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A polity for the Earth. www.planetpolitics.org
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The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
December 20, 2024 at 11:34 AM
The year’s last author copies are here, on the first day of my holiday break. @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and I wrote an epilogue for this excellent book on Digital Ecologies. #envhum
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Australia's government still gives itself little ribbon rosettes and medallions for being the best fossil fuel exporter
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
December 20, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Australia's government still gives itself little ribbon rosettes and medallions for being the best fossil fuel exporter
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
While there remains uncertainty about the timing and sequence of catastrophic earth system tipping points, they are very real.
Atlantic circulation collapse? "In short, it’s a climate scientist’s nightmare come true."
Here's a good 'deep dive' into this risk, from Yale Climate Connections.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atla...
Here's a good 'deep dive' into this risk, from Yale Climate Connections.
yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/12/atla...
Atlantic circulation collapse? New clues on the fate of a crucial conveyor belt » Yale Climate Connections
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, which includes the Gulf Stream, is vital to Earth's climate. Its weakening could spell disaster.
yaleclimateconnections.org
December 12, 2024 at 11:16 AM
While there remains uncertainty about the timing and sequence of catastrophic earth system tipping points, they are very real.
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If I could take the liberty of quoting, @guyjackson.bsky.social, "India's submission [in the ongoing ICJ case] read from the playbook [we] identify in this article" for @instituteplanet.bsky.social some time back. We ought to hold global south elites accountable for their hypocrisy! #ClimateJustice
Really good nuanced piece by @pkashwan.bsky.social &
@praneetamudaliar.bsky.social on the politics and hypocrisies of climate negotiations.
Definitely worth a read.
www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
@praneetamudaliar.bsky.social on the politics and hypocrisies of climate negotiations.
Definitely worth a read.
www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
Resisting the cynical politics of climate negotiations — Planet Politics Institute
As pressure for deep global emissions cuts heats up, both the developed North and industrializing South need to attend to climate and social justice. By Prakash Kashwan and Praneeta Mudaliar.
www.planetpolitics.org
December 6, 2024 at 6:30 PM
If I could take the liberty of quoting, @guyjackson.bsky.social, "India's submission [in the ongoing ICJ case] read from the playbook [we] identify in this article" for @instituteplanet.bsky.social some time back. We ought to hold global south elites accountable for their hypocrisy! #ClimateJustice
Brilliant
"Everyone has a role in #decolonization, which is dismantling the structures that have marginalized, oppressed and subjugated certain peoples and places, including nature. Then recreating them with more equal and just frameworks," Eriel Tchekwie Deranger. #GreenSky
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/c...
A Climate Policy That Works With the Land
Eriel Tchekwie Deranger works to empower Indigenous peoples to lead the way on climate justice and decolonize environmental policy.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:28 PM
Brilliant
Invest in public transport. Invest in public investment-radical idea?
i am not sure self driving EVs can solve this geometry problem
December 2, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Invest in public transport. Invest in public investment-radical idea?
Worth a thought. Hope is not a strategy.
I think this action at the ICJ is misguided. Even the strongest possible opinion will barely move the needle on action. Pacific countries should be at the General Assembly negotiating coal and deforestation treaties.
Every bad strategy now has a planetary cost.
Every bad strategy now has a planetary cost.
Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told
Vanuatu envoy makes claim as hearing gets under way at international court of justice in The Hague
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:22 PM
Worth a thought. Hope is not a strategy.
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Some deep-sea squid, like Octopoteuthis deletron, detach glowing arm tips to confuse attackers as they escape. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxL... ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/i...
Squid attacks and breaks off two arms
YouTube video by edyong209
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December 1, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Some deep-sea squid, like Octopoteuthis deletron, detach glowing arm tips to confuse attackers as they escape. #marinelife www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SxL... ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/i...
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Vintage wisdom from the Moomins.
“I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..."
Worth a read...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t...
#moomins #winter #wisdom
“I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..."
Worth a read...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t...
#moomins #winter #wisdom
Control, Surrender and the Paradox of Self-Transcendence: Vintage Wisdom from the Moomins
“It’s a pity that exciting things always stop happening when you’re not afraid of them anymore and would like to have a little fun.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 23, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Vintage wisdom from the Moomins.
“I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..."
Worth a read...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t...
#moomins #winter #wisdom
“I’m nothing but air and wind, I’m part of the blizzard,” Moomintroll thought and let himself go..."
Worth a read...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/01/22/t...
#moomins #winter #wisdom
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🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’?
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 26, 2024 at 5:09 PM
🚨New study alert! Can #greensky define ‘information subsidy’? Would you recognize ‘solutions denial’?
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Here’s a thread on the networks opposing offshore wind in the Northeast USA, tracing how many of the discourses used against wind come from fossil fuels..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’
This is Tera’s story, from Canada
#climatebreakdown #COP29
1/13
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is Tera’s story, from Canada
#climatebreakdown #COP29
1/13
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’ – This is climate breakdown
Before the floods I was always with my boys. Always. This is Tera’s story
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:17 PM
‘I lost my six year old son when flash floods inundated Nova Scotia’
This is Tera’s story, from Canada
#climatebreakdown #COP29
1/13
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This is Tera’s story, from Canada
#climatebreakdown #COP29
1/13
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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English translation:
Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence"
"The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence"
"The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
Greta Thunberg alerta q #COP29 está "prestes a concordar com sentença de morte"
"Os processos da COP não estão apenas falhando, eles fazem parte de um sistema construído sobre a injustiça, projetado para sacrificar gerações atuais e futuras para que uns poucos continuem com lucros inimagináveis."
"Os processos da COP não estão apenas falhando, eles fazem parte de um sistema construído sobre a injustiça, projetado para sacrificar gerações atuais e futuras para que uns poucos continuem com lucros inimagináveis."
November 23, 2024 at 2:32 PM
English translation:
Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence"
"The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
Greta Thunberg warns #COP29 is "about to agree to a death sentence"
"The COP processes are not only failing, they are part of a system built on injustice, designed to sacrifice current and future generations so that a select few can continue to reap unimaginable profits."
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Just to emphasize: Saudi Arabia *and only Saudi Arabia* was sent a draft of the COP29 negotiating documents *by the COP presidency* so that Saudi Arabia alone *could edit it directly*.
Man, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough.
“We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku
“We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku
November 23, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Just to emphasize: Saudi Arabia *and only Saudi Arabia* was sent a draft of the COP29 negotiating documents *by the COP presidency* so that Saudi Arabia alone *could edit it directly*.
As always a brilliant summary of nearly everything that’s wrong and some great ideas for reform.
Please remember, the climate COP meetings are DESIGNED to fail. It is not a bug, but a feature.
Here's how they could be designed to succeed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's how they could be designed to succeed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 6:14 PM
As always a brilliant summary of nearly everything that’s wrong and some great ideas for reform.
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I'm grateful to my publisher, Oxford UP, for featuring me on their blog this week, where I got to talk about my book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS and my backstory — *and* my need not to chase "hope"! 😆
blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
November 23, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I'm grateful to my publisher, Oxford UP, for featuring me on their blog this week, where I got to talk about my book THE LANGUAGE OF CLIMATE POLITICS and my backstory — *and* my need not to chase "hope"! 😆
blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
blog.oup.com/2024/11/unde...
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As #COP29 grinds on trying to agree a deal on climate funding, @fionaharvey explains the difference between “provided” and “mobilised” finance
Liveblog 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Liveblog 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cop29 live: rich nations to raise climate finance offer to $300bn as Thunberg warns summit ‘about to agree to death sentence’
The talks in Azerbaijan have seen nations at odds over how much money developed countries should provide to poorer ones
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:15 AM
As #COP29 grinds on trying to agree a deal on climate funding, @fionaharvey explains the difference between “provided” and “mobilised” finance
Liveblog 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Liveblog 👇
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This looks great
The Philosophy of Charles Mills: Race and the Relations of Power is available for pre-order at a discounted price over at Routledge: www.routledge.com/The-Philosop...
#PhilSky #Philosophy #PhilosophyofRace #Race #Mills
#PhilSky #Philosophy #PhilosophyofRace #Race #Mills
The Philosophy of Charles W. Mills: Race and the Relations of Power
Charles W. Mills (1951–2021) was considered by many to be the most well-known philosopher specializing in political philosophy and critical philosophy of race. This is the first collection of essays t...
www.routledge.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:21 AM
This looks great
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Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social
"In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close"
theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
"In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close"
theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C
The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.
theconversation.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social
"In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close"
theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
"In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close"
theconversation.com/the-overshoo...
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New data from China.
Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%.
www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%.
www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
November 22, 2024 at 9:02 AM
New data from China.
Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%.
www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
Installed solar capacity at the end of October was 48.0% higher than the same time last year. Wind up 20.3%.
www.nea.gov.cn/2024-11/22/c...
We have to grapple with this blight.
#Fastfashion retailer #Zara tries to put clothes in stores 15 days after the initial design. #Shein adds up to 2,000 new items to its website daily. https://buff.ly/3OmFAje 🌎#climatesky #fashion #sustainability
Fast fashion may seem cheap, but it’s taking a costly toll on the planet − and on millions of young customers
The industry has a reputation for pollution and waste, but it has psychological effects as well.
buff.ly
November 22, 2024 at 12:37 AM
We have to grapple with this blight.
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Yes, tell me about it! @praneetamudaliar.bsky.social @instituteplanet.bsky.social www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
November 19, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Yes, tell me about it! @praneetamudaliar.bsky.social @instituteplanet.bsky.social www.planetpolitics.org/ppi-blog/res...
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6. We cannot resist fascism without building real democracies. That means massive decentralisation, a devolution of politics to the people, the creation of a genuine democracy that cannot so easily be captured, the building of an ecological civilisation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Feeling the urge to take back control from power-mad governments? Here’s an idea | George Monbiot
We are told governing systems like ours are inevitable and irreplaceable, but real, participatory democracy is possible, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2024 at 2:50 PM
6. We cannot resist fascism without building real democracies. That means massive decentralisation, a devolution of politics to the people, the creation of a genuine democracy that cannot so easily be captured, the building of an ecological civilisation.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I think this election was about a full-throated support of conspiracism and magical thinking as a way of civic life by much of the American electorate, its institutions, and business and political leaders. Not any specific conspiracy theory per se, but the freedom to think magically before all else.
the problem with this analysis is that all of the evidence we have so far is that it precisely was an enthusiastic embrace of Trump incoherent babble
November 6, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I think this election was about a full-throated support of conspiracism and magical thinking as a way of civic life by much of the American electorate, its institutions, and business and political leaders. Not any specific conspiracy theory per se, but the freedom to think magically before all else.
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"An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster."
"This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t."
By @rahmstorf.bsky.social
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t."
By @rahmstorf.bsky.social
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
The AMOC: tipping this century, or not?
A few weeks ago, a study by Copenhagen University researchers Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen concluded that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is likely to pass a tipping point alread...
www.realclimate.org
October 25, 2024 at 7:30 AM
"An AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster."
"This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t."
By @rahmstorf.bsky.social
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
"This is not about being 100% sure that the AMOC will pass its tipping point this century; it is that we’d like to be 100% sure that it won’t."
By @rahmstorf.bsky.social
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...