THE PLASTIC PANDEMIC

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Humans Wiped Out Two-Thirds of the World’s Wildlife in 50 Years
Threats to global biodiversity are also threats to humans, experts warn

Birds 'falling out of the sky' in mass die-off in south-western US

I suppose climate risk could be another product to monetize...however we get there.

CFTC’s groundbreaking climate-change report sounds a bipartisan alarm on costly risks for U.S. financial system

Last Updated: Sept. 11, 2020 at 10:10 a.m. ETFirst Published: Sept. 9, 2020 at 2:34 p.m. ETBy

Rachel Koning Beals

The U.S. financial system, including banks, agricultural and oil interests, as well as regulators and investors, requires a unified front in accounting for climate-change risk, says the first comprehensive government report on such efforts.

Notably, the report released Tuesday by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and an affiliated panel representing several sectors revives a call for taxing carbon pollution.

The CFTC’s Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee of the Market Risk Advisory Committee released its findings in Managing Climate Risk in the U.S. Financial System. The panel behind the release voted unanimously 34-0 to adopt the over 190-page report which recommends that 16 financial regulators and other bodies “incorporate climate-related risk into their mandates and develop a strategy for integrating these risks in their work, including into their existing monitoring and oversight functions.” Disjointed rules and goals has been a major gripe from an investing world that’s increasingly factoring in climate change to decision-making.

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"Everything is dying here,..."

Climate Advocates Say that Reserves of Oil and Gas are Increasingly Worthless

Special Report: Millions of abandoned oil wells are leaking methane, a climate menace

Earth’s species disappearing at an alarming rate

In the past century, more than 500 species of land-living vertebrates have disappeared, a grisly milestone that would have taken 10,000 years to pass naturally.

Michael Moore film Planet of the Humans removed from YouTube
British environmental photographer’s copyright claim prompts website to remove film that has been condemned by climate scientists

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
This is very dangerous and misleading.  It suggests that regular folks are responsible for pollution.  

But we all know that only nasty rich people and large corporations pollute the earth.  This is the TRUTH we must adhere to if we want to continue to have a pollution-rich, fun-filled future.  

As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner

The link between virus spillover, wildlife extinction and the environment

Among the findings:

• Domesticated animals, including livestock, have shared the highest number of viruses with humans, with eight times more zoonotic viruses compared to wild mammalian species. This is likely a result of our frequent close interactions with these species for centuries.
• Wild animals that have increased in abundance and adapted well to human-dominated environments also share more viruses with people. These include some rodent, bat and primate species that live among people, near our homes, and around our farms and crops, making them high-risk for ongoing transmission of viruses to people.
• At the other end of the spectrum are threatened and endangered species. These are animals whose population declines were connected to hunting, wildlife trade and decreases in habitat quality. These species were predicted to host twice as many zoonotic viruses compared to threatened species that had populations decreasing for other reasons.

Planet Plastic

Feds say resuming coal sales from public lands has little impact on environment

As the Birds Vanish

 R_P wrote:
 
Who says you can't have a system that runs on trust?

Oil and Gas Firms Reward Politicians When They Vote Against the Environment, Finds New Study

 westslope wrote:
 
And that's just one industry mentioned.

The Macondo well disaster was most unfortunate.  But at least the damage was temporary.  It was not a dam.  It was not a clear-cut on a steep, wet slope.  It was not yet another low-density, asphalt, concrete rich suburub.    It is not agricultural monoculture.  

Besides, the fish in Gulf of Mexico got a temporary reprieve as oversubscribed fisheries cut back.  

The real damage from fossil fuels comes on the consumption side.  That is where most of the environmental damage, sickness and death occurs.