GeriAQuinWhy the fight against #climatecchange is lost
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Fotzen For Futureburn #capitalism down, before #ClimatecChange burns us
#collaps #xr #fff #co2 #EndeGelaende #meme #politicalmemes #leftymemes #anarchism #communism
#collaps #xr #fff #co2 #EndeGelaende #meme #politicalmemes #leftymemes #anarchism #communism
Ben Lockwood, PhDI'm currently reading Murray Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), and it's full of prescient bangers like this:
"It can be argued on very sound theoretical grounds that this growing blanket of carbon dioxide, by intercepting heat radiated from the earth, will lead to more destructive storm patterns and eventually to melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and the inundation of vast land areas."
Phys.Org: Tropical forests nearing critical temperatures thresholds
From the article:
"The new research suggests that leaf death could become a new factor in the predicted "tipping point" whereby tropical forests transition due to climate change and deforestation into savannah-like landscapes."
#forestecology #ClimatecChange
Original study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06391-z
Link to article: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-tropical-forests-nearing-critical-temperatures.html
Tropical forests are approaching critical temperature thresholds - Nature
Ground truthed thermal data from a new NASA satellite combined with experimental warming data from three continents in an empirical model suggests that tropical forests are closer to a high temperature threshold than previously thought.
BellingenNSWAustralia’s greenwash plan to host COP31
"Australia has been gaming UN climate agreements for decades ... It has signed pledges it has no intention of meeting, has argued consistently and successfully to water down language, and has manipulated international emissions accounting to its advantage."
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2023/06/17/australias-greenwash-plan-host-cop31
#COP31 #ClimatecChange #pollution #FossilFuels
"Australia has been gaming UN climate agreements for decades ... It has signed pledges it has no intention of meeting, has argued consistently and successfully to water down language, and has manipulated international emissions accounting to its advantage."
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2023/06/17/australias-greenwash-plan-host-cop31
#COP31 #ClimatecChange #pollution #FossilFuels
Australia’s greenwash plan to host COP31
Nations climate conference in the lead-up to the 2022 election. Officially called the Conference of the Parties, the UN describes its COPs as “the biggest and most important annual climate-related conferences on the planet”. They bring together nation states to negotiate on how best to tackle climate change and protect those countries that suffer the most from its impacts.
“Just 0.2% of Australia’s bus fleet is electric”
“Electrifying bus fleets is an easy first step that state governments can take toward achieving their net zero goals”
“Burning one litre of #diesel produces around 2.7kg of CO2, which means that diesel buses produce about 1.4 million tonnes of CO2 annually—roughly equivalent to the entire Australian Capital Territory’s carbon emissions in 2020-21.”
https://thedriven.io/2023/04/12/the-states-havent-delivered-report-finds-just-0-2-of-australias-buses-are-electric/
#Carbon #Emissions #Noise #Diesel #Pollution #Petrol #Diesel exhaust #Roads #Congestion #Air pollution #PublicHealth #RespiratoryHospitalisations #ClimatecChange
Fleets of (school) diesel buses and congested traffic is redirected onto a tiny, steep country road with "dangerous bends". Note the group of cyclist that are without a cycle path and pedestrians have no footpath. Due to overuse the newly made potholes require filling with the help of #FossilFuel and asphalt almost daily. The edges of the road are being cracked by the heavy load of traffic.
#Bellingen #RosesRd #Logging #Detour #Mobility
The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice. A win for the Pacific.
The UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on a country’s climate obligations.
https://theconversation.com/the-un-is-asking-the-international-court-of-justice-for-its-opinion-on-states-climate-obligations-what-does-this-mean-202943
#ClimatecChange international #Obligations #Litigation #UN #ICJ #ClimateJustice
The UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on a country’s climate obligations.
https://theconversation.com/the-un-is-asking-the-international-court-of-justice-for-its-opinion-on-states-climate-obligations-what-does-this-mean-202943
#ClimatecChange international #Obligations #Litigation #UN #ICJ #ClimateJustice
The UN is asking the International Court of Justice for its opinion on states' climate obligations. What does this mean?
The United Nations’ decision to ask the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on countries’ climate obligations has been hailed as a ‘turning point in climate justice’.
"A recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that a warming planet means more particles in the atmosphere, including dust and organic aerosols from plants. While we usually think of plants for their benefits to the environment, in certain circumstances they can actually release compounds that aren’t great for our respiratory systems."
https://gizmodo.com/an-unexpected-reason-itll-be-harder-to-breathe-as-earth-1850173753
C. LambethWho knew #President #Biden would turn out to be such a two-faced traitor on the issue of #ClimatecChange?
I am absolutely disgusted by this. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/climate/biden-willow-oil-alaska.html
I am absolutely disgusted by this. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/climate/biden-willow-oil-alaska.html
I just finished reading this article by Ben Debney, which employs both social ecology and world ecology to analyze both the economic and social forms of oppression that characterize the current climate crisis, and which defines the Capitalocene:
"Social Ecology in the Capitalocene"
https://harbinger-journal.com/issue-1/social-ecology-in-the-capitalocene/
#ClimatecChange #SocialEcology #PoliticalTheory #Capitalocene
