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Top 2013 Environment Stories
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The following slides are based on John Upton’s article:
“The top 13 green stories of 2013: The good , the bad, and the muddled ”
in Grist.org
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The Good
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Obama takes a shot for the environment
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Unveiled an actual, coherent and clear climate plan
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Boosting renewables and energy efficiency
Preparing for climate change that’s already
inevitable
Regulations cracking down on coal-burning
power plants
Cutting fossil fuel subsidies
Component
s of the
plan
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The Good
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People Power
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People are standing up to fossil fuel interests
Delayed federal approval of the Keystone pipeline
Fighting plans to build a coal export terminal
Fracking moratorium or bans in 4 states
Convincing organization to dump fossil-fuel
investments
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The Good
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Billionaire Backing
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Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund
manager turned climate activist, started spending
big this year
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Millions in political
campaigns
Fighting plans to build a
coal export
terminal
Hosting an anti-
keystone conferenc
e
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Teaming up with fellow rich guys!
Michael Bloomberg Hank Paulson
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Making the case that climate change
threatens the entire
global economy
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The Good
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Green energy taking off
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Nuclear and coal languishing, solar and wind
soaring
Nuclear
Coal
Solar
Wind
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Nuclear
Coal
Solar
Wind
Cost of green energy
decreasing
Nuclear and coal power
plants being shuttered
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The Good
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Electric vehicles usage takes off
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Sales have increased
6 foldin the last 2 years
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Tesla’s Model S picked up many accolades, including the best Consumer Reports
auto review of all time
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The Bad
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Boom in fossil fuel production
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Politicians of all
stripes favor
fracking** Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the
process of drilling and injecting fluid into the ground at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside.
** In the process, water is wasted, chemicals used and the grounds are contaminated.
**
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By the time Obama
leaves offi ce, the U.S. will
be the world’s largest
producer of oil and gas combined
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The Bad
2#
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The climate is
more screwed
than ever
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Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere blew past 400 parts
per million in May(well above the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm)
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International community is failing in its
efforts to keep atmospheric
warming below 2 degrees Celsius
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Even though some scientists think that a 1 degree change
could have “disastrous consequences”
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The Bad
3#
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As oil production
in North America
ramped up, so did oil
spills
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Drill-happy state, North Dakota, kept hundreds of
spills a secret
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The Bad
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US refineries are processing Canadian tar-sands oil and a
dirty side effect is piles of dusty black residue called petroleum
coke, or petcoke
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This fi lth blows into nearby area polluting neighborhoods and
contaminating waterway.This fi lth
blows into nearby areas
polluting neighborhoo
ds and contaminating waterways
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Koch Industries has been buying
up some petcoke and
exporting them to
countries with weaker air-quality laws for use as
power-plant fuel
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The Bad
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Big food corporations are winning the food labeling
fight(clearly label food as
Genetically Modified Organism or not)
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Going as far as to want to slap a
“natural” label on foods containing
GMOs
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The Bad
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Canada and Australia join the US on the climate shit
list
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U.S. has been the climate bad boy by backing out of the
Kyoto Protocol and historically being the largest
greenhouse gas polluter
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Australian prime minister, climate denier Tony Abbott has moved to roll back the country’s climate programs
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper muzzled
the climate scientists as he allows drillers free reign
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The Muddled
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California governor Jerry Brown supports both sides of the
argument
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Signed legislation promoting solar power
and cleaner cars
Blamed climate change for the intense wildfires
Under his watch, California’s new carbon-
trading program got rolling
For Climate
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Made it clear that frackers are welcome to California
Borrowed from an environment fund to pay for other state programs
Against
Climate
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The Muddled
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China wants it’s cake and wants to
eat it too
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China is the largest consumer of coal in the world(Coal is the ‘baddest‘ of all the fossil fuels,
double the emissions of natural gas)
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Pollution is impacting air quality (20 times above the normal, resulting in student outdoor activity
being canceled, airports and roads closed)
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On the plus side, China is making some real efforts to clean up its horrendous environmental mess
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China started carbon-trading
programs in a
number of cities
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Offi cially dumped its “growth at all costs”
philosophy
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Image Credits:
Dmitry Kalinin Flickr
Jürgen / WikiMedia
Wind FutureChris McKenna / WikiMedia
Cartype Arne Hückelheim
United States Navy
Ekkehard Streit Martin Nikolaj Bech
Menchi New Zealand Defence Force
Cleanwater.org WikiMedia Isaac Brekken / Getty Images
Jackhole’s Realm
WikiMedia Flickr 401K
Irene Immink
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Image Credits:
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