"Unfortunately, we have gotten to a point of no return. It's sad, but that's what it is. Global warming is a serious problem. Climate change at this moment is a road to death."
"Welcome to the #Sunak and #Starmer show and welcome to the next four, five, six or seven months of your life."
BBC
I can reveal that neither of them will be presenting the policy choices that are needed on the face of multiple symptoms of systems #collapse.
Instead do take a look at and promote the #GettingReal policy portfolio. https://gettingreal.org.uk
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Almost 80% of the respondents, all from the authoritative IPCC, foresee at least 2.5C of global heating, while almost half anticipate at least 3C. Only 6% thought the internationally agreed 1.5C limit would be met.
Many of the scientists envisage a “semi-dystopian” future, with famines, conflicts and mass migration, driven by heatwaves, wildfires, floods and storms of an intensity and frequency far beyond those that have already struck.
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The destruction of the planet isn't a mistake, isn't a misunderstanding, isn't an accident. It's largely a deliberate process driven by economics and the material reality of the society we live in. Everything that we produce and consume in an industrial civilization is dependent upon the destruction of the planet.
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-- Max Wilbert
The title and the guy telling the story pretend it's all just farm in & outputs, but quite at the start he mentions that he starts with food scraps from local restaurants... So, that's external input in my book.
The other external input is all the machinery and the fossil fuels that are used.
To be more resilient in an uncertain/collapsing future scenario these are not the type of solutions that can be sustained.
I'm all in favor of composting and producing food (yourself) and as locally as possible, but please don't lie to yourself about the degree of 'sustainability' when you are working like this, even if it involves composting stuff yourself.
@compost
The problem is not only loss of topsoil.
Some examples:
we hardly had any plums nor cherries the last couple of years. Why? When the trees are in full blossom a week of rain ruins everything (+ the fact that there are no bees with cold rainy weather anyway)
Onions bolt when temperatures fluctuate heavily. On top of that wetter springs make them rot away. Same kind of story for garlic. (professional growers in my region complain about this lot!)
The best bet for annuals is nowadays to sow as many times as possible a couple of weeks apart and hope that some batches will succeed.
The whole climate change problem related to food production is soooo much more complex and diverse than what most people realise.
It's not without reasons that I'm very pessimistic about the future.
>But based on preliminary analyses, he said these factors were not sufficient to account for the 0.2C increase: “If the anomaly does not stabilise by August – a reasonable expectation based on previous El Niño events – then the world will be in uncharted territory. It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated.”
>The core of the problem – fossil fuel emissions
I don't agree, the core of the problem is human behavior, still plenty of people in here flying, driving etc and clutching their pearls. A good perspective here from physicist Tom Murphy
Faster then the median perhaps but there's plenty of "hot models" saying it's to be expected and temps are looking like they're accelerating, yo'ud think the precautionary principal alone would motivate peoples voting and actions but alas...
Three quarters of the Great Barrier Reef has been hit in a widespread coral bleaching sparked by a marine #heatwave ... a major bleaching event is unfolding all the way along the 2300 kilometre #ecosystem.
Malaysian and Philippine #unions discuss #LivingWage and decoupling of #productivity and wages, "It is evident that the global economic system is a failure that only favours few owners of #capital"
I am heading to my doctor today to have my foot pain evaluated. Crazy, if I wasn't available today, the next available appointment was 5/2. A month out. #healthcare#collapse
I feel like to a certain extent pacifism has a privelege problem. A lot of people fail to understand that violence being framed as a choice is ignoring reality for those of us who face discrimination or have lived at the bottom of society, of which I have both. Everyone in society is either having violence constantly inflicted upon them, participating in the systems that push that violence down upon others, or a mix of both.
There is no peace in our current society. Society as a whole, as it exists today, is violence, and being able to ignore that reality is privelege. For pacifism to attain any viability requires a fundamental change in society. Otherwise all it will mean is "peaceful violence", meaningless to those of us subject to it, and a denial of reality by those who inflict it.
Good level of detail in this article, produced by the #AP.
"From 1960 to 2015, there were 35 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge collisions"
Well, I wonder if there will be an effort now to increase pier protection for major bridges around the world. Certainly there's a heavy cost for blocking the Port of #Baltimore...
A bridge in Baltimore (the Francis Scott Key Bridge) has just been hit by a container ship, collapsing one of the main supports and taking down the entire bridge.
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