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Remember that this is a choice — a choice that has been made for us. It doesn’t *have* to be this way.
Did any of us consent to this? Are we consenting to it now?
We can’t opt out. But can we opt in, and force a different choice?
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Degrowth
Happy birthday to #geochemist Charles David Keeling (1928 - 2005) whose decades long observations of CO2 in air samples from Mauna Loa Observatory were some of the 1st direct data to show the human contribution to greenhouse effect & global warming. The 'Keeling Curve' (in copper & red) shows both the seasonal variations (the wiggles) & the strong upward trend with time as the greenhouse gas built up in the atmosphere. 🧵1/
#linocut #printmaking #climateChange #geochemistry #sciart #MastoArt
This #EarthDay, a series of some of our favorites on what makes Earth unique, ending #climatechange and what climate #activism is actually working ⬇️
🌎 Dispelling 3 big myths about climate activism (It's not just young people and throwing soup cans at expensive art kind of works): https://theconversation.com/climate-activists-arent-just-young-people-dispelling-3-big-myths-for-earth-day-225269
🌎 How to cope with 'eco-anxiety': https://theconversation.com/eco-anxiety-climate-change-affects-our-mental-health-heres-how-to-cope-202477
🌎 Will the Earth last forever?
https://theconversation.com/will-the-earth-last-forever-203021
🌎 The many reasons to protect the planet: https://theconversation.com/should-we-protect-nature-for-its-own-sake-for-its-economic-value-because-it-makes-us-happy-yes-180302
Climate activists aren’t just young people – dispelling 3 big myths for Earth Day
Not all activists are in the media spotlight, but they’re crucial to promoting action to slow climate change.The Conversation
More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing
In honor of Earth Day, Vox launched a special Home Planet package. Here's the entire collection, which includes fascinating stories on giving up meat, fostering pigeons and the "Squirrel Census."
#EarthDay #ClimateChange #Climate #Green #GreenLiving
Home Planet
Stories that celebrate life on Earth and deeper ways of connecting with our shared home.Vox (Flipboard)
Corporate climate plans are improving, but still ‘critically insufficient’
New analysis finds "quite a big gap" between 51 companies' emissions targets and their plans to actually achieve them.Joseph Winters (Grist)
President Joe Biden is marking Earth Day by launching a website for applications for his Climate Corps jobs and training program, a plan that has attracted a lot of interest from young Americans.
NPR reports: "Eventually, the corps will employ more than 20,000 young people."
I hate articles like this. A vegan shopping bag toting, straw refusing person is not going to do jack for the #ClimateCrisis
Instead of writing about actual solutions to #ClimateBreakdown like going after oil producers, pointlessly large car manufacturers, fast fashion, or Amazon. The tail wagging writers doing the billionaires bidding has once again pinned the problem on you, the consumer with no agency except to pick one brand of potato chip over the other in a desperate attempt to reduce your plastic by micro grams while Bezos has bridges removed so he can float his yacht out to sea.
#MediaIsComplicit in #ClimateChange from doing Exxon's climate denial bidding back in the day to obfuscating the real problem now.
Earth Day: How one grocery shopper takes steps to avoid 'pointless plastic'
Nature wraps bananas and oranges in peels. But in some modern supermarkets, they're bagged or wrapped in plastic too.CTVNews
It’s #EarthDay & I’m giving a talk all about the global food system & its impact on the environment.
The agricultural sector is one of the most significant + immediately scalable places to have impact.
Since my talk isn’t public, here’s a great piece from @globalecoguy & the good folks at Project Drawdown. https://drawdown.org/news/insights/how-food-and-farming-will-determine-the-fate-of-planet-earth
#climatechange #science #food
How food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth
Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm and eat.Project Drawdown
Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average
#GlobalWarming #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
Europe is warming twice as fast as global average, leading climate monitors say
In a year of contrasting extremes, Europe witnessed scorching heatwaves but also catastrophic flooding, withering droughts, violent storms and its largest wildfire.TheJournal.ie
Someone posted the following article a week or so ago. It touches on a topic many here might understand. Climate risk includes systemic shocks could trigger a break down in the global and even national economies. Locality is an insurance policy.
“Then there are things that can be done quickly, and locally. Communities that “had been doing some of this work before the pandemic hit were better able to adapt” to the 2020 disruptions…”
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https://newrepublic.com/post/180192/food-atlantic-ocean-climate-crop-failure-prepare
How to Avoid Food System Collapse
If Atlantic Ocean currents break down, the Northern Hemisphere could face crop failures. So why isn’t there a plan for that?The New Republic
#earthday
#ClimateChange
#gardening
#Allotment
Lethal heat in West Africa driven by human-caused climate change
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.npr.org/2024/04/18/1245524216/west-africa-heatwave-climate-change
How Oil Companies Could End Up Footing Bill For #Climate Disasters
“When a flood or wildfire hits, researchers in “attribution science” run computer models to help determine whether the disaster was caused or intensified by #ClimateChange.
As those models become more precise, other scientists are working to measure how specific companies, such as Exxon Mobil or Shell, have contributed to climate change through their historic #greenhousegasemissions.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/lawmakers-hope-to-use-this-emerging-climate-science-to-charge-oil-companies-for-disasters
Lawmakers Hope To Use This Emerging Climate Science To Charge Oil Companies For Disasters
This story first appeared at Stateline. A fast-emerging field of climate research...TPM
Climate change is already killing people and the toll is going to continue to rise.
#Climate
#climatechange
Climate change played a role in killing tens of thousands of people in 2023
And that’s an extremely conservative estimate.Samantha Harrington (Yale Climate Connections)
Great to have such official accounts on the #Fediverse!
Main topics IMHO:
✅ reinforced public health and concrete answers to the #ClimateChange crisis
✅ Better protection of workers and better #wellfare against precariousness
✅ To welcome #migrants according to European values and its #humanist principles
✅ A more combative Europe against racisms, especially antisemitism and muslim-hatred politics
✅ Protection of #Ukraine from #Poutine's agenda
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction.
The loss of plant and animal species on Earth is happening at a speed never seen in human history, according to the United Nations. #ClimateChange #Biodiversity #Climate #Environment
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lizard-population-declining-climate-change/
Too hot for a lizard? Climate change quickens the pace of extinction
A disappearing a lizard population in Arizona shows how climate change is fast-tracking the rate of extinction.David Schechter (CBS News)
The 12-month moving average of global mean temperatures has now moved slightly above 1.6 °C (2.9 °F).
#ClimateChange #globalwarming #temperature #climate
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)
#frühling #spring #climatechange #dortmund
Climatejustice.social is a Mastodon server for climate justice activists and those concerned about global warming and the current environmental crisis:
Find out more at https://climatejustice.social/about or contact the admin @PaulaToThePeople
#FeaturedServer #Environment #Green #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Environmental #Activism #GlobalWarming #Mastodon #Fediverse #FreeFediverse
Climate Justice Social
Welcome to this official Fediverse instance for climate justice activists.Mastodon hosted on climatejustice.social
How to build a thermal battery
Systems that store energy as heat could help cut emissions from heavy industry.Casey Crownhart (MIT Technology Review)
The editors of Scientific American have written an opinion piece saying we need to move away from #cars to #activetransport because of local & carbon #pollution, road crash death & injury and how it restricts access to life for so many- the young, the elderly, the poor & disabled.
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/
We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent
Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safetyThe Editors (Scientific American)
Do you live near one of these "Sacrific Zones"?
From ProPublica, this is a detailed map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S. #ClimateChange #Pollution
https://projects.propublica.org/toxmap/
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.ProPublica
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Mali is among the countries currently suffering extreme heat with some areas hit by a temperature of 48,5°C, has recorded more than 100 deaths, victims of the heat wave.
The effect of the heat wave may have been compounded because of dearth of electricity to propel fans and air conditioning units.
Authorities in the national energy company EDM said more than $510 million is needed to buy fuel to power the generation plant.
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https://africanperceptions.org/en/2024/04/heat-wave-causes-havoc-in-mali-kills-100-people/
MAMA NATURE VS. RUSSIA
Flooding worsens in Russia due to abnormally warm temperatures.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
I love this PBS series on climate change. The presenter (Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant ) tells it as it is.
"You can't shop your way out of climate change"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OTxdgMJsnw
You Can't Shop Your Way Out of Climate Change
We have seen a boom in “eco-friendly” products marketed to consumers’ concerns about the impact of the stuff we buy. But this "shop ‘til you drop” approach d...YouTube
Simon Stiell, Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), speaks during a Chatham House event in London.'
I believe 2030, will be final decade for the human race and yet, because of decades of doing nothing and, 'do not frighten the children.' https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/11/two-years-to-save-the-world-un-climate-chief-calls-for-faster-action-and-more-finance #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice
‘Two years to save the world’: UN climate chief calls for faster action and more finance
United Nations executive climate secretary Simon Stiell said he knows his warning may sound melodramatic but action over the next two years is “essential".Euronews (Euronews.com)
OUR HOME - EARTH
Colombian Amazon deforestation surges as armed groups tighten grip
Country had previously turned the tide on deforestation but armed rebels have revoked ban
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GlobalWarming #climatecrisis #climatechange
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/11/colombian-amazon-deforestation-surges-armed-groups
"Shot entirely in-camera off the coast of Fiji, each seemingly mundane scene occurs on the ocean floor."
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/nick-brandt-sink-rise/
via https://stefanbohacek.online/@colossal@mastodon.art/112247185266428492
#art #photography #portrait #ClimateChange #underwater
Suffocating Subjects Long for Air in Nick Brandt's Unsettling Underwater Photos — Colossal
In 'Sink / Rise,' photographer Nick Brandt peers into the not-so-distant future to imagine the effects of rising waters.Grace Ebert (Colossal)
One is a billionaire who is selling all of his books, the other one is a quite-broke human who has the courage and decency to provide her book online for free. Trade-Free. No ads, no data collection, no subscribe-here-to-read bullshit.
That's the world in which we live. The ones who make a fortune are trained and incentivized to not even share their "must read" books for free, despite having so much wealth.
Oh look, Bill Gates released a book about "How to Avoid a Climate Disaster"! It must be important.... so it is worth 18$ to read.
Grab Sasha's book from here https://www.bigworldsmallsasha.com/book/ - she also talks a lot about Climate Change, solutions, and a new kind of worldview.
#gates #climatechange #capitalism #TradeRuinsEverything #climate #billionaires
