@claralistensprechen3rd@compost Interesting. Thanks to the mounds of pine needles here, our soil is on the acid side. I usually start mine off with a few shovelfuls of worm rich compost dug in. Over the year, I like to shovel a little compost in over the tomatoes and, once a year, the lemons and limes. Mb I should feed them more?
Composting is that amazing tool that will allow you to do something about the #climate.
George Washington according to US history was the first one to introduce the practice at his farm and he asked his workers to harvest all the organic matter around and make a pile with it.
Even if you do not have a garden you can still compost indoors year-round with composting worm bins.
If you want to learn composting you can go to your local library or check Youtube which has a lot of videos.
"Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) wants to better understand where EV chargers are needed in Connecticut and how adding chargers might benefit a community. They're collecting feedback through May 31.”
"Threats menacing #mangroves are evolving rapidly: in the past we saw degradation from wood exploitation, deforestation for agriculture and shrimp farming, and indirect imparts from dam construction altering freshwater and sediment fluxes. Today, mangroves face additional challenges due to #ClimateChange, including sea-level rise and an increased frequency and severity of cyclonic storms."
"The seventh edition of the European State of the Climate (ESOTC) covers conditions during 2023.
Overall, the frequency and severity of extreme events is increasing. Estimates indicate #EconomicLosses from weather- and #climate-related events in #Europe reached €13.4 billion in 2023. Millions of people were affected, and at least 151 lives were lost in due to flooding, storms, and wildfires."
Desirability and feasibility of perpetual economic growth is a matter of academic debate.
As of now degrwoth is not even considered as a climate change mitigation measure in projections of future #climatechange. Instead, they rely on technological innovation and further growth.
Here is cool new paper on the challenges of implementing the concept of #degrowth in models. 👇
Nature is currently engage in degrowth, busting dams, shuttering entire regions, which remain damaged for decades, drying up transport rivers, heat waves shutting down production.
Climate change is eroding existing productive capacity and it continue to do so with increasing ferocity, both in frequency and intensity. We can scuttle around with out metal and concrete bits, but ecology and green things have the capacity to mitigate both drought and flood. cheap too.
I'm preparing for a lecture tomorrow on climate change and biodiversity. I just learned that the CO2 concentration in Mauna Loa, Hawaii, last month passed the milestone of 100 ppm higher than when I was born.
Mauna Loa is the site of the longest running continuous CO2 measurements.
That's a 31% increase in carbon dioxide in just 52.8 years. It's over a time when we've known full well what the effects will be on the planet's climate.
There are disputes on how to talk about climate change so that individuals care more about or "buy" climate protection. Not too alarmist, mainstream, positive enough?
Meanwhile CO2 emissions - the primary driver of #climatechange - are still rising globally and atmospheric CO2 reaches new record values.
ESA launches EarthCARE satellite to study the impact of clouds on #ClimateChange
The #EarthCARE satellite - a collaboration between #ESA and Japanese space agency #JAXA - will study how the formation of #clouds and the density of #aerosols in the #atmosphere impact the Earth's temperature.
RT by @EU_ENV: Not only are freshwater habitats essential for flood control and #ClimateChange mitigation, they provide a home for over 25% of all described vertebrates.
They are among the most valuable ecosystems on the planet for their #biodiversity and importance to livelihoods.
Had a fabulous #FieldTrip today with Long Now Boston folks. We toured the #DeerIsland wastewater treatment plant. Yes, Long Now Boston is a nerd club.
But it gives me hope: some really smart, thoughtful, and capable people are keeping our infrastructure going and planning for #ClimateChange--no matter what the other noise around is.
Great tour, take one if you get the chance. #BostonMA
Of course, the highlight of the tour was seeing the actual egg digesters up close. You can't take photos inside, but we were right underneath one of them.
These use bacteria from human waste to chew up stuff that remains in the water at this point. On average, a piece of stuff that comes in spends 20 days in this breaking down.
If you fly into #BostonMA you see this dozen eggs and always wonder what they are about.... Now I know.
5/snip "The supply system fragility described above obviously affects far more than just food supply. All other critical supplies & materials needed for civilization similarly depend on foreign production, marine shipping, ports, truck drivers, warehouses, etc. Similar to the grocery store experiment, try going to your local hardware / home-improvement store & look at some “Made In _” labels. Just a couple examples: I found plywood made in Brazil & 1x4 lumber from Sweden.
Every aspect of our globalized supply chain is hyperfragile. When shocks eventually exceed the system’s resiliency, for example if a climate-caused #famine creates gaps in those “essential workers” so taken for granted during #covid, citizens of industrialized countries will experience shortages of building materials, gasoline/diesel, car repair parts, etc. Those shortages will create feedbacks affecting other sectors. A hyperfragile system pushed beyond its limit will experience impacts far exceeding the magnitude of the shock."
6/ snip "Global warming doesn’t just mean temperatures getting warmer, it also means increasing extremes & variability. The hallmark of the #holocene was climatic stability. We’ve left that era behind.
“Extremely Hot Summers in the Northern Hemisphere have gone from happening 0.1% of the time in 1951–1980 to 22.1% of the time in 2009–2019. That is over a 200x (20,000%) increase!”
#EVs need ~30 lbs of cobalt, so the US needs millions of tons for the EV boom, which will continue to push 1000s of Black women, men, and children into pits and tunnels.
Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children. They might work for around $2USD/day.
No one knows how many have been killed in the mines.
The Congo has over 90x the amount of cobalt in the U.S., where #Indigenous people are exploited for it.
Why are US Offshore Wind Farms being strangled with red tape?
This year has seen wind farm costs rise and many projects canceled as developers struggle with opaque regulations and determined opposition—but the industry is far from dead. #ClimateChange
German energy company RWE is to build two new wind farms in the North Sea off the German coast, in a major expansion of its European portfolio of offshore energy production.
Combined, the large projects, known as the Nordseecluster, will consist of 104 wind turbines that produce 6.5 terawatt hours of green electricity a year, RWE said. #ClimateChange
"Though I have been interested in ecological economics ever since I read The Limits to Growth (Meadows, Randers, and Meadows 1972), E.F. Schumacher (Schumacher 1973, 1979) and Hermann Daly (Daly 1974) in the early 1970s, and I have been a critic of Neoclassical economics for just as long, I didn't start critiquing the Neoclassical approach to climate change until 2019."
This thinking matches dynamics in most economic sectors.
For most economic sectors, 80% of a company's yearly profits are generated in a small window of time, often over a week or few weeks. This is true of retail, think Christmas, and of some professional sectors, think trade shows.
The US would have lost the war Milton Friedman had been advising FDR, because he would have asserted or even demanded that wartime factories conform to neoclassical assumptions of marginal cost and productivity.
He would have also demanded that generals never plan for major assaults, based on cost. Nazis would never engage in a massive assault. D-Day would have never happened because it wouldn't work economically.
It was clear decades ago that gov't should be using a carrot & stick approach to get landlords and homeowners to prepare their buildings for climate change. This is another case of making poorer people suffer for the profits of the rich. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGPBpK-G0O4#ClimateChange#Housing
