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"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
Improving public support for climate action through multilateralism
"Nonetheless, often when governments have acted to reduce emissions, they have been met by intense opposition, some of it certainly by organized special interest groups but some of it by voters reluctant to incur the costs of higher carbon prices."
by Michael M. Bechtel, Kenneth F. Scheve & Elisabeth van Lieshout
What does water want? Most humans seem to have forgotten.
"Indigenous cultures often view water not as a ‘what’ but a ‘who’ – a friend or relative, a collaborator in a reciprocal relationship"
By Erica Gies
https://psyche.co/ideas/what-does-water-want-most-humans-seem-to-have-forgotten
(Planing to travel, just take a minute to think)
Tourism industries around the world are flourishing again after a pandemic slowdown, but not all places are benefitting from the boom. Over-tourism and environmental concerns have made some spots a bad idea to visit.
Fodor’s No List 2023
(Kill The Tar Sands Now !)
Fort McKay: where Canada's boreal forest gave way to oil sands.
"We're First Nations and this is our territory that is all being desecrated by the oil industry for the sake of the dollar, money, prosperity," says Jean L'Hommecourt, an environmental activist who took up the fight her parents once championed."
by Marion Thibaut
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-fort-mckay-canada-boreal-forest.html
Beyond Catastrophe
A New Climate Reality Is Coming Into View
"The author and activist Bill McKibben worries that although the transition is accelerating to once-unimaginable speeds, it still won’t come fast enough. “The danger is that you have a world that runs on sun and wind but is still an essentially broken planet.”
By David Wallace-Wells
Photographs by Devin Oktar Yalkin
Team uses AI and satellite images to release first-ever global estimates for road transportation greenhouse emissions.
"You can't change what you can't measure, and that's a big challenge when it comes to tackling climate change. We need to know where the greenhouse gas emissions are coming from, but that means accounting for a vast number of miniscule contributions across time and geography."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-team-ai-satellite-images-first-ever.html
#CoSoMaterialScience
#CoSoEnvironment
#CoSoFirstPeoples
Environmentally friendly 'biofoam' could address plastic pollution crisis.
"A unique feature of this project is that the intellectual property is shared between UBC and First Nations, This project highlights the benefits of forging partnerships by first identifying the problems—reducing waste from each tree harvested, mitigating the impacts of wildfires, and participation in the forest sector by First Nations."
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-environmentally-friendly-biofoam-plastic-pollution.html
Zero deforestation in the Amazon is now possible – here’s what needs to happen.
"Lula also plans to significantly reduce the power of the Brazilian agricultural lobby, even if it will continue to control a large part of congress. The lobby has fought virulently against an expansion of zero deforestation efforts."
By Rachael Garrett
#CoSoEconomics
#Economics
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#Environment
Professor Keen's Torrens Lecture.
Steve doesn’t mince words here. He focuses on the significant daylight that exists between what the scientific community has been warning about and what neoclassical economists have told us about the risks of climate change.
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/professor-keens-torrens-lecture
(These papers are important)
No really read these.
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"One of the arguments I made among many supporting my disdain for market solutions rested on my contention that there are non-linerarities in biological systems.
Markets are insensitive to biological systems.
The mainstream economics approach is that you can pay for pollution through more growth. That is, we have to generate wealth before we can clean the place up."
Green travel: the low-cost rail firms taking on Europe’s airlines.
Across the continent, low-cost rail firms are launching routes to tempt passengers out of the skies. Are they winning?
"We have convinced the public that the convenience, price and environmental impact of rail is well worth it."
By Robin Eveleigh
https://www.positive.news/lifestyle/travel/meet-the-low-cost-railways-taking-on-europes-airlines/
Hope amid climate chaos: ‘We are in a race between Armageddon and awesome’
Renewables, decarbonisation, activism, cooperation … The challenge is immense, but the situation is far from hopeless.
“What needs to happen at COP27 is for finance facilities for loss and damage and for adaptation to be established,” says Siddiqa, a campaigner with Fridays For Future Pakistan. “It is central to the whole thing.”
By Damian Carrington
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/04/hope-climate-chaos-renewables-science
Researchers home in on 5 type of messages that focus people on climate action.
"Positive messages about climate action, emphasizing health and the environment, and highlighting global and immediate effects increase support for climate policies across multiple countries, according to a new study"
Sarah DeWeerdt
Researchers home in on 5 type of messages that focus people on climate action.
"Positive messages about climate action, emphasizing health and the environment, and highlighting global and immediate effects increase support for climate policies across multiple countries, according to a new study"
Sarah DeWeerdt
Methane 'super-emitters' mapped by NASA's new Earth space mission
This image shows a methane plume 2 miles (3 kilometers) long that NASA's Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-methane-super-emitters-nasa-earth-space.html
Cristina Mittermeier Reflects On Her Life Underwater
The ocean churns with life, from the surface we swim on to the deep underwater currents below. Photographer and conservationist Cristina Mittermeier talks about how the ocean powers life on Earth—and how urgently we must protect it.
Words by Madeleine Gregory
Photographs by Cristina Mittermeier
https://atmos.earth/cristina-mittermeier-ocean-conservation/
Why climate despair is a luxury
Those facing flood and fire can’t afford to lose hope. Neither should we.
By Rebecca Solnit
Solnit shows that hope is not naiveté, that important change can come from situations that seemed hopeless, that the prophets of doom are taking the easy and lazy way out, and that “we must come to terms with [uncertainty], because it is the essential nature of the future.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2022/10/rebecca-solnit-climate-despair-luxury
GRAIN researcher, Devlin Kuyek says the report “An agribusiness greenwashing glossary” identifies ten key greenwashing terms used by Big Food & Big Agribusiness that serve to protect their profits and that confuse people and block real solutions to climate change.
Report:
https://grain.org/en/article/6877-an-agribusiness-greenwashing-glossary
Should AI Help Visualize the Future of the Climate Crisis?
“Activists have to cut through the noise in some way without access to the established channels of communication. That’s a really interesting way that these tools can be used.”
Dr. Dylan Mulvin
https://atmos.earth/should-ai-help-visualize-the-future-of-the-climate-crisis/
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Enbridge Energy, the owner and operator of the Line 3 pipeline project in northern Minnesota, will pay more than $11 million after investigations identified water quality violations and three aquifer breaches related to the pipeline’s construction, state regulators said Monday.
https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/enbridge-will-pay-11-million-to-settle-pipeline-violations
Stand with 🇮🇱 🇺🇦
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018