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Your money has a carbon footprint. ...for every $1K the avg American keeps in savings, each year they indirectly create emissions equivalent to flying from NYC to Seattle... By switching to a climate-conscious bank, you could reduce those emissions by about 75%...
Your Money Is Funding Fossil Fuels Without You Knowing It
Banks use your deposits to make loans to carbon-intensive industries. A new analysis finds that $1,000 in your account creates emissions equal to a flight from NYC to Seattle.
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December 24, 2023 at 4:53 PM
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Kim Stanley Robinson in NATURE magazine:

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What do you tell young people who worry about climate change? I often talk to undergraduates about climate dread. They are the people of the future, because they'll be here in 2075. Thinking about all the things that have to be accomplished by 2050 to avoid crossing tipping points into unavoidable catastrophe - of course you have climate dread. So I try to tell them that it means that your life has a project, you have existential meaning. You are not caught in the nihilism of meaninglessness that was capitalist realism. In the 1980s, you saw bumper stickers on US cars that said 'he who dies with the most toys wins. It was sarcasm, but it also pointed to a lack of meaning. Why live, what is it all about? Well, now we have that answered. I also tell them: whatever you're interested in, whatever your personal interests are, that can become climate work. Arts, public policy, psychology, the sciences, engineering, the humanities, they can all become part of climate work. Just find your angle. But, at the same time, acknowledge that we're in an emergency, that something has to be done.
January 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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Happy New Year from all of us at Curlew Action!

We’re excited to kick off 2025 by sharing a special film we created with our amazing patron and ambassador, David Gray:
David Gray & Curlew Action, 2025
YouTube video by Curlew Action
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January 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM