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If we accept the reality of climate breakdown, we have a chance to make amends and to save as much of the natural world as possible while we still have a relatively intact society with the social order to get things done.
Think orderly descent — powering down the global enterprise.
What possibilities open up if we accept defeat? If we say we have failed, and that the breakdown of our civilization will continue to unfold in our lifetime?
With the energy we will save from abandoning the energy transition, we could deploy the Mirrors for Earth Energy Rebalancing (MEER) project that will provide heat relief or local cooling so some communities can survive a bit longer and grow crops before having to move. This is a small scale, grassroots, and accessible technology that corporates have no interest in currently, as it won't make them money.
We can make amends to wild creatures and First Peoples everywhere, love the damaged and degraded places of the Earth, as well as protecting the remaining precious wilderness from the force of global capital.
Other projects could include a Universal Basic Income to replace the many ‘bullshit jobs’ that people are enslaved to, that produce no real value, and a massive commitment to housing access and affordability as a basic human right for all.
Imagine the creative energy, mourning, cooperation, and humility that would abound. Imagine setting the younger generation free. Free from the obsession with career, money, working, superannuation, and other irrelevant concerns in a collapsing world.
The massive mental health crisis affecting youth today may be alleviated if they heard some truth-telling or plain speaking from adults — a deep, heartfelt apology from our generation to theirs.
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💚 Beautiful 💚 More like this, please!
FULL ESSAY -- https://medium.com/@renaeech/responding-to-rebecca-solnits-article-in-the-guardian-on-doomers-a12b0f8106e9
#Climate #Environment #Nature
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Very very worrisome ⬆️
Wildfires, floods, dams bursting, human lives lost, ecosystems destroyed — who should pay for all this? You and me?
HELL NO!
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Capitalism
GRAPH DATA SOURCE -- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18478-6
Sometimes when I post climate graphs reflecting, say, global temperatures or sea ice coverage, a commenter or two will complain that the x or y axis does not start all the way at zero, and thus the graphic could be exaggerating the magnitude of change, at least to a casual observer. I have a lot of faith, however, in those who read my posts, and I’m confident that nearly everyone here is smart enough to understand what they see, without having reply guys explain it to them. 🙄
Anyway, the image I’m posting below, prepared by Zach Labe (nostr:npub1fh6lat3js6w5qs7dsakddvzecmdfz2np0mmy6zyufvfhac37z5qqayzu76) does not suffer from any such irregularities. That is, the axis starts right at zero — and that’s what makes it, for me at least, so alarming.
The amount of total volume of Arctic sea ice lost in such a short span of time is astounding. We have radically altered the planet in the geological blink of an eye.
Human industry is converting our planetary biosphere into something we have never known, and we may not survive the changes.
SOURCE OF GRAPH — https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-volumethickness/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
I wish I didn't have to tell you about this again, but I do. It's not being reported much in the news — and you know why?
Because it's not 'new' (the origin of the word 'news'), it's old. This has been going on for months now, and corporate news outlets are simply tired of reporting it. But it is still happening.
Canada's boreal forests are burning up.
At least 1100 fires are still active, more than 700 out of control. Over 13 million hectares have been burned so far, with no end in sight. It's an unprecedented climate and environmental disaster.
#Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
SOURCE OF MAP -- https://ciffc.ca/
Climate optimists like to claim that as soon as we reach “net zero” — the point when we are (theoretically) emitting less CO2 than the amount being absorbed by oceans, rocks, or plants, and taken out of the atmosphere through carbon capture — then global warming will stop almost immediately.
It’s a nice message, one intended to make us feel better, reassured that our leaders know what they’re doing. Don’t worry, we are told, everything is under control. By 2050, if not sooner, they’ll have the situation turned around.
In the meantime, we can all relax and go ahead with Business As Usual. 😃 Keep shopping, keep buying, keep driving, keep flying. And don’t forget to do your part: buy those paper straws and recycle that water bottle!
BUT — there are big problems with this phony net zero claim, and the way countries report their emissions is one of them. Investigators have found huge discrepancies accruing through the use of spurious carbon offsets, outsourcing, and other UN-approved loopholes. Also, CO2 emissions from the military are not required to be included, nor are emissions from international trade.
Some estimates suggest that actual emissions could be at least *twice* as high as what’s being shown in the official reports. No wonder global temperatures keep rising even though we’re constantly assured that great progress is being made.
In addition, there’s a risk that climate change itself will trigger “natural” emissions of greenhouse gases as peat bogs dry out, as drought-weakened forests burn, as permafrost melts, and as the sea floor warms, releasing previously frozen methane clathrates. So it’s not just the emissions of human industry we need to worry about.
The point is, net zero is NOT zero. Don’t fall for their lies. It’s time for real change, for system change. We must demand the end of #capitalism and a pivot toward #degrowth.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Greenwashing #BusinessAsUsual
I’d like to express my gratitude to these companies for allowing me to use their logos.
It's time for another week of BUSINESS AS USUAL, a co-production of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee, sponsored this time by Saudi Aramco, Ford Motor Company, and the US military-industrial complex.
🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶 😃
#Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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Your approach provides some useful improvements but still leaves us functioning under a neoliberal capitalist system. Fossil fuel companies would remain charge of the economy and in control of the politicians they own. Thus we have continuation of Business As Usual which ultimately leads to disaster.
The aim of a massive general strike is fundamental system change.
nostr:npub1dzjekzdn2qawmln6gnfuvn00x6l2jdxxw6z2gld0nfy4y4jc43qs4j7n2l Capitalism and fascism have been synergetic partners since 1602, with the founding of the East India Companies. That comfortable alliance goes way back.
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil OBEDIENCE."
Source of quote -- https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/zinnproblemobedience.html
#ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #SocialJustice
Wow, this is a fascinating and eye-opening article by Katie Jgln...
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"Patriarchy Isn’t Universal or Natural — So Why Do We Still Believe That?
Our understanding of humanity’s past is flawed, to say the very least.
Still, some people like to believe we have it all figured out and cling to often simplistic and sometimes borderline incoherent stories that fill in the gaps between what we know to be true.
One of them is the story of male dominance.
It’s not that surprising that many people still cling to a version of the past that might’ve never even existed.
We’ve all been bathing in this androcentric swamp for quite some time now, not only thanks to the inherent bias of the first modern scientists, but many other things that contributed to the spread of patriarchal ideas over the centuries — like the rise of monotheistic, largely androcentric, religions — or all the conquests and colonisation that followed it.
Patriarchy has a long history of coming up with stories that cast women as inferior and men as superior, either because there’s no better explanation or simply because perhaps it’s just the convenient thing to do at the given moment.
And then it doesn’t seem to matter how many facts are staring us right in the face, we refuse to let these myths go. They’re all we’ve ever known, after all.
But insisting that this has always been a man’s world is just intellectually dishonest, to put it politely.
So, no — patriarchy really doesn’t seem to be either universal, inevitable, or natural.
The longer we hold on to those patriarchal fantasies and refuse to acknowledge human nature isn’t as set in stone as we once believed, the more we miss out on discovering how we could be — individually and collectively — in this world if we only allowed ourselves to.
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That's just a small excerpt from a beautifully written and superbly researched piece. I hope you'll read the whole thing!
FULL ARTICLE -- https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/patriarchy-isnt-universal-or-natural
#History #Science
This is a nice story about a pair of filmmakers taking a carbon-conscious approach in producing a new documentary about a 9-year-old climate activist and her off-the-grid community.
VIDEO -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSJTDbB3K-U
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction
Do you know how empires win? By feeding their people bread and circuses.
I’ve been talking recently about a general strike for the climate, as have a few other activists. But if I’m being honest, that’s unlikely to happen anytime soon — because almost everyone has an excuse why they can’t participate.
We have all grown accustomed to a *very* pleasant standard of living. Even if you might think it’s hard to get by, try comparing your situation to that of an average person in Nigeria or Pakistan or India or Ethiopia. It’s not even close.
Nearly all of us in the Global North have a nice place to live, lots of clothing, regular meals, and plenty of entertainment right at our fingertips.
So when that call comes for a general strike — for everyone to stop going to work, stop paying bills, and stop shopping — well, sure, we might say, that sounds like a great idea. We support the cause, but unfortunately we just can’t do it right now. Because… reasons.
And that’s the problem. Everyone has reasons. We’ve all grown too comfortable — which is *entirely* by design. The empire knew they had to make us “fat and lazy” (metaphorically speaking), so we wouldn’t be so likely to take a stand against them.
In the late 19th century, when union organizers called for strikes, or when anarchists in the U.S. and Europe were urging an end to capitalism, it was easier for them to get cooperation and to find supporters.
In the 1930s, when a huge number of people were underemployed and times were tough all over, going on strike or campaigning for socialism didn’t mean as much of a sacrifice as it would for most of us today.
Starting in the 1950s, however, leaders and influential thinkers in the Global North realized that the best way to stay in power and enrich themselves would be to provide plenty of cheap “bread” and diverting “circuses” to their citizens.
So far, that’s working for them just as planned.
#History #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Sports
