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largess

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I am here to learn and face the truth, not avoid it and sometimes this can alas lead to confrontation when others prefer the latter to the former.

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largess, to climate
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Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave

>“They were falling out of the trees like apples,” Pozo said. “They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes.” Already weakened, Pozo says the falls from dozens of yards (meters) up inflict additional damage that often finishes the monkeys off.

>By 9 May at least nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records,

grivettcarnac, to climate
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I try to find and follow urban design, electrification, active transit experts who aren’t white dudes mostly on instagram, and I found one in Australia who I really liked until their litmus “test” for electric cars was “does a wine bottle fit in the front cup holders” 🙃🙃 Like of all the metrics to test this is the one you focus on… because you think it’s funny? People sometimes #publictransit #climatechange #EV

largess,
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@grivettcarnac
Australia is very car dependent, more so even then the USA. Our level of stupid is likely hard for sane outsiders concerned about climate change to comprehend because everything we do is wrong but there it is.

@ajsadauskas is worth a follow in this space IMO.

grivettcarnac, to Canada
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Fuck no. There should be well-paid career trajectories for this type of work and it should be incorporated into a Climate Corp structure . It’s highly skilled work, dangerous and there’s huge value in expertise retention. It’s great that university students feel drawn to this but 12 hr days for up to 14 days in a row is brutal, regardless of what Alpha Male chumps whine about

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whatonearth/wildfire-fighters-alberta-pay-1.7206766

largess,
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@grivettcarnac
In Australia it's all done by volunteers, my parter did for 5 months and had to take time off work to do it in our mega fires of 19/20. I supported her but there are still bills to pay, mortgages, rent etc so it's mostly often run by aged pensioners and a few really commitedd individual. She received a certificate and cap.

Yes, we're stupid and its unsustainable. It's based on a system that worked 70 years ago but is not a suitable model for todays climate changed world, back then a few farmers banded together to fight fires locally.

compost, to gardening
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I have a question for experts in Roses.

The leaves of my roses were fine before I started to deadhead the dying roses.

After doing this I noticed caterpillars ate the leaves.

My question is: does deadheading the roses attract the caterpillars? If yes what should be done about it?

@gardening

largess,
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@compost
Step 1, grub out the roses with a mattock and plant something better :)

Ugly useless shrubs,.some.produce "pretty flowers" but they need lots of work.

Caterpillar problem solved :)

Haha, sooooo, did I say I hate roses :)

@gardening

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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@economics@a.gup.pe

😑

This is the face of degrowth by means of climate inaction. Degrowth is not a future, it’s already underway.

https://youtu.be/-wYOkjVtBY4

largess,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
We seem to have chosen this rather then planning it as best we can haven't we. Weird choice , for example these folks nere helping the destruction along as best they can

https://en.osm.town/@okwithmydecay/112416240965534630

but ...here we are.

Those really are the only two choices, planned degrowth to a sustainable biosphere, or nature does it for us.

@economics@a.gup.pe

kegill, to climate
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“I think we are headed for major societal disruption within the next five years,” said Gretta Pecl, at the University of Tasmania. “[Authorities] will be overwhelmed by extreme event after extreme event, food production will be disrupted.”

Me, too. 😕

Three quarters of scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on expect a global temperature increase at least 2.5°C (4.5°F) this century “with disastrous results for humanity.”

@guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

largess,
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@kegill

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

>Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

CelloMomOnCars, to climate
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– and the energy transition are requiring us to make big decisions about powering our homes, cars and lifestyles.
– Many of us are struggling with loss aversion, decision fatigue, inertia and choice overload when trying to action major changes.
– Social scientists are working to understand human behaviour and help us successfully overcome our internal barriers to change.

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2024/May/social-science-climate-change

largess,
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@CelloMomOnCars
To add to this

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/

>DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”

>Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel prize in economics for his research on the psychological biases that distort rational decision- making.

>Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”

largess, to climate
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UN expert attacks ‘exploitative’ world economy in fight to save planet

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Boyd said: “I started out six years ago talking about the right to a healthy environment having the capacity to bring about systemic and transformative changes. But this powerful human right is up against an even more powerful force in the global economy, a system that is absolutely based on the exploitation of people and nature. And unless we change that fundamental system, then we’re just re-shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.”

>Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.

>In his final interview before handing over the special rapporteur mandate, Boyd said he struggles to makes sense of the world’s collective indifference to the suffering being caused by preventable environmental harms.

>over 40 million people have died of air pollution since I became special rapporteur in 2018, yet I just can’t get people to care.

>“I can’t get people to bat an eyelash. It’s like there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand just how grave this situation is"

>"If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

I can only agree ... without a livable planet and a stable biosphere, everything else is for nought, as "home" is then unlivable.

largess, to climate
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Discharge of scrubber water into the Baltic Sea is responsible for hundreds of millions in costs

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-discharge-scrubber-baltic-sea-responsible.html

>researchers note that the shipping companies' investments in the much-discussed technology, where exhaust gases are "washed" and discharged into the sea, have already been recouped for most of the ships. This means that the industry is now making billions of euros by running its ships on cheap heavy fuel oil instead of cleaner fuel.

>"We see a clear conflict of interest, where private economic interests come at the expense of the marine environment in one of the world's most sensitive seas," says Chalmers

>"If the scrubbers had not existed, no ships today would have been allowed to run on this dirty residual fuel. That is why the scrubber issue is highly relevant to push the shipping industry towards less negative environmental impact," says Lunde Hermansson.

Every time in every way we deliberately mess this up and actually incentivise ecological devastation.

There was many toots some time ago saying how there is way less sulphate aerosols from ships and this is a good thing, and all we did is allow even worse fuels to be burnt as long as they scrubbed them through water and allowed them to dump the toxins into the ocean.

Apparently the plan is to start emitting sulphate aerosols into the atmosphere aka "geoengineering", anything not to ride a bicycle huh ?

largess,
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@silence7
No one has to fly. Luckily 7 billion people don't, or the ecological and climate mess would be even worse. Flying is the new climate denial. Know it's bad and do it anyway, impactoary denial.

A good first step would be recognising the difference between needs and wants

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying/

>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2207886-it-turns-out-planes-are-even-worse-for-the-climate-than-we-thought/

>It turns out planes are even worse for the climate than we thought

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2019/jul/19/carbon-calculator-how-taking-one-flight-emits-as-much-as-many-people-do-in-a-year

>Taking a long-haul flight generates more carbon emissions than the average person in dozens of countries around the world produces in a whole year,

largess,
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@silence7
The Austrain Government just announced that gas is an important part of our emissions reduction framework.

I shit you not, Australian climate policy is literally

  1. speak some bullshit
  2. move on to the next issue
  3. Goto 1.
shoq, to random
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Face it, women are taking over everything. And I can't think of a single reason why that could be a bad thing.

largess,
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@shoq
Well, unless you're a dog, then you might start sleeping with one eye open ..

largess,
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@over_clox
Exactly, what insanity sees you needing more then 7000 tabs open?
@yoasif @firefox

timrichards, to auspol
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How depressing. To think Labor once saw itself as the party helping those doing it tough. Unemployment benefits desperately need a big boost, for a start - how about that instead of a surplus?

"Chalmers and Albanese want to reclaim the mantle of Labor being better economic managers – so the focus right now is on handing down that second consecutive surplus. The underlying message is clear: trust us, we are sensible and boring."

Federal Budget 2024: How Jim Chalmers and Anthony Albanese could signal early election

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/six-simple-words-that-could-fire-the-gun-on-the-next-election-20240310-p5fb82.html

largess,
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@timrichards
>To think Labor once saw itself as the party helping those doing it tough.

That stopped when Gough lost, it's bemusing they have been able to coast on that legacy for decades while fucking people over... and over.

The dildo of consequence never seemingly arrives for Labor, their entire strategy is to rely on people being even more annoyed with the horror that is the LNP every now and again.

Free_Press, to news
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Estonia is a small country, but Estonians have a big heart, — the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba congratulated the Estonian MP Kristo Enn Vaga in Ukraine.

The deputy, together with like-minded people, covered 1,700 km from Tallinn to Kyiv by bicycle and raised more than 30,000 euros for cars and drones for the Ukrainian army.

video/mp4

largess,
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@Free_Press
This is the nicest thing I've read today, if you ignore the context of course, thank you.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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@economics@a.gup.pe

Often I grouse about climate change being more than its extreme weather parts, that frequent natural disaster renders existing infrastructure unfit for purpose or destroys it. All across the world, developed or developing, dams are aging out in a climate they were never designed for, rendering them unfit for purpose, dramatically shortening their useful life or outright destroying them. And here we are.

https://youtu.be/eaux85hDcwQ

largess,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
A few years ago I brought this point up in the collapse forum of Reddit, siteing a Dam on the Mekong in Laos that collapsed after stronger then usual rainfall. My example was widely derided and even in there I was labelled an alarmist :) welcome to the club.

We've designed stuff to resist 1:100 floods (1% chance in any year) or 1:1000 floods but if they come... regularly, or are bigger again, infrastructure collapse becomes more regular and goes beyond our ability to maintain it.

To a lesser extent and somewhat differently, I saw this on a small scale when I lived in Cambodia decades ago, with NGO funded infrastructure and zero maintence budget, schools etc falling part.

@economics@a.gup.pe

largess,
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@silence7
Insurance industry on the brink ? They made record profits last year and flooding in northern Australia is now stupidly underwritten by the federal government.

Australia's QBE Insurance annual profit more than doubles

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/australias-qbe-insurance-annual-profit-more-than-doubles-higher-premium-income-2024-02-15/

https://kpmg.com/au/en/home/media/press-releases/2023/03/rising-premium-prices-spark-5-year-high-insurance-sector-profit-march-2023.html

The industry itself is hugly profitable, the real question is, how much longer can this ponzi insurance last ?

Australins are some of the biggest climate deniers on the planet, with zero moves to making a sustainable continent. As an Australian my empathy lies with the impoverished in other parts of the world, which our emsisions are destroying.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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“As a society, we have to admit that, despite 50 years of knowledge about the dynamics of the collapse of our life support systems, we have failed to initiate a systematic change to prevent this collapse. It is becoming increasingly clear that, despite technological advances, the change needed to put us on a different trajectory will also require a change in belief systems, mindsets, and the way we organize our society.”

https://tomdispatch.com/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/

largess,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I don't agree with such a narrow definition. That would see the guards at Austwitz having no responsibility.

Anyone who flies for example is the enemy of sustainably, as is anyone driving a car. You can argue all day about necessity but nature doesn't care for our necessity.

I have seen the enemy and the enemy is us. How we vote, how we live is nearly ubiquitously at odds with sustainably.

We're so far away from where society needs to be to be in anyway sustainable it's looking to be an unachievable goal. There are a plethora of people posting a zillion articles about moving towards a more sustaible world...and there's the issue, more sustainable, inevitably means kick the can down the road because its like being a little bit pregnant. How we'd need to live with 8-10billion on the planet to be sustainable is beyond the imagintion of most and those who can imagine it find it unacceptable.

Th UK and UK elections alone will further the destruction, no matter who wins, because who need's to win won't even get a look in.

>"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” -- Antoinio Gramsci

@gerrymcgovern

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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How many different ways are there to say FUCK LABOUR 😡
Flying to New York for to have dinner and talk about the climate emergency. FFS.

largess,
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@fkamiah17
>Flying to New York for to have dinner and talk about the climate emergency. FFS.

Greta Thunberg rightfully called kit the greenwashing bullshit if the Arden government years ago. Alll we do is blah blah blah.

Nearly no one is taking any of this seriously, certinaly not voters, so polticans can't. To take it serisouly would mean no more flying for a start and voters will never accept that. Every election reinforces that.

@bobjmsn

chaser, to random
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“Governments need to do more to stop violence against women,” says Anthony Albanese seconds before shock discovery that he is in charge of the government
https://chaser.com.au/national/governments-need-to-do-more-to-stop-violence-against-women-says-anthony-albanese-seconds-before-shock-discovery-that-he-is-in-charge-of-the-government/

largess,
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@chaser
True but he's not in charge of the police.. Thats a system responsibility and I am unsure why they aren't all over this, they're usually keen to protect their right to be the only ones to commit violence.

Notnaire why the Chaser isn't going after the States here

@earthmothering9

ClimateNewsNow, to climate
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Two countries in Europe are powered by 100% renewable energy as wind capacity soars.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/04/17/wind-energy-saw-record-growth-in-2023-which-countries-installed-the-most

largess,
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@ClimateNewsNow
Can we stop conflating electricity with energy? They use gas, diesel and otjer liquid fossil fuels in huge quantities. They fly in aircraft and don't count the emisisons, have defence forces and don't count those emsisions and order goods manufactured and shipped from across the planet and don't count those emsisions.

Some of the reason we're in this mess is we're trying to fool ourselves and each other that we're making progress but nature cannot be fooled.

https://zacklabe.com/climate-change-indicators/

kcarruthers, to climate
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Such a cheerful read: The Busy Worker’s Handbook to the [Climate] Apocalypse

https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7

largess,
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@kcarruthers
And another

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-07-06/the-ideology-of-human-supremacy/

pvonhellermannn, to random
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“Thousands of schools across the Philippines, including in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country’s 82 provinces are experiencing drought, and nearly 31 others are facing dry spells or dry conditions, according to the UN, which has called for greater support to help the country prepare for similar weather events in the future. The country’s upcoming harvest will probably be below average, the UN said.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/26/asia-heatwaves-philippines-bangladesh-india

largess,
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@pvonhellermannn
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/bangkok-extreme-heat-danger-warning-global-warming-climate-change-4288541

@glynmoody

gerrymcgovern, to random
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Mirarr Traditional Owners have protested outside Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) annual general meeting in Darwin, accusing the company of dishonesty regarding the Jabiluka mineral lease.

Senior Mirarr Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula said ERA, which operated the Ranger uranium mine in Kakadu, was lying.

"They say they have never heard from us about not mining Jabiluka - these people are the only ones in the country who don't hear us," Ms Margarula said.

https://nit.com.au/24-04-2024/11029/traditional-owners-protest-against-mining-at-jabiluka

largess,
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@gerrymcgovern
To add to this with some background, The Ranger Uranium Mine is in the tropics, the tailings dam's have spilled over multiple times during monsoon events, sending toxic radioactive tailings down the rivers creeks and streams.

It's life has ended (I think it used to supply France ?) and they're supposed to do a clean up (how I jave bo idea so I assume it will be some token cleaning) but the tailings dam will be full of toxic shit for a 1000 years.. maybe those advocating for an expansion in Nuclear can go clean it up and put the toxic talings in their backyard ?

Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ (www.theguardian.com)

Australia’s prime minister has labelled X’s owner, Elon Musk, an “arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law” as the rift deepens between Australia and the tech platform over the removal of videos of a violent stabbing in a Sydney church....

largess,
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@danbeeston

I petitioned my local member 20 years ago about doing something this for email for delivery of documents and communication with citizens. He was even polite enough to meet with me about it.

I got precisly no where though :)

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