China deploys 60,000 soldiers to plant trees in bid to grow 6 million hectares of new forest this year: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/china-tree-plant-soldiers-reassign-climate-change-global-warming-deforestation-a8208836.html
tag > ClimateChange
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"Rotten eggs: e-waste from Europe poisons Ghana's food chain": https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/24/rotten-chicken-eggs-e-waste-from-europe-poisons-ghana-food-chain-agbogbloshie-accra
"Toxins from old computers, fridges and other electronic goods are polluting chicken eggs in an area where 80,000 people live"
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Planting 1.2 Trillion Trees Could Cancel Out a Decade of CO2 Emissions, Scientists Find:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/planting-1-2-trillion-trees-could-cancel-out-a-decade-of-co2-emissions-scientists-find #Regenerative #ClimateChange -
Open Source and Beyond: Collaborative Development towards an Economy of 'Meaning'
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Drowning in Inefficiency:
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The key objective of tech-giants in the next 10 years is to "disrupt" critical urban infrastructure globally. For fully privatised post-national "public" service providers (Google, Amazon & co), dominating Water, Electricity, Food, Transportation, Logistic, Health, Money, Housing, etc. systems is the missing piece for end-2-end society management. In this context, "AI for Climate Change" is simply a useful Trojan PR horse.
Microsoft wants to unleash its AI expertise on climate change: https://www.fastcompany.com/90334623/microsoft-wants-to-unleash-its-ai-expertise-on-climate-change
What’s critical about critical infrastructure?:
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If humanity wants to survive climate change & mass species extinction - the next 100y will be marked by a radical shift towards life-centrism: A reformation of our relationship to living beings - from plants, animals to humans and ecosystems.
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"Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design" - by @Ecocene: https://theconversation.com/surviving-climate-change-means-transforming-both-economics-and-design-109164 #Regenerative #Design #ClimateChange
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The Happiness-Energy Paradox: EnergyUse is Unrelated to Subjective Well-Being:
https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s11482-019-09719-y?author_access_token=NMDbmhL4OqNpZR74rDlP7_e4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6iZDwOmzrXG_aupSasgBuJ_pUGwxiZFQ7C3PXh-3Pm1kMNuGTLIcxk3tRGAzX3fgquSM1-QFXofYR5F31qt5Bs8a85m0Kr9LG0cA6GNGsekA%3D%3D
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"How Circular is the Circular Economy?" - by @lowtechmagazine: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2018/11/how-circular-is-the-circular-economy.html
"As long as we keep accumulating raw materials, the closing of the material life cycle remains an illusion, even for materials that are, in principle, recyclable"
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Where is the equivalent of the open-source software movement, focused on climate change resilience? Where are the Richard Stallman or Linus Torvalds type figures, focused on the race to fully regenerative economies? What is the equivalent of Linux for renewable infrastructure?
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"Making the most of the ‘UN Decade on Ecosystems Restoration’: bioregional regenerative development as a deep adaptation pathway" - by @DrDCWahl: https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/making-the-most-of-the-un-decade-on-ecosystems-restoration-bioregional-regenerative-development-484119e763ee #Regenerative #ClimateChange
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While western "users" (replacement for legacy terms such as 'citizen' or 'human') are permanently hypnotised by vain technological conveniences which enable them to suffocate their existence in consumerism - consumerism is suffocating our planets eco-systems.
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"Amazon Is Aggressively Pursuing Big Oil as It Stalls Out on Clean Energy": https://gizmodo.com/amazon-is-aggressively-pursuing-big-oil-as-it-stalls-ou-1833875828
The rise of Amazon (the company) is inextricably linked with the fall of Amazon (the rainforest).
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"To quibble with this kind of system [capitalism] about its values, to frighten it with visions about the consequences of growth, is to quarrel with its very metabolism" - Murray Bookchin, (Toward an Ecological Society, 1980)
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"Vultures are a key species that provide us critical ecosystem services, just like bees or earthworms. Don’t screw with nature, Portugal. When a catastrophe hits us, these critical ecosystem services is how our own species will survive and not fall victim to a pandemic!" - Vakibs
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"Earth 2.0 - A Sustainable Human-Earth OS" - talk by Tencent CXO @dwallerstein (at 2018 Tencent WE Summit). #Regenerative #OS #ClimateChange #Technology #FFHCI
It is refreshing, timely & sane to see a executive (@dwallerstein) of a tech giant (tencent) give a keynote on climate change & outline a strategic vision for the role of tech (AI, IOT etc) to tackle this challenge (& opportunity). US tech seems deep asleep on this crucial issue.
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Tired: The great firewall of China. Wired: The Great Green Wall of Africa.
More than 20 African countries have joined together to plant a giant wall of trees that will run across the continent to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert. The Great Green Wall of Africa will stretch for 7,000 kilometres, from coast to coast right across the continent. https://www.greatgreenwall.org - https://www.unccd.int/actions/great-green-wall-initiative #Regenerative #ClimateChange
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Many say "Green New Deal", but what do they really mean? Given the track-record of leading players, one gets the impression it mainly means the complete privatisation / financialization of nature (via "ecosystem services") to further consolidate power in the hands of the very few.
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Ÿnsect is "a young French company that leads the global field in farming insects":
http://www.ynsect.com/en/ - Entocycle is a "young UK company, active in the field of farming insects": https://www.entocycle.com - #FFHCI #ClimateChange
