23.2 day old moon
38.9 percent lit
It is the 30th anniversary of the "Blue Dot" picture of Earth. There is definitely something about this light sky thing. It's like the undiscovered country or something.
Sunday, February 16, 2020
"Good Night, Moon"
23.2 day old moon
38.9 percent lit
It is the 30th anniversary of the "Blue Dot" picture of Earth. There is definitely something about this light sky thing. It's like the undiscovered country or something.
What is it worth to live on Earth without fear? There is no IPO for that.
February 11, 2020
By Louise Tickle
Like many young people (click here), Joe Brindle, 17, is scared for the future because of the climate crisis. He is, he says, “angry about the injustice that is allowing the most vulnerable people in the world to suffer from the actions of the richest and most powerful”. So Brindle, who is preparing for his A-levels in Devizes, Wiltshire, decided to do something. On top of his studies, he founded a campaign group, Teach the Future, which has spent the last few months formulating legislation entitled the climate emergency education bill. The latest version has just arrived in his inbox: it has been written by a professional parliamentary draftsperson, paid for by crowdfunding....
1792 - The financial industry (click here) got its official start on Wall Street on May 17, 1792. On that day, New York's first official stock exchange was established by the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement.
Wall Street, nor any other financial market are blind to morality. The morality people value is found in their faith and/or the value of humanity which includes the world we all live on. Wall Street evolved and has high-jacked consumerism in the First World for exorbitant profits.The Third World has become slaves to their desire for high profits.
The one percent control the biggest share of wealth in the world. One would expect their thirst for wealth would take on issues of human well being. They haven't. It is time to end the value of greed and return to humanity.
Waking up in the morning with clear air to breath and nutritious food in bellies matters. I can walk on two legs. I can teach others to read. I can make furniture with my hands. I can ask others to share in the work for a joint outcome. I can grow food, but, will that continue?
Either take on the change that is necessary or others will take it on for you.
By Louise Tickle
Like many young people (click here), Joe Brindle, 17, is scared for the future because of the climate crisis. He is, he says, “angry about the injustice that is allowing the most vulnerable people in the world to suffer from the actions of the richest and most powerful”. So Brindle, who is preparing for his A-levels in Devizes, Wiltshire, decided to do something. On top of his studies, he founded a campaign group, Teach the Future, which has spent the last few months formulating legislation entitled the climate emergency education bill. The latest version has just arrived in his inbox: it has been written by a professional parliamentary draftsperson, paid for by crowdfunding....
1792 - The financial industry (click here) got its official start on Wall Street on May 17, 1792. On that day, New York's first official stock exchange was established by the signing of the Buttonwood Agreement.
Wall Street, nor any other financial market are blind to morality. The morality people value is found in their faith and/or the value of humanity which includes the world we all live on. Wall Street evolved and has high-jacked consumerism in the First World for exorbitant profits.The Third World has become slaves to their desire for high profits.
The one percent control the biggest share of wealth in the world. One would expect their thirst for wealth would take on issues of human well being. They haven't. It is time to end the value of greed and return to humanity.
Waking up in the morning with clear air to breath and nutritious food in bellies matters. I can walk on two legs. I can teach others to read. I can make furniture with my hands. I can ask others to share in the work for a joint outcome. I can grow food, but, will that continue?
Either take on the change that is necessary or others will take it on for you.
February 11, 2020By AJ Dellinger
Superstorm Cell sweeps across Kansas, bringing hail and tornadoes (click here)
We often think of the many threats (click here) that face humanity as singular challenges, perhaps locked to the region that is experiencing them. But according to scientists at the international research program Future Earth, these threats aren't just a problem in isolation. We run the risk of these problems combining and compounding the problems that we face. In a recently published report, the experts warn that the interconnection of a number of ecological threats could result in in a potentially devastating series of events that would cascade into a global systemic collapse....
"Our Future on Earth" (click here)
...If the country of Australia was facing one of these difficult ecological situations at a time, it would be challenging to address. But the country no longer has that luxury — it is experiencing them all at once, and it is difficult not to see how each individual condition worsens the overall situation. Heat waves exacerbate droughts, which result in water shortages that push towns to the point of crisis, which leaves these regions high and dry (literally) as bushfires close in, leaving them with a limited supply of water to fight off the flames. Ignoring the interplay of these conditions only serves to allow them to feed into each other — and allows this situation to create potentially worse outcomes in the future, as well. It is expected that the long-term effects of the bush fires could end up contributing to more extreme weather events by pumping more carbon into the atmosphere. Australia's government for decades has largely ignored the role of climate change and the weather events that it has delivered to the nation. It is now experiencing the worst case version of what happens when all of these conditions run head-first into one another....
This level of destruction is not placing future generations first. Generations to come should inherit Earth as a place where high diversity among species exists, otherwise what are we leaving them, dogs, cats, daffodils and pondweed?
February 14, 2020
By Doyle Rice
One-third of all animal and plant species (click here) on the planet could face extinction by 2070 due to climate change, a new study warns.
Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate how many species would be lost over the next 50 years.
Specifically, scientists from the University of Arizona studied data from 538 species at 581 sites around the world and focused on plant and animal species that were surveyed at the same sites over time, at least 10 years apart.
"By analyzing the change in 19 climatic variables at each site, we could determine which variables drive local extinctions and how much change a population can tolerate without going extinct," said Cristian Román-Palacios, of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, in a statement.
"We also estimated how quickly populations can move to try and escape rising temperatures....
The response of species (click here) to climate change is of increasingly urgent importance. Here, we address the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Surprisingly, extinctions occurred at sites with smaller changes in mean annual temperatures but larger increases in hottest yearly temperatures. We also evaluate whether species may survive climate change by dispersing, shifting their niches to tolerate warmer conditions, or both. Given dispersal alone, many of these species (∼57–70%) may face extinction. However, niche shifts can potentially reduce this to only 30% or less. Overall, our results show the importance of maximum temperatures for causing species extinction and niche shifts for allowing their survival....
February 14, 2020By Doyle Rice
One-third of all animal and plant species (click here) on the planet could face extinction by 2070 due to climate change, a new study warns.
Researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate how many species would be lost over the next 50 years.
Specifically, scientists from the University of Arizona studied data from 538 species at 581 sites around the world and focused on plant and animal species that were surveyed at the same sites over time, at least 10 years apart.
"By analyzing the change in 19 climatic variables at each site, we could determine which variables drive local extinctions and how much change a population can tolerate without going extinct," said Cristian Román-Palacios, of the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, in a statement.
"We also estimated how quickly populations can move to try and escape rising temperatures....
The response of species (click here) to climate change is of increasingly urgent importance. Here, we address the specific changes in climate that were associated with recent population extinctions, using data from 538 plant and animal species distributed globally. Surprisingly, extinctions occurred at sites with smaller changes in mean annual temperatures but larger increases in hottest yearly temperatures. We also evaluate whether species may survive climate change by dispersing, shifting their niches to tolerate warmer conditions, or both. Given dispersal alone, many of these species (∼57–70%) may face extinction. However, niche shifts can potentially reduce this to only 30% or less. Overall, our results show the importance of maximum temperatures for causing species extinction and niche shifts for allowing their survival....
February 16, 2020
By Marc Peterson
I’ve become a climate change alarmist. (click here)
I didn’t start that way. I spent 30 years in the electrical generation industry dealing with fossil fuel and renewable technologies, so I’m well aware of the efficiencies, challenges, pollution and climate impact of those technologies. Because renewable energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel energy and, because of the performance and technological advantages of electric cars over fossil fuel cars, I believed the market would solve our pollution and climate issues.
However, after significant research into the size of our climate problems, it is clear much more than that needs to be done. To limit the damage to only that caused by a global 2-degree Celsius temperature rise, most, if not all, fossil fuels will need to stay in the ground.
I recommend the En-Roads Climate Change Solutions Simulator, created by Climate Interactive in conjunction with MIT, as an effective tool to analyze what it will take to hit that goal.
The Gardner Institute’s Utah Roadmap, a study commissioned by the Utah Legislature, lists the actions we need to take to move in the right direction. Please encourage your state senators and representatives to support the results of this study.
I have not tried this technology, but, evidently Marc has. I simply know from education and experience what lies ahead. The solutions seem very obvious to me.
En-ROADS is a transparent, (click here) freely-available policy simulation model that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to explore, for themselves, the likely consequences of energy, economic growth, land use, and other policies and uncertainties, with the goal of improving their understanding. The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models....
By Marc Peterson
I’ve become a climate change alarmist. (click here)
I didn’t start that way. I spent 30 years in the electrical generation industry dealing with fossil fuel and renewable technologies, so I’m well aware of the efficiencies, challenges, pollution and climate impact of those technologies. Because renewable energy is now less expensive than fossil fuel energy and, because of the performance and technological advantages of electric cars over fossil fuel cars, I believed the market would solve our pollution and climate issues.
However, after significant research into the size of our climate problems, it is clear much more than that needs to be done. To limit the damage to only that caused by a global 2-degree Celsius temperature rise, most, if not all, fossil fuels will need to stay in the ground.
I recommend the En-Roads Climate Change Solutions Simulator, created by Climate Interactive in conjunction with MIT, as an effective tool to analyze what it will take to hit that goal.
The Gardner Institute’s Utah Roadmap, a study commissioned by the Utah Legislature, lists the actions we need to take to move in the right direction. Please encourage your state senators and representatives to support the results of this study.
I have not tried this technology, but, evidently Marc has. I simply know from education and experience what lies ahead. The solutions seem very obvious to me.
En-ROADS is a transparent, (click here) freely-available policy simulation model that provides policymakers, educators, businesses, the media, and the public with the ability to explore, for themselves, the likely consequences of energy, economic growth, land use, and other policies and uncertainties, with the goal of improving their understanding. The simulation, developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, and MIT Sloan, runs on an ordinary laptop in a fraction of a second, is available online, offers an intuitive interface, has been carefully grounded in the best available science, and has been calibrated against a wide range of existing integrated assessment, climate and energy models....
The fight in Japan is not a new fight. Nearly a year ago the lawsuit was filed.
May 27, 2019
May 27, 2019
Plaintiff Group and Legal Team for Plaintiff Group, Yokosuka Coal-Fired Power Plant Lawsuit
On May 27, 2019, 45 citizens launched an administrative lawsuit in Tokyo District Court with the national government as defendant. They are seeking cancellation of the notice of finalization of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) for the construction of two new coal-fired generating units (650 MW x 2 units, totaling 1,300 MW) planned by Japan’s energy behemoth JERA Co. at the site of its Yokosuka thermal power plant, facing Tokyo Bay, south of Yokohama.
The lawsuit is calling on the government to cancel a notice of EIA finalization that was issued by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which cleared the way for the coal power plant to move ahead to the construction phase. The ministry didn’t request any changes in the EIA in terms of preventing impacts from CO2 emissions (approx. 7.26 million tons annually) and air pollutants from the proposed new generating units.
Rikuro Suzuki, representative for plaintiff group said, “Whatever personal effort citizens make to cut CO2 emissions day to day, we will never stop climate change if big coal power plants continue to be built. Yokosuka is the sole remaining coal plant slated for construction in the Tokyo Bay area. Promoting coal power is going in the wrong direction. We should stop it.”...
The First World governments HAVE TO END their dependence on fossil fuels. This is not a new concept, but, evidently a rather difficult one to tackle from the standpoint of making easy choices for the energy of a country. The USA is the poorest example of any of the First World countries. That doesn't mean there isn't a good fight to be fought. Americans have done all they can to stem the emissions of greenhouse gases within their power to change, the rest of the work has to be conducted in strict regulation and enforcement by all levels of government. In the USA, the most powerful governance is the local authorities that make the decisions regarding energy sources. The radical right wing states are attempting to preempt local authorities from making many different decisions including other issues as well.
Preemption (click here) occurs when law at a higher level of government is used to overrule authority at a lower level. State law can be used to preempt local ordinances, and federal law can be used to preempt state law. This page focuses on preemption of local ordinances by state law.
They amount to court fights. The monies paying for public utilities come directly from the consumer. Ohio is probably the best example of free wheeling expenditures that end up coming out of the citizen's pocket. If the consumer ultimately pays for the building and maintenance of public utilities then they have a right to say what type of electricity they are paying for. In that reality, Ohio now has to list alternative energies as a choice to the power received in the household.
So, if Japanese citizens do not want to pay for energy/electricity produced by coal power plants they should succeed in their lawsuit.
And Corporate Governance never accepts NO as an answer. Somehow the corporations are always a victim to THE PEOPLE and not the other way around.
September 26, 2017
By Valerie Volcovici
Washington - Washington state (click here) on Tuesday rejected a key permit needed for a proposed terminal to export coal to Asia, another blow to companies eager to sell Wyoming and Montana coal to Asian markets and to the Trump administration’s policy of global energy dominance.
Washington’s Department of Ecology rejected a water quality permit for the Millennium Coal Terminal, one of several permits sought by the company to build what would be the largest coal export terminal in the United States.
The state agency rejected the permit on grounds it caused environmental harm in nine key areas, from air quality to vessel traffic.
“There are simply too many unavoidable and negative environmental impacts for the project to move forward,” said Washington state Ecology Director Maia Bellon.
Millennium said it would appeal the decision, and accused the state agency of being biased against the project.
“Ecology appears to have intentionally disregarded decades of law defining the Clean Water Act to reject the water quality certification requested for Millennium’s project,” company president William Chapman said in a statement.
The terminal would export up to 44 million tonnes of coal mined in Wyoming and Montana’s Powder River Basin each year from companies such as Cloud Peak Energy and the coal-producing Crow tribe of southeastern Montana....
The people have rights to clear air, clean water and the prevention and reduction of greenhouse gases. If the coal from the USA is producing deadly greenhouse gas emissions in other parts of the world, it still impacts the people in the USA because it is a global emergency.
Wall Street wants to continue to operate as if there is nothing wrong. As if the climate crisis is a political football. It isn't. It is a life and death global emergency and it is killing Americans.
August 20, 2019
By David Steves
A coal company (click here) has been dealt another legal blow in its attempt to build an export terminal on the lower Columbia River.
The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that was being challenged by Millennium Bulk Terminals and Northwest Alloys Inc.
During the past decade as many as six projects have been proposed to transport coal by rail from Wyoming to ports in the Pacific Northwest. From there, the fossil fuel would be shipped to Asia. All but one — the Millennium Bulk project in Longview, Washington — has folded....
September 26, 2017
By Valerie Volcovici
Washington - Washington state (click here) on Tuesday rejected a key permit needed for a proposed terminal to export coal to Asia, another blow to companies eager to sell Wyoming and Montana coal to Asian markets and to the Trump administration’s policy of global energy dominance.
Washington’s Department of Ecology rejected a water quality permit for the Millennium Coal Terminal, one of several permits sought by the company to build what would be the largest coal export terminal in the United States.
The state agency rejected the permit on grounds it caused environmental harm in nine key areas, from air quality to vessel traffic.
“There are simply too many unavoidable and negative environmental impacts for the project to move forward,” said Washington state Ecology Director Maia Bellon.
Millennium said it would appeal the decision, and accused the state agency of being biased against the project.
“Ecology appears to have intentionally disregarded decades of law defining the Clean Water Act to reject the water quality certification requested for Millennium’s project,” company president William Chapman said in a statement.
The terminal would export up to 44 million tonnes of coal mined in Wyoming and Montana’s Powder River Basin each year from companies such as Cloud Peak Energy and the coal-producing Crow tribe of southeastern Montana....
The people have rights to clear air, clean water and the prevention and reduction of greenhouse gases. If the coal from the USA is producing deadly greenhouse gas emissions in other parts of the world, it still impacts the people in the USA because it is a global emergency.
Wall Street wants to continue to operate as if there is nothing wrong. As if the climate crisis is a political football. It isn't. It is a life and death global emergency and it is killing Americans.
August 20, 2019
By David Steves
A coal company (click here) has been dealt another legal blow in its attempt to build an export terminal on the lower Columbia River.
The Washington Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling Tuesday that was being challenged by Millennium Bulk Terminals and Northwest Alloys Inc.
During the past decade as many as six projects have been proposed to transport coal by rail from Wyoming to ports in the Pacific Northwest. From there, the fossil fuel would be shipped to Asia. All but one — the Millennium Bulk project in Longview, Washington — has folded....
The USA is exporting the Climate Crisis
Global production, (click here) consumption, and trading of coal have increased over the last decade, and are
projected to continue growing. In fact, worldwide coal was the fastest-growing source of primary
energy in 2011, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Coal Medium-Term
Market Report 2012. Coal consumption is projected to also grow more than oil or natural gas
over the next five years, according to the IEA report, and reach parity with oil as the most used
fuel source in the world.
Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I) has announced the following:
ISSUER:
Jera Co., Inc. (click here)
Issuer Rating: A+, Previously A
Rating Outlook: Stable
Commercial Paper: a-1, Affirmed
Global production, (click here) consumption, and trading of coal have increased over the last decade, and are
projected to continue growing. In fact, worldwide coal was the fastest-growing source of primary
energy in 2011, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) Coal Medium-Term
Market Report 2012. Coal consumption is projected to also grow more than oil or natural gas
over the next five years, according to the IEA report, and reach parity with oil as the most used
fuel source in the world.Rating and Investment Information, Inc. (R&I) has announced the following:
ISSUER:
Jera Co., Inc. (click here)
Issuer Rating: A+, Previously A
Rating Outlook: Stable
Commercial Paper: a-1, Affirmed
Short-term Fuel Procurement Business (click here)
We leverage our world-leading offtake volume to build a fuel portfolio that is price competitive in short-term trading (4 years or less for LNG) and capable of coping with volume and price fluctuation risk. We contribute to Japan’s supply of stable and economical electricity and gas through competitive fuel procurement, and are utilizing the flexibility we have gained to expand our fuel trading business.
Fuel Trading Business
Our coal trading business started in 2008 and have already expanded to LNG. Staffed by about 300 employees, the business is undertaken mainly by JERA Global Markets, which is based in Singapore and London. JERA Global Markets contributes to optimizing the overall supply chain through asset-backed trading by leveraging our world-leading fuel procurement volume.
Nowhere in Jera's Corporate Goverance (click here) will anyone find a concern for planet Earth and controlling greenhouse gas pollution.
Expert Advisory Board (click here)
The Expert Advisory Board has been established in JERA since 2017, whichprovides the Directors and the Management with access to global experts in the core areas of JERA’s business. It aims to strengthen JERA’s core values, “diversity” and “excellence”; and broaden JERA’s network of global contacts.
Nowhere in Jera's Corporate Goverance (click here) will anyone find a concern for planet Earth and controlling greenhouse gas pollution.
Expert Advisory Board (click here)
The Expert Advisory Board has been established in JERA since 2017, whichprovides the Directors and the Management with access to global experts in the core areas of JERA’s business. It aims to strengthen JERA’s core values, “diversity” and “excellence”; and broaden JERA’s network of global contacts.
The new floating 5-MW Hitachi HTW 126, on the way to its final site off the Fukushima coast.
On July 8,(click here) the 5-MW Hitachi HTW 5.0-126 wind turbine, mounted on a floating platform, has been successfully sited off the coast of Fukushima prefecture. The turbine is one of three and the final piece of the “Fukushima Forward”-floating offshore wind farm demonstrator[1], an experimental research project financed with around JPY53bn (ca. EUR477m) by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The project is part of the overall project to reconstruct and recover the affected areas damaged by the earthquake 2011, which focuses on renewable energy as a pillar for its recovery.
The Fukushima Forward wind farm is currently the world largest. The successful finalization of the flagship project received worldwide attention and reinforced Japan’s position as a global leader in this sector. According to METI, the turbine's rated capacity of 5 MW will make it the second largest capacity in the world behind the 7 MW already installed in the Fukushima Forward project.
Alas, no mention of JERA Power.
Fukushima Forward Consortium
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Marubeni
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Project coordinator, responsible for initial feasibility studies, licensing, O&M and liaising with regional fishing
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University of Tokyo
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Technical adviser, responsible for measurements, predictions, navigational safety and public relations
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Mitsubishi
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Overseas grid integration and EIA
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
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Designed V-shaped submersible floater, supplier of 7 MW SeaAngel turbine in phase II
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Japan Marine United
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Co-designed 66kV floating substation and advanced spar floater
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Mitsui Engineering &
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Designed compact semi-submersible floater for first turbine
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Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal
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Supplied advanced steel
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Hitachi
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Supplied 2 MW and 5 MW turbine, co-designed 66kV floating substation
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Furukawa Electric
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Supplied undersea and dynamic cables
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Shimizu
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Responsible for oceanic surveys and construction technologies
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Mizuho Information and Research Institute
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Responsible for documentation and committee operations
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This site indicates current status of coal-fired power plants in Japan. (click here)
Proposed map/list show power plants which are listed on polpsals or under EIA process, and existing map/list show power plants which have been on commercial operation in January 2016.
Yokosuka Power Plant, No.1 (click here)
JERA Power Yokosuka (established in March 2017)
Planning operation date: 2023
There is still enough time to end this nonsense.
Japan (click here) is the world’s third largest economy and seventh largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Its plans for decarbonisation were significantly set back after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led it to move away from nuclear power and expand the use of fossil fuels.
Japan’s government now plans to increase both renewable and nuclear power. However, it also intends to build significant numbers of new coal power plants. Japan has pledged a 26% reduction in GHG emissions below 2013 levels by 2030.
June 18, 2019
By Paul Korzeniowski
Good news for the domestic coal market. (click here) U.S. thermal coal exports to Japan increased by 20% in 2018, and 2019 exports as of March are already 38% higher than in 2018, according to the US Energy Information Association (EIA). Trailing China and India, Japan is the world’s third largest importer: taking in more than 210 million short tons (MMst) of coal in 2018. The US is behind Australia, Indonesia, and Russia as Japan’s largest seller. What do you think about the Japanese coal market and its potential impact on domestric production?
From US Department of Energy:
Coal accounts (click here) for about one-third of Japan’s electricity generation. In 2018, Japan’s utilities produced an estimated 317 billion kilowatthours of electricity at more than 90 coal-fired power plants. Coal’s share of electricity generation in Japan was higher in 2018 than it was before the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. In 2010, coal accounted for 25% of Japan’s electricity generation, and nuclear generation accounted for 29%.
Before 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) had planned to reduce coal’s generation share by more than half by 2030, intending for nuclear power to offset coal plant retirements. The plan included increasing the nuclear generation share in Japan’s electricity mix to 50% by 2030. However, as a result of the Fukushima accident and subsequent suspension of Japan’s nuclear fleet, METI now projects a future energy mix of 20% to 22% nuclear, 22% to 24% renewables, 26% coal, and 27% natural gas through 2030
Proposed map/list show power plants which are listed on polpsals or under EIA process, and existing map/list show power plants which have been on commercial operation in January 2016.
Yokosuka Power Plant, No.1 (click here)
JERA Power Yokosuka (established in March 2017)
Planning operation date: 2023
There is still enough time to end this nonsense.
Japan (click here) is the world’s third largest economy and seventh largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHGs). Its plans for decarbonisation were significantly set back after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster led it to move away from nuclear power and expand the use of fossil fuels.
Japan’s government now plans to increase both renewable and nuclear power. However, it also intends to build significant numbers of new coal power plants. Japan has pledged a 26% reduction in GHG emissions below 2013 levels by 2030.
June 18, 2019
By Paul Korzeniowski
Good news for the domestic coal market. (click here) U.S. thermal coal exports to Japan increased by 20% in 2018, and 2019 exports as of March are already 38% higher than in 2018, according to the US Energy Information Association (EIA). Trailing China and India, Japan is the world’s third largest importer: taking in more than 210 million short tons (MMst) of coal in 2018. The US is behind Australia, Indonesia, and Russia as Japan’s largest seller. What do you think about the Japanese coal market and its potential impact on domestric production?
From US Department of Energy:
Before 2011, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) had planned to reduce coal’s generation share by more than half by 2030, intending for nuclear power to offset coal plant retirements. The plan included increasing the nuclear generation share in Japan’s electricity mix to 50% by 2030. However, as a result of the Fukushima accident and subsequent suspension of Japan’s nuclear fleet, METI now projects a future energy mix of 20% to 22% nuclear, 22% to 24% renewables, 26% coal, and 27% natural gas through 2030
The Japanese people are not giving up simply because American Coal wants to peddle for profits regardless of greenhouse gases or air pollution.
February 3, 2020
By Hiroko Tabuchi
This illustration, (click here) based on a GeoEye satellite photo viewed through Google Earth, shows the locations of the six Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment (click here) overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of a buildup of coal power that is unheard-of for an advanced economy.
It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.
“Why coal, why now?” said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home. “It’s the worst possible thing they could build.”...
...The Yokosuka project has prompted unusual pushback in Japan, where environmental groups more typically focus their objections on nuclear power. But some local residents are suing the government over its approval of the new coal-burning plant in what supporters hope will jump-start opposition to coal in Japan.
The Japanese government, the plaintiffs say, rubber-stamped the project without a proper environmental assessment. The complaint is noteworthy because it argues that the plant will not only degrade local air quality, but will also endanger communities by contributing to climate change.
Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is the major driver of global warming, because it traps the sun’s heat. Coal burning is one of the biggest single sources of carbon dioxide emissions....
By Hiroko Tabuchi
This illustration, (click here) based on a GeoEye satellite photo viewed through Google Earth, shows the locations of the six Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
Just beyond the windows of Satsuki Kanno’s apartment (click here) overlooking Tokyo Bay, a behemoth from a bygone era will soon rise: a coal-burning power plant, part of a buildup of coal power that is unheard-of for an advanced economy.
It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.
“Why coal, why now?” said Ms. Kanno, a homemaker in Yokosuka, the site for two of the coal-burning units that will be built just several hundred feet from her home. “It’s the worst possible thing they could build.”...
...The Yokosuka project has prompted unusual pushback in Japan, where environmental groups more typically focus their objections on nuclear power. But some local residents are suing the government over its approval of the new coal-burning plant in what supporters hope will jump-start opposition to coal in Japan.
The Japanese government, the plaintiffs say, rubber-stamped the project without a proper environmental assessment. The complaint is noteworthy because it argues that the plant will not only degrade local air quality, but will also endanger communities by contributing to climate change.
Carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere is the major driver of global warming, because it traps the sun’s heat. Coal burning is one of the biggest single sources of carbon dioxide emissions....
The sky is not falling for Wall Street, it is about to break open with plenty of green dollars.
The truth might be a little hard on Wall Street, but, in the 1960s and 1970s when "The Greenhouse Effect" was taken seriously and the changes such as higher efficiency cars were built. What is best known as the CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards came into effect in 1975 (click here). They were well received by the public and when citizens purchased vehicles the fuel economy was a must on the window sticker.
Everyone did just fine. As a matter of fact, the new standards created more jobs in manufacturing the very mechanisms that would provide better fuel economy.
A more recent report is the Ceres report:
This Ceres report focuses (click here) on the economic impacts of strengthening fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for passenger vehicles sold in the United States. The analysis finds that stronger standards—more miles and fewer emissions per gallon—would lead to greater economic and job growth, both within the auto industry and in the broader economy as a whole.
This report comes as the Obama Administration and the state of California are developing new fuel economy and GHG emission standards for passenger vehicles for model years 2017-2025. Since light-duty vehicles account for more than 40 percent of U.S. oil consumption, and nearly 60 percent of mobile source GHGs, 1 the upcoming rules have important implications for energy security, protection from oil price spikes, and reducing global warming pollution....
Everyone did just fine. As a matter of fact, the new standards created more jobs in manufacturing the very mechanisms that would provide better fuel economy.
A more recent report is the Ceres report:
This Ceres report focuses (click here) on the economic impacts of strengthening fuel economy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for passenger vehicles sold in the United States. The analysis finds that stronger standards—more miles and fewer emissions per gallon—would lead to greater economic and job growth, both within the auto industry and in the broader economy as a whole.
This report comes as the Obama Administration and the state of California are developing new fuel economy and GHG emission standards for passenger vehicles for model years 2017-2025. Since light-duty vehicles account for more than 40 percent of U.S. oil consumption, and nearly 60 percent of mobile source GHGs, 1 the upcoming rules have important implications for energy security, protection from oil price spikes, and reducing global warming pollution....
February 14, 2020
An Australian climate scientist (click here) warns that epic bush fires and the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the continent are a wakeup call that climate change is occurring even more rapidly than models predicted. The scientist, Joelle Gergis, speaks to Holly Williams for a 60 Minutes report to be broadcast Sunday, February 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Williams went to Australia for her report, where she met Gergis of Australia's National University, a lead author of an upcoming United Nations report on climate change. "I think this summer has been a real wakeup call for most Australians. And myself as, as a climate scientist, seeing the extreme level of heat and the bush fires and the drought conditions playing out so catastrophically has been, I think, a wake-up call to the world," she tells Williams.
When Williams arrived earlier this month, the fires were still burning. The fire season is a normal occurrence in Australia, but this year's fires had begun earlier than usual in September and were on a larger scale than ever seen before. It is estimated that over 27 million acres have burned and a billion animals have died. Thousands of people have been forced from their homes by the deadly fires. Historic conditions caused by climate change gave rise to the severity of this year's fires, says Gergis. "2019 was the hottest and the driest year in Australia's history. So we actually saw temperature records be broken all over the country."
Scientists have predicted the temperature increase, but Gergis says the rise is occurring more rapidly than models indicated. "This is the type of summer you might not have expected 'til the middle of the century based on past projections. So I think this is really redefining what it means to actually be living through a period of rapid climate change."...
An Australian climate scientist (click here) warns that epic bush fires and the hottest temperatures ever recorded on the continent are a wakeup call that climate change is occurring even more rapidly than models predicted. The scientist, Joelle Gergis, speaks to Holly Williams for a 60 Minutes report to be broadcast Sunday, February 16, at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.
Williams went to Australia for her report, where she met Gergis of Australia's National University, a lead author of an upcoming United Nations report on climate change. "I think this summer has been a real wakeup call for most Australians. And myself as, as a climate scientist, seeing the extreme level of heat and the bush fires and the drought conditions playing out so catastrophically has been, I think, a wake-up call to the world," she tells Williams.
When Williams arrived earlier this month, the fires were still burning. The fire season is a normal occurrence in Australia, but this year's fires had begun earlier than usual in September and were on a larger scale than ever seen before. It is estimated that over 27 million acres have burned and a billion animals have died. Thousands of people have been forced from their homes by the deadly fires. Historic conditions caused by climate change gave rise to the severity of this year's fires, says Gergis. "2019 was the hottest and the driest year in Australia's history. So we actually saw temperature records be broken all over the country."
Scientists have predicted the temperature increase, but Gergis says the rise is occurring more rapidly than models indicated. "This is the type of summer you might not have expected 'til the middle of the century based on past projections. So I think this is really redefining what it means to actually be living through a period of rapid climate change."...
January 17, 2020
by Saranac Hale Spenser
The video referred to below (click here) has been proven to be propaganda by right wing media. That's right, they took a global tragedy and turned it into a political bone for right wing politicians.
Somehow, the disproved video never made a news story anywhere.
...Here’s what the video gets wrong: (click here) First of all, “nearly 200 arsonists” haven’t been arrested since Nov. 8, 2019.
As its source, the video cites a Jan. 7 story from Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper the Australian with the headline: “Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as arson arrest toll hits 183.”
The story said that “police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in the past few months.” But that total of 183 arson arrests occurred over various periods in 2019, including all of 2019 in the case of Victoria.
The story also referenced statistics since Nov. 8, 2019, from only one state — New South Wales. Police there announced that they had taken “legal action” against 183 people for bushfire-related offenses. Only 24 of those people were charged for “alleged deliberately-lit bushfires,” according to the police; others were cautioned or charged with different offenses.
So, the video used the date from the New South Wales announcement and the number of arson arrests counted over five states and various periods in 2019 from the newspaper story. The effect is an inflated number of arrests since the bushfires began.
The larger point in the video, though, is that arson is primarily responsible for the bushfires in Australia, not climate change. That message has been distilled into online memes. It also has been trumpeted by some high-profile political figures, including Donald Trump Jr.
But overemphasizing the role of arson and pitting it against climate change distorts the issue.
The fact is, hot, dry conditions allow for bushfires to escalate, regardless of how they are started. As we explained in 2017, in a story about wildfires in the western U.S., climate change doesn’t cause these fires, but it can exacerbate the hot and dry conditions that make wildfires more likely to develop and grow....
by Saranac Hale Spenser
The video referred to below (click here) has been proven to be propaganda by right wing media. That's right, they took a global tragedy and turned it into a political bone for right wing politicians.
Somehow, the disproved video never made a news story anywhere.
...Here’s what the video gets wrong: (click here) First of all, “nearly 200 arsonists” haven’t been arrested since Nov. 8, 2019.
As its source, the video cites a Jan. 7 story from Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper the Australian with the headline: “Bushfires: Firebugs fuelling crisis as arson arrest toll hits 183.”
The story said that “police arrested 183 people for lighting bushfires across Queensland, NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania in the past few months.” But that total of 183 arson arrests occurred over various periods in 2019, including all of 2019 in the case of Victoria.
The story also referenced statistics since Nov. 8, 2019, from only one state — New South Wales. Police there announced that they had taken “legal action” against 183 people for bushfire-related offenses. Only 24 of those people were charged for “alleged deliberately-lit bushfires,” according to the police; others were cautioned or charged with different offenses.
So, the video used the date from the New South Wales announcement and the number of arson arrests counted over five states and various periods in 2019 from the newspaper story. The effect is an inflated number of arrests since the bushfires began.
The larger point in the video, though, is that arson is primarily responsible for the bushfires in Australia, not climate change. That message has been distilled into online memes. It also has been trumpeted by some high-profile political figures, including Donald Trump Jr.
But overemphasizing the role of arson and pitting it against climate change distorts the issue.
The fact is, hot, dry conditions allow for bushfires to escalate, regardless of how they are started. As we explained in 2017, in a story about wildfires in the western U.S., climate change doesn’t cause these fires, but it can exacerbate the hot and dry conditions that make wildfires more likely to develop and grow....
Giving up is what corporate American, primarily the petroleum and coal industry, has longed for and it is the worst possible scenario for every generation. Please, please love you kids.
February 16, 2020
By Barry Ruegar
What Will Be Lost (click here) is a series of reported stories and essays exploring the ways climate change is affecting our relationship to one another, to our sense of place and to ourselves.
Last year was when the endless bush fires in Australia convinced me and my wife, Susan, that climate change was unstoppable. It’s also when we realized that we likely will avoid seeing the worst of the climate emergency.
At 64 and 74 years of age, my wife and I believe there’s a good chance that we’ll be gone before coastal cities are flooded, the ice caps have melted, and the planet descends into a “Mad Max” dystopia. We would like to think that this isn’t what the future has in store, but the intransigence of almost all governments to actually slow carbon emissions leaves little doubt that things are unlikely to turn around.
One of the things that age gives you is a sense of history, a feeling that you’ve seen patterns repeat and that you can see where things are heading in the near future. Over and over again, we’ve seen corporations and governments ignore the people they should protect in order to line their own pockets. What has changed now is that they’re sacrificing an entire planet instead of a town or a country. I would like to believe that the younger people marching with Greta Thunberg could change that, but honestly I can’t see it happening....
...What frustrates us is that we’re part of the generation that saw all of this coming. During the ’60s and ’70s, the governments that we elected more or less invented municipal recycling, and in the ’80s many of us began carrying reusable shopping bags. We lived through the introduction of stringent pollution controls and many of us chose to replace our furnaces, water heaters and appliances with newer, more expensive low energy models. Like many people we’ve tried to move to a more plant-based diet, and one that avoids chemical additives and fertilizers, and we’re driving the market for electric cars....
...Whether we are leading by example or just running away from the inevitable can be debated, but this is how we’ll be taking back control of our lives. Meanwhile, as I watch the sea levels rise and Australia burn, I can’t help but remember the words of the old American spiritual “Mary Don’t You Weep”: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign / No more water, the fire next time.”...
February 16, 2020
By Barry Ruegar
What Will Be Lost (click here) is a series of reported stories and essays exploring the ways climate change is affecting our relationship to one another, to our sense of place and to ourselves.
Last year was when the endless bush fires in Australia convinced me and my wife, Susan, that climate change was unstoppable. It’s also when we realized that we likely will avoid seeing the worst of the climate emergency.
At 64 and 74 years of age, my wife and I believe there’s a good chance that we’ll be gone before coastal cities are flooded, the ice caps have melted, and the planet descends into a “Mad Max” dystopia. We would like to think that this isn’t what the future has in store, but the intransigence of almost all governments to actually slow carbon emissions leaves little doubt that things are unlikely to turn around.
One of the things that age gives you is a sense of history, a feeling that you’ve seen patterns repeat and that you can see where things are heading in the near future. Over and over again, we’ve seen corporations and governments ignore the people they should protect in order to line their own pockets. What has changed now is that they’re sacrificing an entire planet instead of a town or a country. I would like to believe that the younger people marching with Greta Thunberg could change that, but honestly I can’t see it happening....
...What frustrates us is that we’re part of the generation that saw all of this coming. During the ’60s and ’70s, the governments that we elected more or less invented municipal recycling, and in the ’80s many of us began carrying reusable shopping bags. We lived through the introduction of stringent pollution controls and many of us chose to replace our furnaces, water heaters and appliances with newer, more expensive low energy models. Like many people we’ve tried to move to a more plant-based diet, and one that avoids chemical additives and fertilizers, and we’re driving the market for electric cars....
...Whether we are leading by example or just running away from the inevitable can be debated, but this is how we’ll be taking back control of our lives. Meanwhile, as I watch the sea levels rise and Australia burn, I can’t help but remember the words of the old American spiritual “Mary Don’t You Weep”: “God gave Noah the rainbow sign / No more water, the fire next time.”...
A 21-year-old woman (click here) with a rare physical condition is receiving floods of comments from strangers hyping her up after she nervously posted ~sexier~ photos online.
"I usually don’t post pictures of myself when I have a nice dress on or when I go out...because I get nervous about comments since I’m not society's view of disability," Nila Morton told BuzzFeed News. "I decided that I should just post it because I felt beautiful and sexy."...
"Earth" by Lil Dicky
[Intro: Lil Dicky]
What up, world? It's your boy, just one of the guys down here. Well, I could be more specific. Uh, I'm a human, and I just wanted to, you know, for the sake of all of us earthlings out there, just wanted to say:
[Chorus: Lil Dicky]
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
[Justin Bieber]
Hi, I'm a baboon
I'm like a man, just less advanced and my anus is huge
[Ariana Grande]
Hey, I'm a zebra
No one knows what I do, but I look pretty cool
Am I white or black?
[Halsey]
I'm a lion cub, and I'm always getting licked (Meow!)
[Zac Brown]
How's it going? I'm a cow (Moo!)
You drink milk from my tits (Moo)
[Brendon Urie]
I'm a fat, fucking pig
What up, world? It's your boy, just one of the guys down here. Well, I could be more specific. Uh, I'm a human, and I just wanted to, you know, for the sake of all of us earthlings out there, just wanted to say:
[Chorus: Lil Dicky]
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
[Justin Bieber]
Hi, I'm a baboon
I'm like a man, just less advanced and my anus is huge
[Ariana Grande]
Hey, I'm a zebra
No one knows what I do, but I look pretty cool
Am I white or black?
[Halsey]
I'm a lion cub, and I'm always getting licked (Meow!)
[Zac Brown]
How's it going? I'm a cow (Moo!)
You drink milk from my tits (Moo)
[Brendon Urie]
I'm a fat, fucking pig
[Hailee Steinfeld]
I'm a common fungus
[Wiz Khalifa]
I'm a disgruntled skunk, shoot you out my butthole
[Snoop Dogg]
I'm a marijuana plant, I can get you fucked up
I'm a common fungus
[Wiz Khalifa]
I'm a disgruntled skunk, shoot you out my butthole
[Snoop Dogg]
I'm a marijuana plant, I can get you fucked up
[Chorus]
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth
[Adam Levine]
Ba-dum-ba-dum-dum, ba-dum-da-di
We are the vultures, feed on the dead
[Shawn Mendes]
We're just some rhinos, horny as heck
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth, it is our planet
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth
[Adam Levine]
Ba-dum-ba-dum-dum, ba-dum-da-di
We are the vultures, feed on the dead
[Shawn Mendes]
We're just some rhinos, horny as heck
[Charlie Puth]
I'm just a giraffe, what's with this neck?
[Sia]
Hippity-hop, I'm a kangaroo
I hop all day, up and down with you
[Miley Cyrus]
I'm an elephant, I got junk in my trunk
[Lil Jon]
What the fuck? I'm a clam!
[Rita Ora]
I'm a wolf. Howl!
[Miguel]
I'm a squirrel, lookin' for my next nut
I'm just a giraffe, what's with this neck?
[Sia]
Hippity-hop, I'm a kangaroo
I hop all day, up and down with you
[Miley Cyrus]
I'm an elephant, I got junk in my trunk
[Lil Jon]
What the fuck? I'm a clam!
[Rita Ora]
I'm a wolf. Howl!
[Miguel]
I'm a squirrel, lookin' for my next nut
[Katy Perry & Lil Dicky]
And I'm a pony, just a freak horse, heh-heh-heh
But, uh, c'mon, get on (Get on, yah!)
Giddy up, let's ride
[Lil Yachty]
I'm HPV, don't let me in
And I'm a pony, just a freak horse, heh-heh-heh
But, uh, c'mon, get on (Get on, yah!)
Giddy up, let's ride
[Lil Yachty]
I'm HPV, don't let me in
[Ed Sheeran]
I'm a koala and I sleep all the time
So what? It's cute
[Meghan Trainor]
We love you, India
[Joel Embiid]
We love you, Africa
[Tory Lanez]
We love the Chinese
[Lil Dicky]
We forgive you, Germany
[Chorus: Lil Dicky, (Snoop Dogg), Meghan Trainor, Lil Dicky & Sia, John Legend]
Earth, it is our planet (It's our planet)
We love the Earth (We love the Earth), it is our home (Home)
We love the Earth, it is our planet (It is our planet)
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth
I'm a koala and I sleep all the time
So what? It's cute
[Meghan Trainor]
We love you, India
[Joel Embiid]
We love you, Africa
[Tory Lanez]
We love the Chinese
[Lil Dicky]
We forgive you, Germany
[Chorus: Lil Dicky, (Snoop Dogg), Meghan Trainor, Lil Dicky & Sia, John Legend]
Earth, it is our planet (It's our planet)
We love the Earth (We love the Earth), it is our home (Home)
We love the Earth, it is our planet (It is our planet)
We love the Earth, it is our home
We love the Earth
Verse 3: Lil Dicky]
I'm a man (Hello?)
Can you hear me? (Anyone out there? Hello?)
I've trudged the Earth for so damn long
And still don't know shit (What's going on?)
I hope it's not a simulation (Huh)
Give each other names like Ahmed and Pedro
And, yeah, we like to wear clothes, girls still look beautiful
And it covers up our human dick (Woo), eat a lot of tuna fish
But these days, it's like we don't know how to act
All these shootings, pollution, we under attack on ourselves
Like, let's all just chill (Hey), respect what we built (Hey)
Like look at the internet! It's cracking as hell
Fellas, don't you love to cum when you have sex? (Ayy)
And I heard women orgasms are better than a dick's (Uh)
So what we got this land for? What we gotta stand for?
Love, and we love the Earth (The Earth)
[Ariana Grande]
Oh, yeah, baby, I love the Earth
I love this planet
[Lil Dicky]
Hey, Russia, we're cool
Hey, Asia, all of you, c'mon
Every one of you from the plains to the Sahara
Let's come together and live
I'm a man (Hello?)
Can you hear me? (Anyone out there? Hello?)
I've trudged the Earth for so damn long
And still don't know shit (What's going on?)
I hope it's not a simulation (Huh)
Give each other names like Ahmed and Pedro
And, yeah, we like to wear clothes, girls still look beautiful
And it covers up our human dick (Woo), eat a lot of tuna fish
But these days, it's like we don't know how to act
All these shootings, pollution, we under attack on ourselves
Like, let's all just chill (Hey), respect what we built (Hey)
Like look at the internet! It's cracking as hell
Fellas, don't you love to cum when you have sex? (Ayy)
And I heard women orgasms are better than a dick's (Uh)
So what we got this land for? What we gotta stand for?
Love, and we love the Earth (The Earth)
[Ariana Grande]
Oh, yeah, baby, I love the Earth
I love this planet
[Lil Dicky]
Hey, Russia, we're cool
Hey, Asia, all of you, c'mon
Every one of you from the plains to the Sahara
Let's come together and live
[Choir]
Hum-dum-dum-dae-dum, hum-dum-dum-dae-dum
[PSY]
우-우-우리는 지구를 사랑해요
[Bad Bunny]
Amamos la tierra
[Kris Wu]
我们爱地球
[Outro: Lil Dicky, Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber]
(We love you, we love you)
C'mon everybody, I know we're not all the same
But we're living on the same Earth
(We love you, we love you)
Have you ever been to Earth?
Everyone who is listening has been to Earth, Ariana
(We love you, we love you)
We're not making music for aliens here
Are we gonna die?
You know what, Bieber? We might die
(We love you, we love you)
I'm not going to lie to you
I mean, there's so many people out here who don't think global warming's a real thing. You know? We gotta save this planet. We're being stupid
Unless we get our shit together now
Hum-dum-dum-dae-dum, hum-dum-dum-dae-dum
[PSY]
우-우-우리는 지구를 사랑해요
[Bad Bunny]
Amamos la tierra
[Kris Wu]
我们爱地球
[Outro: Lil Dicky, Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber]
(We love you, we love you)
C'mon everybody, I know we're not all the same
But we're living on the same Earth
(We love you, we love you)
Have you ever been to Earth?
Everyone who is listening has been to Earth, Ariana
(We love you, we love you)
We're not making music for aliens here
Are we gonna die?
You know what, Bieber? We might die
(We love you, we love you)
I'm not going to lie to you
I mean, there's so many people out here who don't think global warming's a real thing. You know? We gotta save this planet. We're being stupid
Unless we get our shit together now
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