What is "Amoc" and why is it so important?
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The dangers of a collapse of the main Atlantic Ocean circulation, known as Amoc, have been “greatly underestimated” and would have devastating and irreversible impacts, according to an open letter released by 44 experts from 15 countries.

There are indications that Amoc has been slowing down for the last 60 or 70 years due to global heating. The most ominous sign is the cold blob over the northern Atlantic. The region is the only place in the world that has cooled in the past 20 years or so, while everywhere else on the planet has warmed – a sign of reduced heat transport into that region, exactly what climate computer models have predicted in response to Amoc slowing as a result of greenhouse gas emissions.

Another indicator is a reduction in the salt content of seawater. In the cold blob region, salinity is at its lowest level since measurements began 120 years ago. This is probably linked to Amoc slowing down and bringing less salty water and heat from the subtropics.

It is an amplifying feedback: as Amoc gets weaker, the oceans gets less salty, and as the oceans gets less salty, then Amoc gets weaker. At a certain point this becomes a vicious cycle which continues by itself until Amoc has died, even if we stop pushing the system with further emissions.

The big unknown here – the billion-dollar question – is how far away this tipping point is. It is very difficult to answer because the process is non-linear and would be triggered by subtle differences in salinity, which in turn depend on amounts of rainfall and cloud cover over the ocean as well as Greenland melting rates. These are hard to model accurately in computers so there is a big uncertainty relating to when the tipping point will be reached.
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FULL ARTICLE -- theguardian.com/environment/20…

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Spent yesterday afternoon in jail after trying to blockade a TotalEnergies site in the #Antwerp harbor in #Belgium with #CodeRouge
While our group didn't get to the intended target, we took up a lot of police capacity to give our comrades the chance to complete our plans.
Shut that shit down!

youtube.com/watch?v=AQicURSP1-…

#Activism #CodeRougeRood #CodeRood #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateDiary

First day of Blockade #StopTotal

📣 Today we blocked with more than 1000 activists the sites of TotalEnergies in Feluy and the port of Antwerp! #StopTotal 💚👏The fossil fuel industry makes ...

^YouTube

We’re in the middle of a climate crisis and AI is sucking up entire nations worth of energy and water so people can make horrible art, turn in plagiarized essays, and post in social media.

How is this a thing?

#AI #ClimateCrisis

Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street.
This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak.
We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.

politico.eu/article/brussels-g…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Brussels #Belgium #Activism #CivilDisobedience

What a set of headlines, can't get any more dystopian than that. The rich go into vanity trips into space, while the common people down below drown.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #climate #space #spacex

Summer 2024 was the hottest on record both globally and for Europe according to #CopernicusClimate data

🌡️ During the past three months of 2024, the globe has experienced the hottest June and August, the hottest day on record, and the hottest boreal summer on record

🌡️ It is increasingly likely that 2024 will be the warmest year on record

💙🤍💙🤍💛🧡💛🧡❤️❤️❤️💔

More: climate.copernicus.eu/copernic…

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

Roger Hallam is one of the founders of Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion, and a leader in the fight against global climate change. I would like you to read this statement he posted yesterday… 🧵1/4
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I've just been sentenced to 5 years in prison.

The longest ever for nonviolent action.

The 'crime'?

Giving a talk on civil disobedience as an effective, evidence-based method for stopping the elite from putting enough carbon in the atmosphere to send us to extinction.

I have given hundreds of similar speeches encouraging nonviolent action and have never been arrested for it. This time I was an advisor to the M25 motorway disruption, recommending the action to go ahead to wake up the British public to societal collapse.

I was not part of the planning or action itself.

In the trial, I swore before God to tell the truth. The truth is the science. The science is clear. We're heading for billions of deaths and ecological collapse. To prove this, I presented the jury with a 250-page dossier of leading scientists' research as evidence in my defence. This was denied by the judge as an invalid - climate science is now illegal in the British courtroom.

I then began to speak about the apocalyptic conditions humanity faces - floods, wildfires, mass heat deaths - and was silenced by the judge. He sent out the jury and threatened to arrest me if I didn't stop. Instead, I stayed in the dock and argued that until I was given the right to complete my defence – I would not move. Even the prosecution tried to argue in my defence and the judge let me continue.

When the jury had shuffled in again, I spoke about the legal concept of “equality of arms” – that as the prosecution had had a right to lay facts over a whole week, I also wanted an equal opportunity. I spoke of various cases where juries had acquitted defendants when they had heard the facts, such as the Extinction Rebellion cracking of Shell's windows in 2018 as a reasonable action against criminal destruction. The Dutch Supreme Court has even said that all governments have a legal obligation to prevent the emission of greenhouse gases. Whilst the prosecution accepted that emissions pose an existential threat, for the first time in British history no less, they still tried to convict us for public nuisance rather than praise us for trying to stop those emissions. Given the objectivity of existential threat, there were overwhelming grounds to be involved in a plan to cause some disruption to the M25.

In the British law on public nuisance, there is a ‘reasonable excuse’ clause. Science says there is an overwhelming threat to my life, my children, you and your children. To argue there is not a reasonable excuse directly defies the wish of this legislation. Things are happening that cause harm – people are engaged in physical acts to stop that harm – it doesn’t matter whether it’s a protest or not.

As I began to offer up some case law, the judge kept intervening telling me I was “wasting my time” and ordering the jury to disregard me. To illustrate that I was not talking about my motivations but speaking about real necessity, I referred to a famous case over a decision to operate on conjoined twins with the likelihood that one would die. In this dilemma, I quoted the 19th Century principle that the action was necessary if the threat faced was inevitable and irrevocable, that no more should be done than essential, and that it must be proportionate. I argued that there was a “duress of circumstances” including the objective danger I’ve experienced as a farmer unable to grow food, and the global significance of “food insecurity” – a euphemism for famine and starvation.

There has never been a moment in history where ‘necessity’ has been more supported by objective facts – more than 10,000 scientific and peer-reviewed papers, indicating an outcome of mass starvation and death from man-made climate collapse.

In response, Judge Hehir called for an early lunch and dismissed the jury. He turned to me and warned that I wasn't a lawyer and that “this is not the Roger Hallam show”.

He then gave me just 15 more minutes to put forward my “beliefs” - a totally fucking incoherent statement. This isn’t belief - it’s the objective threat of destruction of property and livelihoods of billions of people and the secondary effects of famine i.e. war, rape, and torture.
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That's Part 1 of 4. Read the next below...

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

Bloomberg's private army, courtesy of bootlicking Eric Adams

«A 63-year-old climate activist and professional cellist faces up to seven years in prison after being arrested on Thursday while performing a Bach solo outside the headquarters of one of the world’s largest fossil fuel financier Citibank in downtown New York»

Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates | US news | The Guardian
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

#ClimateCrisis #democrats

Cello-playing climate activist arrested at New York Citibank protest as crackdown escalates

Second activist also arrested during ‘summer of heat’ protest against second largest financier of fossil fuels

^{Nina Lakhani (The Guardian)}

Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM…

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley

Honest Government Ad | AI

The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...

^YouTube

Nice work. No notes.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

Holy crap. In the EU, fuel consumption monitoring devices are required on new cars. They studied over 10% of all cars sold in 2021 and turns out they use way more fuel, and generate way more CO2, than anybody thought. Nearly a quarter more. Plug-in Hybrids do poorly too.

This means our projections about getting cars off the road for the climate crisis is hugely undercounting the effects. More rail, more e-bikes, more electric, faster.

#ClimateCrisis #CO2 #TheWarOnCars
mastodon.ie/@sinabhfuil/112138…

p.s.: Dnesny #NewsFilter #DenníkN je aj o #ClimateCrisis aj starnutiu populacie:

1) Zakvitli vám ovocné stromy? Nie ste v tom sami
2) Bratislava bude v roku 2050 mestom šesťdesiatnikov

dennikn.sk/3860744/newsfilter-…

A potom nepriamo aj o tom, ako ani to prve, ani to druhe, nie je "politickou prioritou". O.i. lebo #Fico hviezdi na ruzzkej dezinfoscene a pod.

Newsfilter: Kaliňák hviezdil pri amerických stíhačkách, Fico v ruských médiách

1. Jeden Robert to istí na Východe, druhý na Západe. 2. Zakvitli vám ovocné stromy? Nie ste v tom sami. 3. Bratislava bude v roku 2050 mestom šesťdesiatnikov. 

^{Denník N}

"Nebude ľahké žiť s vedomím, že – akokoľvek tesná – väčšina spoločnosti v nejakej miere prehliada popravu dvoch mladých ľudí, ktorí patrili k tým najlepším v mladej generácii."

dennikn.sk/3838729/jan-a-marti…

#AllForJan

p.s.: A podobne je to s "prehliadanim" kopy inych veci: riadne vzdelavanie a vyskum, #ClimateCrisis, atd.

Ján a Martina – otázky viny

Vyslovili voliči vládnej koalície spätný súhlas s popravou dvoch mladých ľudí? Myslím si, že áno.

^{Martin M. Šimečka (Denník N)}

1/? 🧵 My #Solarpunk Link Collection

I’ll use this post to collect Links to resources (and people) within the solarpunk movement.

Podcasts: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Youtube Channels: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Authors here on Mastodon: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…
Free online stories I liked: mastodon.floe.earth/@lex/11187…

#climatecrisis #art #activism #books #bookstodon

On #offshore #WindFarms, #seafood production may be a breeze: In addition to generating #CleanEnergy, sea locations with turbines could be used to grow #mussels, #oysters and #seaweed projects.research-and-innovati…

"The foods grown included #BlueMussels and various types of seaweed, sometimes in combination with the #restoration of #OysterBeds... The resulting yields were comparable to those in calmer nearshore waters and away from other infrastructure"

#Renewables #ClimateCrisis #EnergyTransition

Climate change is about saving the humanity and the corresponding ecosystem so that we people are saved. It is not about saving the planet which will change and continue. It is all about us.

#ClimateChange#CimateEmergency#ClimateCrisis
Reference: Climate change isn’t about saving the planet: It’s about saving the people

Climate change isn’t about saving the planet: It’s about saving the people

Apathy is a gamble on our lives: We humans are the ones at risk

^{Deborah Brosnan, Ph.D., opinion contributor (The Hill)}

These fuckers are content to watch us die.

This bullshit is going to condemn our species to extinction unless we find a way to depose these sociopaths.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

#cop28 #copOut #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

This is the first thing I’ve seen from a major press outlet that even resembles a stick in the eye of conventional economic wisdom. And it is absolutely on point.

We must scream at the top of lungs, and shame any who dare, try to defend the conventional orthodox economic machine that is tearing our children’s future down around their ears. #FUCKNORDHAUS!!!

Please, I beg you, circulate this article as far and wide as you can.

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #economics
theintercept.com/2023/10/29/wi…

When Idiot Savants Do Climate Economics

How William Nordhaus and an elite clique of math-addled economists hijacked climate policy.

^{Christopher Ketcham (The Intercept)}

A large group of scientists has collaborated to produce the "2023 State of the Climate" report. And guess what, it's not pretty...
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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.
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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

A timely and rather shocking meme, to which I have added #AltText...

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

TODAY IN SPAIN!

The northern Spanish city of Zaragoza was inundated by a heavy downpour in less than 20 minutes. The fire brigade had to rescue desperate people from their cars.
#climate #climatechange #weather #ClimateEmergency #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #Spain

For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg…
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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.
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bookwyrm.social/user/BreadAndC…

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice

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

Nice writeup from #KDE people about their experiences measuring the power consumption and environmental impact of software: eco.kde.org/handbook/

#ClimateCrisis #SoftwareDevelopment

Handbook

KDE Demo Handbook

^Handbook

There's an interesting new paper in the journal Ecological Economics. The title is:

"Assessing US consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of top 1%"
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

This is from the abstract --

Unsustainable environmental degradation and extreme economic inequality are two of humanity's most pressing challenges. They are intimately linked. Climate-altering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are disproportionately driven by consumption among wealthy and socially privileged groups, yet poorer and socially marginalized peoples face disproportionate climate harms.
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What really grabbed me, however, was the chart below, created by Andrew Fanning using data contained in the paper. It clearly illustrates the massive scale of carbon inequality in our modern society.

#Inequality #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

#ClimateCrisis #OceanWarming

cbsnews.com/news/climate-chang…

Ocean heat shatters record with warming equal to 5 atomic bombs exploding "every second" for a year. Researchers say it's "getting worse."

For the fourth year in a row, ocean heat has shattered a new record. Here's what it means for the planet.

^{Li Cohen (CBS News)}

#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

From Uni of Reading (@UniofReading@):

"In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of Reading Meteorology shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods."

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNOW #ClimateEmergency #heatwave #summer

This podcast episode of #techWontSaveUs explores why billionaires don't see the climate crisis as a threat to themselves, unless it's runaway climate change where Earth might become like Venus.

listennotes.com/podcasts/tech-…

#podcast #ClimateCrisis #LongTermism

The Dangerous Ideology of the Tech Elite w/ Phil Torres

00:55:03 - Paris Marx is joined by Phil Torres to discuss why longtermism isn’t just about long-ter…

^{Paris Marx}

"Breaking Boundaries" is a good documentary on planetary boundaries and the perils of infinite growth on a finite planet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking…

Most discussions about the climate crisis are centred around emissions of vehicles and industries. This documentary explores 9 different planetary boundaries of which atmospheric pollution is just one.

It features actual climate scientists and conservationists; not people parroting the ideologies of billionaires.

#ClimateCrisis #Ecology

2021 documentary film by Jon Clay

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

We are too late! We can moderate the impact a little bit and even that is worth fighting for! Also let's build a new society, independent from the existing one, because that one is lost. Let's fight the capitalist, patriarchal and authoritarian system(s) who created this mess! And in the mean time have solidarity with all people, except the ones who are guilty of this.

🧵 tweets.todon.eu/LeonSimons8/st…

From @LeonSimons8@.com:

"BREAKING!

NASA data shows our Earth is heating at unprecedented speed: 1.64 W/m²

Another 12-month EEI record (from Mar21-Feb22). That's a lot of additional energy in the Earth's system, available to heat oceans, land and atmosphere, melt ice and increase sea levels.

1/"

#ClimateCollapse #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #TippingPoint

While the #ClimateCrisis escalates, #HSBC continues to pour fuel on the fire. Their post-Paris fossil fuel financing now exceeds $130 BILLION

📄 ran.org/wp-content/uploads/202…

🎶 Money, money, money,
🎶 It’s so scummy
🎶 In HSBC’s world

via #MoneyRebellion #moa #DefundClimateChaos

"Climate activists are sometimes depicted as dangerous radicals, but the truely dangerous radicals are countries that are increasing production of fossil fuels."

António Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN

Source: youtube.com/clip/UgkxsfwVq8gAU…
#ClimateCrisis #EndFossilFuels #moa

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.