Links tagged “transportation”
- Barbra Streisand Flew Her 3 (cloned) Dogs 10,000 Miles to Watch Her Sing in London – Despite warning of ‘Climate Emergency’
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She took her three Coton de Tuléar pooches — Miss Scarlet, Miss Violet and Fanny — on a 10,000-mile roundtrip flight to watch her perform at London’s British Summer Time concert on Sunday
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The environmental footprint of your pet is bigger than you think
Flashback 2005: Barbra Streisand helped pioneer the inane phrase 'Climate Emergency': Streisand in 2005: "Al Gore passionately stressed that our world no longer has a climate problem, we are in a climate emergency." Streisand also told ABC's Diane Sawyer that we were "in a global warming emergency state."
- Alaska Senator: We Can’t Build ‘a Simple Road’ Without ‘Radical Extreme Environmental Groups’ Suing Us
- ‘Climate Emergency’: Ireland Set to Ban Private Cars
In order to avert a “climate apocalypse”, the government plans to force people “out of private cars because they are the biggest offenders for emissions”, according to transport minister Shane Ross whose proposals — which include banning fossil fuel vehicles from towns and cities nationwide — are posed to cripple ordinary motorists, local media reports. Launching the plan in Dublin, leader Leo Varadkar outlined his vision for an Ireland of ‘higher density’ cities consisting of populations whose lifestyles and behaviors have been totally transformed by ‘carrot and stick’ policies outlined in the climate plan.
- Climate of guilt: Flying no longer the high road for some
- Teen school striking climate activist Greta Thunberg wonders how to get to U.S.A. & S. America: ‘Since I don’t fly it’s going to be a challenge. I haven’t quite figured that out yet’
Teen school striking climate activist Greta Thunberg: 'I have also been invited to attend these two events, in North and South America. And since time is running out I have decided to try to take a sabbatical year from school and go there. The tricky thing is that it’s on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. And there are no trains going there. And since I don’t fly, because of the enormous climate impact of aviation, it’s going to be a challenge. I haven’t quite figured that out yet. But I’m sure I will get there somehow. We will all have to do the impossible.'
- Pressure mounts on aviation industry over climate change – ‘but technology needed to drastically reduce its carbon footprint is still out of reach’
- In Cannes, glittery film festival literally costs the Earth – ‘Fleet of energy-guzzling luxury yachts & private planes, kilos of gourmet food dumped, limousines driving stars’
- Is California ready to ban gas-powered cars? Not yet. But they’re thinking about it
- Paper: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is ‘ a climate fanatic who takes three SUVs to the gym’
- Fiat Chrysler to spend $2 billion on CO2 fines and credits
