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    Default Crude reality: California consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest

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    Are there any more sanctimonious and hypocritical people in the US than Californians?

    Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest

    As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.

    This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network.

    YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — The bulldozers rumble through after sunrise, clearing out massive amounts of trees in this remote and remarkable section of the Amazon rainforest.

    It’s a place where giant otters patrol the waterways and endangered white-bellied spider monkeys swing from tree to tree. Where a dazzling array of birds — upward of 600 species — nest in the dense canopy. Where more than 60 kinds of snakes and 140 different frogs and toads inhabit the ground below.

    The Yasuní National Park is home to one of the most diverse collections of plants and animals on the planet. But beneath this 3,800-square-mile swath of forest lies another kind of treasure: crude oil. More than 1 billion barrels of it.

    Over the past 50 years, oil companies have extracted immense amounts of crude from the Amazon, causing the destruction of rainforest crucial to slowing climate change and jeopardizing the Indigenous tribes who rely on it.

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    https://www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...orest-rcna7284
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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
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    Are there any more sanctimonious and hypocritical people in the US than Californians?

    Crude reality: One U.S. state consumes half the oil from the Amazon rainforest

    As oil companies carve up more of the rainforest, a new study says no place in the world uses more oil from beneath the Amazon than California.

    This article was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network.

    YASUNÍ NATIONAL PARK, Ecuador — The bulldozers rumble through after sunrise, clearing out massive amounts of trees in this remote and remarkable section of the Amazon rainforest.

    It’s a place where giant otters patrol the waterways and endangered white-bellied spider monkeys swing from tree to tree. Where a dazzling array of birds — upward of 600 species — nest in the dense canopy. Where more than 60 kinds of snakes and 140 different frogs and toads inhabit the ground below.

    The Yasuní National Park is home to one of the most diverse collections of plants and animals on the planet. But beneath this 3,800-square-mile swath of forest lies another kind of treasure: crude oil. More than 1 billion barrels of it.

    Over the past 50 years, oil companies have extracted immense amounts of crude from the Amazon, causing the destruction of rainforest crucial to slowing climate change and jeopardizing the Indigenous tribes who rely on it.

    Read more:

    https://www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...orest-rcna7284
    Linked Fates: Ending Amazon Crude Will Benefit Us All

    On the ground urgency
    Our report comes at a crucial moment for Indigenous peoples on the ground in Ecuador. They are facing down plans by President Guillermo Lasso to double oil extraction over the next five years. That means expansion plans inside Yasuni National Park, where plans to build 600+ wells are underway, and a new oil road is only 400 meters away from the protected are for the Tagaeri and Taromenane, two Indigenous peoples living in isolation.

    The Lasso government has also announced it will put up a dozen new oil concessions for auction in 2022. These blocks cover almost 7 million acres of largely roadless, intact rainforest and the titled territories of seven Indigenous nationalities who have adamantly opposed extraction activities on their lands.

    Our Indigenous partners have long called for the end of oil extraction on their territories. They have successfully resisted many oil projects, while battling the expansion of others. They have known what the world is just now reckoning with: the fossil fuel era is over. In our role as a solidarity organization, we share this research with you as a great accomplishment, years in the making, demonstrating that we will not leave a strategic lever unturned to end Amazon crude.

    As an NGO based in the U.S. and specifically in California, this investigation is a groundbreaking report that pushes us to tangle with our complicity – but it also reminds us that change happens at a higher level than we can take on alone as individuals. We hold so much power as consumers, beyond boycotting any one brand. We must come together because our fates are linked, from the U.S. to the Amazon. We’re going to need a united movement to hold a new range of decision makers accountable. Will you join us?"
    https://amazonwatch.org/news/2021/12...benefit-us-all

    Can Alternative Energy Effectively Replace Fossil Fuels?
    Whether alternative energy sources such as renewable energies biofuels, hydrogen, solar, and geothermal, or the non-renewable nuclear energy can meet energy demands better than finite fossil fuels such as oil and coal remains hotly debated.

    Proponents of alternative energy argue that fossil fuels are inefficient, unsustainable, environmentally destructive, and the primary contributor to global climate change. They say renewable energies are a viable and immediately needed alternative to fossil fuel use that could boost the US economy and reduce reliance on foreign energy sources.

    Opponents contend that many technological hurdles have to be overcome before alternative energy can replace even a small portion of the power provided by fossil fuels. They say that fossil fuels will last hundreds of years longer, be made increasingly efficient, remain the most economical choice, and that reliance on inefficient alternative energies will hurt the economy."
    https://alternativeenergy.procon.org/

    Among states, Texas consumes the most energy, Vermont the least

    EIA’s State Energy Data System (SEDS) recently released 2015 data estimates for all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The estimates include data on both total energy consumption and energy consumption per capita, which is calculated by dividing total consumption by population.

    In 2015, Texas consumed a total of 13 quadrillion British thermal units (Btu), or about 13% of total U.S. energy consumption. Texas has consumed the most energy in every year since 1960, the earliest year for which EIA has data. California ranked second in energy use, with a total consumption of 8 quadrillion Btu, about 8% of U.S. total energy use.

    Louisiana, Florida, and Illinois round out the top five energy-consuming states, which together account for more than one-third of total U.S. total energy use. Total energy consumption by the top 10 states exceeded the combined energy use of the other 41 states (including the District of Columbia)."
    https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32312

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    Come on Calicunts; Crypiss, Desh; Reagan's Gobshite speak up!!

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    Default Why aren't you protesting your own government?

    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
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    Come on Calicunts; Crypiss, Desh; Reagan's Gobshite speak up!!
    You willingly live under and pay taxes to an authoritarian police state.

    A government with an ethical track record that makes the California state government look like Saints.

    So the question here is: Why do you not protest your government's oil production policies?

    Thai villagers say gas drilling sickens them, ruins crops

    BANGKOK (AP) — More than 100 students and villagers crowded into a northeast Thailand college forum to hear about American gas companies conducting drilling operations in their region. A lieutenant colonel and dozens of soldiers and police officers followed them in.

    The armed police began photographing members of the crowd, a menacing move in a country now run by a military junta that bars protests and routinely cracks down on dissenters. Some in the audience had already viewed the military as part of the problem, since months earlier they had forced demonstrators to make way for drilling equipment.

    https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-...m-ruins-crops/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    You willingly live under and pay taxes to an authoritarian police state.

    A government with an ethical track record that makes the California state government look like Saints.

    So the question here is: Why do you not protest your government's oil production policies?
    Because it's much easier to whine and snarkle over a nation that he's never set foot in, on the other side of the globe, because HERE we have freedom of speech.

    But mostly because he's



    that he'll be arrested and thrown into one of their infamous prisons if he dares to speak out about the pollution, waste, and environmental disasters in Thailand.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Default Why do you never complain about your own government?

    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
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    Are there any more sanctimonious and hypocritical people in the US than Californians?
    You willfully choose to live under and pay taxes to an authoritarian police State.

    Compared to the authoritarian government you support in Thailand, Californians look like Saints.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Because it's much easier to whine and snarkle over a nation that he's never set foot in, on the other side of the globe, because HERE we have freedom of speech.

    But mostly because he's



    that he'll be arrested and thrown into one of their infamous prisons if he dares to speak out about the pollution, waste, and environmental disasters in Thailand.
    So you are saying the real hypocrite in this thread is the one who started it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    So you are saying the real hypocrite in this thread is the one who started it
    Why yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. How lazy and cowardly are you, to attack the politics and politicians and policies of another nation that you have never been to, day after day -- while ignoring the cesspool where you actually do live?
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    Default This thread is a good opportunity to highlight Thailand's authoritarianism


    "Thai protesters demand action as air pollution clouds Bangkok"

    https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile..../idUSKBN1ZM1EM


    "Thai Activists plan to gather outside the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Bangkok from 0900 Feb. 5. The action is to oppose the government's policy on indigenous people who reside in forests."
    https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-...rom-0900-feb-5

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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Why yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. How lazy and cowardly are you, to attack the politics and politicians and policies of another nation that you have never been to, day after day -- while ignoring the cesspool where you actually do live?
    The Biden Administration actually looks like choir boys and saints compared to the police state government Tom willingly chose to live under and support with his taxes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
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    Are there any more sanctimonious and hypocritical people in the US than Californians?
    Maybe not. They appear to excel at everything.


    Haw, haw.............................haw.
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    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    The Biden Administration actually looks like choir boys and saints compared to the police state government Tom willingly chose to live under and support with his taxes.
    I've got him marked as a tax weasel.
    " First they came for the journalists...
    We don't know what happened after that . "

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    The Biden Administration actually looks like choir boys and saints compared to the police state government Tom willingly chose to live under and support with his taxes.
    Well, to be sure, he probably doesn't pay any taxes since he lives off the hard work of his wife.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    I've got him marked as a tax weasel.
    Taxes aren't the only weasel-like attributes he's got. lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    Because it's much easier to whine and snarkle over a nation that he's never set foot in, on the other side of the globe, because HERE we have freedom of speech.

    But mostly because he's



    that he'll be arrested and thrown into one of their infamous prisons if he dares to speak out about the pollution, waste, and environmental disasters in Thailand.
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