MikeFIt’s time to stop capitalism’s runaway train!
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2025/03/16/its-time-to-stop-capitalisms-runaway-train/
#climatechange #climatejustice #ecologicalcrises #ecosocialism #climateandcapitalism #extinction
Report reveals how the state of our oceans is intrinsically linked to human health
https://phys.org/news/2024-11-reveals-state-oceans-intrinsically-linked.html
#biodiversity #ecology #onehealth #climatechange #environmentaljustice #oceans #health #ecologicalcrises
Report reveals how the state of our oceans is intrinsically linked to human health
A study published in the journal One Earth explores how marine biodiversity conservation, human health and well-being are connected. The results suggest that marine protected areas can be good for both planet and people.
World faces ‘deathly silence’ of nature as wildlife disappears, warn experts
Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists
Extractivism in the Anthropocene
"Over the last decade and a half, the concept of extractivism has emerged as a key element in our understanding of the planetary ecological crisis. Although the development of extractive industries on a global scale has been integral to the capitalist mode of production since its onset, commencing with the colonial expansion of the long sixteenth century, this took on a much larger worldwide significance with the advent of the Industrial Revolution of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, marking the beginning of the age of fossil capital. Nevertheless, it was only with the Great Acceleration, beginning in the mid-twentieth century and extending to the present, that the quantitative expansion of global production and of resource extraction in particular led to a qualitative transformation in the human relation to the Earth System as a whole. This has given rise to the Anthropocene Epoch in geological history, in which anthropogenic (as opposed to nonanthropogenic) factors for the first time in Earth history constitute the major determinants of Earth System change.1 In the Anthropocene, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general."
#extractivism #climatechange #ecosocialism #ecologicalcrises #culture #ecology #marxism #anthropocene
https://monthlyreview.org/2024/04/01/extractivism-in-the-anthropocene/
Humans May Have Driven Twice as Many Bird Species to Extinction as Previously Thought
Statistical modeling of undiscovered extinctions suggests 1,430 bird species have disappeared during modern human history
#birds #extinction #ExtinctionCrisis #biodiversity #biodiversitycrisis #ecologicalcrises #avians #wildlife #anthropocene #systemchangenow #capitalism
Neither Productivism nor Degrowth
Thoughts on Eco-socialism
https://spectrejournal.com/neither-productivism-nor-degrowth/
#ecosocialism #systemchange @xrglobal #climatechange #ecologicalcrises
Is It Time to Imagine a World Without Roads?
Be it highway or dirt track, our infrastructure has become an ecological disaster. Ben Goldfarb’s Crossings catalogs the devastation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/ben-goldfarb-crossings-roads-review/
#ecologicalcrises #roads #cars #fossilfuels #climatechange #deforestation #biodiversitydecline #biodiversity
Davva#climatecrisis
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"The climate is just one part of a greater and interconnected crisis, and if we only focus on the climate, we will never see the root causes and the worst forms of suffering that are going on. This crisis is not caused by humans. It is not “anthropogenic.” It is caused by those humans who have given their lives over to a framework of institutions that are extractivist and oppressive to their cores, institutions that have the power to force the rest of us into line and participate in their life-devouring society whether we choose to resist or choose to look the other way. This framework, fundamentally, means the State."
https://itsgoingdown.org/heating-up-peter-gelderloos-interview/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Heating Up: An Interview with Peter Gelderloos on Climate Change and the Fight to Change Everything
This summer brought yet another record heat wave, as climate change fueled disasters hit countries around the world, leaving human communities devastated by flooding, wildfires, and storms. While this "new normal" has brought climate change to the forefront of popular consciousness, we've also seen the far-Right spinning new conspiracies and the neoliberal center pushing the...
rubenEste hilo es brutal y de obligada lectura sobre el significado de la suspensión de las exportaciones de arroz por parte del gobierno de la India y cómo afectará al resto del mundo. Y todo ello relacionado fundamentalmente con la emergencia climática, entre otras causas no menores.
https://neuromatch.social/@skarthik/110782661582450486
#GlobalWarming #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #RiceBan #India #SouthAsia #SubContinent #Agriculture #Food #AgriculturalCrises #Inequality #EcologicalCrises
Karthik Srinivasan (@[email protected])
For those who might not know, following a week after the Russia-Ukraine wheat embargo, there are even bigger and ominous signs hinting at global food insecurity and the catastrophic agricultural crises coming our way. India last week banned export on all non-basmati rice varieties. I repeat: EXPORT BAN ON ALL non-basmati RICE varieties. [Aside: export of basmati variety will continue, the demand for which is relatively small in India when compared to the nearly 15 major varieties of rice (it's home to at least a 1000 varieties) consumed by very large populations everyday(these are the ones which are now banned). Basmati is a "festive" and only occasionally consumed variety in India. It is largely exported to the richer nations, many of whom think it is the only variety of rice from India.] Why is India banning rice now? Answer: global warming. What’s happening in India (and South Asia at large) should both terrify you and wake you up Here’s more (facts? trivia? bothersome news? how the world actually works?). 1/9 #GlobalWarming #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #RiceBan #India #SouthAsia #SubContinent #Agriculture #Food #AgriculturalCrises #Inequality #EcologicalCrises
Jasper KenterJust published in @Nature with @unaipasku et al: paper based on @ipbes #ValuesAssessment where we underline the need to shift social & institutional values away from emphasis on GDP growth & material accumulation to community-based, sustainability aligned values. Plus check out the fab new IPBES values typology!
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06406-9
#Sustainability
#SustainabilityScience
#Biodiversity
#NatureEmergency
#GlobalBiodiversityFramework
#EcosystemServices
#ecologicalcrises
#ecologicaleconomics
Diverse values of nature for sustainability - Nature
Following a wide-ranging review of studies, reports and policies about nature’s multiple values, combinations of values-centred approaches are proposed to improve valuation of nature, address barriers to uptake in decision-making, and make transformative changes towards more just and sustainable futures.