#fossilcapital — Public Fediverse posts

This first post from Alice English is almost overwhelming #FossilCapital #banalityofevil (belongs in @privateeyenews but they can't do everything... )
https://open.substack.com/pub/aliceenglish/p/the-banality-is-the-point

"How Venezuela stole its own oil on its own territory is something I would love JD Vance to explain in a war crimes tribunal, but the short version is imperialism plus the habit of Republican administrations of regarding the fossil fuel industry as inseparable from government and making its interests the top priority" #RebeccaSolnit - file under #FossilCapital #Venezuela
https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/five-facets-of-the-attack-on-venezuela-by-the-rogue-nation-the-us-has-become/

Extreme case-study in the need to #decarbonise - grim reading:
"Deputy Health Minister Alireza Raisi told state media this month that 58,975 Iranians had died as a result of breathing in PM2.5 particles during the year that ended in March. That means 161 deaths per day"
(The cleaner stuff is our valuable export, so let's burn #mazut first. File under #FossilCapital?)
https://aje.io/1jtvi7

Describing the COP climate meeting as having become more like a “festival for the oil-producing countries”, Talia said Tuvalu is also exploring a range of alternative initiatives...
...Representatives of oil-producing countries are now attending the COP climate meetings in “big numbers”, Talia said, in order to try and “really bury our voice as small developing countries”.
#ClimateJustice #GHGEmissions #FossilCapital
https://aje.io/68isnu

Describing the COP climate meeting as having become more like a “festival for the oil-producing countries”, Talia said Tuvalu is also exploring a range of alternative initiatives...
...Representatives of oil-producing countries are now attending the COP climate meetings in “big numbers”, Talia said, in order to try and “really bury our voice as small developing countries”.
#ClimateJustice #GHGEmissions #FossilCapital
https://aje.io/68isnu

Describing the COP climate meeting as having become more like a “festival for the oil-producing countries”, Talia said Tuvalu is also exploring a range of alternative initiatives...
...Representatives of oil-producing countries are now attending the COP climate meetings in “big numbers”, Talia said, in order to try and “really bury our voice as small developing countries”.
#ClimateJustice #GHGEmissions #FossilCapital
https://aje.io/68isnu

Describing the COP climate meeting as having become more like a “festival for the oil-producing countries”, Talia said Tuvalu is also exploring a range of alternative initiatives...
...Representatives of oil-producing countries are now attending the COP climate meetings in “big numbers”, Talia said, in order to try and “really bury our voice as small developing countries”.
#ClimateJustice #GHGEmissions #FossilCapital
https://aje.io/68isnu

Describing the COP climate meeting as having become more like a “festival for the oil-producing countries”, Talia said Tuvalu is also exploring a range of alternative initiatives...
...Representatives of oil-producing countries are now attending the COP climate meetings in “big numbers”, Talia said, in order to try and “really bury our voice as small developing countries”.
#ClimateJustice #GHGEmissions #FossilCapital
https://aje.io/68isnu

"While companies that had bought credits with PCX were getting 'plastic neutral' status, most of the plastic was burned as fuel in cement factories..."
Ghastly pantomime of offsetting, another money-making business in itself #ecologicalbreakdown #FossilCapital #venomouslumpsucker
https://aje.io/8g3ob9

Trying to clarify finances of proposed oil extraction at #Rosebank - would UK Treasury actually pay out, or just not receive, estimated £258m? #FossilCapital #Equinor
https://www.upliftuk.org/post/rosebank-private-profit-public-risk

@ChrisMayLA6 Note to self #SBTi and #Scope3 #FossilCapital

Climate denial and the classroom: a review

https://piefed.social/post/961614

@JEmphatically There was me thinking #Carney was #CarbonLiterate, having described the 'stranded assets' of #FossilCapital in the run-up to #COP26 https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/climate-stranded-assets-show-the-need-for-rapid-energy-transition-carney-says.html

@BashStKid Let's see if #PrivateEye are chasing this up... he's certainly been all over the Middle East #oilymoney #FossilCapital

@BashStKid Let's see if #PrivateEye are chasing this up... he's certainly been all over the Middle East #oilymoney #FossilCapital

@BashStKid Let's see if #PrivateEye are chasing this up... he's certainly been all over the Middle East #oilymoney #FossilCapital

@BashStKid Let's see if #PrivateEye are chasing this up... he's certainly been all over the Middle East #oilymoney #FossilCapital

@BashStKid Let's see if #PrivateEye are chasing this up... he's certainly been all over the Middle East #oilymoney #FossilCapital

Recommend this careful patchwork (piecemeal?) documentary on #Mossadegh #Iran - plenty left unsaid, but ooof! #FossilCapital #regimechange
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/coup53movie

#FossilCapital seems to be arguing that because they can't help causing damage, they should be allowed to continue #climateviolence #Scope3
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/18/fossil-fuel-industry-accused-of-seeking-special-treatment-over-oilfield-emissions

Academia and #FossilCapital - insightful piece from one of the world's top Universities #ImperialCollege #CutTheTies https://felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-call-to-action-cut-ties-between-education-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
@ScientistRebellion

Academia and #FossilCapital - insightful piece from one of the world's top Universities #ImperialCollege #CutTheTies https://felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-call-to-action-cut-ties-between-education-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
@ScientistRebellion

Academia and #FossilCapital - insightful piece from one of the world's top Universities #ImperialCollege #CutTheTies https://felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-call-to-action-cut-ties-between-education-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
@ScientistRebellion

Academia and #FossilCapital - insightful piece from one of the world's top Universities #ImperialCollege #CutTheTies https://felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-call-to-action-cut-ties-between-education-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
@ScientistRebellion

Academia and #FossilCapital - insightful piece from one of the world's top Universities #ImperialCollege #CutTheTies https://felixonline.co.uk/articles/a-call-to-action-cut-ties-between-education-and-the-fossil-fuel-industry/
@ScientistRebellion

Thanks #AdrianRamsay for clear calm skewering of shameless #ScienceMuseum hypocrisy #FossilCapital
https://novaramedia.com/2025/01/09/why-is-the-science-museum-laundering-a-coal-giants-reputation/

Even #GuardianNews doesn't see #COP29 having anything to do with violence being done by #FossilCapital
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/11/cop29-live-the-climate-summit-gets-under-way-in-azerbaijan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Even #GuardianNews doesn't see #COP29 having anything to do with violence being done by #FossilCapital
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/11/cop29-live-the-climate-summit-gets-under-way-in-azerbaijan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Even #GuardianNews doesn't see #COP29 having anything to do with violence being done by #FossilCapital
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/11/cop29-live-the-climate-summit-gets-under-way-in-azerbaijan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Even #GuardianNews doesn't see #COP29 having anything to do with violence being done by #FossilCapital
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2024/nov/11/cop29-live-the-climate-summit-gets-under-way-in-azerbaijan?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Or what Andreas Malm calls "fossil capital" in his writings - see the paper linked here or the essential "White Skin, Black Fuel" he wrote with the Zetkin Collective. https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~moyer/GEOS24705/Readings/From_water_to_steam.pdf
#climate #fossilfuels #uspol #kamala #gop #democrats #andreasmalm #fossilcapital

Horrified by success of #FossilCapital lobbying re #CCS in UK? Find out more
https://youtu.be/n5SasZ5MHn8?feature=shared
and support diligent resistance here: #AndrewBoswell #NZT
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/net-zero-teesside/

Horrified to hear #bbcr4today casually referring to further 'regime change' re #Iran - are they wilfully ignorant, captives of #FossilCapital - or both? #journalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

Shocking story - no mention of #ClimateAction or #behaviourchange as temple to #FossilCapital abandoned
"The city has seen some of the highest rates of climate migration of anywhere in the US as residents throw in the towel and move to higher ground"
ttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/15/louisiana-lake-charles-climate?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

@davidho Thx for this! World needs #science to confront #greenwashing - or confirm actual #ClimateAction:)
But beware distractions when overwhelming need is to #Stoptheharm #FossilCapital

Great to see more legal action against #greenwash - #FossilCapital won't volunteer #behaviourchange but there's just the slim chance an informed public will #listentothescience https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing

Great to see more legal action against #greenwash - #FossilCapital won't volunteer #behaviourchange but there's just the slim chance an informed public will #listentothescience https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing

Great to see more legal action against #greenwash - #FossilCapital won't volunteer #behaviourchange but there's just the slim chance an informed public will #listentothescience https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing

Great to see more legal action against #greenwash - #FossilCapital won't volunteer #behaviourchange but there's just the slim chance an informed public will #listentothescience https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing

Great to see more legal action against #greenwash - #FossilCapital won't volunteer #behaviourchange but there's just the slim chance an informed public will #listentothescience https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/30/eu-launches-action-against-20-airlines-for-greenwashing

> The historical divorce means that peasants are pushed off their land. It can happen by enclosures, punitive rent hikes, land clearings, introduction of agricultural machinery, crushing competition from agribusiness, military confiscations, bans on inheritance of small plots or some other blow that makes continued life on the land impossible, but regardless of form, the rule is general: industrial capital hinges upon a popular exodus from the countryside.
#AndreasMalm #FossilCapital #Peasants

> One notable flash of apprehension about the atmospheric consequences of employing steam power in factories can be found in the first chapter of #CharlesBabbage’s classic treatise On the #EconomyOfMachinery and Manufactures. Babbage is credited with being the father of the modern computer; his book is considered the first to introduce ‘the factory into the realm of economic analysis’
#AndreasMalm #FossilCapital

https://archive.org/details/oneconomyofmachi00babbrich

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4238
#ArchiveOrg #GutenbergOrg

Sir Walter Scott's (of Ivanhoe fame) view of the "progress" from water to coal (steam) is quoted in Andreas Malm's _Fossil Capital_. It's fun to find the resources on-line!
https://archive.org/details/familiarletterso02scotuoft/page/n5/mode/2up

#AndreasMalm in #FossilCapital with #SirWalterScott on #TransitionToSteam #WaterToCoal #TransitionToCoal

> .. by the time of the transition, modern wheels transmitted 85 percent of the mechanical energy of falling water to the machines, whereas steam engines normally converted less than 2 percent of the energy in coal to motion, reaching 4 percent in the best specimens.
#AndreasMalm in #FossilCapital showing me #ClimatChaos got started by some control freaks that ignored efficiency and profit and all the stuff economists give them credit for. Sounds like a pattern with AI(SALAMI) and Nukes too.

Reading #AndreasMalm's _ #FossilCapital _ convinces me again that #ProgressIsALie. An article by #BrianTokar sent me to Malm's books and they seem very helpful so far. They complement #AmitavGhosh's doubts about the "#Anthropocene" term:
> .. if some humans introduced steam power against the explicit resistance of other humans, then it would be hard to maintain a notion of it as the expression of a species-wide project... steam arose as a form of power exercised by some people against others..

Nations convene in Kenya to hammer out treaty on plastic pollution - another one-sided fight against #FossilCapital, or will they make binding agreements to stop making & using so much of the stuff? #behaviourchange #LifeOnEarth https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/13/nations-convene-in-kenya-to-hammer-out-treaty-on-plastic-pollution

Global North must not allow #FossilCapital to lock us all into a deadly future #NoNewOil&Gas #AtlanticBasin - no wealth for ordinary Nigerians, Angolans... what will future bring for Guyanese, for example?

Lawsuit against #FossilCapital in Oregon, USA: "...intentionally deceived the public about the dangers of burning their products for decades. It said the companies and trade groups must now help pay for past and future harms..." #StopTheHarm
ttps://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-climate-change-lawsuit-seeks-50-billion-citing-2021-heat-wave-2023-06-22/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2023-06-23&utm_campaign=Daily+Briefing+23+06+2023