“#Heatwaves , #droughts and #floods , land degradation, species #extinction and #pollution all undermine human well-being. Any measure of #sustainability must assess and account for changes in #naturalresources . Destroying them to manufacture goods and produce services will hamper, not boost, growth and prosperity” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01299-w

Here in the US, policy makers are locked into zero sum thinking. All that matters in their eyes is unhampered endless growth (measured by nationally by #GDP) and compound interest. This is the house that Milton Friedman’s market fundamentalism built.

You don’t have to be an expert to look around and see that this perspective is driving the interrelated polycrises going on in the world today. Any hope of change requires a break from that mentality. Unfortunately, far too many people profit from the status quo.

Short term thinking is an existential crisis for humanity.

Emergency hay deliveries resume for WA stations after 'generous' donations
By Georgia Hargreaves, Alistair Bates, Tara de Landgrafft, and Joanna Prendergast

Emergency hay deliveries to drought-stricken areas resume after thousands of dollars in donations from school students and charity groups.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-28/emergency-feed-deliveries-resume-after-students-raise-funds/106726518

#Droughts #Charities #LivestockFarming #GeorgiaHargreaves #AlistairBates #TaradeLandgrafft # #JoannaPrendergast

From #flood to #famine: Rainfall chaos fuels Africa’s drought crisis

#ClimateChange is intensifying #water scarcity across #Africa while also exacerbating #droughts Despite a brief uptick in #rainfall across the continent, critical water shortages persist, particularly in major river basins such as the Zambezi.^

The diminished rainfall over the past year has led to reduced river flows, triggering severe ecological, economic, and humanitarian impacts. This trend is projected to continue.

Rainfall patterns are becoming increasingly unpredictable, with the #Sahel experiencing more rainfall recently, while Central and Southern #Africa are facing significant drying trends.

https://www.africanews.com/2025/07/04/from-flood-to-famine-rainfall-chaos-fuels-africas-drought-crisis/

#ClimateCrisis

Media Myopia As We Hurtle Towards Climate Oblivion

https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-676a-0c8a-e575-7d9976731673

persuasion.community/p/rip85

".....I’m not even a little bit relaxed about #climate change. Here’s why.
"In reality, we’re likely to come in at below 6 watts per square meter in added trapped energy, which likely puts us on track for 2.5 to 3 degrees of global #warming."
'"But there’s an old saying among Earth System #scientists: “nobody lives at the global mean temperature.” Nobody actually cares about cumulative global averages. People care about the weather in the places where they live: the #floods and the #droughts, the storms and the sea levels and the #fires. And while Earth Science has made pretty good progress in connecting the #pollution we emit to likely global radiative balances and temperatures, it’s on much shakier ground when it comes to relating those averages to the actual, on-the-ground conditions people care about."
"And there’s another, subtler, reason to hold off on those victory laps. It’s now clear that anthropogenic carbon emissions are not likely to bring us to the kinds of catastrophic scenarios RCP8.5 implies. But talk to Earth System scientists and you’ll find plenty of other ways we could end up in other catastrophic scenarios. The Earth System has many poorly-understood, hard-to-measure, hard-to-model feedback loops that could drop us right back in RCP8.5-type scenarios."
"The one you hear about most often is Siberian permafrost: it could be that it thaws quickly enough to emit masses of new methane, which is a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. But that’s just one; there are plenty of others."
.....
"Could there be an #Earth-changing feedback loop out there nobody’s identified yet?"
.....
"The maddening reality about climate change is that Earth System #science is not really up to the task of quantifying the risks for the worst outcomes."

‘Irresponsible’: backlash as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan

Facility would require more power than entire state uses and suck up vast amount of water in drought-stricken area

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approves-datacenter-backlash

#Stratos #AI #datacenters #environment #power #water #droughts #technology