CNN) — Dozens of heat records have fallen in Siberia, as temperatures climbed above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (37.7 Celsius).

Despite only being early June, records are tumbling across parts of Siberia as extreme heat pushes into unusually high latitudes

https://www.cnnphilippines.com/world/2023/6/9/Siberia-record-breaking-temperatures.html

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe #climate #Siberia


Report proposes tax on the ultra-rich to finance a global climate fund

Led by French economists Thomas Piketty and Lucas Chancel, the study advocates a progressive rate of 1.5% to 3% for fortunes of over $100 million

https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2023-01-31/report-proposes-tax-on-the-ultra-rich-to-finance-a-global-climate-fund.html

#ClimateEmergency #pollution #ecology #environment #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCatastrophe
#ClimateChange #Climate


jonathan gray on a bridge surrounded by bushes and trees on the way from the water of leith to the scottish national gallery of modern art in edinburgh exploring image variations in online activity around the 2019 amazon fires
chapter on "the datafication of forests: from the wood wide web to the internet of trees" in bruno latour and peter weibel's "critical zones" book. "ways of listening to forests" project, included as part of "critical zones" exhibition curated by bruno latour and peter weibel