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John Upton has a great article on Grist.org around his take on the top 2013 environment stories. I thought I'd take the article and convert it into a presentation. He listed out 13 stories. Over the last few days, I converted each one into a few slides. Here is the full presentation covering all 13 stories:TRANSCRIPT
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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
The Good
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Obama takes a shot for the environment
Unveiled an actual, coherent and clear climate plan
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
The Good
2#
People Power
`
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
The Good
3#
Billionaire Backing
Tom Steyer, a hedge-fund
manager turned climate activist, started spending
big this year
`
Millions in political
campaigns
Fighting plans to build a
coal export
terminal
Hosting an anti-
keystone conferenc
e
7
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
The Good
4#
Green energy taking off
Nuclear and coal languishing, solar and wind
soaring
Nuclear
Coal
Solar
Wind
Nuclear
Coal
Solar
Wind
Cost of green energy
decreasing
Nuclear and coal power
plants being shuttered
The Good
5#
Electric vehicles usage takes off
7
Sales have increased
6 foldin the last 2 years
Tesla’s Model S picked up many accolades, including the best Consumer Reports
auto review of all time
The Bad
1#
Boom in fossil fuel production
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.
**
By the time Obama
leaves offi ce, the U.S. will
be the world’s largest
producer of oil and gas combined
The Bad
2#
The climate is
more screwed
than ever
Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere blew past 400 parts
per million in May(well above the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm)
International community is failing in its
efforts to keep atmospheric
warming below 2 degrees Celsius
Even though some scientists think that a 1 degree change
could have “disastrous consequences”
The Bad
3#
As oil production
in North America
ramped up, so did oil
spills
Drill-happy state, North Dakota, kept hundreds of
spills a secret
The Bad
4#
US refineries are processing Canadian tar-sands oil and a
dirty side effect is piles of dusty black residue called petroleum
coke, or petcoke
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
Koch Industries has been buying
up some petcoke and
exporting them to
countries with weaker air-quality laws for use as
power-plant fuel
The Bad
5#
Big food corporations are winning the food labeling
fight(clearly label food as
Genetically Modified Organism or not)
Going as far as to want to slap a
“natural” label on foods containing
GMOs
The Bad
6#
Canada and Australia join the US on the climate shit
list
U.S. has been the climate bad boy by backing out of the
Kyoto Protocol and historically being the largest
greenhouse gas polluter
Australian prime minister, climate denier Tony Abbott has moved to roll back the country’s climate programs
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper muzzled
the climate scientists as he allows drillers free reign
The Muddled
1#
California governor Jerry Brown supports both sides of the
argument
7
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
7
Made it clear that frackers are welcome to California
Borrowed from an environment fund to pay for other state programs
Against
Climate
The Muddled
2#
China wants it’s cake and wants to
eat it too
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)
Pollution is impacting air quality (20 times above the normal, resulting in student outdoor activity
being canceled, airports and roads closed)
On the plus side, China is making some real efforts to clean up its horrendous environmental mess
China started carbon-trading
programs in a
number of cities
Offi cially dumped its “growth at all costs”
philosophy
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Irene Immink
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