Richard

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My mission: help create communities of relative abundance and beauty for future gens facing dystopia amidst severely disturbed ecosystems. Current focus: methodologies and methods for closing loops in everyday subsistence food production... based on #permaculture design #ecologicalagriculture #agroforestry #patternlanguage #transitiontowns #relilientcommunities #mutualaid #careforearth #dissipatedpower #selfactualization
Websitehttps://www.designedecosystems.com/
Formal EducationPhD Forest Management (focus on ecology & planning); MS Environmental Studies (focus on planning for rural community development); BA History.
Permaculture EdPDC PRI Australia, Food Forest Charrette (Dave Jacke)
Income WorkForester. I write forest management plans for private landowners in NE Wasington State, US.
RichardJun 9, 2023
Prof. Tatiana IlyinaJun 9, 2023

Check out this new interactive climate change tracker.

Using methods from the latest #IPCC assessment and the latest available data it shows indicators of global #climatechange.

https://climatechangetracker.org/igcc

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024 Dashboard and Data: ClimateChangeTracker.org

Indicators of human-induced global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and the remaining global carbon budget. Relevant to the Paris Agreement, IPCC AR6 consistent.

ClimateChangeTracker.org
RichardJun 9, 2023
Show threadSane ThinkerJun 8, 2023
@WBOrcutt @breadandcircuses @gretathunberg @rbreich "The biggest answer is that the change we need lies with you and me...there are only two futures now. One where we pretend, do nothing and lose everything, or one where we stand up, take some hits and save our future." https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/stopping-the-machine
Stopping the Machine

Greenwashing: It’s the Biggest Game in Town

Sane Thoughts for Insane Times
RichardJun 8, 2023
Show threadSane ThinkerJun 8, 2023
@breadandcircuses You know me and therefore that I agree with Umar's essay, I have written similarly. I am struck every time I stick my nose out the door how clueless the majority are of our impending demise, let alone the real reasons. Even here, where the general IQ is higher, I find depressingly little engagement on #ClimateCrisis. As worthy as other causes are, nothing compares, and all of those things will be lost with the impending failure of agriculture. My advice: Get small and mobile.
RichardJun 8, 2023
Prof. Stefan RahmstorfJun 8, 2023
More reasons to by highly skeptical about the important next climate summit COP in the United Arab Emirates, headed by an oil CEO...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/army-of-fake-social-media-accounts-defend-uae-presidency-of-climate-summit
Army of fake social media accounts defend UAE presidency of climate summit

Sultan Al Jaber – Cop28 president and CEO of state oil firm – is ‘ally the climate movement needs’, posts say

The Guardian
RichardJun 8, 2023
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧Jun 8, 2023

The other thing to remember as we witness what appears to be a tipping point crossed vs. gradual weather change is this is not just about #energy use and #ghg.

It’s about our consumption of all resources, our cutting and burning of #forests and our ‘development’ of #farmland for our car-centric materialist lifestyle instead of getting real with ourselves.

#CO2 tech is not going to help us if the rest of our behaviour remains atrocious.

#climate #environment #biodiversity #smoke #wildfires

RichardJun 8, 2023
Prof Prachi SrivastavaJun 8, 2023

An uncomfortable truth is that the smoky air that many of us on the east coast in Canada and the US are experiencing, meming, and sarcastically commenting on has been a daily reality for 100s of millions of people in the two most populous countries in the world for years and years.

Good luck to us all.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

RichardJun 8, 2023
Kees van der LeunJun 8, 2023
Unprecedented, there's that word again. Global sea surface temperatures over all the oceans between 60⁰N and 60⁰S are in uncharted territory this year. Chart shows deviation from the 1982-2011 average for the date.
RichardJun 8, 2023
Sheril KirshenbaumJun 8, 2023

A lot of media outlets are reporting on #ClimateChange this week bc the smoke from wildfires in Canada has settled over highly populated cities in the US.

But climate change is all around us. It’s extreme storms. Severe droughts. Flooding & food insecurity & soaring temps. Insufficient energy infrastructure. The loss of biodiversity & increasing human conflict.

Climate change is everywhere. And we should be talking & reading about it, even when it’s less obvious in the wealthiest nations.

RichardJun 8, 2023
Sheril KirshenbaumJun 5, 2023
Did you know that soil helps us deal with #ClimateChange? After the ocean, it’s the 2nd largest carbon sink, meaning it stores & releases carbon in ways that regulate the greenhouse effect.

But deforestation, overgrazing, forest fires, intensive farming, construction & more have taken a toll. Today, 1/3 of the world’s soil is degraded, meaning it’s lost some of its ability to support animals & plants bc of physical, chemical or biological changes.

Protecting soils = protecting the planet🪱🌍
RichardJun 7, 2023
Show threadKent PitmanJun 7, 2023

@DesignedEcosystems @FantasticalEconomics @jwcph @breadandcircuses

Richard, you could be right about the palliative care thing for humanity, but I'm not willing to go there personally.

Even worse than humanity going extinct from disinterest/neglect would be going extinct from giving up thinking it was too late when it wasn't. I think we owe ourselves and would-be future humans every attempt to make things work. There's risk of a self-fulfilling prophecy if we give up.

And I fear the palliative metaphor gives permission to denialists and profiteers to keep on doing that because there's no winning and they might as well have a good time. Or that's what I think they'll conclude.