Every day I am looking to do something, anything, that brings down my carbon footprint. And then I try to double it to make up for someone who can’t/won’t.

Any time I am in the ballot box, it’s my number 1 issue. Unfortunately not doubling my votes at this time. But raising two climate conscious children that can help me out in a few years. Not trying to groom them but make them understand the science and importance.

Looking for ways to get the word out, though.

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

I immediately get a little exasperated whenever I see someone post about how much we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions if we did this thing or implemented this technology or invest in this research.

I'm going to keep saying this over and over again until people listen: the problem is not, and never has been, a lack of ideas about how to tackle the climate crisis.

The problem is that the people in power DON'T CARE. They don't want to make our lives better. They don't want to solve problems.

@MattMastodon @breadandcircuses @cian @MarkBrigham @mick @vmatinnia @YaRo @jackofalltrades

I have similar concerns about the clarity - or perhaps more the detail - of degrowth thinking.

Take for example the last point in the Degrowth 101 article:
"Changing corporate governance so that the “fiduciary duty” of a company’s leaders shifts from maximizing short term shareholder profits to considering social and ecological impacts."

This is my area - I used to design organisational structures for social enterprise, so really know the detail of building social and environmental responsibility into company structures - and it's not that simple. Sharehilders own most companies and appoint directors - and they have enforceable legal rights, including against having their financial returns compromised, quite apart from directors' fiduciary duties.

In reality, to incentivise social and environmental responsibility over growth and profit, a fundamental revision of company law and related commercial law, not to mention accounting standards and the whole auditing profession would be required. Then there's the 'ecology' of such changes - how they would ripple out to investors' and others' behaviours - which would include, incidentally, the collapse of the banking system (interest is paid out of growth).

What sounds technical and innocuous - changing company directors' fiduciary duties - in fact implies (in my view) either little change, or, if it is to achieve the desired end, massive complementary changes that (in effect) end capitalism.

I know that we can't expect introductory articles to get into all this detail - but to be honest I'm looking in vain to find sufficient detail anywhere in the degrowth literature at present.

Just to be clear - I'm a great believer in degrowth, which is why I want us to get real about it.

Hey, gardeners. YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GROW STUFF!

Here in #Zone6A we are 86 days past our average last frost. And 107 days to our average first frost. So we quite literally have more 2023 growing time ahead of us than behind. Go plant stuff this weekend! Today we’re doing bush ‘n pole beans, marigolds (to help the tomatoes) and so many sunflowers.

ALSO: It’s easier to grow stuff into fall than into summer.

#GrowYourOwn #gardening

Still can’t get over the fact that an editor of the Financial Times said that we need to do away with #capitalism in order to deal with the #climate. If that’s not a sign of mainstream economics/finance finally waking up to the reality of the situation we’re in, I don’t now what is.

edit to add link (thanks Boud): https://archive.ph/2023.06.29-113742/https://www.ft.com/content/86d71297-3f34-48f3-8f3f-28b7e8be03c6

Professor Mark Maslin 

@profmarkmaslin

The Seven Stages of climate denial: 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not that bad 4. We have time 5. It's too expensive to fix 6. Here's a fake solution 7. It's too late: you should have warned us earlier Trolls use all of these stages to deny reality of #climatechange