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(COP 28) in Dubai, with the head of the United Arab Emirates’ natural gas and oil corporation as the host, was itself an oxymoron. Listening to him say “there’s no science” behind the push to phase out fossil fuels is really all you have to do to understand we are living in the film Don't Look Up.
01:15 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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If you need to know more U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said at the same conference: “The science is clear. The 1.5 degree (2.7 degree F) limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning fossil fuels — not reduce, not abate, (but) phase out"
01:18 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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Still more? There were 2,456 oil lobbyists registered for the conference along with ExxonMobil’s CEO presenting unproven technical solutions like carbon capture and storage as THE answer to global warming.
01:20 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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It’s not just understanding that fossil fuel emissions are warming our atmosphere to the danger level. It’s being clear that this is impacting all of the environmental resources and services we need to survive — including water. While we live on a water planet (70% ocean), only 3% is fresh water.
01:21 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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2.5% of that fresh water is unavailable. It is locked up in melting glaciers and polar ice caps, or lies too far under the earth’s surface to be extracted at an affordable cost. That leaves 0.5% of the earth’s fresh water available for a planet with a population of 8.1 billion people.
01:22 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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There are only three kinds of drought-proof water: conservation, recycled water & desalinated seawater. We should be creating more drought-proof water: conservation, water restrictions, recycling & treating our sewage water to potable standards, stormwater capture.
01:26 PM - Dec 15, 2023
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Of course we can. There are 12 desalination plants in CA alone, 20,000 in the world.
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