By Chris Lang Hoarding of toilet paper started in early February 2020 in Hong Kong after consumers panicked themselves into believing that the coronavirus outbreak in China would disrupt supplies. Within days, toilet paper shelves were empty in the supermarkets. Social media helped fuel the hoarding, which quickly spread across the world from Sydney to…
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Planet of the Humans (part 1): Blood and Gore
By Chris Lang The new documentary Planet of the Humans is, like anything Michael Moore gets involved with, deliberately controversial. This one attacks renewable energy, some parts of the green movement, and decides that over-population is the problem. Moore released the film on his YouTube channel on the 50th Earth Day. In a week it’s…
“You can’t value what you can’t measure.” Opening up the black box of carbon accounting
By Chris Lang “Offsets are an imaginary commodity created by deducting what you hope happens from what you guess would have happened.” That’s Dan Welch writing in the magazine Ethical Consumer in 2007.
Coronavirus notes #3: The US bailout of its airline companies is “insane”
By Chris Lang At the end of March 2020, Donald Trump signed the US government’s US$2.2 trillion bailout into law, after it was unanimously passed in the Senate. Otherwise known as the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economy Security Act (“CARES Act”) the bailout includes generous grants and loans to the aviation industry.
REDD-Monitor on Pissed Consumer: 12 replies to 12 lies
By Chris Lang Since May 2012, REDD-Monitor has reported on investment scams mainly involving the sale of worthless carbon credits to retail investors. In October 2014, a review of REDD-Monitor appeared on the website Pissed Consumer. The review almost certainly came from one of the scammers.