Urgent: Fossil Free Finance Act
jeudi 30 septembre 2021 à 02:00US citizens: support the Fossil Free Finance act.
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US citizens: support the Fossil Free Finance act.
People urinating in a river after the Glastonbury music festival put so much cocaine into the water that it endangers the eels that live there.
Meat processing in Europe uses subcontracted workers so as to pay them scraps and subject them to offal working conditions.
Since meat production harms the Earth's climate, and eating a lot of meat endangers a person's health, it would be good for meat to get more expensive.
*Unions are calling for a Europe-wide ban on the use of subcontracted workers.*
Hooray! This should not be limited to meat packing. Consider Amazon warehouses, cleaning of businesses, delivery work, and many other fields.
Subcontracting's reason for existence is to permit mistreating workers, so let's limit it to small amounts of work, for which full time workers are not feasible.
Arguments that humanity does not need to collect metals from the ocean bottom and could do ok banning that process.
The hard part is how to get Nauru to cancel its demand to permit this.
Drought could shut down hydroelectric power from Lake Powell and Lake Mead. This would be a big loss in US non-fossil-fuel generating capacity.
As the years go by, this will become more and more likely.
This is an example of the sort of positive feedbacks that can lead to global heating worse than models have predicted.