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Masto hive mind! A favour to ask...
I'm looking for British artists - ideally from marginal backgrounds, including BIPOC, disabled, working class, queer etc, who work on the environment and climate from an activist perspective. If can think of any names (or if that describes you!) please do let me know.
And boost for visibility please - thank you all kindly
"Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden"
#Extinction #MAGA #GOP #FossilFuel #Republicans #AntiScience #AntiEarth #Science #News #ClimateChange #Environment #Democrats #2024Election #Oil
Trump's Second Term Plans: Wildest Proposals if He Wins 2024 Election
Donald Trump has made a slew of promises related to the economy, immigration, climate change, and more should he win the 2024 election.Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)
Criticize the world's largest oil company? They'll sue you!!
(And I promise they can easily afford more and better lawyers than you can. Not to mention bribing judges.)
⬛️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/column-exxon-mobil-suing-shareholders-100046384.html
#Law #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
What makes capitalism so bad?
Let’s find out…
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The core defining feature of capitalism is that it is fundamentally anti-democratic.
Yes, many of us live in democratic *political* systems, where we get to elect candidates from time to time. But when it comes to the *economic* system, the system of production, not even the shallowest illusion of democracy is allowed to enter. Production is controlled by capital: large corporations, commercial banks, and the 1% who own the majority of investible assets… they are the ones who determine what to produce and how to use our collective labor and our planet’s resources.
And for capital, the purpose of production is NOT to meet human needs or achieve social and ecological objectives. Rather, it is to maximize and accumulate profit. That is the overriding objective.
So we get perverse patterns of investment: massive investment in producing things like fossil fuels, SUVs, fast fashion, industrial beef, cruise ships, and weapons, because these things are highly profitable to capital… but we get chronic *underinvestment* in necessary things like renewable energy, public transit, and regenerative agriculture, because these are much less profitable to capital or not profitable at all.
This is a critically important point to grasp. In many cases renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels! But they have much lower profit margins, because they are less conducive to monopoly power. So investment keeps flowing to fossil fuels, even while the world burns.
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That’s taken from a speech given recently by Dr. Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel), Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo.
FULL SPEECH -- https://progressive.international/blueprint/1f26392c-176d-405e-948e-75a6333edc45-climate-energy-and-natural-resources/en
SEE ALSO -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112401315568836622
#Politics #Capitalism #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Hickel: Climate, energy and natural resources
Speech by Jason Hickel, Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE, at the 50th Anniversary Congress in Havana.Progressive International
Canada is back in the news. And not in a good way…
HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfires forcing thousands to evacuate"
➡️ https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/canadian-wildfires-forcing-thousands-to-evacuate-210857029869
During the winter, numerous blazes in Canada — known as 'zombie fires' — smoldered beneath the snow. The combination of a warm and very dry winter set the stage for flames to quickly expand this spring.
Belts of extreme to exceptional drought are draped across the zone from central British Columbia to northern Alberta, where many of the worst fires rage. More than 100 fires were burning in British Columbia on Monday morning, and four dozen in Alberta. Other large blazes were scorching provinces to the east.
➡️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2024/05/13/canadian-wildfire-smoke-minnesota-wisconsin/
And what happens in Canada doesn't necessarily stay in Canada...
HEADLINE: "Canadian wildfire smoke chokes Upper Midwest for second straight year"
➡️ https://apnews.com/article/canadian-wildfires-air-quality-midwest-smoke-569be65d172bae427cd93ad8703c75ff
🔥 We are in a climate emergency. 🔥
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Canadian wildfires forcing thousands to evacuate
More than 100 active fires are burning across Canada, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes and sending smoke into the U.S. Air quality alerts have been issued across four states.NBCNews.com (NBC News)
When #Copernicus published its update "April 2024 was warmer globally than any previous April in the data record" I heard it in a casual radio message, followed by an update on football.
Even though I have to deal with #ClimateChange professionally, the realization that we are in an uncharted climate territory does not make it any less mind-boggling. Casually mentioning this unfolding threat to our civilization in between the really relevant news and sports borders with denialism.
#DontLookUp
I don't know about US, but in EU we're more worried about apocalyptic climate change that is accelerated by people continuing to burn stuff (including, but not limited to, in internal combustion engine cars) than a few car manufacturers having a hard time because they doggedly stuck to designing and making more shitty petrol, diesel & hybrid cars.
* Yes, all cars are bad.
Vermont Could Be the First State to Bill Oil Firms for Climate Damage.
The compensation due, according to one estimate, could reach $2.5 billion. #ClimateChange
At least 50 dead after flash flooding in northern Afghanistan | Afghanistan | The Guardian
All over the world, climate disasters #ClimateChange
At least 50 dead after flash flooding in northern Afghanistan
Death toll may rise as search continues for victims under mud and rubble and as more rain approachesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Brutal heatwaves and submerged cities: what a 3C world would look like
Climate scientists have told the Guardian they expect catastrophic levels of global heating. Here’s what that would mean for the planetDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
You Are Here.
Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history, and far earlier...
This is human-caused #climatechange.
Mexico is suffering from a massive heat wave, covering virtually the whole country.
According to the "Extreme Temperatures" account, Mexico yesterday experienced the hottest day in May in North American history.
🔥 https://toot.community/@extretemps/112418721980050581
A headline at Time tells us: "Mexico Is Fighting Over 100 Active Wildfires Amid a Heat Wave"
🔥 https://time.com/6976775/mexico-wildfires-heatwave/
And according to Reuters: "Mexico Heat Wave Triggers Exceptional Power Outages, President says"
🔥 https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-heat-wave-triggers-exceptional-power-outages-president-says-2024-05-08/
#Mexico #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
Mexico Is Fighting Over 100 Active Wildfires Amid a Heat Wave
Parts of the country have also been dealing with drought.Andrea Navarro / Bloomberg (Time)
How bad is the threat posed by climate change and ecological collapse?
It’s *much* worse than politicians or corporate media pundits will admit…
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The climate emergency is already here. Even just 1C of heating has supercharged the planet’s extreme weather, delivering searing heatwaves from the US to Europe to China that would have been otherwise impossible. Millions of people have very likely died early as a result already. At just 2C, the brutal heatwave that struck the Pacific Northwest of America in 2021 will be 100-200 times more likely.
A grave concern is climate tipping points, where a tiny temperature increase tips crucial parts of the climate system into collapse, such as the Greenland ice sheet, the Amazon rainforest, and key Atlantic currents. “Most people do not realise how big these risks are,” said Wolfgang Cramer, at the Mediterranean Institute of Biodiversity and Ecology.
“I am scared mightily – I don’t see how we are able to get out of this mess,” said Tim Benton, an expert on food security and food systems at the Chatham House thinktank. He said the cost of protecting people and recovering from climate disasters will be huge, with yet more discord and delay over who pays the bills. Numerous experts were worried over food production: “We’ve barely started to see the impacts,” said one.
“It is the biggest threat humanity has faced, with the potential to wreck our social fabric and way of life. It has the potential to kill millions, if not billions, through starvation, war over resources, displacement,” said James Renwick, at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. “None of us will be unaffected by the devastation.”
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
Exclusive: Survey of hundreds of experts reveals harrowing picture of future, but they warn climate fight must not be abandonedAlessia Amitrano (The Guardian)
Great, another source of emissions that has been underestimated.
The US obviously tops the charts, but other notable mentions are China, Australia and Norway.
Direct link to study: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ad3a7d
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #climate #aviation #USA #China #Australia #Norway
Climate emissions from air travel 50 per cent higher than reported
A new study that looked at almost 40 million flights in 2019 calculated the greenhouse gas emissions from air travel internationally.Nancy Bazilchuk (Norwegian SciTech News)
Last month was by far the warmest April that humans have ever experienced — our 11th *consecutive* record-breaking month. April 2024 was 1.58°C above the pre-industrial baseline.
🚨 We are in a climate emergency. 🚨
And yet, all we get from our “leaders” is more Business As Usual.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68947242
#ClimateChange
Government defeated in High Court over climate plans
Activists argued that the plan for cutting emissions would not meet the UK's climate targets.By Esme Stallard (BBC News)
There's a disgraceful ecosystem of public relations & lobbying firms using hackers for hire.
Sometimes they are used to silence critics & advocacy groups.
Like US nonprofits doing climate advocacy.
Our investigation into a group we christened #DarkBasin uncovered a sprawling #India-based hack-for-hire operation.
They enabled US corporations to outsource lawbreaking.
https://citizenlab.ca/2020/06/dark-basin-uncovering-a-massive-hack-for-hire-operation/
#infosec #cybersecurity #malware #hacking #climatechange #climatecrisis #exxon #phishing
Dark Basin: Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire Operation - The Citizen Lab
Over the course of our multi-year investigation, we found that Dark Basin likely conducted commercial espionage on behalf of their clients against opponents involved in high profile public events, criminal cases, financial transactions, news stories,…John Scott-Railton (The Citizen Lab)
California power grid now has batteries that can supply 10GW of power, which is a lot. Yesterday they peaked at 4GW vs. total power demand of 25GW in the evening, when solar peters out, per CAISO. (Power demand gets much higher in summer with air conditioning.)
#Energy #RenewableEnergy #Battery #Grid #ClimateChange https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/25/california-achieves-major-clean-energy-victory-10000-megawatts-of-battery-storage/
California Achieves Major Clean Energy Victory: 10,000 Megawatts of Battery Storage | California Governor
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The state has increased its battery storage capacity over tenfold since the beginning of the Newsom Administration.omarrodriguez (California Governor)
'“It’s fucking awful,” the softly spoken scientist says, emerging from the ocean. “They said the bleaching was extensive and uniform. They didn’t say it was extensive, uniform and fucking awful.
“It’s a graveyard out there.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/may/01/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-crisis
Great Barrier Reef’s worst bleaching leaves giant coral graveyard: ‘It looks as if it has been carpet bombed’
Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floodsMike Bowers (The Guardian)
To keep us distracted from what’s really going on in the world, our rulers constantly provide more and more circuses — a new Marvel superhero movie, the latest celebrity scandal of the week, a huge sale at Amazon — because if everyone was paying attention to *genuine* reality, the whole capitalist charade might just collapse.
But guess what: Earth's climate and environment pay no heed to such circuses. Instead, they respond directly to real physical inputs, the continual burning of fossil fuels, the ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the enormous heat being trapped and absorbed...
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March 2024 was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.
It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit global warming.
Every month since June 2023 has beaten its own "hottest ever" tag – and March 2024 was no exception.
The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that March globally was 1.68ºC hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.
Huge swathes of the planet endured above-average temperatures, from parts of Africa to Greenland, South America, and Antarctica.
March was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58ºC above pre-industrial averages.
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#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
Last 12 months have been the hottest ever recorded on the planet
The EU's climate monitor said Tuesday that March globally was 1.68°C hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
Every day for the last 50 years, the oil and gas industry has brought in $3 BILLION in profits. Not revenues. Profits.
EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.
That’s 💵 💵 💵 $52 trillion 💵 💵 💵 in pure profit, their payoff for happily destroying our climate and biosphere.
We need system change NOW.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
Revealed: oil sector’s ‘staggering’ $3bn-a-day profits for last 50 years
Vast sums provide power to ‘buy every politician’ and delay action on climate crisis, says expertDamian Carrington (The Guardian)
Latest comic: No-so-silent Spring
#leafblowers #environment #climatechange #noisepollution #cartoon #comic #climate #climatecrisis #earthday
Protecting Biodiversity Means Saving the Wetlands.
Wetlands cover just 6 percent of the planet’s land area but provide habitat for 40 percent of wildlife. #ClimateChange
It's time to get to work — on system change.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth
People in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and even 90s are not too old to to save the planet. Third Act members from DC, MD, and VA converged on a Citibank in DC today. Since 2015, Citi has financed more than $332 billion in oil and gas projects, many located in communities of color.
Today, we shut down the bank, calling out Citi's racism and greed. The #SummerOfHeat is just beginning, with repeated nonviolent actions. That's the kind of heat our children can live with.
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
#earthday
#ClimateChange
#gardening
#Allotment
For Researchers.
Understanding the global carbon cycle and enhanced carbon loss from soil as VOCs.
Did you know? During droughts soil microbes convert less carbon to carbon dioxide and more to volatile intermediates.
https://science.osti.gov/ber/Highlights/2024/3a
#climate #climateChange #extremeWeather #science #education #earthScience #geoSciences #biology #fediScience #scienceMastodon
BER During Droughts, Soil Microb... | U.S. DOE Office of Science(SC)
In a warmer world, microbes in drought-stricken soils convert less carbon to carbon dioxide and more to volatile intermediates.Office of Science (science.osti.gov)
Today's #Climate #education for all.
Identifying climate tipping points.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-03-14
#science #education #climateChange #sustainability #fediScience #scienceMastodon #K12 #HigherEd #lifelongLearning
Johns Hopkins Scientists Leverage AI to Discover Climate ‘Tipping Points’
Researchers from Johns Hopkins APL and the Johns Hopkins Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences are developing a modeling tool to predict climate “tipping points,” critical thresholds that, when crossed, can lead to large and often irreversible c…Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
For Climate Researchers:
All things connected.
Tracking our changing global water cycle
using intensifying el-nino event driven salinity changes in the ocean surface
as signal.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/how-nasa-spotted-el-nino-changing-the-saltiness-of-coastal-waters
#education #climateChange #oceans #oceanography #marineChemistry #extremeWeather
#science #fediScience #scienceMastodon
How NASA Spotted El Niño Changing the Saltiness of Coastal Waters
New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land.NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
Today, learn about the 32 U.S coastal cities, affecting up to 500,000 people, that are at an increased risk of experiencing one or more major flooding events in the next twenty years, due to land subsidence and sea-level rise. https://news.vt.edu/articles/2024/01/research-sinkingcoasts.html
#education #climateChange #oceans #oceanography #marineChemistry #extremeWeather
#science #fediScience #scienceMastodon #K12 #higherEd #lifelongLearning
Study: Sinking land increases risk for thousands of coastal residents by 2050
Published in Nature, the study provides a new comprehensive look at the potential for flooding in a combined 32 cities along the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts.news.vt.edu
New study shows arctic is likely to begin experiencing completely ice free summers
within -ten years, possibly less.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/03/05/arctic-could-become-ice-free-within-decade
#education #climateChange #globalWarming #seaIce #oceans #science #fediScience #scienceMastodon #k12 #higherEd #lifelongLearning
The Arctic could become ‘ice-free’ within a decade
While summer sea ice loss in the Arctic is inevitable, it can be reversed if the planet cools down, CU Boulder researchers say.CU Boulder Today
The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What”
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The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American #climate migration is underway.
#ClimateChange #Louisiana #Hurricanes #Housing #Environment #News
Climate Change Is Already Forcing People From Their Homes
The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway.ProPublica
Previously: As #drought rages across #Texas, a high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available #water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export. https://www.texasobserver.org/water-energy-environment-corpus/
#ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #SouthTexas #USpol #pollution
Water Scarcity and Clean Energy Collide in South Texas
A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.Dylan Baddour (The Texas Observer)
Utility-related fires are wreaking havoc across the United States. Since 2017, fires related to electricity transmission have burned at least 3 million acres.
New today: A closer look at the #Texas Panhandle fire, and why it's a grim preview of our near future. From our friends at Sierra Club magazine ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/
#wildfire #ClimateChange #environment #news #politics #USpol #weather #fire #drought #energy
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)
PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic #water for most of his life.
New today, an excerpt from Loose of Earth: A Memoir, by published April 2024, from Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn. https://www.texasobserver.org/pfas-texas-memoir-forever-chemicals/
#politics #environment #pollution #EPA #books @bookstodon #ClimateChange #health #cancer #USpol
New Memoir: 'Forever Chemicals,' Religion, and Family Tragedy in Texas
PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn (The Texas Observer)
“Climate change poses an additional challenge by fundamentally shifting #wildfire risk, fire behavior, and the trajectory of postfire recovery in ways that current fire behavior models … are not designed to meet.”
Yesterday: In about a day, the Smokehouse Creek Fire set 62 square miles ablaze, and it's just the beginning when it comes to our future ... https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-panhandle-fire-climate-environment/
#ClimateChange #environment #weather #Texas #politics #USpol #OilAndGas #energy #news
The Epic Texas Panhandle Fire Is Just a Preview
Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.Christopher Collins (The Texas Observer)
We may think its obvious; that all we need to do is explain the right way then everyone will do the right thing.
But if it is clear that this strategy isn't working well enough, then doesn't that suggest that we are asking the wrong question?
#ClimateChange #climatechaos #philosophy #psychology #humanity #world #death #life #courage
https://vocal.media/earth/carpe-diem-yr1qr40u5y
Carpe Diem?
What is needed to stop prioritising living for today and instead think of our tomorrows?Earth
UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather | Farming | The Guardian
UK facing food shortages and price rises after extreme weather
Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting importsHelena Horton (The Guardian)
Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record, US government scientists have confirmed.
Coral reefs are rich in biodiversity and provide habitat to a quarter of all marine species.
#climateChange #climateCatastrophe #climateEmergency #climateBreakdown #tippingPoint
Global heating pushes coral reefs towards worst planet-wide mass bleaching on record
The percentage of reef areas experiencing bleaching-level heat stress is increasing by about 1% a week, scientists sayGraham Readfearn (The Guardian)