Clean Energy

 

A conversion from fossil fuel to clean green energy is underway and it needs all the help we can give if the planet is to be saved.  Several movements that will help is the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty which calls for a halt to new fossil fuel projects and Community of the Parties, COP, where UN nations join together to fight this global disaster.

From the Fossil Fuel Treaty Organization, "After decades of climate negotiations, fossil fuels have finally been dragged centre stage. Despite this, many governments are still approving new coal, oil and gas projects — threatening our chances of limiting warming to 1.5ºC.

"It's crystal clear: we now need a concrete, binding plan to end the expansion of new coal, oil and gas projects and manage a global transition away from fossil fuels.

"To protect people from the threat fossil fuels pose to our climate, our health and our future, a growing bloc of 14 countries are seeking a negotiating mandate for a Fossil Fuel Treaty.

"The proposed treaty would complement the Paris Agreement by providing the global roadmap needed to halt the expansion of fossil fuel, manage an equitable phase-out of coal, oil and gas, and lay the foundations for a true just energy transition in which no worker, community or country is left behind.

How far off is the United States Administration from what is needed to save the planet from climate change exceeding the tipping point? This is from a Futurism article:

"Scientists have found that the prognosis is grimmer than ever before: the Earth is racing towards a point of no return if climate change continues on its current trajectory — a reality that Trump seemingly doesn't have the intellectual capacity to grasp.  Trump has threatened to pull out of the Paris Agreement yet again and has vowed to "drill, baby, drill," while dismantling the Green New Deal, an environmental protection plan he's called the "green new scam."

"Trump's threats to dismantle environmental regulations could set the United States back significantly in the global fight against global warming, a reality even the oil industry has grasped.  It's a sad state of affairs when the CEO of multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil calls on president-elect Donald Trump not to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement.  As the New York Times reports, oil baron Darren Woods warned that doing so would greatly weaken our global efforts to curb carbon emissions — a grim irony, given the fact that he represents one of the biggest contributors to global warming in the world."


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