Climate Crisis
Let's rewrite the ending of this story: From climate crisis to climate solution.
Climate Crisis
"Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid." (Aldous Huxley)
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 e... See more
Zehn Tage nach Jahresbeginn hat das reichste Prozent der Weltbevölkerung nach Darstellung von Oxfam seinen fairen Anteil an e... See more
Oxfam: Superreiche haben ihr CO2-Budget für 2025 bereits verbraucht
Since that study was written we’ve burned over 50% again the cumulative amount of fossil fuels. Which means the amount of fossil fuels we’ve burned is equivalent to if we set fire to all the plants and algae grown on Earth every year for over 21,000 years. No wonder it’s getting hot.
Spencer R. Scott • Oil Barons Own the Earth
‘Climate change will reveal itself as a series of disasters that we watch on our mobile phones, with images that come closer and closer to home, until you are the person filming them.’
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"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 Rev
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Analyzing the language we use to describe climate change is particularly urgent, according to Dr. Stibbe, as our words directly influence how we tackle it. For example, the neutral-sounding term “anthropogenic climate change” collapses human responsibility for the climate crisis into a neat, innocuous noun. “There’s no actual agents doing anything,
... See moreDeep Ecology • Why We Need New Words for Nature
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 planta
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