environment climate
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We’re Set To Exhaust The World’s Carbon Budget By 2030
The annual Global Carbon Budget is here, and the news is… just as bad as it’s been for a while. Despite big changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we still haven’t reduced our carbon emissions to a satisfactory level, and we only have ten years before we run out of leeway.
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Trees Aren’t Gonna Fix This
Bentley said last week it would be planting 100 trees around its England factory in the name of “sustainability.” Its VW neighbour Bugatti also chimed in this week that it’d plant over 4,000 trees to “offset the CO2 emissions from its Chiron hypercar, offices, and factories,” according to Motor Authority. Both of these efforts, I’m…
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Tax The Hell Out Of Frequent Flyers
Flying, as I have written before, is one of the more vexing climate-related problems facing transportation. There are no good answers for cleaning up aviation except to fly a whole lot less, reversing the massive growth in the aviation industry over the last several decades that is projected to continue for several decades more. So,…
