Ads for climate-damaging meat set to be banned in this Dutch city
The ban, which it’s hoped will come into force in 2024, aims to reduce meat consumption and the impacts of the climate crisis.
It follows similar prohibitions by other Dutch cities on advertising from fossil fuel and aviation companies.
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A year that began hopefully is ending grimly. Western political elites, unable (and perhaps unwilling) to turn a deadly pandemic and climate crisis into a life-preserving opportunity, have only themselves to blame.
The West’s wasted crisis
The climate crisis may be dire, with ever more frequent and increasingly devastating floods and wildfires, with killer droughts and heatwaves across the globe, with oceans warming 40% faster and arctic ice sheets melting 70% faster than had been predicted a mere five years ago, with arctic permafrost melting and belching super-greenhouse methane into the atmosphere, and with carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion continuing to rise year on year regardless.
Jeff Bezos says everything will be ok
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