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<p><font size="+2"><i><b>January 31, 2023</b></i></font></p>
<i>[</i><i> by the famous Rollie Williams - </i><i>see
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<b>The Troll Army of Big Oil | Climate Town</b><br>
Climate Town <br>
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<i>[ NYT says to $ follow the money ] </i><br>
<b>‘Recession Resilient’ Climate Start-Ups Shine in Tech Downturn</b><br>
Tech workers and investors are flocking to start-ups that aim to
combat climate change.<br>
By Erin Griffithth, who is based in San Francisco, has been
reporting on start-ups since 2008.<br>
Jan. 30, 2023<br>
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As tech companies slash perks and cut jobs, the downturn has spurred
a wake-up call among many workers, causing them to question whether
their company’s role in society — selling ads or selling stuff,
often — was actually making the world a better place. The result?
More are now flocking to climate start-ups, just as investors pour
money into the field.<br>
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Last year, climate start-ups in the United States raised nearly $20
billion, topping 2021’s high of $18 billion and nearly tripling
2020’s $7 billion, according to Crunchbase, a data provider. At
least 83 climate-focused companies around the world are worth more
than $1 billion, according to HolonIQ, a research firm.<br>
Despite worries of a recession, enthusiasm about climate start-ups
is undimmed. Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of the investment
firm BlackRock, recently declared that 1,000 more $1 billion
so-called climate unicorns were on the way.<br>
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“There is no line of business that will not be impacted by climate,”
said Chris Sacca, one of the founders of Lowercarbon Capital, a
climate-focused venture capital firm, at a conference run by Axios
in October. “That’s also the opportunity.”<br>
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The momentum and excitement, investors said, are different from the
cleantech boom of the mid-2000s, when investors poured money into a
cohort of clean energy companies that were reliant on government
subsidies. Many of those start-ups eventually went under.<br>
<br>
“There were a lot of lessons learned from the first cleantech wave,”
said Ben Marcus, an investor at the venture capital firm
UP.Partners. “Investors are not just looking to invest in science
projects but in real companies.”<br>
Now broader economic trends have coalesced to bolster the market.
The cost of renewable energy has fallen over the last decade. The
Securities and Exchange Commission last year proposed a rule that
would require companies to report their emissions, creating demand
for tools to measure them. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last
year, dedicated $370 billion to climate-related spending.<br>
<br>
Large corporations have also elevated climate-focused initiatives to
the boardroom, with 91 percent of the global economy now covered by
“net zero” pledges of some sort, according to Net Zero Tracker, a
nonprofit site.<br>
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Climate tech is “one of the few bright spots in the economy and one
of the few industries that tend to be extremely
recession-resilient,” said Rick Zullo, an investor at the venture
capital firm Equal Ventures.<br>
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At least 135 funds focused on climate investing, with $94 billion
under management, have been created since 2021, according to the
newsletter Climate Tech VC. The largest tech investment firms —
including Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Atlantic and TPG
— have increased their investments in climate-tech companies, as
have corporate investors like Salesforce and United Airlines.<br>
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Lila Preston, an investor at Generation Investment Management, the
investment firm that Al Gore helped found in 2004, said the momentum
was welcome and “absolutely needed.”<br>
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“You want the very best investors around the table with you when you
are disrupting industries,” she said.<br>
Still, with Silicon Valley-style growth comes Silicon Valley-style
hype. Many in the industry are wary of the risks of too much money
flowing into climate start-ups at inflated valuations. Some fear
that the excitement will lead to more “greenwashing” — when
businesses make “green” marketing a priority over actual impact —
and infighting over which solution is best, ultimately damaging the
industry’s credibility.<br>
But the stakes are too high to be cynical, climate entrepreneurs and
investors said...<br>
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“We’re well beyond the point of having to prove climate change, or
that it’s a big market,” said Ms. Collins, who no longer uses the
dramatic slide in her pitches.<br>
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Some of the new climate start-ups are already increasing in value,
at least on paper, fueled by the floods of cash. Josh Felser, an
investor at Climactic, a venture capital firm, said the 11 climate
companies that he and a partner had backed over the last two years
were now worth two and a half times what they had been at the time
of investment because other investors had put more money in at
higher valuations.<br>
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“It’s not because we’re that good,” he said. “It’s because the
market is so hot.”<br>
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Founders said business was booming because potential customers faced
more outside pressure to become environmentally friendly, pushing
them to spend money on things like emissions trackers and carbon
offsets. Infogrid, a start-up that provides tools to make buildings
operate and use energy more efficiently, previously had a hard time
selling its products to customers, said William Cowell de Gruchy,
the company’s chief executive.<br>
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“Now they’re like: ‘We’ve got to do this. Our shareholders are
making us. Our boardroom is making us. Regulators are making us,’”
he said.<br>
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Many tech workers have gone through a similar climate awakening.
Olya Irzak, one of the founders of Frost Methane Labs, which helps
reduce methane seeps from coal mines and other natural sources, has
mentored people who want to work at climate companies for almost a
decade. But during the pandemic, more people began reaching out to
her and taking an interest in her annual list of climate start-ups,
she said...<br>
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One effort, Climate Draft, aims to help climate start-ups find
advisers, investors and employees from the tech industry. More than
3,000 recently laid-off tech workers have signed up to learn about
jobs at climate companies, the company said. Another online
community, Work on Climate, has ballooned to 16,000 members since it
began in 2020. People use it to network and learn about jobs.<br>
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“Rebuilding every single industry we have is going to require the
participation of everybody who is in the work force,” said Eugene
Kirpichov, a former engineer at Google who helped found Work on
Climate.<br>
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Diego Saez Gil, a founder of Pachama, a company that funds
reforestation and sells carbon credits, said he had recently hired
people from Meta, Google, Amazon, Airbnb and Tesla, with some even
taking pay cuts to join. That’s a change from his past start-ups,
where he found it tough to recruit people from big tech companies
who would take pay cuts.<br>
<br>
“The people coming to climate are missionaries,” he said. “They had
some kind of awakening. They came to realize, ‘The planet is falling
apart, and I’m working on making people click on ads.’”<br>
That was what happened to Bryan Nella, 47, an account manager who
has worked in tech for more than two decades. When pandemic
shutdowns briefly cleared the skies of plane and car pollution, he
reflected on his impact on society and the environment.<br>
<br>
Last year, Mr. Nella joined SemiCab, a start-up that helps trucking
companies eliminate miles driven with no cargo. He usually ignored
calls from recruiters, he said, but felt inspired by SemiCab’s
mission to reduce trucking emissions.<br>
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“There’s a lot more to feel good about,” he said.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/technology/recession-resilient-climate-start-ups-shine-in-tech-downturn.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/30/technology/recession-resilient-climate-start-ups-shine-in-tech-downturn.html</a><br>
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<i>[ author Kim Stanley Robinson
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU</a> ]</i><br>
<b>How Things Could Go Right | Kim Stanley Robinson</b><br>
Planet: Critical<br>
2.31K subscribers<br>
Jan 25, 2023 #climatecrisis #economiccrisis #politicalcrisis<br>
Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer and author of the
acclaimed novel, The Ministry for the Future. Set in the near
future, this work of climate fiction explores the geopolitical,
technological, political and economic demands of the climate crisis,
imagining how nations around the world will respond to its
impacts—resulting in the destruction and reimagining of the world
order.<br>
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Stan joins me to discuss the role of writing, of art, of fiction in
particular in the face of a crisis. He gives a fascinating overview
of science fiction’s response to the world over the past few
decades, exploring the role of stories, narrative, and how citizens
can both grapple with and demand change in their societies.<br>
<blockquote>00:00 Teaser<br>
00:23 Intro<br>
02:50 Why science fiction?<br>
09:02 Utopias<br>
11:43 Eco-Fascism<br>
16:14 Deconstructing Power<br>
25:18 Story-telling<br>
33:33 Novel Form<br>
38:36 The Ministry For The Future<br>
47:41 The Role of Art<br>
54:34 Platform<br>
55:27 Outro<br>
</blockquote>
The Ministry for the Future:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future">https://store.orbit-books.co.uk/products/the-ministry-for-the-future</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBu89-vrdEU</a><br>
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<p><i>[ 30 min audio report -- explained well -- Paul Jay journalism
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<b>Exposing Apocalyptic Economics with Steve Keen</b><br>
January 30, 2023<br>
Steve Keen has been exposing the ways mainstream neoclassical
economists—including winners of the so-called Nobel Prize in
Economics— have been arriving at their absurdly optimistic numbers
regarding climate change, and they’re terrifying. In this
interview with Colin Bruce Anthes, Keen goes through prevalent
examples in detail and argues that these numbers and the methods
behind them must simply be thrown in the garbage.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://blubrry.com/theanalysisnews/93487771/exposing-apocalyptic-economics-with-steve-keen/">https://blubrry.com/theanalysisnews/93487771/exposing-apocalyptic-economics-with-steve-keen/</a>
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<i>[ Oil industry propaganda ]</i><br>
<b>Climate Change Debate is Toxic: Let's listen to the oil
companies.</b><br>
Transport Evolved<br>
222 views Jan 30, 2023<br>
Climate change science has been around since the 19th century, and
yet in the US we're still having a debate about the accuracy of the
science. Where did that uncertainty come from? And should we believe
the oil companies when they talk about climate change?<br>
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00:00 - Introduction<br>
00:52 - Support the channel<br>
00:55 - The history of the science<br>
03:09 - Where does the uncertainty come from?<br>
05:48 - The Smoke and Fumes Committee<br>
06:49 - The Executives...and the early results<br>
09:20 - The science really crystalizes<br>
11:07 - The Global Climate Coalition<br>
14:40 - So where does the uncertainty come from?<br>
19:14 - What impacts does uncertainty and disinformation have?<br>
20:23 - The TLDR;<br>
21:52 - Thanks and Credits<br>
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Selected sources<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox">https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox</a>....<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s">https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s</a>...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/zei">https://www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/zei</a>...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climat">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climat</a>...<br>
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The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up
Climate Change, by Geoff Dembicki<br>
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Presenters: Kate Walton-Elliott<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7KviuUh0Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7KviuUh0Y</a><br>
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<i>[The news archive - looking back - Baker could have pushed harder
from within his Republican Party ]</i><br>
<font size="+2"><i><b>January 31, 1989</b></i></font> <br>
January 31, 1989: The Los Angeles Times reports:<br>
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"Secretary of State James A. Baker III, emphasizing the Bush
Administration's concern about global environmental problems, said
Monday that the nations of the world cannot wait for solid
scientific confirmation of global warming before taking action.<br>
<br>
"In the first remarks on global environmental issues by a senior
Bush Administration official since the inauguration, Baker said that
the United States and the world must 'focus immediately' on energy
conservation, reforestation and reductions in harmful chemical
emissions.<br>
<br>
"'We can probably not afford to wait until all the uncertainties
have been resolved before we do act. Time will not make the problem
go away,' Baker told delegates from more than 40 nations to the
newly formed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-31/news/mn-1251_1_global-warming">http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-31/news/mn-1251_1_global-warming</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/science/joint-effort-urged-to-guard-climate.html">http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/31/science/joint-effort-urged-to-guard-climate.html</a>
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