These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works

Klaus Lackner is finding new ways to cut the technology’s high costs and energy demand, and he’s about to launch the first ‘mechanical tree.’

Source: These machines scrub greenhouse gases from the air – an inventor of direct air capture technology shows how it works

Capitalism will cost us the earth – Counterfire Freesheet November 2021 – Counterfire

Climate briefing for activists, more Tory Covid failure, Clarks strikers fight fire-and-rehire, Scotland’s wider crisis, socialism explained and more in this month’s Counterfire freesheet

Source: Capitalism will cost us the earth – Counterfire Freesheet November 2021 – Counterfire

If the Build Back Better Act dies at Joe Manchin’s hands, it’s a disaster for the climate.

This time, the stakes really are existential.

Source: If the Build Back Better Act dies at Joe Manchin’s hands, it’s a disaster for the climate.

Tornadoes: climate change

The more than 30 tornadoes that devastated six states this weekend and killed 100 and counting are the result of the climate crisis, says scientist @MichaelEMann. pic.twitter.com/0ggICqnKsL
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) December 13, 2021

A chicken can’t lay a duck egg | Climate & Capitalism

Why the market can’t solve the climate crisis

Source: A chicken can’t lay a duck egg | Climate & Capitalism

The lessons ‘Moby-Dick’ has for a warming world of rising waters

A black and white photograph shows a group of men dressed as 19th century sailors.

Melville’s epic novel about life aboard a wayward whaling ship holds lessons for the climate crisis today.

Source: The lessons ‘Moby-Dick’ has for a warming world of rising waters

It Will Take Much More Than Electric Cars to Fix the Climate Crisis | David Suzuki

Resolving the climate crisis isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets missed in conversations about major greenhouse gas emission sources.

Source: Opinion | It Will Take Much More Than Electric Cars to Fix the Climate Crisis | David Suzuki

COP 26 reaffirmed what has been obvious from the beginning: the Northern colonial and capitalist states most responsible for creating the climate crisis are unwilling to place people before profits in order to address the planet’s looming ecological collapse and humanitarian catastrophe.

Source: COP26: Greenwashing, Plutocratic Misadventures – and the Possibilities of Radical Transformation – CounterPunch.org

COP26: its ‘who cares’ massacre

NOW: Civil society at #COP26 is taking action to elevate the desperate need for #LossAndDamage finance as the climate talks wind to a close.

Millions of people are dying from climate crisis. This is not a “future” problem.

Rich countries *must* compensate for losses + damages. pic.twitter.com/dWUT7nkvhV
— Collin Rees (@collinrees) November 13, 2021

Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!

And yet, the planet has so far only warmed 1.2° Celsius (2.2° F) since pre-industrial times. We already have the technology we need to convert our energy systems to clean, renewable energy, and doing so would create millions of good jobs for people all over the world. So, in practical terms, the steps we must take are clear, achievable and urgent.The greatest obstacle to action that we face is our dysfunctional, neoliberal political and economic system and its control by plutocratic and corporate interests, who are determined to keep profiting from fossil fuels even at the cost of destroying the Earth’s uniquely livable climate. The climate crisis has exposed this system’s structural inability to act in the real interests of humanity, even when our very future hangs in the balance.

Source: Greta Thunberg to World Leaders at COP26: Shove your ‘Climate Crisis’ up your Arse!