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20.08.26 - 09:36
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Relax, everyone: Elon Musk has a mantra to make the climate crisis go away | Emma Brockes (The Guardian)
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It's simple, says the SpaceX boss – according to something called the 'Kardashev scale', we just have to move energy production 'off-planet'Next time the weather gives the UK 61 days without rain and we wonder idly if this is the end, there is a term we may whistle up to soothe us. Like murmuring the rosary, or putting our fingers in our ears and humming, this phrase is to be mumbled on repeat – “the Kardashev scale, the Kardashev scale” – a buzzy concept in tech, much favoured by Elon Musk, and precisely the thing we've been waiting for. The Kardashev scale is the answer both to our impending doom and our anxiety around it – and if we decide to believe in it, we won't have to give the climate crisis a single thought until the last drip falls from the tap.This is the idea and it's a familiar one to anyone who has watched tech billionaires take intractable, commonplace crises and decide that, among the measures and proposals in play, the vital missing ingredient so far has been them. Do...
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19.08.26 - 17:36
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Reform says we need to choose between climate and economy. It′s wrong | Larry Elliott (The Guardian)
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The party's deputy leader Richard Tice says we should stop worrying about extreme heat and enjoy it. This dangerous nonsense will wreck our finances and the planetSo now we know: the smart response to the UK's summer of record temperatures is to do precisely nothing. According to Richard Tice, Reform UK's deputy leader, the climate crisis is just one of those things. Nothing can be done about it, so we should simply bask in the sunshine.It is reasonable to assume Tice would not have said anything quite as crass had he been addressing people in Stourbridge who have seen their homes burn to the ground. Or the farmers whose crops shrivel in parched fields. Or the firefighters exhausted from battling wildfires across Britain.Larry Elliott is a Guardian columnist Continue reading......
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19.08.26 - 16:54
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Schweizer KMU spielen in der Klimapolitik eine wichtige Rolle (Moneycab)
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Der Schweizerische Gewerbeverband sgv begrüsst, dass die Schweiz an der anstehenden UN-Klimakonferenz in Antalya mit einer breit abgestützten Delegation aus Staat, Zivilgesellschaft, Wissenschaft, Jugend und Wirtschaft vertreten sein wird. Dabei wird die Vertretung der Schweizer KMU vom sgv wahrgenommen....
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19.08.26 - 08:24
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Wenn Klimaschutz Verfassungssache wird (DW)
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Alle Vertragsstaaten sind durch das Pariser Abkommen zum Klimaschutz verpflichtet. Doch einige gehen weiter und schreiben ihn direkt in ihre Verfassung. Was Deutschland von Ecuador, Vietnam oder Tuvalu unterscheidet....
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18.08.26 - 13:36
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Ifo: Niedriger CO2-Preis bremst Investitionen fürs Klima (DPA-AFX)
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MÜNCHEN (dpa-AFX) - Deutsche Industrieunternehmen würden nach einer Ifo-Umfrage mehr in klimafreundliche Technologien investieren, wenn der CO2-Preis höher und verlässlich wäre. "Für viele Unternehmen machen planbare CO2-Preise den Unterschied, ob sich ......
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