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A message from Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg)...
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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.
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#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
We can have one of two things — but not both.
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”...
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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.
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Like I said, we can have one thing or the other — but not both.
READ THE PAPER --sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
#Politics #Capitalism #Inequality #CO2 #Emissions #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice
This ancient goat willow is half-tree, half-octopus!
It may have been broken by a Cumbrian storm, but is still very much alive - and supporting lots of other life too. One of my favourite trees 💚
#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict
Learn about software-driven #environmental harm and how to combat it with #FreeSoftware!
Come to 📍 Room AW1.126 (#energy devroom) at #FOSDEM from 🕟 16:30-17 (CET).
Or 🖥️ watch online.
More information here: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…
#KDE #KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #OpenSource #sustainability #environment #ecology
"What Lies Ahead", a painting I created at the beginning of 2020. Feels like a lifetime ago.
#MastoArt #DigitalPainting #DigitalArt #Illustration #Art #Anime #Landscape #Environment
The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that’s more than the entire United Kingdom.Website Carbon Calculator
This cartoon hits hard.
It hits even harder when you notice the 2007 publication date in the lower right corner.
#climate #environment #nature #COP15 #COP27 #sustainability #PredatoryDelay
This comic hits home, but when you see the 2007 publishing date in the lower right hand corner it hits even harder.
#climate #nature #sustainability #environment
Little photo study from a while ago...
used photo: Beach by Tony George on Flickr
#photostudy #digitalart #landscape #environment #beach #rock #gameart
#KDE #software is many things: free, beautiful, performant, customizable. How about all of that plus #sustainable?
KDE adopts #SustainableSoftware as one of 3 overarching goals to focus on!
> Software has an impact on our future. It has an affect on #energy and #resource usage. KDE can deliver software which does this in a way which preserves #environment and society for us and future generations.
community.kde.org/Goals/Sustai…
#KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #ClimateCrisis
📣 Awesome #Job Alert!!! 📣 (boosts appreciated)
We're hiring.
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer for #Terraso. Full remote work on an #opensource project with a mission to help landscape communities organize for the #environment and #SustainableDevelopment.
In the coming months we're building #mapping, #DataCollection and learning tools.
Honestly its such a cool project. Every day I go to work with wonderful people and try to save the world. Come work with me.
Check it out! jobs.lever.co/TechMatters/cea5…
Also learn more:
- terraso.org
- landscapes.global
Tech Matters is seeking a senior software engineer to help build the Terraso platform, an open source project delivering critical software tools to empower communities around the world to adopt sustainable practices addressing the climate change cris…jobs.lever.co
The link between climate change and serious and organised crime is complex. On one hand, criminals infiltrate legal businesses and organisations aimed at protecting the environment. On the other hand, criminal activities such as wildlife trafficking and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, but also illicit drug production, counterfeiting of goods, and several types of fraud have direct and indirect
environmental impacts
europol.europa.eu/publications… #ClimateEmergency #pollution #environment
This is Europol’s latest threat assessment on environmental crime. Environmental crime has become a key threat to global security and a profitable criminal activity, as much in the EU as worldwide.Europol
What are you breathing? Get a free Air Quality report for your address. See if it exceeds World Health Organization limits for clean air. #addresspollutionaddresspollution.org
