This Country Has The Most Polluted Air In The World– Climate Crisis AM Edition 3/19/24
The new 2023 IQAir World Air Quality Report was released. The report’s numbers came from over 30,000 air quality monitoring stations at 7,812 locations in 134 countries, territories, and regions. The report states, “Seven countries met the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline (annual average of 5 µg/m3 or less): Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, Mauritius, and New Zealand.” Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan had the worst figures, which has been the case for years.
Key To Oil —US AI In Drilling
Air Pollution Solution –Biden Wants Better Mileage
Al Gore, the former Vice President, presidential candidate, and current head of The Climate Reality Project, told USA Today about his regrets after decades of fighting climate change. Ironically, he said he had not done enough for his generation or that of his grandchildren. He told the paper, “I guess I could have done more, wish I had done more, I guess.” He is often considered the most well-known global climate crusader.O
Oil Drilling Map
A new study says that if companies drill for oil in specific parts of the world, it will create tremendous climate crises in those areas. In a paper titled “The atlas of unburnable oil for supply-side climate policies,” the authors write, The selection of the resources that need to stay under the ground vis-à-vis those that can be extracted is a crucial step on the way to imagining and constructing an effective international system to leave a share of existing global fossil fuel resources unextracted. The allocation of the remaining fossil fuels that can be extracted is a morally and politically contentious issue25 that is entwined with the issue of compensation.”
Big Oil CEOs Mislead
Several large oil companies have started to deny that they are among the primary causes of the climate crisis, specifically global warming. According to The Houston Chronicle, “Big Oil undoubtedly made modern life possible, but its behavior threatens the future. If these CEOs want to be heroes, they should promise to phase out fossil fuels as scientists and world leaders have demanded, not give speeches that will go down in infamy.”
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