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CatButtes :verified_coffee:<p>Torys: *pass the online safety act*</p><p>Labour: If you oppose this legislation you are an extreme porn loving pedo</p><p>Reform: This is a bit shit isn’t it. We should repeal it</p><p>Labour: *frantic pointing at farage* PEDO!!!</p><p>Torys: This is a bit shit. Who thought this was a good idea?</p><p><a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/ukPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/ukClusterfuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ukClusterfuck</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a> <a href="https://freeradical.zone/tags/OnlineSafetyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnlineSafetyAct</span></a></p>
🌙 🍉 Anushka 🏳️‍🌈 ✨<p>Por supuesto que íbamos a pagar los días de verano antes que después. Menuda manta de agua está cayendo desde las 6 <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/onlyinscotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>onlyinscotland</span></a> <a href="https://neopaquita.es/tags/businessasusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>businessasusual</span></a></p>
Dr Susi Arnott<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gerrymcgovern</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://campaign.openworlds.info/@LMN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LMN</span></a></span> <br>Troubling when opposition to sustainability initiatives draws attention to new harms while ignoring harms caused by <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/businessasusual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>businessasusual</span></a></p>
tuk0z<p>🇫🇷 1er juillet 2025 : Les Forces Israéliennes de Destruction explosent un grand café sur la plage de Gaza City, connu pour abriter journalistes, artistes et autres civils, en tuant 42. <a href="https://mastouille.fr/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> et <a href="https://mastouille.fr/tags/UE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UE</span></a> soutiennent le gouvernement responsable, tout va bien.</p><p>🇺🇸 The Gaza beach café (al Baqa cafe) was directly hit by the Israeli Destruction Forces Monday July 1st 2025. The place was a well known shelter for journalists, artists and other civilians. 42 killed. <a href="https://mastouille.fr/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastouille.fr/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a>, <a href="https://mastouille.fr/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://zirk.us/@SANKOFAB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>SANKOFAB</span></a></span></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Question: Who benefits from all this? Who gets richer and more powerful week after week? Is it you or me? <br>_____________________</p><p>It's here!! Another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored this time by Shell Oil, Koch Industries, and the US Army. </p><p>🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying! <br> We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Wen<p>It seems to be expected for member of the HoL - after all the ex chief of the army will not have been given a proper pension, poor darling.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/21/peer-richard-dannatt-lobbied-government-to-fund-factory-bid-he-was-helping-documents-reveal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">un/21/peer-richard-dannatt-lobbied-government-to-fund-factory-bid-he-was-helping-documents-reveal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HouseOfLords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HouseOfLords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AbolishTheHOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheHOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Dannat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dannat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/MakingEndsMeet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakingEndsMeet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Don't blame people. Don't blame the whole world. Blame those who actually deserve it.</p><p>Blame the leaders of business and government in the world's richest nations. They are the ones actively destroying our climate and environment.<br>________________________________________</p><p>Four wealthy nations — the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia — account for the majority of planned oil and gas expansion over the next decade, according to new data published by Oil Change International.</p><p>The analysis, titled 'Planet Wreckers', notes that if those four Global North nations stopped their planned oil and gas extraction, 32 billion tons of carbon pollution would stay in the ground instead of being burned and released into the atmosphere where they fuel planetary heating. That's the equivalent of three times the annual global emissions created by burning coal.</p><p>"A handful of the world's richest nations remain intent on leading us into disaster. This is not just hypocrisy. It is a death sentence for communities on the frontlines of the climate crisis," Oil Change International's Romain Ioualalen said in a statement.</p><p>"It is sickening that countries with the highest incomes and outsized historical responsibility for causing the climate crisis are planning massive oil and gas expansion with no regard for the lives and livelihoods at stake," Ioualalen added.<br>________________________________________</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/oil-change-report-planet-wreckers" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/oil-chan</span><span class="invisible">ge-report-planet-wreckers</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://noc.social/@GeraldKutney" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GeraldKutney</span></a></span> <br>This new ‘but nuclear war’ narrative feels like another deny/delay tactic to put off <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> and manufacture consent for <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a>.</p>
Bread and Circuses<p>The news we didn’t need right now...<br>___________________________________</p><p>The Brazilian government is preparing to stage an oil exploration auction months before it hosts the Cop30 UN climate summit, despite opposition from environmental campaigners and Indigenous communities worried about the environmental and climate impacts of the plans.</p><p>Brazil’s oil sector regulator, ANP, will auction the exploration rights to 172 oil and gas blocks spanning 56,000 square miles (146,000 sq km), an area more than twice the size of Scotland, most of it offshore.</p><p>The “doomsday auction”, as campaigners have called it, includes 47 blocks in the Amazon basin, in a sensitive area near the mouth of the river that fossil fuel companies consider a promising new oil frontier.</p><p>The auction is key to Brazil’s plans to become the world’s fourth-largest oil producer, an ambition supported by the president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who argues that oil revenue will bring economic development and fund the energy transition.<br>___________________________________</p><p>Business As Usual, baby! Gotta have that economic development while we watch the world burn...</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/13/brazil-to-auction-oil-exploration-rights-months-before-hosting-cop30" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jun/13/brazil-to-auction-oil-exploration-rights-months-before-hosting-cop30</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>(You might be tired of this, but the owners of our society are not — and they never will be.)</p><p>Let’s all celebrate another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored this time by BP, Walmart, and Volkswagen. </p><p>🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying! <br> We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Aebele TrijsburgAround the year 2000 26% of Dutch people are living below sea level. Without dikes and dunes 60% of the Netherlands would regularly overflow. <br> .<br> The picture is part of a series entitled "Normal". I made it for the artistic research project "What If" by <a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/@noorderlicht@pixelfed.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@noorderlicht@pixelfed.social</a> and Sign Groningen in 2020. My good friend Kasper posed in the cold water as businessman.<br> .<br> .<br> .<br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ThrowbackThursday?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThrowbackThursday</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/photography?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sealevelrise?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sealevelrise</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/climatechange?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#climatechange</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/contemporaryart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#contemporaryart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/groningen?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#groningen</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/fotografie?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fotografie</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/businessasusual?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#businessasusual</a>
Bread and Circuses<p>When big business decides to “solve” a problem they caused…</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Is everyone excited? It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored by Toyota, Comcast, and the U.S. military-industrial complex. </p><p>🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying! <br> We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Beware of false promises. </p><p>As the escalating climate and environmental crises grow increasingly worse and more obvious, there is no doubt that our capitalist rulers will respond to rising calls for <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>degrowth</span></a> by attempting to co-opt that movement, perverting what it means and twisting its intentions to keep themselves in power. </p><p>➡️ <a href="https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degr</span><span class="invisible">owth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
steinvis<p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> once again not caring for your <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> *at all*.<br><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/bau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bau</span></a></p><p>Onderzoekers: <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Facebook</span></a> en <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> gebruikten spionagetrucje op Android-smartphones - <a href="https://nos.nl/l/2569805" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">nos.nl/l/2569805</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>You know what drives me crazy? </p><p>Every time someone has a good idea to perhaps reduce humanity's negative impact on the biosphere, the clowns who run our economies and our governments will take that good idea and twist it into the worst possible implementation.</p><p>Case in point: If we could get large numbers of people to switch from driving gas/petrol cars to small EVs — or even better, to electric scooters or bikes — that could make a real difference in reducing overall emissions.</p><p>So what do our "leaders" do instead? </p><p>They focus on building and selling huge, bulky, monstrously heavy, status-symbol EVs that not only are more damaging to the environment than a lighter gas/petrol car, but also far more dangerous to children, pedestrians, bike riders, and other cars because of their titanic weight and their reduced sight lines. </p><p>➡️ <a href="https://www.carscoops.com/2023/06/is-the-u-s-govts-support-for-evs-putting-pedestrians-in-danger/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">carscoops.com/2023/06/is-the-u</span><span class="invisible">-s-govts-support-for-evs-putting-pedestrians-in-danger/</span></a></p><p>It drives me crazy! 😡 </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>A spoonful of sugar? Nah, that's way too old-fashioned. </p><p>For modern, up-to-date consumers, there's nothing better than a spoonful of plastic particles in your brain. 😃<br>________________________________</p><p>A groundbreaking collection of four papers published in the May issue of Brain Medicine synthesizes mounting evidence that microplastics from ultra-processed foods may be accumulating in human brains and potentially contributing to the rising global rates of depression, dementia, and other mental health disorders. The papers provide the most comprehensive analysis to date of how these tiny plastic particles might be affecting brain health through multiple interconnected biological pathways.</p><p>The cover of Brain Medicine's May 2025 issue depicts a human brain stippled with colorful microplastic particles alongside a plastic spoon – an image that powerfully captures the main finding that human brains contain approximately "a spoonful" of microplastic material. <br>________________________________</p><p>LEARN MORE -- <a href="https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1084276" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eurekalert.org/news-releases/1</span><span class="invisible">084276</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas — how are they put to use by modern industry and by consumers?</p><p>Much of it is used to create electricity, by burning coal or gas and sometimes oil in power plants. Much is also used directly to heat buildings or to heat water. A large amount, obviously, is used for propulsion, as in jet fuel, or in diesel for container ships or trucks, or in gasoline/petrol for cars. </p><p>But a very large amount of the fossil fuels we extract are used to make petrochemicals, which in turn produce things like synthetic rubber for car tires, and plastic for — well, for everything. </p><p>More than half of all the plastics ever produced were made in just the last 20 years. Production was over 400 million tons in 2020, up from just two million tons in 1950. And we’re just getting started.</p><p>Projections show that global plastic production and usage is expected to nearly *quadruple* by the early 2050s. </p><p>That’s a huge problem. Because if we are to have any hope of keeping global heating below 2°C, we need to cut plastic production by 75% before 2050. Not quadruple it, slash it by 3/4.</p><p>So, do you think that will happen? If we ask the capitalist owners of our society to agree to a cutback, what will they say?</p><p>We already know the answer. </p><p>Even though the plastics industry is responsible for producing (1) a huge amount of greenhouse gas emissions, and (2) a huge amount of toxic wastes, and (3) huge amounts of plastic pollution in the oceans, in our water supplies, and even in our bodies, the plastics industry also produces one more *very* important thing — a HUGE amount of profits. 💵 💵 💵</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
Bread and Circuses<p>Remember that this is a choice — a choice that has been made for us, and that continues being made for us. It does not have to be this way.<br>_______________________</p><p>Get ready for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, sponsored this time by Coca-Cola, Amazon, and McDonald’s. </p><p>🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying! <br> We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Economics</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/BusinessAsUsual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BusinessAsUsual</span></a></p>
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