Our Nakba is being recorded by us in real-time for the entire world to see. Everyone can witness our slaughter and collective death. Our simple dream has been destroyed by Israel, for no greater sin than being born under occupation.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/a-story-of-displacement-and-the-loss-of-my-homeland/?utm_content=buffer1de0d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza

WTF is wrong with these people?

Israel should make Gaza look like Auschwitz - council head

"The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz. Let it become a museum, showcasing the capabilities of the State of Israel and dissuading anyone from living in the Gaza Strip. This is what must be done To give them a visual representation."

https://m.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-778367

Greta Thunberg (@gretathunberg) on the urgent need for system change...
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Until recently, you could argue that it was possible to save the climate without having to change our behavior. But that is no longer possible. The scientific evidence is crystal clear: our leaders have left it too late for us to avoid major lifestyle and systemic changes. There simply are not enough resources left.

If we are to have a chance of minimizing further irreparable damage, we now have to choose: either we safeguard living conditions for all future generations, or we let a few very fortunate people maintain their constant, destructive search to maximize immediate profits. 
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That's from page 240 in “The Climate Book.”

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Considering what we know about the real and immediate dangers of the climate and environmental crises, how can nearly everyone just carry on as if nothing is wrong?

I'd argue there are three reasons:

#1. The majority of Earth's human inhabitants are so busy trying to keep themselves and their family members alive (housed, fed, safe) that they have literally no time to learn about or be interested in such issues.

#2. The small minority (10%?) of humans who have had the privilege of education, who have the luxury of time, and who feel motivated to care about the climate crisis can in fact do very little about it themselves. Sure, they can buy an EV, ride a bike, or go vegan, but none of that will really make much of a dent because of...

#3. The owners and managers of our society — the governments, industries, billionaire business owners, and corporate media — all of whom have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo, in keeping the stores open, the factories running, the airliners flying, and the cruise ships sailing. The longer our rulers can keep assuring everyone that Business As Usual is just fine, the more money they will make. And they believe (though it's likely a delusion) that with enough money and enough power, they and their descendants will be able to survive and even thrive in the 3°C to 5°C world of the future.

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Greta Thunberg, who was recently arrested again for protesting (see https://www.denverpost.com/2023/10/18/greta-thunberg-charged-with-public-order-offense-in-uk-after-arrest-outside-oil-industry-conference/), this time in London, has something to say about continuing with Business As Usual...
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We are being told to focus on the possibilities and opportunities, on the ‘Green Industrial Revolution’ (whatever that means), on positive stories. We want solutions-based reporting, and hope.

But hope for whom? The relatively few of us who might initially be able to adapt to a rapidly warming world? Or for the overwhelming majority who will not be so fortunate?

What does hope even mean in this context? Is it the notion that we can maintain a system that is already doomed? That we can go on living our lives more or less the same way we do today — in a system which most people do not benefit from? That we can ‘solve’ this crisis with the same methods and mindset that got us into it in the first place?
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That's from page 155 in “The Climate Book” -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #BusinessAsUsual

"If you consider the Earth as your home—which it is—you cannot ever throw anything away because there is no away, because everywhere is the center of somewhere. Everywhere is the center of life, of Nature, of the environment, of our home. What we dump, what we throw away, sooner or later comes back around."

From @gerrymcgovern 's World Wide Waste newsletter
https://gerrymcgovern.com/where-are-you-from/

I’ve recently learned of a different way of limiting corporate travel, and I think it’s brilliant.

Every company travel policy I’d heard of until yesterday has been a variation on the same theme:

There’s an annual a travel budget. Management may or may not have priority and there may be limitations on who can travel together, but in the end the true limit is the amount of money in the budget.

The policy I learned of yesterday is almost, but not quite, unlike the others. The budget isn’t about money. It’s about CO2 emissions. Each department gets a specific amount of CO2 emissions for travel for the year.

The implications are interesting:

Travel within Europe has become train first as a natural consequence. Intercontinental travel has been reduced by a significant amount.

It’s an absolutely amazing policy and it should be the standard corporate travel policy everywhere.