tag > ClimateChange
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Deep Time Walk: "a mobile app that enables anyone, anywhere to experience a walking audio history of the living Earth": https://www.deeptimewalk.org/kit/app/
The idea of the Deep Time Walk is simple but incredibly powerful: When dealing with the vast dimensions of time and space, we are often unable to grasp the magnitude quantitatively, just through studying the numbers. A Deep Time Walk allows us to walk the timeline of the history of the Earth and also universe, and thus for example, on a walk of 4.6km, if we start with the birth of Earth, each one-metre step represents one million years. Read more...
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"The Pricing of Everything" - talk by @GeorgeMonbiot:
"This is a pursuit of what could be called the natural capital agenda. The pricing & valuation, monetisation and financialization of nature - in the name of saving it. Nature is now called Natural Capital. Ecological processes are called Ecosystem services. And hills, forests and oceans - are now called green infrastructure. Bio-diversity, we now call asset classes in an eco-system market" - @GeorgeMonbiot.
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Ecosia - "a search engine that plants trees. Search the web, save the environment": https://info.ecosia.org/what #FFHCI #ClimateChange
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Is the rate at which we drive real insects into extinction (after millions of years on earth) and the rate at which we create primitive/crude emulations of those very insects related?
http://ascii.jp/elem/000/001/687/1687200/
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Practical solutions to move towards more positive outcomes in the unfolding climate change catastrophe - by @Plinz (tweet)
Shift population centers above future sea levels and in different climates, focus on sustainable development, indoor agriculture, solar thermal, desalination, fix governance, end culture wars, protect civilization at almost all costs, leave messages to future intelligent species
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"You can not take away someone's story, without giving them a new one"
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Why is it that so many of the very practical, sane & futuristic alternative movements of our time (cultural, political, ecological, economical) - seem to have very poor design, aesthetics, usability & PR strategies? It's confusing.
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"Out of the Wreckage - A New Politics for an Age of Crisis" - by George Monbiot
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The Age of Stupid - full documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Stupid
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Starting to fully appreciate just how important cultures like Yoga, Qi-Gong, Meditation, Animism, Gardening, Comedy & Art will be - to ensure a somewhat orderly transition into wild climate change & full-automation realities. Less Collapse, more Retreat. Less Dystopia, more Love.
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"The network of global corporate control" - a pioneering research paper by ETH Zurich (2011):
https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1107/1107.5728v2.pdf
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Why is it, that the connections between climate change/species extinction & extreme global (wealth) inequality are not more often discussed? Seems rather directly correlated, no?
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Does AI Art Belong in the Physical, Digital, or Crypto World?
https://medium.com/@pindar.vanarman/does-ai-art-belong-in-the-physical-digital-or-crypto-world-3cb4fe5e01b0Interesting piece on the merger of A.I, Art & Crypto. Question: Is "AI CryptoArt" the most energy intensive art-form ever invented? e.g. very energy hungry GPUs to generate images, perversely energy hungry crypto-nets to trade those images. cc @quasimondo @DrBeef_
Going back to practical questions: In times of (climate) crisis, Art & Design are tremendously powerful communication tools which can reach places politics simply can't. Dadaism or Bauhaus are nice examples. It's time for a global cultural wildfire for sanity.
I see artists as part of the vanguard of society and wonder if new, super energy/resource intensive art-forms are the right symbol for now. I see "EcoAIArt" not only a fun challenge, but as a moral imperative & survival tool
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Jack Clark Tweets: If AI is a new industrial revolution shouldn't we be... incredibly concerned? The industrial revolution was a time of great chaos and misery for millions of people, and it occurred during a period with less extreme weather and a less connected world.
My reply: Isn't the "AI is a new Industrial revolution" metaphor extremely backwards in times of climate change and mass species extinction? .I invite you to join the turnkey debate of our day: A mature, honest and intellectually cunning discussion of the planetary politics of Gaia.
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If you are interested in the future of the internet (a popular synonym for economy), study deeply what's going on in Africa right now. Its way more futuristic than anything silicon valley has to offer. A master class in resilient network design for post climate change realities.
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When I say "In the next 20y we will witness a global transformation from geo-politics to eco-politics, from consumerism to well-being, from meat to vegan, from growth economics to sustainable eco-nomics" - people laugh. They laughed about the internet & mobile 20y ago as well.
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Reflections on Plastic and the news that the "EU Commission plans ban on plastic waste":
http://www.dw.com/en/eu-commission-plans-ban-on-plastic-waste/a-43949554
"If we continue as we are now, by the year 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish. Already now we are fishing more plastic waste than fish. There is really an urgent need for profound change" - Frans @TimmermansEU - Vice-President of the EU Commission
Today, the EU has officially acknowledged that plastic waste is a global environmental catastrophe of epic proportions. Why? To grasp the full extent of the plastic problem is hard, but here some facts: "More than 8m tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year"
Beyond any singular facts on why plastic is bad, this perhaps is the most shocking: "The Great Pacific garbage patch" is a massive island of plastic, floating between California & Hawai. It is now 3 times the size of France and growing rapidly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
The EU Commission proposed new EU-wide rules this Monday, aimed at reducing plastic pollution in cities & oceans by banning several plastic products. They are the first major economic zone to signal a move towards "innovative alternatives" which "could create new jobs". Sane!
While the EU plastic regulations are ambitious in the global context - critics rightfully are saying much strong action is required to prevent a *total collapse* of global marine life & connect food chains. A scenario scientists see as increasingly likely:
https://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2017/02/ocean-fish-stocks-on-verge-collapse-irin-report/
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A public space food forest in Amsterdam Zuidoost? http://www.urbaniahoeve.nl/2018/05/a-public-space-food-forest-in-amsterdam-zuidoost-foodforest-amsterdam-publicspace-urbaniahoeve-stadsdeelzuidoost-zuidoost-info-at-urbaniahoeve-dot-nl-2/
"Edible Public Spaces"
