SustainEugene.org - Greenwash is Sustain-a-bull
page under construction - October 12, 2023
greenwash (n):
"Disinformation disseminated by an organisation so as to present an environmentally responsible public image. Derivatives greenwashing. Origin from green on the pattern of whitewash."
-- Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Tenth Edition
"Compromise is often necessary, but it ought not to originate with environmental leaders.
Our role is to hold fast to what we believe is right, to fight for it, to find allies, and to adduce all possible arguments for our cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or our friends to win, then let someone else propose the compromise, which we must then work hard to coax our way. We thus become a nucleus around which activists can build and function."
-- David Brower
"A man might be afraid his home will get bombed, or he's afraid that he will lose his job, or he's afraid that he will get shot, or beat down by state troopers, and he may go on and live until he's 80. He's just as dead at 36 as he would be at 80. The cessation of breathing in his life is merely the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit.…
"A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."
— Martin Luther King
"Your silence will not protect you."
— Audre Lorde
"When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible..."
-- Mark Twain, letter to Jules Hart, 1901-12-17
slideshows in PDF format
www.peakchoice.org/climate.pdf
Peak Energy and Climate Chaos - two aspects of ecological overshoot
recession and covid closures cut energy more than climate concerns
practice for geologic depletion
www.peakchoice.org/oil.pdf
conventional oil peaked in the USA in 1970, fracked oil and tar sands mining postponed rationing, Alaskan oil in permanent decline (it powers the motors of Oregon)
fracking during the Obama / Biden and Trump administrations postponed energy rationing
fracking peaked just before Covid
www.peakchoice.org/limits.pdf
1972 "Limits to Growth" study predicted our predicament
www.peakchoice.org/electricity.pdf
electricity in USA peaked in 2018, on a plateau sustained by fracked gas
natural gas is the biggest energy source for the three US power grids - western, eastern and Texas
renewables have increased but are a small percent of total generation
it is not possible to sustain an always on power grid with variable generation sources (unfortunately)
www.peakchoice.org/gas.pdf
conventional unnatural gas peaked in USA in 1973, fracking is a huge but temporary bubble
72% of USA gas production is fracked
gas is the largest energy source for electricity generation in USA, it powers the western, eastern and Texas grids
the largest use of gas is for electricitywww.peakchoice.org/quads.pdf
USA peak energy - 2007
101 quads - quadrillion BTUs
climate greenwash
Peak electricity generation was 2018
forests are the lungs of the Earth
Clearcutting the Climate
www.forestclimate.orgwww.peakchoice.org/clearcut.pdf
clearcutting the climate, deforestation causes desertification13 enviro groups "collaborate" with big timber to greenwash aerial spray and clearcuts
highway expansions and peak traffic
Grading on a Curve: enviros ignore biggest issues (PDF)
Beltline widening across river:
a third of a billion dollars, low build alternativeHighway 126 widening: Eugene to Veneta
low build alternativewww.peakchoice.org/traffic.pdf
Peak Vehicle Miles Traveled sustained by fracked fuels and tar sands
traffic levels declined more due to Covid than climate activism
peak energy conflicts with plans for a trillion dollars in highway expansions across the USA
legal strategy to shift expansion plans toward policies conducive to an energy constrained, climate concerned future
Oregon counties with better public transit (Multnomah, Benton, Lane) had peak VMT on the state highway network during conventional oil
counties with less transit (Washington, Clackamas, Marion, Jackson, Josephine, Deschutes) are at or near a new, higher peak now
www.peakchoice.org/beltline-126.pdf
ODOT's plans to expand Beltline and Route 126 (Eugene - Veneta) for over a half billion dollars
16 lane widening of Beltline highway, third of a billion dollars (or more), virtually no public awareness let alone opposition to the plans but also no appropriation of funds beyond the Environmental Assessment
federal laws that prevented the West Eugene Porkway (1951 - 2007) do not apply to this project
Highway 126 widening Eugene - Veneta: smaller highway expansion proposed across Fern Ridge reservoir past parkland and rare habitats. No money appropriated. Might have more legal obstacles than Beltline widening.
www.peakchoice.org/portland.pdf
highway plans in Portland, cancelling Mt. Hood freeway enabled start of MAX light railwww.peakchoice.org/wep.pdf
West Eugene Porkway (1951 - 2007)
Mission Accomplished: No Build federal decision 2007
ecological significance - legal obstacles - energy limits and transportation planning
Mark Robinowitz, Road Scholar
www.peakchoice.org/law.pdf
WEP was one of the most illegal highways ever proposed
West Eugene Transportation, Land Use and Neighborhood Design Solutions (WETLANDS) v. Federal Highway Administration: never filed, FHWA chose "No Build" since they knew they would lose in court
land abuse and food relocalization
Urban Reserves vs. farmland:
City of Eugene plan to connect to Junction City and VenetaEWEB clearcut and strip mine
www.eweb.wtfwww.peakchoice.org/eweb.pdf
Eugene Water and Electric Board - utility vs. forest protection, Eugene, Oregon
clearcut of old forest for water tank expansion (2021), neglect of existing infrastructure despite unchecked development (that does not pay its way for urban expansions)A Dam Big Problem: aging dams and the Cascadia earthquake
fractal, practical politics: a better foundation for environmentalism
activist malpractice - 1000 Friends - NCAP - Beyond Toxics - PIELC - Our Childrens Trust
other websites by Mark Robinowitz
PeakChoice.org - Cooperation or Collapse
Real resilience:
Best case Covid scenario: stimulates societal immune system for real resilience
Covid closures reduced energy more than climate activism
Fractal Permaculture: local, bioregional, global
Carnivorous Coronavirus: industrial meat risks more pandemics and antibiotic resistance
polio and smallpox eradicated by vaccines
Denial - Bargaining - Blame - Acceptance
Moron-a-virus-45: covid disinfo
AntiVa: refuting anti-vax memes
Republican Pandemic: severe illness and deaths concentrated in conservative communities
Hospitals and morgues mostly filled with the unvaccinated
PTSD: President Trump Spread Disease
"Plandemic" disinformation video
Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine stop covid in vitro (in a glass) but useless in vivo (in the body)
Greenwashing
Green New Deal: great slogan, ignores limits to growth, promotes nukes
100% renewable can't be 100% of "current" consumption - due to physics, not politics
Peaks:
Alaska Pipeline approaching low flow shutdown
Fracking postponed rationing: damned if we drill, damned if we stop, damned as it runs out
nuclear power: the most dangerous way to boil water
offshore drilling on a swift boat
JFKMLKRFK.com
Legacy of the Sixties - Coup In America
www.peakchoice.org/audio/robinowitz-truth-reconciliation-national-insecurity-state-2018-05-04.mp3
(49 minutes)
"Truth and Reconciliation for the National Insecurity State,"
presentation by Mark Robinowitz at
Of Kennedys and Kings: Reinvestigating the RFK and MLK Assassinations at 50
The 17th Annual Forensic Science and Law Symposium
The Cyril H. Wecht Institute of Forensic Science and Law
Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
May 4, 2018
President Kennedy
JFK called off Cold War at American University, June 10, 1963
Kennedy withdrawal order from Vietnam, National Security Action Memorandum 263, October 11, 1963
limited hang outs, best evidence, discrediting disinformation
Martin Luther King
other speeches: Where Do We Go From Here? Staying Awake Through a Great Revolution, A Christmas Sermon on Peace, Letter from the Birmingham Jail
Presidential candidate Robert Kennedy
RFK in Indianapolis, April 4, 1968, upon hearing that MLK had been killed
pages under construction:
Oliver Stone: "JFK" (1991) and "JFK Revisited" (2021)
Robert F. Kennedy, Junior: right about the assassinations, wrong about public health
www.OilEmpire.US
A political map: connected dots
limited hang outs, best evidence, discrediting disinformation
ForestClimate.org
Clearcutting the Climate
PeakTraffic.org
trillion dollar highway plans vs. energy depletion
Peak Traffic: the real heartbeat of America just had a transportation heart attack, can we heed the warnings before oil rationing (to be imposed by depletion)