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.
Show threadRichardJun 8, 2023

@rahmstorf

What could go wrong?

#greenwash
#extinction

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
@punko The list of game-changers and tilters is mighty long. Massive species extinction (degrading biodiversity), dirty (radioactive) and dead zones in the seas, ambient toxicity, nuclear annihilation, plague... etc. It's a regular circus. What a show.
Show threadRichardJun 8, 2023

@f800gecko

All true, but I suggest an edit or two. "#CO2 tech is not going to help us *because* the rest of our behaviour remains atrocious."

OR

"#CO2 tech is not going to help us. Period."

I've said it once and I'll say it again. Our only remaining hope is the secret ceremonial cordycep zombie Viking dance. But, ya gotta get it right.

Meanwhile, fellow westerners, get out the marshmallows cuz fire season's coming and it's gonna be a good one this year. And next year. And next century..

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

Show threadRichardJun 8, 2023

@ianrosewrites

Yep, it was a good one. Hey, how are we gonna eat when primary production is out the window over the vast majority of land mass because temperatures are reaching beyond ranges of tolerance for food plants? First, energy conversion breaks down (due to instability of electrons in pigments and reaction center). Then... the water. Hope? Prayer? Nope, only the secret ceremonial cordycep zombie Viking dance will save us now. But... there's hope in that solution.

Show threadRichardJun 8, 2023

@GeraldKutney

Carbon capture is similar to the Maginot Line.