QATAR WORLD CUP 2022: A COLOSSAL WRECK- BOUNDLESS AND BARE.

To put it mildly, these plans have caused surprise among scientists. Air-conditioning, not to mention air-conditioned stadiums, famously requires a vast amount of energy, even in temperate climates. The idea that solar energy can power cooling systems in a number of large stadia, reducing the temperatures from 40 degrees to 27, would seem to belong in the realm of dreams.

Occupy the Climate Emergency: Buddhist Reflections on Inter-generational Justice

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-stanley/occupy-the-climate-emerge_b_1116727.html

Since our time on this wondrous planet is brief, we must consider our responsibility to all those who will come after us, whose well-being will depend on the decisions we make today. Shall we sacrifice our children, their children and the next 50 generations for a zero-empathy corporate state? Or shall we “occupy” this climate emergency instead of denying it — until the urgent truth of our situation is acted upon?

Brazil’s Senate passed the new Forest Code late on Tuesday.

Brazil’s Senate, on Tuesday, passed a new Forest Code which will make it difficult to meet its targets on curbing greenhouse emissions, according to a former environment minister.

“The bill offers an amnesty to deforesters, reduces forest protection, and will lead to future deforestation,” said Marina Silva [Brazilian presidential candidate] at the UN climate talks in South Africa.