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Excerpt: The carbon footprint on the back of the climate movement
This page is an excerpt from Issue 2 / Chapter 3. The idea of the carbon footprint is to calculate and reduce the amount of fossil fuels we personally are responsible for burning. How much gasoline do we personally burn by driving each year, and can we reduce it? How much natural gas do we…
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Excerpt: The green energy deal with the devil
This page is an excerpt from Issue 2 / Chapter 2. This issue began by discussing the green energy deal with the devil: in order to save the planet from climate change, it is necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet. There is no way to obtain the minerals needed for the green energy transition…
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Iss2/Ch2 Do electric cars generate waste worse than nuclear power plants? The answer may surprise (and poison) you (part 2)
Chris and Charley continue discussing the human and environmental impact of mining for the critical minerals of the green energy transition. In part 2: rare earth elements and nickel. Images Image: Climate Rights International, Does Anyone Care? / Riza Salman for CRI
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Iss2/Ch2 Do electric cars generate waste worse than nuclear power plants? The answer may surprise (and poison) you (part 1)
Chris and Charley look at the human and environmental impact of mining for lithium and cobalt, two critical minerals of the green energy transition. Images from Ch2/Part 1: Lithium evaporation ponds (Luis Robayo / AFP): The dried riverbed of the Trapiche River: Maria Paula Gaido / Ruido:
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Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 2)
Double issue means double chapters, and double chapters are way too long to record in one sitting. Chris and Charley sit down again to finish Chapter 1.
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Iss2/Ch1 Dam you straight to h*ck (part 1)
Chris and Charlie try to figure out what energy source is best to replace fossil fuels, but things go off the rails immediately…and they wind up with an extended discussion about mining waste?
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Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)
After finding that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy, Chris lays out green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet from climate change, it will be necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet with mining waste. Two tables are referenced in this episode:
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Iss2/Intro Nyook-yooler energy (pronounced: “nuclear”)
In the Issue 2 Introduction, we find out that green energy has a worse radioactive waste problem than nuclear energy. The green energy deal with the devil: to save the planet from climate change, it will be necessary to sacrifice parts of the planet with mining waste.
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Excerpt: Comparing what economists and climate scientists say about climate change
This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 4. Apocalypse Nord This section is a side-by-side comparison of what mainstream economists versus climate scientists say about climate change. In this section, we use the generally accepted shorthand for warming: e.g., “2 degrees of warming” is shorthand for an average global temperature increase 2…
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Excerpt: These policies led to the Great Depression…what could go wrong?
This page is an excerpt from Issue 1 / Chapter 3. When the hottest commodity is human suffering The dominant model of development imagines that poor countries can harness the free market to lift themselves out of poverty. Initially, poor countries have little to offer, but should take advantage of whatever they are able to…