Nov 14
20161
Friends of the Earth, United Nations
"Clean Energy" #keepitintheground AFL-CIO Al Gore Behavourial Change Biomass Bob Costanza carbon bubbles carbon budgets carbon capture and storage Catherine McKenna CERES-WE MEAN BUSINESS Christiana Figueres Climate Project COP22 David Roberts Friends of the Earth George Monbiot Grantham Institute James Hansen Jeremy Corbyn Language Nicholas Stern nuclear energy Podesta psywar stranded assets unburnable carbon UNFCCC US Department of Energy
"How do fundamentally economic concepts like unburnable carbon, stranded assets, and carbon budgets work for the inevitable continuation of fossil fuel extraction and the wholesale destruction of forests? How much political will for carbon capture and storage is out there and how is it expressed? How are pundits, mouthpieces or messaging agents able to use “clean energy” to mask their support for energy that is in no way clean?"
Dec 04
20151
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Bill Gates Breakthrough Energy Coalition COP21 George Soros Mark Zuckerberg Mission Innovation initiative nuclear energy Ratan Tata Richard Branson TerraPower Tom Steyer University of California Virgin Group
"The Intertubes have been buzzing with news of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, the latest venture by US billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates... If your definition of clean energy includes nuclear energy, then you have a lot to cheer about because that seems to be a main focus of the Breakthrough Energy Coalition’s interest."