'What's on your mind' is the ask. "Sanctuary" (1982) by The Passions is the answer, not for the first time this winter. The modern day has no monopoly on atrocities or people wanting a better world.

"Sympathize with the underdog / Sympathize with the one who has not / Take the side of the underdog / Come on..."

The sound of anguish somehow managing to stay on-key:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYwFT3WAbUc

/me waves in the general directions of the #polycrises

I mean look at this shit, would ya? When the youth ask us why they have cancer, infertility, cognitive disability, and an overall enshittified planet, the ethos behind this product is why. Seen tonight at an Ace Hardware in St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.

#ecocide
#EnvironmentalCrisis
#PolyCrises
#ClimateChange
#GreenRevolution

Laquelle crise t'a affecté le plus, toi personnellement dans ta vie, durant le dernier mois?

Ensuite, ça m'intéresserait de savoir *comment* ça t'as affecté. Élabore en commentaires si possible 🙂

Boost svp, pour avoir des résultats intéressants.

#polyCrises #criseDuLogement #criseClimatique #climat #logement #politique #québec #montréal #canada

Qu'est-ce qui vous donne encore de l'espoir dans ce monde de merde?

Qu'est-ce qui me donne encore de l'espoir?

C'est vrai, c'est pas facile d'avoir de l'espoir ces temps-ci. Mais l'espoir c'est un verbe.

(Je pense que c'est Greta Thunberg qui avait dit ça?)

#espoir #GretaThunberg #mondeDeMerde #polyCrises #multiCrises

🚨 THE WORLD'S LARGEST DEFORESTATION PROJECT HAS BEGUN. Amid the paradise forests of #Papua, #Indonesia, a business consortium has started destroying what will eventually be 20,000 square kilometers slated for the "Meruake Intergrated Food and Energy Development Area." That’s 112 times the size of Washington, DC.

The company, PT Global Papua Abadi and partners like Sulaidy (linked to First Resources Ltd.) are destroying habitat for endangered tree kangaroos and birds of paradise. The land was allotted to the companies without seeming concern for the Indigenous communities who live on it.

The photo below is of the latest shipment of 264 excavators bought from China. It's part of a mind-boggling order of 2000 land-clearing machines. This is likely the largest single deforestation project in the world…and it makes no sense.

Although the stated rationale is that the project will provide climate resilience and food security, the reality is the opposite: this level of deforestation will pump about a billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere and bulldoze local food gardens to make room for mono-culture sugar and rice plantations. Much of the sugar won't go to food, but rather ethanol to be burned in gas tanks. Simply put, it is a disaster.

It follows previous failed efforts to establish state-backed plantation agriculture: the "Mega-Rice Project" on Borneo's peatland rainforest resulted in hundreds of thousands of acres of degraded land…but no permanent rice (rice doesn't grow well on peat). This project seems likely to end in similar failure.

The tragedy is that this project would also single-handedly undermine Indonesia's greatest climate success: reducing the rate of commodity deforestation by an amazing 90%.

I hope that President Jokowi, incoming President Prabowo, and Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurubaya will examine the project to see if the companies involved are actually delivering on its purposes – or are instead breaking the government's legal commitments.

There is reason for hope: the government recently took the brave step of stopping another company's threat to forests: Mayawana Persada’s destruction of more than 90,000 acres in Borneo. They acted acted because the destruction undermined the government’s nationally determined climate commitments (NDCs): to restore 2 million hectares of peatland and 12 million of degraded land.

The Merauke project is about 50 times as big as Mayawana Persada’s: It's hard to understand how it passes legal muster or contributes to the country’s admirable goals.

Indonesia’s forest success has been a signal accomplishment of the Jokowi administration – and an example for the world. As the administration comes to a close, the President and his successor have the opportunity to secure one of Indonesia’s greatest examples of international leadership into the future.
#deforestation #Climate #climatechange #biodiversity #PolyCrises
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/06/sugarcane-megaproject-poses-latest-threat-to-papuas-forests-communities/

Micro-revolutions have nothing to do with violence, abruptness, or the territory conquest by the victors. They are about #dialogue, #advocacy and #slow, gradual change to build a society and a planet that accommodates all.

#PostGrowth Fellow and tourismologist, Mariana Madureira, explores how getting to know alternative cultures can open our minds to slow, collective change and help counter the #polycrises of our time — sharing examples from #Brazil: https://medium.com/postgrowth/our-future-is-ancestral-the-micro-revolution-of-ethno-tourism-05467dd1013f?source=friends_link&sk=8533de69b4d2f3ae4d353a4cbd30cc79