Search
Items tagged with: degrowth
steadyhq.com/de/treibhauspost/…
We know — and our rulers certainly know — that if we are to have any hope of preserving even a limited version of today’s complex modern society, greenhouse gas emissions MUST go down, swiftly and urgently.
But instead, emissions continue going up and up and up. It is literally suicidal.
So, WHY haven't we stopped burning fossil fuels?
Because there are profits to be made. Huge, massive, irresistibly tempting profits.
In a sane world, these actions would be seen as criminal.
Perpetrators like fossil fuel executives, their financiers, and the politicians who enable them, would be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted, with assets forfeited to pay for mitigation and reparations.
But we do not live in a sane world.
#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Degrowth
products should come with information about energy and water consumption used in its production.
XX Liters of water and ZZ megawatts were used in the production of e. g. the simple bottle of water. or these sneakers. or this very forgettable AI image.
in the case of AI it should come with a warning that using and defending AI will make you look really stupid and irresponsible.
Devastating review of the degrowth literature (561 studies):
- 'few studies use quantitative or qualitative data...'
- [those that do] 'tend to include small samples or focus on non-representative cases'
- 'large majority (almost 90%) are opinions rather than analysis'
Remember when the politicians kept telling us that Climate Change was too expensive to fight?
They said that Oil Executives buying mega yachts was more important than the rest of us having food, or viable living conditions.
This is the second "once in a century" flood in the Toronto area this summer
#FossilFuels
#Degrowth
#ClimateChange
toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18…
GTA sees more rain a day after record-setting downpour
Environment and Climate Change Canada issued a weather alert on Sunday for Toronto, Peel, York, and Durham regions.Denio Lourenco (CityNews Toronto)
After casual brushes with #accelerationism and #longterminism I am extremely weary about this #degrowth idea I just learned about.
I fear that if I scratch the surface, there will be a promise of a large pile of dead bodies of the "out group"
#fascism got a bad rep, so it's slapping new labels on its core beliefs to recruit more enthusiastic grayshirts/redhats.
Important thread by @jasonhickel about the inequality of the distribution of labour, the disproportionate extraction of value from the global south that facilitates the Imperial Mode of Living in the North.
Hickel is one of the leading scholars behind the #degrowth movement and his work is often enlightening.
This thread is no different.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/181…
Thread by @jasonhickel on Thread Reader App
@jasonhickel: In this new paper we calculate the unequal exchange of labour between the global North and global South. The results are quite staggering. You'll want to look at this... 🧵 nature.com/articles/s4146… Fi...…threadreaderapp.com
Witnessing @cas getting OnePlus 8 display working on Linux 📱
This is magic 🧙
#postmarketOS #Linux #hardwareEnablement #deGrowth
Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics.
Overnight shipping, advertising, and private jets no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.
“The Growing Popularity of Degrowth”
See -- grist.org/looking-forward/the-…
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Degrowth
The growing popularity of degrowth - Grist
Excerpts from a Q&A with bestselling degrowth author Kohei Saito.Grist
A large group of scientists has collaborated to produce the "2023 State of the Climate" report. And guess what, it's not pretty...
_________________________
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory.
For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up. We are seeing the manifestation of those predictions as an alarming and unprecedented succession of climate records are broken, causing profoundly distressing scenes of suffering to unfold. We are entering an unfamiliar domain regarding our climate crisis, a situation no one has ever witnessed firsthand in the history of humanity.
In the present report, we display a diverse set of vital signs of the planet and the potential drivers of climate change and climate-related responses. The trends reveal new all-time climate-related records and deeply concerning patterns of climate-related disasters. At the same time, we report minimal progress by humanity in combating climate change.
Given these distressing developments, our goal is to communicate climate facts and policy recommendations to scientists, policymakers, and the public. It is the moral duty of scientists and our institutions to clearly alert humanity of any potential existential threat and to show leadership in taking action.
The effects of global warming are progressively more severe, and possibilities such as a worldwide societal breakdown are feasible and dangerously underexplored. By the end of this century, an estimated 3 to 6 billion individuals — approximately one-third to one-half of the global population — might find themselves confined beyond the livable region, encountering severe heat, limited food availability, and elevated mortality rates because of the effects of climate change.
Big problems need big solutions. Therefore, we must shift our perspective on the climate emergency from being just an isolated environmental issue to a systemic, existential threat. Although global heating is devastating, it represents only one aspect of the escalating and interconnected environmental crisis that we are facing (e.g., biodiversity loss, fresh water scarcity, pandemics). We need policies that target the underlying issues of ecological overshoot where the human demand on Earth's resources results in overexploitation of our planet and biodiversity decline.
To address the overexploitation of our planet, we challenge the prevailing notion of endless growth and overconsumption by rich countries and individuals as unsustainable and unjust. Instead, we advocate for reducing resource overconsumption; reducing, reusing, and recycling waste in a more circular economy; and prioritizing human flourishing and sustainability. We emphasize climate justice and fair distribution of the costs and benefits of climate action, particularly for vulnerable communities. We call for a transformation of the global economy to prioritize human well-being and to provide for a more equitable distribution of resources.
_________________________
It's wonderful to see these scientists boldly calling for system change in the face of a planetary overshoot emergency. Now if only someone will listen...
FULL REPORT -- academic.oup.com/bioscience/ad…
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth
The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory
Life on planet Earth is under siege. We are now in an uncharted territory. For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extremRipple, William J (Oxford University Press)
The Spanish Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, calls for #degrowth and eco-socialism in this fantastic, well-researched post.
It's so inspiring to see these ideas starting to break through also at the political level!
la-u.org/the-limits-to-growth-…
The limits to growth: eco-socialism or barbarism - laU
In this article, we assess the current position and review how the production and consumption model lies behind ecological breakdowns and why the only democratic political solution to the eco-social crisis is the eco-socialist project.Alberto Garzón Espinosa (laU)
Hello new followers! I've been bad at hashtags, which are crucial here for discoverability, so here's some of them.
I try to toot interesting things related to #activism about #ClimateChange / #ClimateCrisis / #EarthBreakdown, from the perspective of #degrowth / #ClimateJustice / #sustainability. I'm one tiny part of #ExtinctionRebellion.
I build #FOSS / #OpenSource / #commons and #SmallTech using #rust and will write more about that soon.
Third, occasionally #philosophy, #anticapitalism.