Why Western Governments heavily invest in the police and surveillance state while continuing to give billions in subsidies to the fossil fuel industry:
https://mastodon.scot/@simon_brooke/114787834448004333

#FoodRiots #ClimateChange #EcoCollapse #necropolitics

Thinking about things as unlearning capitalism, the dehumanisation of having to "earn a living," climate change and eco collapse, my thoughts are going to anti-work more and more:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lP0nBIO1Qo8

#AntiWork #Andrewism #Labour #labor #communism #anarchism #capitalism #neoliberalism #EcoCollapse #ClimateChange

An excellent overview by Stan Cox.
Eco-Collapse Hasn’t Happened Yet, But You Can See It Coming - CounterPunch.org
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/30/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/
In the UK, #GettingReal has the same message.
https://gettingreal.org.uk

#EcoCollapse #Degrowth #Limits2Growth @cusp_uk

@RadicalAnthro

"Declan Coney, a former eel fisher, knew there was something wrong when the famed swarms of Lough Neagh flies failed to materialise. In past years, they would appear around the Northern Irish lake in thick plumes and “wisps” – sometimes prompting mistaken alarm of a fire incident, Lough Shore residents say.

"Clothes left out on a washing line “would be covered in them”, Coney says. So would any windshield on a vehicle travelling around the lough’s 90-mile shoreline. Conservationists marvelled at their courtship dances, hovering above treetops.

"Last spring the flies never arrived. “This is the first year ever that, if you walked up to the Cross of Ardboe or the area around there, you’d find there’s no flies,” Coney says."

#Extinction #ClimateCatastrope #EcoCollapse

Confessions of a Disillusioned Scientist | Do the Math

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/12/confessions-of-a-disillusioned-scientist/

One transit path from faculty to environmental awareness.

Thought provoking for sure!

#ecocollapse #academia

Rainforest study: Scientists now know the temperature at which photosynthesis stops

https://grist.org/extreme-heat/rainforest-study-scientists-now-know-the-temperature-at-which-photosynthesis-stops/

Heat is just one of many stressors for the world’s beleaguered Amazon.

#amazon #study #scientists #photosynthesis #temperature #ecocollapse

Deoxygenization is happening. Dead zones are increasing in number and size.

"Oxygen levels in the world’s oceans have already dropped more than 2 percent between 1960 and 2010, and they are expected to decline up to 7 percent below the 1960 level over the next century."

#Deoxygenation
#DeadZones
#EcoCollapse

https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-ocean-oxygen-levels-dip-fish-face-an-uncertain-future