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Movie About Exxon Ads & PR to Deny Climate Change
There is a free showing at 6 pm Friday April 22 in Math 110 on the CU campus tonight. Merchants of Doubt shows how oil companies paid PR people and thinktanks to lie and say that it wasn't happening, and if it was, then they didn't cause it, and if they did cause it, then there was no solution and if there was a solution, then it would be too expensive, and if it was not too expensive, then we should not solve it because that would threaten our way of life and jobs, and if it would not threaten our way of life and jobs, then we should not solve it because we should not trust our government and because we should seek a solution through the invisible hand of capitalism, and if we find that we can trust government regulations instead of self-interested capitalist polluters, then we should not regulate because we need "freedom" and to trust those elites who know what is best for the world ( and for their own power and profit). Greenpeace wrote that Exxon gave over $ 30 million to climate denial groups. Exxon scientists internally admitted that burning fossil fuels caused greenhouse gases and that "addressing the greenhouse effect ' would require major reductions in fossil fuel combustion' and that without the reductions ' there are some potentially catastrophic events that must be considered.' Yet while they researched and admitted internally that climate change was happening, they funded thinktanks and PR firms to deny it.
Trees and Forests Make Water Safe
China is improving its water quality by paying farmers and former loggers to plant tress and become forest stewards. Link
Local, Organic Shirts Sent to Japanese Womens College
Think Globally, Act Locally. We printed some “Local Organic” theme t-shirts for a women’s college in Japan. The shirts are made in the US of organic cotton, and we silkscreen them here in Boulder, Colorado. The students study peace, respect for all living things, love of nature, and ending discrimination based on race and class. They grow vegetables and flowers.
most coal is too expensive to get to to mine
Get Happy, Rich, & Help the Environment
Being frugal, doing things yourself, avoiding using lots of energy, lead you to having more time, money, friends, and also prevents overconsumption. Article