We've got a big ol' task ahead of us and it's important to start our collective engines (figurative, not literal) on reducing our government's fossil fuel use. It's going to take an effort on the scale of the new deal (but like a ... I dunno, green one or something) and we'll need to keep climate change front of mind for the foreseeable future if we want to have a shot of pressuring corporations and government into doing the right thing.
The good folks down at fossil fuels, airlines & major corporations have finally seen the light! So if they accept climate change and its implications, what's their plan to ... oh, it's carbon offsets? Well, buckle your shoes and then unbuckle them, because here's a big ol' portion of carbon offsets won't save us (but actually they're not bad things in principal, so pls calm down my-mom's-doggy-daycare-center-who-buys-carbon-offsets).
I hoped you enjoyed what can only be described as an extremely loose two minutes. Thanks for sticking around for however long you did.
If you were worried that the plastic industry was getting a little too trustworthy, worry no longer!
We've totally beefed it on climate policy for 30 years, let's try a new approach. First and foremost, thank you so much for taking that little trip down memory lane with me. It's easy to forget that there was a time when the greenhouse effect wasn't politically controversial, and Exxon was the world leader in climate science. There's probably a good utopian novel about what would have happened if a few things had gone differently. Oh well.
Just wanted to add a little context for the BIG GAME! Okay, first of all, welcome to the channel. We're happy too see General Motors pivoting to electric vehicles after making countless bad decisions for the environment including torpedoing clean air legislation and funding climate denial. That being said, I sincerely hope GM is on the right path here.
An enormous winter storm hit Texas and knocked out power to millions of Texans, and experts know exactly how it happened. Tucker Carlson had a different take, and he just sort of panic-blamed everything on windmills.
The auto-industry saw an opportunity to Trojan-horse their way into the American infrastructure, and their version of the U.S. is the version we're living in now.
Brands may not be leaders on social movements, but you'd never know it if you watched their commercials. FedEx recently pledged to go Net Zero Carbon, but their pledge leaves a lot to be desired. Watch as bonafide try-hard Rollie Williams (Columbia University - Climate Science & Policy) tries to untangle the web of legalese at the heart of the FedEx climate commitment. Is it any good? You be the judge.
ExxonMobil Senior Director of Federal Relations Keith McCoy confessed to like eight different cartoon-villain level plots that ExxonMobil had spearheaded to delay action on climate change.
With stores like H&M, UNIQLO, ZARA, Guess, and GAP selling low quality clothes at bargain basement prices, Americans buy an average of 68 items of clothing every year.
Oh boy, do I love sloppin' together a big wet lunch on my gas stove. #cookingwithgas #sponsored
We’ve got to rethink housing, brotherrr!
So there's this thing is sports called "flopping" where someone pretends they've been fouled to get the referee to give them an unfair advantage. It's annoying, and tacky, and ruining the entire game. Somewhere along the line, American oil and gas companies figured out flopping is a really effective technique to get the government to give you preferential treatment.
The bank is secretly sending your money to work for the fossil fuel industry.
Whether it's the media blaming Obama, or Trump, or just a bunch of grown men who developed an interest in arts and crafts, it really seems like people have no idea how gas prices work.
The Supreme Court ruled that the Obama era Clean Power Plan, which was aimed at reducing emissions from electricity generation was null and void. Except the Obama era Clean Power Plan was never even enacted.
Whether you get your news online or you just love the feel of paying a child to wake up at 5 AM to throw trash at your house, one thing has become extremely clear over the past 10 years: there's a lot more news about the impressive variety of ways people are destroying the environment.
In this episode, Rollie overuses a 80's screwball comedy he hasn't seen as a metaphor to talk about how coal plants are being needlessly kept open thanks to political interests (and how solar is cheaper, more effective and better for the planet) as well as debunking the myth of 'clean coal'.
In this episode, Rollie makes a sincere apology to the fine members of Women For Nature Gas... except they are actually stock images and stolen profile pictures as part of an massive astroturfing campaign, funded by special interest groups and energy companies. And unfortunately, in states like California and Arizona, their tactics actually work.
In this episode, Rollie examines how food safety dates came to be, how they started as a tool for consumers against making sure your food wasn't laced with poison, to how the meaningless guesswork that goes into them now is sadly responsible for a ridiculous amount of food waste.
In this episode Rollie, in collaboration with Jason Slaughter of Not Just Bikes, takes on Minimum Parking Requirement laws, a set of archaic and seemingly arbitrary rules going back over 70 years that turn a ridiculous amount of open land and wasted resources into massive parking lots that are often left unused. However, in cities like Hartford, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh, progress is happening to change that.
2-4-6-8 Oil Money Isn't Great!
DON’T TAKE THE DEAL!
Oil uplift is back on the menu!
Get ready for the absolute longest, craziest, most intense Climate Town video we've ever attempted. It's all about natural gas. Clocking in at a blistering 40-minutes, clear your schedules and get ready to get a double dose of natural gas.
