Monbiot not holding back in this great piece on Brazil's bold yet completely sane and sensible plan to implement a global tax on billionaires. "Billionaire wealth impoverishes us all: astonishingly, each of them produces, on average, a million times more carbon dioxide than the average global citizen in the bottom 90%. Billionaires are a blight on the planet."

the Guardian

Who is brave enough to back Brazil’s global tax on billionaires? The answer will define our future | George Monbiot

It would raise $250bn to help offset some of the damage the super-rich cause. Yet they’ll do everything to stop it in its tracks, says Guardian c...

I've ranted about the risks of over-investment in CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) for years, the moral hazard it invites - especially as a license to pollute. Turns out oil companies have been playing the public all along, talking it up as a solution while quietly distancing themselves from it as a technology not near practically viable:

Vox

Oil companies sold the public on a fake climate solution — and swindled taxpayers out of billions

The fossil fuel industry’s carbon capture bamboozle, explained.

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