“China is testing it’s new autonomous electric train that does not need traditional tracks.
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Solheim’s tweet in May of a video from state-run New China TV about a new autonomous smart electric train in China that runs on a virtual track was inadvertent troll fodder. Ever since he was asked to resign in 2018 after revelations that he blew almost US$500,000 on air travel and hotels in just 22 months, amassing the carbon footprint of a small island nation in the process, Solheim has attracted scorn on Twitter for his posts about the environment - particularly those about China. He has been criticised in the past for promoting the Chinese infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative (he’s now president of the Green Belt and Road Institute). It was one the most memorable images of the COP26 climate talks.Ĭhina’s new train does sound suspiciously like a busĮrik Solheim, the ex-chief of the United Nations Environment Programme, is no stranger to trolling. Though entire countries disappearing beneath rising seas is no laughing matter, the foreign affairs minister of the low-lying Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, Simon Kofe, went viral with an image of him, and an unidentified man giving the ‘V’ sign, standing besuited in an area that used to be land but has now been claimed by the sea. “To assist with the transition, Taylor has bought a second beer fridge which he describes as the ‘capture and storage’ method.” That sinking feeling Sneering at carbon credits, a mechanism that will allow companies to trade planet-warming emissions, the story says that the elderly man will be able to bring forward “drinking credits” earned from the days he hasn’t drunk over the past forty years, “meaning the actual end date for consumption may actually be 2060.”
This requires a steady, phased approach where nothing changes for at least two decades,’ he said, adding that he may need to make additional investments in beer consumption in the short term, to make sure no night out is worse off.”
“’It’s not realistic to transition to zero alcohol overnight. Having a dig at entrenched interests and fossil fuels lobbyists, Taylor is quoted as saying that it was important not to rush the switch to non-alcoholic beverages. He has assured friends it will not affect his drinking plans in the short or medium term,” the story reads. “The programme will see Greg Taylor, 73, continue to drink as normal for the foreseeable future, before reducing consumption in 2049 when he turns 101. The story in The Shovel did the rounds at COP26. In a bid to highlight the absurdity of carbon reduction targets that don’t have to be met until several decades away, satirical website The Shovel published a story before the COP26 climate talks in Scotland, about a man who pledges to stop drinking by 2050. It’s not true and no one believes you.) Sober by mid-century Beyond preventing nudity, how is cheap clobber destined for landfill good for society? (Advice to corporates: stop saying sustainability is in your DNA. “At Uniqlo, sustainability lies at the core of the brand’s operations, with its belief that its clothing has the power to change the world for the better,” wrote the Japanese fast fashion brand’s PR agency, announcing its participation in a webinar on ‘Unlocking the Power of Clothing” in January. Here’s one of the trillion times companies spewed this hacked phrase in 2021: If it was, then perhaps global emissions wouldn’t break new records every year. Image: Philippine Daily Inquirer Sustainability is at the heart of everything we claimĪlmost as common as greenwashing this year was companies saying that sustainability is ‘in their DNA’, or ‘at the heart of everything they do’. Tree-planting tokenism was targeted by cartoonists in 2021. Happily, it gave cartoonists, satirists and memers plenty of material, particularly around the corporate-sponsored jamboree that was COP26. Greenwash becomes visible from spaceĢ021 was a year when greenwashing - that is, companies and governments claiming to be more sustainable than they actually are - became so abundant that it spawned new variants like rainbow-washing (jumping on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender bandwagon) and virus-washing (using the pandemic as a platform to pretend you care about your staff). Here are 14 things that made us less likely to reach for the bleach this year. But somehow, the typically depressing business of reporting on environmental and social issues did occasionally cough up a reason to chortle in 2021.
There isn’t anything particularly hilarious about Hellish fires raging in countries from Greece to Canada, the first climate change famine ravaging Madagascar, rain rather than snow falling at the summit of Greenland for the first time, or more than five million people dying of a disease probably caused by the plundering of wild animals.
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