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Saying that “humans” are responsible for ecological devastation is a continuation of colonial racism, and it is an insult to the peoples who have fought against obliteration to preserve their way of life and their relationship with their territory. It is also an insult to the many people who, despite growing up in a culture totally infused with the values of capitalism, have risked their lives and freedom to defend the land and halt destructive development projects. And it is an insult to the hundreds of millions who are subjected to extreme poverty or absolute precarity by the very same economic order that profits from ecocide, who have to worry about their personal survival and that of their family and community, and do not have the luxury of choosing between different job opportunities and consumer products based on how “ecological” they might be.
Peter Gelderloos, The Solutions are Already Here
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quark-nova · 9 months
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ICS time bias in one picture
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quasi-normalcy · 9 months
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Do you ever try to imagine your future and catch yourself assuming that climate change will just...stop being a thing at some nebulous and ill-defined point in time? And that you'll be able to live your golden years back in "reality", where you don't have mass extinctions or geopolitical chaos or skies turning piss-yellow with wildfire smoke every summer or the need to aggressively scale-back energy consumption and radically alter modes of living? And then you remember that, even if all greenhouse gas emissions stopped tomorrow, there's still at least several centuries of warming already queued up down the pike? And the fact that the world you grew up in and for which all of your formative experiences prepared you is gone forever and will never come back just slams into you like a sledgehammer in the nadgers?
Yeah.
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alphynix · 9 months
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alarmist-nonsense · 1 year
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“The Environmental Protection Agency recently gave a Chevron refinery the green light to create fuel from discarded plastics as part of a climate-friendly initiative to boost alternatives to petroleum. But, according to agency records obtained by ProPublica and the Guardian, the production of one of the fuels could emit air pollution that is so toxic, one out of four people exposed to it over a lifetime could get cancer.”
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rupertbbare · 4 months
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Runit Dome. Concrete sarcophagus containing 73,000 cubic meters of radioactive debris from 68 nuclear detonations and biological warfare remains on Marshall Islands.
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reasonsforhope · 5 months
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Do you have a tag specifically for stuff about the climate crisis/what is being done/can be done to help stop or reverse its effects?
Basically just read a post that was "I'm not trying to be alarmist but- *spends seven paragraphs about how climate change is inevitable, we will never possibly recover from it, it's not global warming anymore its global "boiling", none of the damage can ever be undone and we're all going to be dead in the next five generations*" and I'm trying.. very hard not to spiral from it.
Sorry for bothering you 🙏
The "climate crisis" "climate change" and "climate hope" tags should do the trick.
Of those, "climate change" is the one that has the most content by far, just because the others are more narrow and "climate hope" is a much more recent term, so to speak, because I keep forgetting about it lol
I don't post anything that's not good news, so you can go through the general "climate change" tag without fear
Also, while I'm at it, that person is wrong. For a lot of reasons, including that we're actively fixing a lot of damage to ecosystems literally right now. And also also, GLOBAL WARMING WILL BE AT LEAST SOMEWHAT REVERSIBLE
Why? Well, the rise in average global temperatures is caused by excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As we keep fixing the planet, restoring ecosystems, and stop burning fossil fuels, nature will siphon more and more of the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
And if there's less carbon dioxide (and other greenhouse gasses) in the atmosphere, then more heat can once again escape the planet and radiate out into space
Will this be easy? Probably not! This planet's natural systems are incomprehensibly complicated - but that also means there are solutions out there that we haven't even discovered. There are some additional problems to overcome, like the fact that the oceans will be surfacing excess heat for a few decades after we stop CO2 emissions, and also "natural gas" and "carbon capture" are fake solutions/oil company traps.
But we can do it. I so, so, so sincerely believe that.
One term that I think we'll be seeing more and more of in the coming years is "Drawdown": "Climate drawdown refers to the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.[1] Drawdown is a milestone in reversing climate change and eventually reducing global average temperatures." (from wikipedia)
We can achieve drawdown. Will life in the future look very different? Yes, in both good and bad ways.
Climate change is the earth's "feedback" to humanity: "Fix your shit or die."
People are, in general, really, really, really committed to finding ways not to die.
I genuinely believe the rest of us can overcome the few dozen billionaires trying to screw the rest of us over. Money is powerful, but the remaining 7 billion plus people on this planet are more so. And the fortunes of billlionaires are made off the backs of the rest of us - which means we can make those fortunes run dry.
Sources for this answer (warning, these talk about the negative side of things a lot too, they're not the uplifting reads themselves. that's next): x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x
Other sources to read for hope: FutureCrunch, Project Drawdown and Project Regeneration good news websites in general such as Positive News and Goodgoodgood, which I think are the best content fits for what you're looking for. Make sure to check out Goodgoodgood's roundups specifically. And know that there are way, way more good news stories - and way bigger ones, too - than I've had time to post about lately, because work has been really hectic
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antediluvianechoes · 5 months
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Passenger pigeon, Charley Harper
Do living things know when the end is coming? Do they see the oncoming failure and accept it with a morose indifference? Is extinction an option or an inevitability? Can behaviors be curtailed to prevent it, or is every new existence just one life closer to the closing of the book?
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There's a textile art exhibit in the little gallery space in my building and I adore this one
(What We Leave Behind, by Mallory Zondag)
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queerbrownvegan · 5 months
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New blog post!
Have you ever heard of the term “Anthropocene”? The term defines this current period of time in which human activity is altering the Earth’s systems. Typically, the periods of time used to define Earth’s history (like epochs and ages) are based on rock layers and the fossils contained within them. While Anthropocene isn’t officially recognized by the International Union of Geological Sciences, this term has still gained support.
What this term tells us: this is a distinct period in time, defined by increasing environmental destabilization from human activity (specifically, destabilization from the extractive and exploitative systems, enforced by an absurdly wealthy ownership class). 
What it doesn’t tell us: what’s next? 
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lionofchaeronea · 6 months
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Written to the IG prompt "doomsday". If this is too depressing, I apologize. It turned out as something of a primal scream, born of my frustration with the world at present.
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There'll be no trumpet on that day,
Nor any breaking of the clay
When humankind has passed away.
No thunder from a rolling cloud,
No seraphim who cry aloud
The sudden downfall of the proud.
The mountains will refuse to fall.
The dead, indifferent to the call,
Will sleep, nor slither from their pall.
Only a fatal lethargy
Settling unhurriedly
On all the works of land and sea;
A blind and deaf and stumbling Fate
That merely seeks to demonstrate
The overweening power of hate;
Raw indifference, in sum,
Thumping like a kettledrum.
That is how the end will come.
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escuerzoresucitado · 1 year
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kenyatta · 2 months
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pastel--core · 6 months
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Hammer Time
sketch commission for alxkiddo
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khlur · 9 months
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this is a very interesting and chaotic website i found a couple of months ago and forgot about till now.
Feral Atlas invites you to navigate the land-, sea-, and airscapes of the Anthropocene. We trust that as you move through the site—pausing to look, read, watch, reflect, and perhaps occasionally scratch your head—you will slowly find your bearings, both in relation to the site’s structure and the foundational concerns and concepts to which it gives form. Feral Atlas has been designed to reward exploration. Following seemingly unlikely connections and thinking with a variety of media forms can help you to grasp key underlying ideas, ideas that are specifically elaborated in the written texts to be found in the “drawers” located at the bottom of every page. For readers who need to move directly to field reports and framing essays, just click on the floating key on the upper left corner of the screen, which will take you to the Super Index, from which you can access Feral Atlas materials by author and topic. For those willing to learn the argument through digital architecture, while welcoming of a little guidance, read on.
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rupertbbare · 1 year
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