Cost of direct air carbon capture to remain higher than hoped The cost of removing large quantities of CO2 from the air will fall in the medium term, but not as much as previously hoped. This is the conclusion reached by ETH researchers on the basis of new calcu...

And, for reference, the cost of #DirectAirCapture is very approximately (*) the same as the consumer cost of putting that #CO2 in the atmosphere in the first place. So, when you hear about expensive renewables and cheap #FossilFuels, remember the latter's price-doubling #Externality cost.

Climate Change May Have Killed 16,469 People in Europe This Summer - Eos Researchers warn that preventable heat-related deaths will continue to rise with continued fossil fuel emissions.

Climate Change May Have Killed 16,469 People in Europe This Summer eos.org/articles/cli...
#climate #heat #mortality #morbidity #externality

Professor @lessig.bsky.social who was the whistleblower's lawyer, talked a bit about what she found at Facebook: soundcloud.com/profciara/de... #facebook #whistleblower #externality

The race to protect homes from speculators post-wildfire  - High Country News Around the West, community land trusts are helping people recover from disaster — and prepare for the next one.

Never let a disaster go to waste has become let’s push disasters upon the people.
#shockdoctrine #humanresource #profit #externality #serfdom %
#expendable
www.hcn.org/articles/the...

"First They Came for the Pro-P… - Truth and Reckoning - Apple Podcasts Podcast Episode · Truth and Reckoning · 06/03/2025 · 1h 6m

Truth and Reckoning Podcast
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#ecocide #genocide #extraction #oppression #autocracy #corruption #nature #humanrights #externality

New wealth of top 1% surges by over $33.9 trillion since 2015 – enough to end poverty 22 times over, as Oxfam warns global development 'abysmally off track' ahead of crunch talks Oxfam condemns "private finance takeover" of development efforts, as over 3.7 billion people remain in poverty ten years

Every major civilization begins and ends this way
www.oxfamamerica.org/press/new-we...
#inequity #extraction #externality #wealth #health #poverty #suffering #subjugation #oppression #society #ecocide #collapse
#patriarchy #resources

The current rate of extinction is estimated to be at least 1,000 times higher than the natural background rate, largely due to human activities. We are destroying the physical/biological basis of our rise
#overshoot #web #interdependence #humancentrism #externality #resources #ecocide #collapse

Fire smoke exposure may alter the immune system, even in healthy individuals Exposure to fire smoke—which can be composed of particulate matter, gases, materials from buildings such as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), toxic metals, and carcinogenic compoun...

There is no safe level of PM2.5
medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06...
#wildfire #fire #smoke #PM2.5 #AQI #health #externality #life #biology #chemistry #anthropocene #science #environment #atmosphere #breathe

When everything is a resource
#humannature #externality #neoliberalism #extraction #capitalism #genocide #ecocide #collapse #metacrisis #plutocracy #indifference

A Former California Utility Exec Explains Why Your Electricity Bills Are So High - Inside Climate News The former industry insider and amateur wrestler Mark Ellis is exposing the little-known factors that electricity bills and threaten the energy transition. People across the country are starting to li...

Obscured from consumers is a massive transfer of wealth from the public to private shareholders.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1506202...
#neoliberalism #capitalism #suffering #externality #utilities #greed #inequity

Look familiar ? An AI search on why autocrats eliminate government institutions.
#autocracy #externality #elite #collapse
#plutocracy
www.google.com/search?q=why...

what would one call this anyway, slow #eugenics? casual eugenics? eugenics by accelerated #entropy? #externality eugenics? backdoor eugenics? pograms for paupers?

#externality

Anyone who thinks externalities are anything other than predatory accounting should be shot on the spot* for the betterment of the species
#economistskill

*Do not know if retraining helps, can be studied...
Personally I think these people, physiologically, lack the ability of empathy

An externality is a cost or benefit that one person creates but affects someone else financially.
You can read more at my publish here: finsurlog.com/what-is-exte...
#finsurlog #finance #Externality

#UBI may not be desirable, even in Finland. Instead we could pay employers and non-profits to hire human. Why subsidize wages? Unemployment from automation is like pollution - an #externality that hurts society and can not be solved by market forces alone....