And beyond fiction, Schumacher's 'Small is Beautiful' is 52 yrs old, and I read Latouche's book on #Degrowth for the first time in 2012, which already back then seemed to me a both feasible and compelling alternative to our system. I know I'm not the only one, because yrs after, in 2019, speaking with a civil servant working in a council's environmental department,
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I think it stuck with me because, especially with the current fascist turn, I keep reading from leftists of all sorts that we need a story, a better story. And to me, this search for a story is almost becoming the story, and missing the point entirely.
There are tons of stories out there. There have been since I was young. My student last year made a dissertation on U. K. Le Guin as solarpunk. There is an whole world of stories from non-Western indigenous literature.
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I've been listening to this amazing episode by @parismarx and @brianmerchant chatting with @annaleen & Charlie Jane Anders. They talk about a lot of important things like the distorted understanding tech billionaires have of SciFi, but the episode's part I loved most is how Annalee and Charlie push back to the idea that there are no alternative stories: because there are, not just in SciFi, but also in fantasy.
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/1v9rICpkKKmBh26XmjKEZb?si=691412d818944091
#ClimateChange and anthropogenic nature destruction in the name of "development" continue to wreck havoc across the most vulnerable areas first.
And by that I mean mountainous communities in the vicinity of melting #Glaciers. If you live in the Alps or any area classed as a mountain range, I'd be packing up to move to flatter terrain outside flood zones at the foothills.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1905977/landslides-continue-in-gb-even-as-rains-subside
#Pakistan #SouthAsia #Gilgit #GLOF #GlobalWarming #GlobalSouth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary
From a time when people understood 'reason'.
#ClimateDiary #Climat #Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #USPolitics #Politics #Fascism
It’s earth day today. As we are facing climate and economic uncertainty, please feel free to reach out if you have questions about growing/foraging food.
I am happy to help, just tag me with any Qs.
My food security in a changing climate project is summarized in this thread:
https://mastodon.world/@jblue/113687402204283339
#earthday #ClimateChange #ClimateChangeGardening #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDiary #fedihelp #ClimateCrisis #FoodSecurity #politics #economics
Attached: 1 image #FoodSecurity #ClimateChange #ClimateDiary #gardening #ClimateChangeGardening 🧵 TL;DR *Climate change will significantly impact food systems. *Plants have optimal growing temperatures and many follow seasonal cycles. *My feed will highlight plants with higher OGT, don’t depend on seasonal cycles or flower in late season. *Farmers focus on what will sell, leaving new options unexplored. *Creating demand for these plants would stabilize our food supply.
"Himalayan snow at 23-year low, threatening 2 billion people: report" 😥 #climateDiary
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-himalayan-year-threatening-billion-people.html
🔥 🌧️ #ClimateDiary #Buchstodon #Sachbuch
Wer sich für den #Klimawandel in Wien interessiert, der sei auf das Buch #KlimaWandeltWien (2024) hingewiesen. Hier ein Interview mit den AutorInnen #AstridGöttche und #HansPeterHutter:
🌀 https://www.moment.at/story/klima-wandelt-wien-hutter-goettche/?_bhlid=cfa4e6fd6a6c7a8370a1274127ca2aef5155aa0c
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