Enternet: Internet Lessons for Solving Energy - talk by Bob Metcalfe
tag > ClimateChange
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Global Warming's Worst Case Projections seem increasingly likely - talk by Noam Chomsky
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"From a car-friendly to a human-friendly city". Image shows work by the association for "verkehrspolitische Bewusstseinsbildung" in Salzburg Austria, which transforms parking-lots into green areas: http://www.fairkehr.net/ #Regenerative #ClimateChange #Politics
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"How we will rid the oceans of plastic" - talk by @BoyanSlat, founder of https://www.theoceancleanup.com/ #ClimateChange #Regenerative
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"The five largest meat & dairy companies together are having a greater negative environmental impact than an oil giant"
Source: IATP / GRAIN: http://climateaccountability.org/pdf/CarbonMajorsRpt2017%20Jul17.pdf
Analysis & Graphic by @klimareport (german only): https://www.klimareporter.de/gesellschaft/fleischindustrie-rechnet-klimalast-klein
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Kofi Annan: The World I'm Working To Create. #ClimateChange
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I'm very much sick & tired of people saying we will "fix" climate change with some magical technical breakthrough. Eco-modernism, Techno-Solutionism etc. are self-delusional, dangerous silly talk. Don't forget: Tech was instrumental in causing the problem in the first place.
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"Chaos. Das neue Zeitalter der Revolutionen" - talk by Fabian Scheidler & Harald Schumann:
"Das Ende der Megamaschine" - talk by Fabian Scheidler:
"Chaos: Das neue Zeitalter der Revolutionen" - talk by Fabian Scheidler - discussion with Erwin Wagenhofer:
Immanuel Wallerstein: The Global Systemic Crisis & the Struggle for a Post-Capitalist World:
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A New Politics for an Age of Crisis - talk by George Monbiot
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Many technocrats say the energy demand of human civilisation is bound to triple in the next 100 years. This is a failure of imagination, as the premiss (extrapolating the energy consumption anomaly which has been the past 100y) is missing climate change realities.
In a nutshell: Energy consumption will come down substantially, forced by the dynamics of catastrophic climate change: Many supply-chains will collapse & with it consumerism, planned obsolescence etc. will crash (signs visible today). Resulting shift to "circular economy" at scale will heavily reduce energy need. -
Wangari Maathai & The Green Belt Movement:
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Interview with Lisa Jackson, Apple's "VP of Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives" on how the private sector is embracing the clean energy revolution. Fascinating given Apple's giant carbon footprint and consumerism & planned obsolescence "leadership".
"What are your environmental goals in the next 5y?" - "Europe started the circular economy. I think that is the holy grail, dematerialising our sector. We are already forest neutral & love to become forest-positive"
- Lisa Jackson, Apple VP of EnvironmentCan Apple close the loop? Tech giant targets 100% recycled material: https://www.greenbiz.com/article/can-apple-close-loop-tech-giant-targets-100-recycled-material
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"Active volcano discovered beneath Antarctic ice sheet could be contributing to rapidly melting glacier": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04421-3 https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/volcano-antarctic-ice-melting-pine-island-glacier-sea-level-climate-change-global-warming-a8423131.html #ClimateChange
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The Swedes have a word that has no direct translation into English - one we should borrow: "Lagom":
The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as “enough, sufficient, adequate, just right”. Lagom is also widely translated as “in moderation“, “in balance”, “perfect-simple”, “optimal” and “suitable” (in matter of amounts). Whereas words like “sufficient” and “average” suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of appropriateness, although not necessarily perfection. The archetypical Swedish proverb “Lagom är bäst“, literally “The right amount is best”, is translated as “Enough is as good as a feast” in the Lexin dictionary. That same proverb is translated as “There is virtue in moderation” in Prismas Stora Engelska Ordbok (1995). (source)
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"IKEA will take back your old furniture, resell it & give you the money":
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/ikea-will-take-back-your-old-furniture-resell-it-and-give-you-the-money“If the last decades were about mass consumerism, now we are getting towards mass circularity.” - Jesper Brodin, CEO of IKEA
