#fossil fuel

[animentality]

#twitter #climate change #fossil fuel #energy #renewable energy #environmentalism

[mindblowingscience]

Nearly 200 nations meeting in Dubai on Wednesday approved a first-ever call for the world to transition away from fossil fuels, the top culprit of climate change behind a planetary crisis. After 13 days of talks and another sleepless night in a country built on oil wealth, the Emirati leadership of the COP28 summit banged a gavel to signal the world had reached consensus. "You did step up, you showed flexibility, you put common interest ahead of self-interest," said COP28 president Sultan Al Jaber, whose role as head of the United Arab Emirates' national oil company raised suspicion among many environmentalists.

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#Enviroment #Climate Change #Global Warming #Fossil Fuel #Dubai #United Arab Emirates #UAE

[berniesrevolution]

Editor’s Note: This article, republished from the Daily Yonder, is part of a series of photo essays created for the American Creed ​“Citizen Power” multi-platform documentary initiative exploring American idealism and community leadership from a range of young adult perspectives.

Jonathan Blair lives, works, and studies at Alice Lloyd College, in Eastern Kentucky. He coordinates a work-study crew of about 60 people, mostly first-generation college students from rural Appalachia. Blair and two of his crew members — Jacob Frazier and Carlos Villanueva — document their connection to blue-collar work in and around the Appalachian coal industry, and they reflect on their hopes for the region.

Explore more of Jonathan Blair’s story here.

My grandfathers on both sides were coal miners. My father is a mechanic for one of the railroads that transport coal. Basically, ever since our family has been in these hills, the coal business has put food on our table, and that’s the case for most families in our region. Even if it’s not why they came here, it kind of became what they did, because that was what paid, and you’re going to do whatever it takes.

Survival is a big aspect of Appalachian culture. For a long time, coal meant survival, but there was never a sense of stability because the coal business is like a light switch: It’s either ​“on” or ​“off.” And when that switch was off, a lot of people, like my grandpa, would find manufacturing jobs elsewhere, in Ohio and other places. And whenever the coal business picked back up, they would come back, because this is home. Today, you look around and you can see the mountaintops have been removed to extract the coal from them, and much of the coal that was deep in the ground is gone. The coal business is a phantom, a shadow of what it used to be. We can’t rely on it coming back to what it once was.

(My stepdad Charles Hampton was in the Marines, but he got injured. He used to work for a drilling company but now he’s retired. He also used to be a truck driver but he got injured there too.)

For Appalachians, other than faith in God and the love of our families, coal has been what we have always leaned on. Now we are having to take a step back and look away in order to move on to the future. Like diamonds, coal takes millions of years to form, so there won’t be much forming in our lifetimes. In fact, it could be exhausted by the end of our lifetimes.

I know very few people my age who go into the industry. The generations before us have warned that no matter how good the money is right now, no matter how sweet of a deal they’ll cut you to get you to work, it’s not gonna last. It can’t last. Right now, the price of coal is up but we’ve seen what happens when the price goes down and industry packs up and leaves.

There is no plan B in places like this. A major concern for my generation is finding that plan B right here in the only place we’ve ever known, because these mountains are home. And it truly is beautiful.

(My grandfather and his co-worker, underground about two miles.)

(The culture in Appalachia is rich in faith. Ever since I can remember, I was in the House of God listening to my grandfather preach. I asked him to turn to any passage of scripture, and he turned to Luke 15:11 (the story of the Prodigal son).)

(Coal Miners go to work never knowing what the day will hold. One day my grandfather sacrificed his arm while cleaning a belt head. “I would go back in a heartbeat,” he said. Even though the work took something from him, his heart still has a passion for the industry.)

The Appalachian culture has deep roots because, much like the rest of America, this is a land of immigrants who made this their home. People of many backgrounds, colors, and creeds were brought together here to build the railroads and pull the coal out of the ground. Over time, bonds formed through our shared labor and sacrifice.

There’s a saying around these parts that goes, ​“All blood isn’t family and all family isn’t blood.” Coal workers often left their loved ones behind for the opportunities in this region, and although those opportunities have dwindled, many of them formed new families and remain committed to these mountains. That’s how we ended up with this rich culture.

(Although the family has been spread across the region because of work and other aspects of life, when we are able to gather the sense of joy never seems to falter. As I have grown older, I have witnessed these bonds grow, even as the distance between us becomes greater. It becomes more bittersweet each time.)

While Appalachians have always wanted to maintain a life and community here, the same can’t be said for the industry we’ve welcomed into this region. You can drive through these mountains and find ghost towns like after the gold rush, abandoned places that were once home to so many people.

A sense of distrust exists between the Appalachian people and outsiders — whether that’s big business or the government. This distrust is deeply rooted and generational because New England businessmen came into the area and ripped a great deal of the coal out of our mountains. When the prices were low enough for them not to bother anymore, they went back home. When it was time for war, the federal government would come into our region and recruit young men, leaving behind suspicion and fear of exploitation among locals. It’s difficult to erase those scars of generational distrust. Many Appalachians fear that solutions presented by new industries or the government will only repeat the exploitation of the past. When you can see the end of the coal industry, it’s frightening. But there are solutions. Fear has to be countered with knowledge and power.

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#politics #the left #appalachia #climate change #climate crisis #green new deal #progressive #progressive movement #in these times #poverty #fossil fuel #capitalism #economic inequality #long post #long reads

[eucanthos]

eucanthos

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René de Saint-Marceaux (FR, 1845-1915): Génie gardant le secret de la tombe [Genius (Spirit) Guarding the Secret of the Tomb]. Musée d'Orsay, Paris. Photographer unknown. Published in 1900 catalogue by Lemercier, Paris. 

Burt Glinn's printing notes on 1965 portrait of Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick and Chuck Wein posing in a manhole in New York. Magnum Photos

Found child’s eye

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rene_de_Saint_Marceaux_Genie_gardant.jpg

https://www.magnumphotos.com/shop/collections/darkroom-prints/darkroom-prints-andy-warhol-edie-sedgwick-and-chuck-wein-new-york-1965/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=shop

#eucanthos #collage #vintage #photo #sculpture #tombstone #tomb #overlay #Handwriting #Earth #hug #Fossil Fuel #arabesque

[kply-industries]

#animated gif #animated gifs #gif #gifs #refinery #flame stack #fossil fuel #dinosaurs #stop motion #fire #makes you think #not really #extinction

[someone---who---cares]

#United States #big oil #fossil fuel #fossil fuel industry #global warming #climate change #climate collapse #capitalism #eat the rich #Ben See #@ClimateBen

[criticalbread]

Check out this story about the protesters blocking in an oil tanker with a little dingy, and the dozens of kayakers who have gathered to support them! "Thousands of Portlanders have been trying to shut down Zenith for years. They are joined by 46 neighborhood associations, Multnomah County, 20 state legislators, 17 environmental and community organizations. At first, City officials seemed to be listening. They denied the Land Use Compatibility Statement that Zenith needed to continue operating. But then they did an about face, made a back-room deal with Zenith, and betrayed Portlanders. A major part of the deal is that Zenith will transition to renewable fuels. Of course, Zenith has made — and broken — many other promises. (And none of this, unfortunately, even touches on the City’s willful disregard of its own Climate Emergency Declaration.) Currently, Zenith brings in crude oil on mile-long trains that traverse Northern Portland, loads the oil onto ships docked on the river, and then exports fossil fuels down the river and out to the Pacific Ocean. Over the past two years, the volume of oil that has moved through Portland has soared, rising from negligible levels a few years ago to approximately 337 million gallons in 2021 and 374 million gallons in 2022. The Oregon and Washington chapters of Physicians for Social Responsibility recently analyzed 125 peer-reviewed medical journal articles and counted over 300 medical professionals who describe crude oil-by-rail buildout in the Northwest as “an unacceptable threat to human health and safety.”  Zenith Energy is one of ten companies at the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub, a 6-mile stretch of fuel-filled tanks located between Forest Park and the Willamette River. Many storage tanks at the hub are 100 years old, and none are younger than 30 years old, and could collapse in an earthquake."

Any Portlanders who feel strongly about all the new oil deals being created and old one's being upheld - get to City Hall on the 6th at 9AM! Wear red! Call your local news stations to ask that they cover this story!

#fossil fuel #pdx #portland #oregon

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Banksy :: [thanks Ian Sanders]

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“For two hundred years, human economic activity has largely consisted of digging up fossil fuels and setting them alight” ― Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

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“when investigative reporters proved that Exxon had known all about global warming and had covered up that knowledge. Plenty of people on the professionally jaded left told me, in one form or another, “Of course they did,” or “All corporations lie,” or “Nothing will ever happen to them anyway.” This kind of knowing cynicism is no threat to the Exxons of the world—it’s a gift. Happily, far more people reacted with usefully naïve outrage: before too long, people were comparing the oil giants with the tobacco companies, and some of the biggest cities in the country were suing them for damages. We don’t know yet precisely how it will end, only that giving them a pass because of their power makes no sense.” ― Bill McKibben, Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?

#Banksy #Ian Sanders #fossil fuel #climate change #global warming #quotes #Bill McKibben

[iamanathemadevice]

Having trouble facing the reality of the climate crisis? Use this tried and tested method

Warning: relief is temporary

Cartoon by #Fiona Katauskas

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Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas of man with his head in a bucket TEXT: In Government? In the pocket of Big Fossil Fuel? Try the BUCKET OF SAND Makes Climate Problems Vanish! Great for Business as Usual *Completely unsustainable. Insanely more costly in the long term. May bake your head

#climate change #fossil fuel

[generalelectionmusings]

#politics #tory #think tank #conservative party #uk #ukpol #fossil fuel #billionaire #donors

[cant-think-of-a-good-one]

uhh duh. of fucking course fossil fuels are bad nothing good can come from burning the sacred bones of the ancients

#bones #fossil fuel

[hailkingcheeto]

#heatwaves #tweet #global warming #fossil fuel #oil companies

[nando161mando]

#antifracking #fracking #class warfare #ban fossil fuels #fossil fuels #also all politicians who received campaign contributions from fossil fuel industry in exchange for anti climate policy #past and present fossil fuel executives should be tried for crimes against humanity #fossils #fossil fuel #working class #class war #classism #classwar #climate justice #climate emergency #climate leaders #climate science #climate activists ‘may try to wreck the rollout of voter id measures at the local elections’ #climate change #climate crisis #climate action #climate and environment #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #neoliberal capitalism #australia #fuck neoliberals

[alicemccombs]

#greta thunberg #fossil fuel #climateactionnow #healearth

[eucanthos]

Alexander McQueen   (UK, 1969 - 2010)

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Shalom Harlow attacked by a pair of car paint–spraying robots. Spring 1999 Ready-to-Wear.

[ looks like avant-garde performance for global warming! ]

https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/spring-1999-ready-to-wear/alexander-mcqueen/slideshow/details?epik=dj0yJnU9MVlFRmlWV2w3WFJaLWp6bkFKX2doaEJyWktsRUVrcW0mcD0wJm49Zkd1aEp6bDlQV2pZWG5FOG9wN01qZyZ0PUFBQUFBR1FLUkQ0#23

https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/designer/alexander-mcqueen

https://www.vogue.com/article/alexander-mcqueen-no-13

#Alexander McQueen #fashion #performance #Shalom Harlow #Model #robot #spray #Fossil Fuel #reference #ecstatic

[drmajalis]

The Albertan Tory/UCP Voter in a Nutshell

#canada #politics #fossil fuel #gasoline #meme #alberta