Well, here's the idlers in action. Time for WUSTL to ban idling on campus

Engine running for 1 minute 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/D3DSAKZm9R

— Daniel Moser (@_dmoser) September 6, 2022

Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure.

Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure. 

 A Guardian article summarized this report here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/01/carbon-capture-is-not-a-solution-to-net-zero-emissions-plans-report-says?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Bob Giordano on Why Streets are Political. (More on automobility and the ways that cars privatize public space, while biking creates more community)

Bob Giordano on Why Streets are Political

We're talking automcobility this week -- here's a pro-bike anti-truck ad from the UK - and it makes sense

Picking up groceries with an F-150 is like...
Cracking nuts with a sledgehammer or
Making toast with a flamethrower.
6 out of 10 trips are under 5 miles.
Love this ad from the UK. pic.twitter.com/pqqQlmiwtR

— Taras Grescoe 🚇 (@grescoe) September 7, 2022

Carbon Capture is a fossil fuel industry distraction from real solutions. They use a lot of money to skew public opinion and do unnecessary expensive research (and they're here at WUSTL too).

New letter to the Department of @Energy Inspector General - 50 groups requesting an investigation of the Livermore National Lab campaign promoting carbon capture in California, and the funding arrangement for that campaign.https://t.co/4DcpZxPcER pic.twitter.com/WgnfE20DIr

— Joe Smyth (@joesmyth) September 2, 2022

Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate. TLDR: 'Free markets' do not work for energy consumers. And they are never free. Energy should be owned and regulated by the state, not for a profit motive, but for a wellbeing motive.

Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets | by Yanis Varoufakis - Project Syndicate

Cool chart you can see - after Mitchell - the rise of coal, first, and then the expansion of oil use, over time

Energy use per capita: US and Saudi Arabia and Norway (a big oil producer) are at the top

We'll talk about 'clean coal' and carbon capture and storage later this semester, TLDR: it is a non-solution that only serves the interests of the fossil fuel companies

“CCS (carbon capture and storage) is an unnecessary, expensive, wasteful diversion away from a modern, efficient renewable-powered economy with good jobs for all.”

Learn more about the harmful effects of carbon capture.👇 https://t.co/KFz7Ieu5Cu

— 350 US (@350_US) September 2, 2022

Environmental Injustice: The Case of Pakistan -- mentioned this in class, here's a graphic echoing what I said about who caused the problem and who is suffering the impacts

Pakistan is still within its fair share of the safe planetary boundary for CO2 emissions. The global North countries, as a group, have overshot the boundary several times over, driving climate breakdown. pic.twitter.com/psxF03chvt

— Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) September 1, 2022

The US relationship to the Middle East has everything to do with oil, which is complicated by multiple other forces and relations. One of these is the question of Iran, and the likely return to a thawing of US-Iran relations with a return to the nuclear deal set up by Obama. This would likely free up Iranian oil supplies for global trade, thus lowering prices. Saudi Arabia does not want this, because Iran is a rival oil power. In addition, Israel and pro-Israel politicians in the United States do not want this. Here's the latest. Hawkish Democrats Ramp Up Campaign Against Possible New Iran Deal

Hawkish Democrats Ramp Up Campaign Against Possible New Iran Deal

You'll read more about this tangled history with Iran in Carbon Democracy.  Here's a preview.