Renewable energy creates more jobs
than fossil fuel extraction — moreover, they are better, safer, more rewarding jobs.
Support public policies that provide incentives for renewable energy rather
than fossil fuel extraction.
I mentioned this to executives at Exxon before it was Exxon Mobile many times back in the 1990s when I was working with you all that if you were an energy company rather
than a fossil fuel extraction company you could be part of the future instead of part of the past.
And I will say to the fossil fuel industries if you're out there, think about making your mission energy production rather
than fossil fuel extraction and burning.
Not exact matches
But fracking opponents claim that, though natural gas is considered the greenest of
fossil fuels, shale
extraction is significantly more carbon - intensive
than conventional production and may result in the release of large quantities of methane, itself a greenhouse gas.
My 11 - year - old self would never have believed that 50 years later our governments would be continuing to prop up the
extraction and export of
fossil fuels, rather
than leaping to embrace the green future that awaited us.
While fracking has become a focal point in conversations about methane emissions, it certainly appears from this and other studies that in the U.S.,
fossil fuel extraction activities across the board likely emit higher
than inventory estimates.»
But Petrenko also found that humans appear to be contributing more methane to the atmosphere through
fossil fuel use and
extraction than scientists previously believed.
Air and water pollution from
fossil fuel extraction and use have high costs in human health, food production, and natural ecosystems, killing more
than 1,000,000 people per year and affecting the health of billions of people [232], [234], with costs borne by the public.
Some outlets have incorrectly reported that the World Bank Group will eliminate only their finance for
fossil fuel exploration, but it's even bigger
than that: the World Bank described it as a commitment to end «upstream oil and gas finance,» which means they're planning to phase out all of their
extraction - related finance.
More
than 60 organisations from around the world are calling for a carbon levy on
fossil fuel extraction to help pay for the climate change impacts on the most vulnerable countries.
Here the focus is on coal exports rather
than domestic use since the NMBI petition calls for bans on NEW
fossil fuel extraction.
Even if they meet those targets, any actual climate benefit could be more
than wiped out by the climate impacts of the
fossil fuels exported from the NEW
extraction projects they continue to approve in the meantime.
Fossil fuel extraction has impacted tens of thousands of communities around the world, and more often than not, it is marginalized populations that bear the brunt of the impacts of living and working on the frontlines of the fossil fuel ec
Fossil fuel extraction has impacted tens of thousands of communities around the world, and more often
than not, it is marginalized populations that bear the brunt of the impacts of living and working on the frontlines of the
fossil fuel ec
fossil fuel economy.
As such, Earth Island Institute is joining more
than 700 organizations calling on Governor Brown to prohibit further permitting of
fossil fuel extraction and related activities, and to phase - out existing production in line with the Paris Climate Accord.