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Greta Thunberg at an 'apocalyptic environmentalism' event by Extinction Rebellion (2019) William Vogt (1902 - 1968) "laid out the basic ideas for the modern environmental movement. He founded 'apocalyptic environmentalism'—the belief that unless humankind drastically reduces consumption & limits population, it will ravage global ecosystems. Vogt argued that affluence is not our greatest achievement but our biggest problem. If we continue taking more than the Earth can give, the result will be devastation on a global scale. Cut back! was his mantra."
Inhale & exhale deeply, relax and say "everything is ok, me and everyone will die either way"... then explore these related links:
- Book: "The Malthusian Moment: Global Population Growth and the Birth of American Environmentalism" - by Thomas Robertson
- Essay: "Can Planet Earth Feed 10 Billion People? Humanity has 30 years to find out." - by Charles C. Mann
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_cult
- https://www.reddit.com/r/collapse/
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Talk by Jeremy Lent on "Cultural Mindfulness" - at the Stanford University "Contemplation By Design Summit" 2018.
#Comment: Mr.Lent's talk contains interesting notions, but overall its way to heavy on "we are so very progressive, post-dualist, post-materialist, post-post, woke people" virtue signaling touchy-feely boilerplate bla - indicative of current anglo eco culture. For my taste, he could shrink the talk to 15min and include a healthy does of high weirdness and comedy.
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Gordon J. F. MacDonald (1929 – 2002) was a prominent American geophysicist and environmental scientist, operating near the US political power centers of the time. A man of many interests, he was notably an central figure of early #ClimateChange research, in lockstep with weather modification and geoengineering research.
Nations where weather modification was practiced 1946-1973 – from US Senate “Weather Modification” Report; 1978, page 407. Assorted related links:
- Origins of the ‘Climate Change’ Threat to National Security – and the Geoengineering Response.)
- Timeline History of Weather Modification, Weather Warfare, Climate Modification, and Geoengineering.
- The Thin Green Line: How & Why Geo-Engineering is the ‘Invisible Hand’ of Climate Change
- The CIA Is Shuttering a Secretive Climate Research Program (2015)
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Genetically-Engineered Microbe No Longer Needs to Eat Food To Grow
"Synthetic biologists have performed a biochemical switcheroo," reports Science magazine:
They've re-engineered a bacterium that normally eats a diet of simple sugars into one that builds its cells by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2), much like plants. The work could lead to engineered microbes that suck CO2 out of the air and turn it into medicines and other high-value compounds.
Laboratory-evolved bacteria switch to consuming carbon dioxide for growth
"Over the course of several months, researchers created Escherichia coli strains that consume carbon dioxide for energy instead of organic compounds. This achievement in synthetic biology highlights the incredible plasticity of bacterial metabolism and could provide the framework for future carbon-neutral bioproduction. "
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Techno-fix futures will only accelerate climate chaos—don’t believe the hype - by Joanna Boehnert and Simon Mair
“To address the climate and ecological crises, we need a vision of the future. But some of the most popular ones out there will only propel the planet more quickly towards destruction; Rejecting the ecologically harmful assumptions on which our culture is currently built offers us a unique chance to build a healthier and fairer world.”
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Did scientists get climate change wrong? - Interview by Sabine Hossenfelder with Prof Tim Palmer from the University of Oxford.
Great Interview! Taking into consideration other recent "big picture healthy skepticism's" by Sabine Hossenfelder (such as "The crisis in physics is not only about physics" or "Is Climate Change Inconvenient or Existential? Only Supercomputers Can Do the Math"), i wonder what Sabine's general confidence level is in the current climate models. An extra level of complexity not touched on in this interview, is the inherit highly political nature of climate models, that makes them prime targets for corruption, manipulation and weaponisation. Such "social uncertainties" should likely be factored into the models themselves to make them more robust and realistic - especially given these models are (almost by definition) highly "closed source" and exclusive, due to required specialized personnel, computational resources etc.
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Mysterious Fungi Bring a West Virginia Forest Back to Life: https://www.wired.com/video/watch/mysterious-fungi-bring-a-west-virginia-forest-back-to-life
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Italian council is flooded immediately after rejecting measures on climate change: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/14/europe/veneto-council-climate-change-floods-trnd-intl-scli/index.html #ClimateChange #Comedy
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The End of Prehistory - talk by Kenny Ausubel at Bioneers 2019
"If billionaires were a country in 2019, they would be the third largest nation on earth"
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Food loss & waste contribute 8% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Tackling them can help fight #ClimateChange while generating food security & economic benefits: https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/theres-no-time-or-food-to-waste/ #Regenerative #Food
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Energy vs Waste: https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/11/energy-vs-waste/
“Erwin Schrodinger has described life as a system in steady-state thermodynamic disequilibrium that maintains its constant distance from equilibrium (death) by feeding on low entropy from its environment—that is, by exchanging high-entropy outputs for low-entropy inputs. The same statement would hold verbatium as a physical description of our economic process. A corollary of this is that an organism cannot live in a medium of its own waste products.” - Herman Daly & Kenneth Townsend
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China’s Brazilian beef demand linked to Amazon deforestation risk: https://dialogochino.net/31057-chinas-brazilian-beef-demand-linked-to-amazon-deforestation-risk/
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NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/nasa-flew-gas-detectors-above-california-found-super-emitters #ClimateChange #FFHCI
In a report published in Nature on Wednesday, scientists estimated that 10% of the places releasing methane -- including landfills, natural gas facilities and dairy farms -- are responsible for more than half of the state’s total emissions. And a fraction of the 272,000 sources surveyed -- just 0.2% -- account for as much as 46%.
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Growing Ecological Civilization in China - by Evaggelos Vallianatos: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/11/08/growing-ecological-civilization-in-china/ #ClimateChange #Regenerative #Economics #Infrastructure #China
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Interview with David Wallerstein, chief exploration officer of Tencent
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Google Launches Climate Startup Accelerator Program, Critics Remain Skeptical: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/google-launches-climate-startup-accelerator-program-critics-remain-skeptical-2/ #ClimateChange #Economics #Politics #Technology
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Climate and War: Bill McKibben’s Deadly Miscalculation: http://www.wrongkindofgreen.org/2019/11/06/climate-and-war-bill-mckibbens-deadly-miscalculation/ #ClimateChange #Military
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'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50226367 https://www.tum.de/nc/die-tum/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/details/35768/ #ClimateChange #Insects #Biology
