Klein and Thompson's "#Abundance" is a great excercise of self control for me, as while reading I find myself wanting to break into a shouting match with the pages in front of me, asking how they could be so nearsighted in their analysis of the current #liberal political sphere.
Instead of shouting at a book on the train, I instead pause and take a breath.
Sounds #refreshing, #leftist #degrowth folk, but can you fill the #water pistol 🔫 with #gazpacho?
Just published from Degrowth Institute and definitely worth a look and a share
Degrowth please:
"Discarded clothes from UK brands dumped in protected Ghana wetlands"
⚡Inspired by Anitra Nelson: Teaching and Learning #Degrowth. Scale, state vs civil society, collective vs individualistic, spatial planning, inequalities & Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (forthcoming). By
Ethemcan Turhan & me at @universityofgroningen @postgrowthplan #postgrowth #postgrowthplanning #CriticalApproaches24 #CriticalApproaches25
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
Brazil and China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
Oh geesh, @Tooden ! There's a lot going on Down Under!
Extreme weather could send milk prices soaring, deepening challenges for the dairy industry
Phys.org
6 days ago
Australia's dairy industry is in the middle of a crisis, fueled by an almost perfect storm of challenges.
The future for Northland weather: Storm alerts are 'the new normal'
rnz
1 day ago
This year has already brought almost every possible weather extreme to Northland, with record rain hot on the heels of a drought, a cyclone and even a tornado. Is this a sign of things to come?
5 killed and thousands affected by latest Australian floods
World Socialist Web Site
25 days ago
Another extreme weather event on Australia's eastern coast highlights government inaction on disaster preparation and climate change.
Parts of Australia got months worth of rain in just a few days. | CNN
CNN
26 days ago
Rescuers in parts of Australia are saving people trapped in their homes by flooding. The area got months worth of rain in just a few days and more rain's coming. CNN's Lynda Kinkade has the story.
How Australia's climate is changing amid week of weather extremes
Sky News Australia
80 days ago
Australia is famously a land of "droughts and flooding rains" - but the climate is not the same as when Aussie poet Dorothea Mackellar wrote her famous poem describing the "sunburnt country".
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe
#RenewablesNow #BigOilAndGas #Degrowth #Oiligarchy
#Capitalism #AustraliaWx #ExtremeWeather
#PlanetaryWaves linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950, study finds
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 4:51 PM EDT, June 16, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "#ClimateChange has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer #HeatWaves, #Droughts and #floods, a new study says.
"In the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer, but now it is getting about three per summer, according to a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave, the study said.
" 'If you’re trying to visualize the planetary waves in the northern hemisphere, the easiest way to visualize them is on the weather map to look at the waviness in the jet stream as depicted on the weather map,' said study co-author Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist.
"Planetary waves flow across Earth all the time, but sometimes they get amplified, becoming stronger, and the jet stream gets wavier with bigger hills and valleys, Mann said. It’s called quasi-resonant amplification or QRA."
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis
#GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe
#BigOilAndGas #Degrowth
#Oiligarchy #Capitalism #ExtremeWeather
#Greenland and #Iceland saw #RecordHeat in May. What does that mean for the world?
By ISABELLA O’MALLEY
Updated 1:42 PM EDT, June 11, 2025
"Human-caused #ClimateChange boosted Iceland and Greenland ’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May #heatwave, raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting #ArcticIce has for weather around the world, scientists said in an analysis released Wednesday.
"The Greenland ice sheet melted many times faster than normal during the heat wave, according to the analysis by World Weather Attribution, with at least two communities seeing record temperatures for May. Parts of Iceland saw temperatures more than 10°C (18 °F) above average, and the country set a record for its warmest temperature in May when Egilsstadir Airport hit 26.6°C (79.9 F) on May 15.
"The findings come as global leaders put more focus on Greenland, a semi-autonomous territory of Denmark, following U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments that he would like to annex the mineral-rich island.
"Burning #FossilFuels for electricity and transportation releases pollutants such as carbon dioxide that cause the planet to warm unnaturally fast. The Arctic is one of the fastest-warming places on Earth.
"Even in today’s climate, the occurrence of such a strong heat wave in the region is relatively rare, with a 1% chance of occurring in a year, the analysis said. But without human-caused climate change, such an event would be “basically impossible,” said Friederike Otto, associate professor of climate science at Imperial College London, one of the report’s authors.
"The extreme heat was 40 times more likely compared to the pre-industrial climate.
Global impacts from a melting Arctic
"Otto said this extreme weather event affects the world.
"As the Greenland ice sheet melts, it releases massive amounts of fresh water into the salty oceans. Scientists say this could slow down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation [#AMOC], an ocean current that circulates water from the Gulf of Mexico across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe and then the Arctic.
"Such a slowdown could disturb global climate and weather patterns.
“The nature of weather in the Northern Hemisphere is directly tied to what’s happening in the Arctic, because that ice floor basically at the bottom of the atmosphere helps determine the weather patterns that we get,” said Waleed Abdalati, who heads an environmental sciences institute at the University of Colorado Boulder. He was not involved in the WWA analysis.
"The Greenland ice sheet and other ice covering the Arctic can influence where and when wind blows, how much water content the wind has and whether precipitation falls as rain or snow.
"Most of the melting of the Greenland ice sheet happens in June, July and August. The May heat wave means there will be a longer melting season this year.
"Melting ice sheets and glaciers also contribute to #SeaLevelRise that is threatening to flood coastlines globally and inundate low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean.
"#Indigenous communities in Greenland are increasingly encountering dangerous travel conditions as sea ice that was once constantly frozen begins to thaw. Access to traditional hunting locations are lost, and sled dogs can no longer travel the same routes. Thawing #permafrost can destabilize buildings and increases the risk of #landslides and #tsunamis caused by landslides."
#GlobalWarming #ClimateCrisis #GlobalHeating #ClimateCatastrophe #FossilFuels #RenewablesNow #BigOilAndGas #Degrowth #Oiligarchy #Capitalism
This is your personal invitation to discuss the draft of the Nua-Celtic Manifesto with me on https://zotum.net/profile/ncm.
We need #degrowth, a #DonutEconomy and #SystemChange to #Conviviality in a #CaringEconomy of #Partnerism within #planetboundaries 🙏
#CapitalismKills #TaxTheRich #MakePollutersPay #FridaysForFuture #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #MotherEarth #ClimateCrisis #ClimateActionNow #greedflation #ecocide #stopoil #endfossilfuels #cooltheclimate #JustStopOil #PeopleOverProfits
So it looks bad. Real bad.
But remember, all is not lost. There are still choices that can be made moving toward a better, or at least slightly less disastrous, future.
➡️ https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/114670279088355579
And even if our "leaders" refuse to make those sensible, moral choices, some of us can and will make them on our own, occupying pockets of relative stability, peace, and justice in the rough years ahead.
LEARN MORE 👉 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth #SolarPunk
BIOSin kesäkuun uutiskirje ilmestynyt, https://bios.fi/uutiskirje-6-2025-joko-kiina-kortti-vanheni/
Kiinan lisäksi juttua fossiilivallasta, varallisuusverosta, degrowthista ja sillai. HS- ja Kauppalehden linkit avaavat taaskin artikkelit vain rahoittajilleen.
#bios #UutisBotFI #ilmasto #luonto #news #degrowth #kiina #china #fossileLobby #vero
I would be careful with the "the whole way of life on most of the planet would need to fundamentally change." part.
I think that we need to be much more specific in order not to have people thinking of humans living again in caves and stuff.
The cruel thing is that maybe there wouldn't even be necessary so much change.
Especially not in quality of life.
We need definitely decrease hyperaccelerated consumerism via #degrowth. But consumerism is anyway not a source of real joy. More like a quick and shiny party drug that makes you an addict.
And the ephimeral, inefficient and unstable economies we built on fossil fuels? That's just one of many ways to organize society so that people know when they get up in the morning what they will work today and organizing the stuff they need.
Sure, people will have to mend their stuff again, share their stuff with other people, and swap most of the weird, unconnected bullshit jobs people are doing for meaningful work like artisanship, farming or caring for others. And deciding things in your community is also sometimes exhausting.
But all this is not a "fundamental change". The fundamental change is what is to come (especially when the system continues like this)..
Schön das doch mal jemand auf mich hört. ;-) Die , Ungleichheitsforscherin Martyna Linartas über Umverteilung von Reichtum.
https://www.youtube.com/live/13RiLPYd9nA?feature=shared&t=10434
Ich vermisse Silke Helfrich. Ich freue mich jedoch das ihre Weitsicht und Erkenntnisse zu #Commons und #Commoning in Werken von @evas_notizen aufgenommen wird und ihn z.B. Evas Gedankengebäude ihren Platz haben.
Nur warum sie das nicht beim Namen nennt ist mir ein Rätzel.
#collapse #degrowth
https://jorts.horse/@ecosurrealism/114695093651367961
Reenviado desde Degrowth or Extinction
(https://t.me/memazoreloaded/6719)
What if architecture prioritized repair, care, and maintenance; cut ties with fossil fuels; and did the necessary work to truly decarbonize, and decolonize the building industry? What would that look like?
For some architects, degrowth has meant calling for a “global moratorium” on new construction, an idea that the most ethical thing an architect can do in 2025 is simply to stop building new buildings, instead thinking more strategically about how to make best use of the stock we have around us. In other circles, it’s meant cutting ties with the fossil fuel industry; building buildings with timber instead of concrete; and sourcing construction materials from local or regional manufacturers rather than global supply chains.engineers of computer infrastructure should really take note of the climate discourse happening in architecture.
