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Carbon Oligarchy and Polluter Elites

Sep 19, 2021 | Politics of Energy and Transformation, Pollution and Waste, Problems of Information

Carbon Oligarchy Timothy Mitchell wrote a well-known book called Carbon Democracy, [1], [2], in which he argued that the organisation of coal fired energy led to democracy, because workers could relatively easily disrupt the...

CO2 Increase since the 1970s

Apr 18, 2021 | Pollution and Waste

Atmospheric CO2 readings from the 1970s until today. Yes we have done nothing but make the...

Only 1.3%

Nov 23, 2019 | Pollution and Waste

Australia and Climate Change It is frequently argued that Australia’s CO2 emissions are tiny, and that there is no point in Australia’s federal government acting to cut them. The Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, was making this...

Green Paradox

May 21, 2019 | Pollution and Waste

German Economist Hans-Werner Sinn identifies a ‘green paradox’. This is that the more...

Pollution and Extraction

May 10, 2019 | Pollution and Waste

Climate Change is not our main problem. Climate change is symptomatic of two other major problems: 1) Pollution and 2) Extraction 1) Let us define ‘waste’ as the byproducts of production and consumption that can be...

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Carbon Oligarchy and Polluter Elites

CO2 Increase since the 1970s

Only 1.3%

Green Paradox

Pollution and Extraction

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