Climate notes for September 1st 2023

Ugh. The good news is the climate tech world is advancing and people are adopting it. Not large corporates though, because billionaire+ people need to hold onto the precious lifestyles as if they've somehow evolved beyond humans. And then the bad news is that... the bad news keeps coming.

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• Air pollution now a major risk to life expectancy in South Asia - study
• FEMA announces $2.5B for enhanced resiliency against climate change-fueled extreme weather
• Rising Sea Levels Will Displace Nearly a Billion People in Coming Decades
• United States of wildfire
• Ozone depletion: The bullet that missed
• Climate activists target private jets etc.. Hopefully we see more of this disruptive protest.
• Climate change is impacting global food supply
• Is carbon capture too expensive?. Yes.
• Anti-capitalist climate activists block traffic into Burning Man— until ranger rams straight through it
• Europe’s Climate Movement Is Fractured And Stuck — Here Is A Way Forward
• Dinosaurs and the weather
• China’s summer of climate destruction
• Milan records hottest day in hundreds of years. It keeps getting worse.
• Cobalt is the story, gold is the real story. Commodity traders are using EV adoption and battery production with cobalt to hide child labour issues.
• ‘Shameful loss’: wolves declared extinct in Andalucía
• Exxon Knew about Climate Change almost 40 years ago
• You're Not Going to Make It
• Norway to spend $6 million a year stock-piling grain, citing pandemic, war and climate change
• Solar panels and the Children of Lir: High-profile refusal illustrates renewable planning hurdles
• Danes seek to tax beef. Irish farmers would shit themselves at this, rather than do anything to change.
• How Indigenous Techniques Saved a Community From Wildfire. NYTimes article.
• Japan struggling to innovate
• Greece struggles to contain Europe’s largest wildfire on record
• Carbon credit speculators lose money
• 400 Dublin homes have wind turbines. Solar is still the market winner.
• German farmer impact from climate
• Bikes in London used for moving beer kegs. Look at how fast they're able to move without being traffic.
• [Bike lane sweepers](https://www.worldsweeper.com/SweepingCoProfiles/BikeLaneSweeper/
• MA opens largest wind solicitation
• Glaciers are fucked