John Upton has a great article on Grist.org around his take on the top 2013 environment stories. I thought I'd take the article and convert it into a presentation. He listed out 13 stories. Over the last few days, I converted each one into a few slides. Here is the full presentation covering all 13 stories:

1. Top 2013
Environment
Stories
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3. The following slides are
based on John Upton’s
article:
“The top 13 green stories
of 2013: The good , the
bad, and the muddled ”
7
in Grist.org

4. The Good
#
I

5. Obama takes a shot for the
environment

6. Unveiled an actual, coherent and
clear climate plan

7. Regulations cracking down
on coal-burning power plants
Components
of the plan
Boosting renewables and
energy efficiency
Cutting fossil fuel subsidies
Preparing for climate change
that’s already inevitable

8. The Good
#
2

9. People Power

10. People are standing up to fossil
fuel interests
Delayed federal
approval of the Keystone
pipeline
`
Fracking moratorium or
bans in 4 states
Fighting plans to build a
coal export terminal
Convincing organization to
dump fossil-fuel
investments

11. The Good
#
3

12. Billionaire Backing

13. Tom Steyer, a
hedge-fund manager
turned climate
activist, started
spending big this
year

14. Millions in
political
campaigns
Hosting an
antikeystone
`
conference
Fighting
plans to
build a coal
export
terminal

15. Teaming up with fellow rich guys!
Michael Bloomberg
Hank Paulson
7

16. 7
Making the
case that
climate
change
threatens the
entire global
economy

17. The Good
#
4

18. Green energy taking off

19. Nuclear and coal languishing,
solar and wind soaring

20. Nuclear and coal
power plants
being shuttered
Cost of green
energy
decreasing

21. The Good
#
5

22. Electric vehicles usage takes off

23. Sales have
increased
6
7
fold
in the last
2 years

24. Tesla’s Model S picked up
many accolades, including the
best Consumer Reports auto
review of all time

25. The Bad
#
1

26. Boom in fossil fuel production

27. Politicians
of all stripes
favor
fracking*
**
*
Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, is the
process of drilling and injecting fluid into
the ground at a high pressure in order to
fracture shale rocks to release natural gas
inside.
** In the process, water is wasted, chemicals
used and the grounds are contaminated.

28. By the time
Obama leaves
office, the U.S.
will be the
world’s largest
producer of oil
and gas
combined

29. The Bad
#
2

30. The
climate is
more
screwed
than ever

31. Carbon dioxide levels in the
atmosphere blew past 400 parts per
million in May
(well above the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm)

32. International
community is
failing in its efforts
to keep
atmospheric
warming below 2
degrees Celsius

33. Even though some scientists think
that a 1 degree change could have
“disastrous consequences”

34. The Bad
#
3

35. As oil
production in
North America
ramped up, so
did oil spills

36. Drill-happy state,
North Dakota,
kept hundreds of
spills a secret

37. The Bad
#
4

38. US refineries are processing
Canadian tar-sands oil and a dirty
side effect is piles of dusty black
residue called petroleum coke, or
petcoke

39. This filth blows into nearby area
polluting neighborhoods and
This filth blows
contaminating waterway.
into nearby
areas polluting
neighborhoods
and
contaminating
waterways

40. Koch Industries
has been
buying up some
petcoke and
exporting them
to countries
with weaker airquality laws for
use as powerplant fuel

41. The Bad
#
5

42. Big food corporations are
winning the food labeling fight
(clearly label food as
Genetically Modified Organism or not)

43. Going as far as to
want to slap a
“natural” label on
foods containing
GMOs

44. The Bad
#
6

45. Canada and Australia join the
US on the climate shit list

46. U.S. has been the climate bad
boy by backing out of the Kyoto
Protocol and historically being
the largest greenhouse gas
polluter

47. Australian prime minister,
climate denier Tony Abbott has
moved to roll back the
country’s climate programs

48. Canadian Prime Minister
Stephen Harper muzzled the
climate scientists as he allows
drillers free reign

49. The Muddled
#
1

50. California governor Jerry Brown
supports both sides of the argument

51. Blamed climate change for
the intense wildfires
For Climate
Signed legislation promoting
solar power and cleaner cars
7
Under his watch, California’s
new carbon-trading program
got rolling

52. Borrowed from an
environment fund to pay for
other state programs
Against
7
Climate
Made it clear that frackers
are welcome to California

53. The Muddled
#
2

54. China wants it’s
cake and wants to
eat it too

55. China is the largest consumer of
coal in the world
(Coal is the ‘baddest‘ of all the fossil fuels,
double the emissions of natural gas)

56. Pollution is impacting air quality
(20 times above the normal, resulting in student outdoor activity
being canceled, airports and roads closed)

57. On the plus side,
China is making some
real efforts to clean up
its horrendous
environmental mess

58. China
started
carbontrading
programs
in a
number
of cities

59. Officially dumped its
“growth at all costs”
philosophy

60. Image Credits:
Cleanwater.org
WikiMedia
Jackhole’s
Realm
WikiMedia
Flickr 401K
Isaac Brekken /
Getty Images
7
Dmitry Kalinin
Flickr
Jürgen /
WikiMedia
Chris McKenna /
WikiMedia
Cartype
Arne
Hückelheim
Wind Future
United States
Navy
Ekkehard Streit
Martin Nikolaj
Bech
Menchi
Irene Immink
New Zealand
Defence Force

61. Image Credits:
Romanm
HuffPost
Xinhuanet
Sierra Culture
7
CEO.ca
Rtvslo
Andrew Testa
HuffPost
Dentistryiq

62. Thank you
for reading!
Would love to hear
your thoughts.
Salah Khawaja
s@decklaration.com

63. Developed and Designed by
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