Emily Atkin

Beliefs Korrents

• Korrents What they believe 19 beliefs — each backed by an exact quote.

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  • Surviving without damage so far is not evidence a property is prepared for future climate risk

    Surviving up to now is not evidence that a property is prepared for what comes next, she said-especially when the conditions around it are changing.

    The open houses at the edge of disaster Said 17 Sept 2026

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  • Sellers and real estate agents are financially incentivized to avoid learning about or disclosing climate risk

    sellers and agents are incentivized not to know about climate risk or communicate it. Everyone involved only needs the property to look safe long enough to pass it along

    The open houses at the edge of disaster Said 17 Sept 2026

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  • Data centers are not AI's biggest climate problem; fossil fuel companies' use of AI tools to boost oil and gas production is.

    data centers are nowhere near the biggest climate problem with artificial intelligence.

    We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious. Said 9 Sept 2026

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  • Cloud providers' AI tools are being used by oil companies to increase fossil fuel production.

    Amazon's technology explicitly helps oil companies increase production.

    We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious. Said 9 Sept 2026

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  • "Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.

    "Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.

    We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious. Said 9 Sept 2026

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  • The idea that individual action cannot help stop climate change is a more damaging lie than climate denial itself.

    The most harmful lie being spread about climate change today is not that it is fake. It's that nothing you can do can help save the world.

    “What can I do?” The answer is still anything. Said 29 Aug 2026

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  • How much worse the climate crisis becomes depends on how many people publicly demand systemic change now.

    However worse the climate crisis gets now depends on how quickly society transforms. How quickly society transforms depends on how many people demand it.

    “What can I do?” The answer is still anything. Said 29 Aug 2026

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  • Global warming is destabilizing mountain glaciers, making catastrophic glacial-lake outburst floods more frequent.

    As the planet warms, the entire region's frozen mountain slopes are becoming less stable, making glacier collapses-and the catastrophic floods they can unleash-far more likely.

    “What can I do?” The answer is still anything. Said 29 Aug 2026

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  • Reducing emissions intensity per unit of production does not by itself lower total emissions if output volume rises.

    AI may help an oil company emit less pollution per barrel of oil. But if the company is producing more barrels than it otherwise would have, total emissions can still rise.

    We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil Said 19 Aug 2026

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  • A company that is a genuine climate champion should not need to be forced into climate action.

    But if Microsoft, Amazon and Google are truly the climate champions they claim to be, they shouldn't need to be forced.

    We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil Said 19 Aug 2026

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  • AI's use by the fossil fuel industry to boost oil and gas production creates several times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers does.

    they found that Big Oil's use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI's data centers.

    AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought Said 12 Aug 2026

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  • AI's climate benefit from aiding renewable energy only cancels out its harm from aiding fossil fuel production if it boosts renewables several times more than it boosts fossil fuels.

    AI had to help renewable energy four to five times more than fossil fuels just for emissions to break even.

    AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought Said 12 Aug 2026

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  • Public discourse shapes what form governance and regulatory accountability ultimately take.

    Governance inherits the shape of the discourse that informs it,

    AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought Said 12 Aug 2026

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  • Fossil fuel money is a systemically corrupting force in American politics that limits which problems can be discussed and solved.

    fossil fuel money is an immensely powerful, intensely corrupting force in American politics that limits not only what conversations we can have about massive problems, but what we can do to solve them

    The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game Said 21 Jul 2026

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  • The fossil fuel industry's main political victory is making climate truth unspeakable among politicians, not convincing people it's false.

    The fossil fuel industry's great political achievement is not that it has persuaded every Republican that climate change is a hoax. It is that it has made the truth unspeakable among Republican politicians-even when their constituents are choking on it.

    The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game Said 21 Jul 2026

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  • Climate change is intensifying wildfires such as Canada's boreal fires.

    It is uncontroversial in the scientific community to say that climate change is intensifying these explosive wildfires, particularly in the Canadian boreal forests.

    The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game Said 21 Jul 2026

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  • Fossil fuel polluters and their allies aim not to win the climate debate but to prolong it indefinitely, preventing public consensus for action.

    Polluters and their cronies are not trying to win the climate argument, merely to prolong it in perpetuity so there's never enough public consensus for action.

    Another stolen summer day Said 17 Jul 2026

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  • Forest management alone cannot offset the hotter, drier conditions that climate change has brought to wildfires.

    It is not enough to manage away the hotter, drier conditions that have turned fires into continent-spanning hellscape smoke events.

    Another stolen summer day Said 17 Jul 2026

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  • Climate coverage in the media is shrinking and increasingly paywalled.

    climate coverage is rapidly shrinking-and what remains is increasingly paywalled

    Churn is upon us! Said 15 Jul 2026

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