Climate Crisis

You can’t have healthy people on a sick planet.

Once you recognize and actually realize that humans are nature, that this whole planet is a lot of different, diverse things but also, at the same time, one big inextricably connected thing, it becomes very clear that all the current major crises that we are facing are also crises within ourselves.

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Climate scientists have a saying that “carbon is forever”1. While natural sinks will absorb about half of what we emit today over the next century, it takes on the order of 400,000 years for the carbon cycle to fully remove current emissions. The extremely long atmospheric lifetime of CO2 means that even if we get emissions down to zero, warming

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Zum Klimawandel trägt jeder Mensch bei - Superreiche aber in besonderem Maße. Nach Berechnungen der Hilfsorganisation Oxfam hat das reichste Prozent der Menschen bereits jetzt sein CO2-Budget für das gesamte Jahr verbraucht.

Zehn Tage nach Jahresbeginn hat das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung nach Darstellung von Oxfam seinen fairen Anteil an... See more

But many individuals like driving, flying and eating beef. They feel the climate movement wants to take away things they enjoy...

They do. There’s different kinds of pleasure in life, right? Like getting deeply involved in your community, or feeling like you’re involved in something deeply meaningful, like humanity getting on a better course and the... See more

At the core of most of our cocoons are the concepts and frameworks that have been dictated by the sense that capitalism (in it’s more colloquial broader sense that includes deregulation, imperialism and globalization) is the only viable economic and political system. This has been termed a “monomyth” - a singular myth that like a monoculture

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It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more

People need to understand that all degrowth really is, is a switch in the goal of the economic system. We need to change the goal of the system from the accumulation of capital to the flourishing of all people, not just people in the global north, also people in the global south, and the flourishing of all life on this planet, because our economic... See more

"Every day, people are using the fossil fuel equivalent of all [now nearly twice] the plant matter that grows on land and in the oceans over the course of a whole year," ecologist Jeff Dukes explained.

In another calculation, Dukes determined that "the amount of plants that went into the fossil fuels we burned since the Industrial Revolution began

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