This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday 20 September 2024
Subsidising Destruction?
Earth Track estimate that world governments spend a total of at least $2.6tn (£2tn) a year on subsidies, driving global heating and/or destroying nature. These subsidies directly work against the 2015 Paris climate agreement and Kunming-Montreal agreement to halt biodiversity loss. Governments offered subsidies to, e.g., facilitate deforestation; increase fossil fuel consumption; promote overfishing and projects (like mining) that increased water pollution. When adjuseted for inflation, the annual world total of environmentally-harmful subsidies increased by more $800bn, since a 2022 analysis (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/18/spending-subsidies-environment-deforestation-pollution-fossil-fuels-aoe). Clearly, government subsidies leading to environmental damage are increasing. There's no sign that most governments have started to recognise they can't continue to accelerate the destruction of human-friendly living conditions, in order to bring in wealth. They seem to be slow learners?
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Subsidising Destruction?
Earth Track estimate that world governments spend a total of at least $2.6tn (£2tn) a year on subsidies, driving global heating and/or dest...
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