"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
#CoSoEnvironment
#OpenCarryBooks
What to do about climate change: Andreas Malm on blowing up pipelines and other forms of property destruction.
"Malm (rightly) doesn’t side with those who say we just have to learn how to die; instead, he is hoping that we can mobilize more people into a climate movement that is much more aggressive and also directly attacks fossil capitalism."
by Ingrid Robeyns
Book:
How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Andreas Malm
https://bookshop.org/books/how-to-blow-up-a-pipeline/9781839760259
Can cats and coyotes co-exist?
As urban environments continue to encroach on natural habitats, instances of human-wildlife conflict tend to increase. While some animals avoid human contact at all costs, other species thrive in urban habitats. Coyotes, in particular, have become frequent visitors near human settlements.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-cats-coyotes-co-exist.html
Paper:
The Counter-Map and the Territory
Recent developments and activism in Indonesia might renew ways of evidencing environmental violence in West Papua.
The anthropologist Nancy Lee Peluso has called forest mapping in Indonesia a form of ‘local territorialization’ where the maps and map-making act as an advocacy tool for land rights.
By Nabil Ahmed
https://archis.org/volume/the-counter-map-and-the-territory/
(what ever you think about the WWF org. it has come under criticism in the recent past. Here is their latest report.)
Living Planet Report 2022
Building a Nature-Positive Society
The message is clear and the lights are flashing red. Our most comprehensive report ever on the state of global vertebrate wildlife populations presents terrifying figures: a shocking two-thirds decline in the global Living Planet Index less than 50 years.
https://wwflpr.awsassets.panda.org/downloads/lpr_2022_full_report.pdf
35 years ago scientists discovered we were badly damaging the ozone layer, so a major global initiative was created to repair it. At the same time scientists also discovered that greenhouse gas emissions were causing dangerous levels of warming in our atmosphere, but NO major global initiative was set up to solve this problem and now we may be too late. WHY did the world respond to one existential crisis and not the other??
#CoSoEconomics
#CoSoEnvironment
"Labor without energy is a corpse; Capital without energy is a sculpture."
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.
Ever more land and labour
Centuries of capitalism saw the global countryside ruthlessly converted into cheap commodities.
"The past provides us with clues about how we can play a role as citizens, workers and consumers in bending the course of economic development in such a way that one planet is enough. History does not repeat, but it reveals some patterns that are helpful for coming to terms with our present."
Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma
https://aeon.co/essays/the-capitalist-transformations-of-the-countryside
New Folks
Some of my favorite Hashtags
#CoSoBooks
#CoSoMusic
#CoSoScience
#CoSoSec
#CoSoEnvironment
#CoSoPhilosophy
Just type them into the search box, (just above the text entry box),
And a new column will appear on the right, you can then "pin" that and make it permeant.
Gas flares vastly underperform, causing greater climate impact: study
That implies methane emissions from flaring in the United States, which ranks among the top five nations for flaring activity, are five times as high as currently officially reported.
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-gas-flares-vastly-underperform-greater.html
Papers:
Tackling unlit and inefficient gas flaring
page 1486
And
Inefficient and unlit natural gas flares both emit large quantities of methane
page 1566
Here:
Science
The kids are alright, part 2,843
How Youth Are Stepping up Against the Mountain Valley Pipeline
The Frontline celebrates the young people working to defend their futures.
Words by Siri Chilukuri
Photographs by Obiekwe Okolo
btw Anyone that names their child Danger, is ok in my book.
Amber Merideth and her child Danger Winslow are Indigenous activists.
To watch:
So, Ya, you know it's bad, but hold on it worse than you thought.
Arctic System Collapse? Devastating new research.
Climate Layers
We know that the climate crisis is happening — but how do we comprehend its global effects? We have created the exhibition Climate Layers to visualise how climate stressors are affecting our shared home, the planet.
The Plastics Paradox Facing Humanity.
Necessary evil: Plastics are used to fabricate a wide array of tools and devices used by the medical, health and laboratory industries, including surgical gloves, syringes, insulin pens, IV tubes, catheters, inflatable splits and other products made to be used only once to prevent contamination and the spread of disease.
By Alice Mah
https://independentmediainstitute.org/efl-tat-20220823/
Book:
Why defusing 'carbon bombs' offers a promising new agenda for tackling climate change.
"For decades, and thanks to efforts by the US, Saudi Arabia and other countries with entrenched fossil fuel interests, UN climate talks have avoided the obvious solution: halting fossil fuel extraction and use."
by Kjell Kühne
Paper:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421522001756
Article in French but shared here for the images. 50 ans d’images merveilleuses et terrifiantes d’une Terre en mutation. “Taken by the Landsat program, these photos are part of the longest continuous capture of the Earth from space. It is impossible not to see the devastating effects of climate change.”
Mars Is Irrelevant to Us Now
At Farsight, a short but excellent interview with Kim Stanley Robinson.
(“Three things: the future as subject for speculation; the syncretic combination of all the fields into a holistic vision of civilisation; and lastly, narrative as a mode of knowing.”), his fictional ministry for the future, legislation options, clean energy, geoengineering, coops, and some fun chiding of the interviewer at the end.
The Surreal Abundance of Alaska’s Permafrost Farms
In a place where the summer sun shines for twenty-one hours a day, climate change is helping to turn frozen ground into farmland.
Burk is helping to lead an Indigenous effort to buy some of the land, which aims to empower Alaska Native residents to build a regenerative food system.
By Yasmin Tayag
Solar-Centered Designing: An Eccentric Proposal
"Please don’t read this alone, from a screen or in a hurry. Actually, please don’t read this. Take your time and dance it.
We are wasting too much time scanning too many things from LCD screens, probably with more than one tab open if you know what I mean, and often in a static seated position that detaches us from a physical reality that is always moving and changing."
By Andres Colmenares
https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/solar-centered-designing-an-eccentric-proposal/
( don't read, very bad, NOT getting better.)
Greenhouse gas concentrations, global sea levels and ocean heat content reached record highs in 2021, according to the 32nd annual State of the Climate report.
The land use of our fathers: Prospering in a healthy environment
"There is currently a trend towards nature conservation and restoration resting on the idea that we want to take people out of nature, Yet, heathlands and their more than 5,000 year survival depend on the presence of humans."
by Sarah Wild
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-fathers-prospering-healthy-environment.html
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018