For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg… ____________________________
I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age. ____________________________
Let’s get this right. Scientists didn’t fail to communicate the risks of #climatechange, they have been warning us for a century. Our policies are failing because after knowing the risks, fossil fuel companies spent billions of dollars blocking meaningful action on #climate.
A message from Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)... _________________________
School strike, week 251.
Today, I graduate from school, which means I’ll no longer be able to school strike for the climate. This is then the last school strike for me, so I guess I have to write something on this day.
When I started striking in 2018 I could never have expected that it would lead to anything. After striking every day for three weeks, we were a small group of children who decided to continue doing this every Friday. And we did, which is how Fridays For Future was formed.
Some more people joined, and quite suddenly this was a global movement growing every day. During 2019, millions of youth striked from school for the climate, flooding the streets in over 180 countries. When the pandemic started, we had to find new ways to protest.
With time, we started to get back on the streets again. We’re still here, and we aren’t planning on going anywhere. Much has changed since we started, and yet we have much further to go.
We are still moving in the wrong direction, where those in power are allowed to sacrifice marginalised and affected people and the planet in the name of greed, profit and economic growth. They continue to destabilise the biosphere and our life supporting systems. We’re rapidly approaching potential nonlinear ecological and climatic tipping points beyond our control.
And in so many parts of the world, we are even speeding up the process. There are probably many of us who graduate who now wonder what kind of future it is that we are stepping into, even though we did not cause this crisis.
We who can speak up have a duty to do so. In order to change everything, we need everyone. I’ll continue to protest on Fridays, even though it’s not technically “school striking”. We simply have no other option than to do everything we possibly can. The fight has only just begun. _________________________
right now there are trees being chopped down in Mississippi, USA. They are taken to a plant that smashes them up, makes pellets out of them, loads pellets on a truck, drives to the port, where they are put on a boat and shipped to UK. There, the pellets are taken off a boat, loaded on rail and truck to send to a electricity plant where they burn those pellets AND GET ENVIRONMENTAL $CREDITS$ for doing so, cause wood is categorized as a 'green' renewable bio-fuel #Climate theguardian.com/business/2023/…
We can either have a society that tolerates millionaires and billionaires polluting the planet and destroying the biosphere. Or we can have a planet with a healthy biosphere but with fewer millionaires and no billionaires at all.
This is from a recently published peer-reviewed scientific paper titled “Millionaire Spending Incompatible with 1.5 C Ambitions”... ______________________
Much evidence suggests that the wealthiest individuals contribute disproportionately to climate change. Here we study the implications of a continued growth in the number of millionaires for emissions, and its impact on the depletion of the remaining carbon budget to limit global warming to 1.5°C.
Our findings suggest that the share of millionaires in the world population will grow from 0.7% today to 3.3% in 2050, and cause accumulated emissions equivalent to 72% of the remaining carbon budget. This significantly reduces the chance of stabilizing climate change at 1.5°C.
The concentration of wealth at the top means that a significant share of the remaining carbon budget to 1.5°C is depleted by a very small share of humanity. This comparably small group is also likely to invest its wealth in ways that further increase emissions.
Continued growth in emissions at the top makes a low-carbon transition less likely, as the acceleration of energy consumption by the wealthiest is likely beyond the system's capacity to decarbonize. To this end, we question whether policy designs such as progressive taxes targeting the high emitters will be sufficient. ______________________
Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.
Physicist John Tyndall is often credited with discovering the greenhouse effect, which he wrote about in 1859.
But female scientist Eunice Foote published a paper - 3 years earlier - demonstrating how atmospheric water vapor & CO2 affected solar heating. She theorized that heat trapping gases in Earth’s atmosphere warm its #climate.
American Eunice Foote was an amateur scientist and women's rights pioneer from the mid-1800s whose experiments foreshadowed the discovery of Earth's greenhouse effect.
An astounding image of our moment at the precipice:
Climate activists standing against the inhuman-scale machinery of the open-pit Lützerath brown coal mine, with a wind farm visible in the distance. #climate #LützerathLebt #coal #renewable
❗️ BREAKING: XR DROP BANNER FROM WESTMINSTER BRIDGE ❗️
At 8am this morning, XR protesters dropped a banner from Westminster Bridge to signify the start of the 100 days campaign: 100,000 people @ Parliament from #April21. It's time to #ChooseYourFuture and #UniteToSurvive
You see that thin line of light? That's the edge of the atmospheric skin surrounding our planet. All the climate occurs in that little collection of gases, and that's what we're flooding with greenhouse gas contaminants. #climatechange #climate
I hear the following more often than I would like from some of my fellow educators: “My students can’t or won’t discuss climate change. They’re too privileged/preoccupied with their phones/ju…
Just posted a new article! I explore the possibility of combining Compressed Air Energy Storage with Biochar pyrolysis for a "shovel-ready" and rural friendly energy storage regime.
If you’re tuned into the world of renewable energy, you’ll know that rapidly building out global energy storage capabilities is a hot topic. With the rapid and long-overdue deployment of wind, solar…
#introduction systemic consultant for organizational development and design. I think that #cooperation, #commons and #self-organization in regional contexts is the only is the only way to get out of the climate crisis. I cooperate with different people/orgs in the area of self-organization, was part of a sustainable housing project for about 6 years (#MietshäuserSyndikat) and have quite extensive professional record in #developmentcooperation, #energy topics, #climate policy and infrastructure.
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