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RaymondPierreL3If federal and State <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labor</a> were truly worried about the cost of energy as well as the pace of energy transition funding to meet <a href="https://aus.social/tags/NetZero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NetZero</a> , there are more effective and timely ways to address these issues than granting extension to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Woodside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Woodside</a> ‘s <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gas</a> exploitation in an fragile environment,1) tax <a href="https://aus.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuelExtraction</a> industries appropirately (a la Denmark) 2) use tax income to fund electrification and renewables (including storage) 3) legislate reserve gas for domestic use, price-capped to mitigate <a href="https://aus.social/tags/costofliving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#costofliving</a> pressures 4) properly support regional areas in local job creation (use that greedy corporate zeal to make some lasting changes in regional Australia). No extension of gas exploitation was required and the <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Corporate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Corporate</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/grifters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grifters</a> can go an f** themselves.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/Auspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Auspol</a>

DoomsdaysCWAfter the Wars in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iraq</a>, ‘Everything Living is Dying’Decades of war, poverty and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> and its people.By Lynzy Billing, December 29, 2021"As far back as 2005, the United Nations had estimated that Iraq was already littered with several thousand contaminated sites. Five years later, an investigation by The Times, a London-based newspaper, suggested that the U.S. military had generated some 11 million pounds of toxic waste and abandoned it in Iraq. Today, the country remains awash in hazardous materials, such as depleted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uranium</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dioxin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dioxin</a>, which have polluted the soil and water. And extractive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industries</a> like the KAR oil refinery often operate with minimal transparency. On top of all of this, Iraq is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which has already contributed to grinding water shortages and prolonged drought. In short, Iraq presents a uniquely <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> tableau—one where human activity contaminates virtually every ecosystem, and where terms like '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecocide</a>' have special currency. "According to Iraqi physicians, the many overlapping environmental insults could account for the country’s high rates of cancer, birth defects, and other diseases. Preliminary research by local scientists supports these claims, but the country lacks the money and technology needed to investigate on its own. To get a better handle on the scale and severity of the contamination, as well as any health impacts, they say, international teams will need to assist in comprehensive investigations."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DepletedUranium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IraqWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndlessWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Toxic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuelExtraction</a> Read more: <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122021/iraq-ecocide/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122021/iraq-ecocide/</a>

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