Dharna Noor and Oliver Milman, Reporters - The Guardian (U.K.)
Stephan:
In this article, you see what the petroleum industry really thinks about climate change, as quoted from Darren Woods the CEO of Exxon Mobil. I will let him speak for himself, and you see what you think about it.
Darren Woods, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, last year. Credit: Gavin John / Bloomberg/ Getty
The world is off track to meet its climate goals and the public is to blame, Darren Woods, chief executive of oil giant ExxonMobil, has claimed – prompting a backlash from climate experts.
As the world’s largest investor-owned oil company, Exxon is among the top contributors to global planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions. But in an interview, published on Tuesday, Woods argued that big oil is not primarily responsible for the climate crisis.
The real issue, Woods said, is that the clean-energy transition may prove too expensive for consumers’ liking.
“The dirty secret nobody talks about is how much all this is going to cost and who’s willing to pay for it,” he told Fortune last week. “The people who are generating those emissions need to be aware of and pay the price for generating those emissions. That is ultimately how you solve the problem.”
Woods said the world was “not on the path” to cut its planet-heating emissions to net zero by 2050, which scientists say […]
Do you remember the article I ran in yesterday’s edition, about new technologies that replace acrylics, nylon, rayon, and plastic water bottles? Well, here is one of the reasons I think the replacement of petroleum-based plastics is such a big deal. This is where we are today, its horrifying and it must end. We must developed new technologies that foster wellbeing at every level, and the time to do that is running out.
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Hoof it through the national parks of the western United States—Joshua Tree, the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon—and breathe deep the pristine air. These are unspoiled lands, collectively a great American conservation story. Yet an invisible menace is actually blowing through the air and falling via raindrops: Microplastic particles, tiny chunks (by definition, less than 5 millimeters long) of fragmented plastic bottles and microfibers that fray from clothes, all pollutants that get caught up in Earth’s atmospheric systems and deposited in the wilderness.
Writing today in the journal Science, researchers report a startling discovery: After collecting rainwater and air samples for 14 months, they calculated that over 1,000 metric tons of microplastic particles fall into 11 protected areas in the western US each year. That’s the equivalent of over 120 million plastic water bottles. “We just did that for the area of protected areas in the West, which is only 6 percent of the total US area,” says lead author Janice Brahney, an environmental scientist at Utah State University. “The number was just so large, it’s […]
Throughout the United States, in both Red and Blue states, Republican MAGAt state legislators are authoring legislation to further control women’s bodies. They seek to outlaw contraception and, as this article describes, they want to compile databases of women who have had abortions. The Republican Party has become a White supremacy Christian Taliban that wants to control women and make sure they are subordinate to men. If you are a woman and you vote for a Republican be prepared for what is coming, and don’t claim you were not warned.
Oklahoma Republican MAGAt Representative Kevin West authored a bill that would ban some forms of birth control. Credit: Doug Hoke / The Oklahoman
A Democratic lawmaker expressed concerns Wednesday that a GOP-sponsored anti-abortion bill could create a state database of women who have undergone the procedure and ban emergency contraception.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers, including the Republican chair of the House Public Health Committee, expressed concerns that House Bill 3216 from Rep. Kevin West, R-Moore, could ban some forms of birth control, such as IUDs.
After West vowed to change the bill’s language, HB 3216 passed the committee on a party-line vote with Rep. Trish Ranson, D-Stillwater, as the lone dissenter.
Chairwoman Cynthia Roe, R-Lindsay, questioned whether part of the bill pertaining to contraception could ban intrauterine devices, a popular form of contraception.
“If we’re looking at preserving the life of the unborn, I think one of the ways to do that is access to birth control,” said Roe, a nurse practitioner.
West said he intends to change that part of the bill to target over-the-counter contraception that is not used under a physician’s supervision.
It is clear, as the article makes clear, that journalists and publications outside of the United States understand that the White supremacy Republican christofascist Taliban want to outlaw contraception. Sadly, however, except for a few media commentators like Rachel Maddow American corporate media apparently does not want to report on this trend, and millions of American women don’t seem to comprehend what the Republicans are up to.
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK — The fall of Roe v Wade in 2022 sparked fears that access to contraception could soon follow. A look into their legislative votes suggests that those fears are not unfounded.
We previously reported that Republicans standing for re-election this year keep changing what they say about abortion on their public websites. Many would rather the public didn’t bring up their voting records on contraception, either.
Despite prominent Republicans’ claims to the contrary, “Republicans have a long history of attacking contraception,” says Dana Singiser, cofounder of the nonprofit Contraceptive Access Initiative. And since the Dobbs decision, “it is getting harder and harder for Republicans to actually hide their long-standing opposition to contraception.”
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion on Dobbs that the court “should reconsider” its long-standing rulings, including the 1965 Griswold v. Connecticut decision, which granted married couples the right to use contraceptives without government oversight. (The Eisenstadt v. Baird decision seven years later granted unmarried couples the same right.)
“If that’s not a direct threat, I don’t know what is,” Ms Singiser says.
This is going to drive the Republican Christian Taliban crazy. It completely changes the contraception reality in the U.S., and it will be interesting to see how they respond. I will keep you briefed.
A three-month pack of Opill has a suggested retail price of $49.99. Credit: Perrigo Company
Opill, the first oral contraceptive approved for over-the-counter use in the United States, will be available in stores and online this month, with a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of $19.99 for a one-month supply and $49.99 for a three-month supply, according to Perrigo, the company behind the product.
Perrigo announced Monday that Opill has shipped to major retailers and pharmacies and will be available to pre-order from select retailers beginning this week. Once the product hits shelves, anyonecan buy it without a prescription. It will also be available at Opill.com.
“From an online perspective, it should be available for order pretty much immediately,” said Triona Schmelter, executive vice president and president of consumer self-care Americas at Perrigo.
As for the availability, “I expect it’s going to take a few weeks for it to get through the distribution pipeline, of us shipping to retailers’ distribution facilities and then them shipping to their stores,” she said. But once the product is on shelves, […]
