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politijohn · 1 year

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#current events #news #climate change #global climate crisis #international affairs #germany #environment #capitalism

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canadianabroadvery · 9 months

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#editorial cartoons #global climate crisis

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woodsfae · 8 months

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Wildfire Smoke Over Lookout Pass, Idaho. August 18, 2023.

#wildfires #global climate change #global climate crisis #idaho #my photo #woodsfae #photography #landscape photography #fires #natural disaster #forest fires #sunset #mountains #evening #sky

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letussininpeace · 2 years

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Patagonia (2020)

Today the founder of Patagonia donated the multi-billlion dollar company to organizations devoted in fighting climate change.

Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, gave up his families status as one of the wealthiest in the world in order to combat climate change. It is an unprecedented, and extraordinary move as we begin to see, and feel the extreme effects of our global climate system, and the havoc it is creating worldwide.

He is quoted as saying, “while we are doing our best to address the environmental crisis, it is not enough”

He has gifted his and his families stake in the company by transferring their stock to climate focused trusts, and a group of nonprofit organizations, which will be better known as The Patagonia Purpose Trust.

Patagonia is currently valued at 3 Billion USD.

- Hector

#Patagonia #climate change #charity #philanthropy #stocks #global climate crisis #global climate change #let us sin in peace #heaven sent

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ausetkmt · 1 year

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World Indigenous leaders meeting this week at an annual UN summit have warned that the west’s climate strategy risks the exploitation of Indigenous territories, resources and people.

New and emerging threats about the transition to a greener economy, including mineral mining, were at the forefront of debate as hundreds of Indigenous chiefs, presidents, chairmen and delegates gathered at the 22nd United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

“It is common to hear the expression to ‘leave no one behind’. But perhaps those who are leading are not on the right path,” the forum’s chairman, Dario Mejía Montalvo, told delegates on Monday as the 12-day summit opened in New York in the first full convening since the pandemic outbreak.

The longtime advocacy group, Cultural Survival, in partnership with other organizations, highlighted how mining for minerals such as nickel, lithium, cobalt and copper – the resources needed to support products like electric car batteries – are presenting conflicts in tribal communities in the United States and around the world.

As countries scramble to uphold pledges to keep global warming to 1.5C (2.7F) above pre-industrial levels by 2030, big business and government are latching on to environmentally driven projects such as mineral needs or wind power that are usurping the rights of Indigenous peoples – from the American south-west to the Arctic and the Serengeti in Africa.

Brian Mason, chairman of the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian reservation in Nevada said that the 70 or so lithium mining applications targeting Paiute lands have come without free, prior and informed consent – what is considered the cornerstone of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. He described the lithium extraction efforts as being on a “fast track” to supply the Biden administration’s net-zero strategy to create a domestic supply of EVs . “It’s kinda just being rammed down our throats,” he said. “At the cost of Indigenous peoples once again.”

Gunn-Britt Retter of the Saami Council, an organization representing the Sami peoples of Finland, Russia, Norway and Sweden, said she had been raising awareness about what she calls the “green colonialism” driving harmful sustainability projects on Sami and Indigenous lands. The most recent example has been the Fosen onshore windfarm that was built despite a supreme court ruling in Norway in defense of Sami reindeer herding grounds.

“They look to us to carry the heaviest burden and it’s a disproportionate part of the burden,” she said of Indigenous peoples caught in the middle of a climate conundrum. “We need to reduce CO2 emissions globally, and we need to seek alternative energy sources, but we also need to protect the Indigenous cultures because we are the guardians of nature, which is part of the solution.”

Mejía Montalvo, who belongs to the Zenú peoples of San Andrés Sotavento in Colombia, said global climate talks have failed to properly include Indigenous peoples, yet at the same time, such dialogue has relied on a well of Indigenous knowledge systems to imagine future climate goals. “The issue of climate change and biodiversity cannot be resolved without the real and effective participation of Indigenous peoples.”

He urged the 193 member states affiliated with the UN, as well as its international governing bodies, to set a quota for actions that guarantee Indigenous peoples can take part in decisions affecting our planet, and in a way that puts them “on equal footing” with states – meaning, voting power, which Indigenous peoples lack.

The most recent example of the disparity came last fall in the historic “loss and damage” fund for vulnerable countries reached at Cop27 in Egypt. Indigenous peoples lacked explicit reference in the agreement, despite many world leaders, including the US president, Joe Biden, acknowledging the importance of Indigenous peoples in mitigating and adapting to climate change.

But there has been progress. The rights-based Paris agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – the environmental treaty to combat the climate crisis – has provided a rare opportunity for formal Indigenous participation in the creation of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples’ Platform (LCIPP). The constituent body held its first meeting as a recognized working group in 2019, and engaged in dialogue with the Cop presidency last year in Sharm El-Sheikh.

Of the short cast of international leaders who spoke at the start of the global event on Monday was the first ever appearance by a UN secretary general, António Guterres, at a permanent forum opening ceremony. Also present was Deb Haaland, US interior secretary and tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, who received a standing ovation following her remarks where she acknowledged a litany of historic injustices against Indigenous peoples and a collective need to heal, saying Indigenous peoples must be brought into the fold in global human rights decision-making.

Lahela Mattos of Ka’Lāhui Hawai’i and a representative of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, urged the permanent forum chair to work with UN agencies like the World Health Organization to develop and implement comprehensive policies to better protect the safety of Indigenous women and girls as a way to protect the planet. “The destruction of and violence committed against our Earth Mother perpetuates, violence against Indigenous peoples, specifically Indigenous women who are protectors and bearers of life on this planet.”

The recommendation regarding “environmental violence” on Indigenous women and girls was first featured in a recent human rights treaty body outcome and represents one of the first fundamental links between human rights abuses and environmental catastrophe – a connection that most stakeholders grappling with the climate crisis have yet to make.

“Let us not forget that climate is the language of Mother Earth,” said Mejía Montalvo.

#green colonialism #indigenous #indigenous peoples #systemic racism #climate change #climate crisis #equity #world health organization #united nations #global climate crisis #Youtube

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captain-crackship · 1 year

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Please offer some useful fucking advice instead of guilt tripping people with memes. There’s still hope. There’s ALWAYS hope because hope and love always perseveres. With enough manpower maybe we could kill a billionaire and use their wealth to fix the world. Let’s actually DO shit…

This is what I'm talking about when I say DO NOT HARASS ME FOR A POST THAT HAS EXISTED LONG BEFORE THIS BLOG HAS. Since Anon did not see that post, I will reiterate it here. I am not OP. I merely copied the meme from Reddit and posted it here because it resonated with me and I thought it would resonate with others on this platform. That was a mistake I can't take back.

So instead of harassing me as if I were the original poster of the meme, instead of sending me hate in rbs and replies and death threats in messages and asks (not saying Anon did this here but multiple others have and I'm considering closing my asks for the time being because of this)... Why not use the meme to come up with actually useful solutions to the global climate crisis?

Donate to charities that actually do some good and encourage others to do the same. Hold corporations and capitalists accountable for the harm they're doing. Hold large-scale climate marches. Put pressure on politicians to enforce harsher climate policies and stop giving in to corporate lobbying. If that doesn't work, oust them. Run for political office yourself. Vote for someone who can do better. Nothing short of a r e v o l u t i o n is going to make a change.

#global warming #climate change #global climate crisis #climate emergency #climate disaster

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intersectionalpraxis · 19 days

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"No climate justice on occupied land"

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #settler violence #settler colonialism #genocide #climate justice #climate action #climate crisis #climate change #greta thunberg #europe #politics #the hague #netherlands #global news

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reasonsforhope · 5 months

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No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

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politijohn · 1 year

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She’s never giving up. More of this

#environmental justice #environmentalism #politics #current events #news #world affairs #Germany #ban fossil fuels #global climate crisis

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canadianabroadvery · 9 months

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woodsfae · 8 months

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Went to Spokane to visit my sister and arrived the day the Gray Wildfire blew up and the wildfire smoke was as high as the usa's Air Quality Index measurement system goes. At the worst of the air quality, visibility was down to about two blocks, with things even a few feet away looking misty through the smoke. There's a layer of ash on all the vehicles, and the air tastes very specifically like a ponderosa pine-fueled campfire. The smoke-scent is so overwhelming that only the most distinct of flavors cuts through the omnipresent smell-taste of smoke. But the air has a distinct coolness to it, which reminds me most of the wrong-strange shadowed coolness of an eclipse.

Just south of town, the Gray Fire has obliterated two towns: Medical Lake and Silverlake are, to all accounts, burnt to the ground. Due to high winds that grounded air support, the fire overwhelmed the towns so quickly that some people ended up evacuating on foot along the interstate, which the fire also later jumped.

It's eerie, this year. It feels like there's more extreme weather events happening all around the world than ever before, and that probably is the case. I'm chilled, thinking to myself that Simpsons meme but with Homer Simpson saying "The most extreme weather of your life so far!" I am hoping that living through these weather events inspires people everywhere to rise up and demand change. I hope this radicalises everyone. I'm hoping as a mental exercise to refuse to fall into despair. I hope we see a return to crisp, cool air in summer evenings again in my lifetime.

#extreme weather #global climate change #spokane #gray fire #wildfires #natural disasters #fires #global climate crisis #woodsfae

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odinsblog · 7 months

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Nothing to see here, just fire + floods + climate change

#politics #climate change #climate crisis #global warming #nyc #nyc flooding #nyc floods #climate collapse #civil engineering

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rednblacksalamander · 9 months

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PS: for entertainment purposes only, of course

PPS: actual Washington Post quote

#global warming #environment #climate crisis #climate change #heatwave #flood warning #political cartoon

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sayruq · 20 days

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#yemen #jerusalem #tel aviv #current events #palestine #free palestine #gaza #free gaza #news on gaza #palestine news #news update #war news #war on gaza #climate change #climate crisis #climate justice #global warming #environmental justice

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misty1111 · 8 months

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[Image ID: The post contains three pictures of the same canvas in a straight on angle with the shadow of a phone and hand cast on the middle of the canvas, an angle trying to avoid the shadow being cast, and a picture of a perspective tilted from the bottom up. The canvas background is white. In the middle of the canvas is a large question mark, an exclamation point, and another question mark, dropped onto the canvas in thick neon red paint. The canvas lays on a black tarp with various colorful dried paints streaks across the surface. /.End ID]

Here’s a new painting of mine titled

Our big bloody question

The idea for this piece came to me after I saw a $3 bottle of neon red paint in the clearance rack of my local Michaels. But I put it back down and continued to walk past it to the canvases. The more I looked at the canvases, the more my brain tried to think of an impactful piece composed of only that discounted neon red paint. Eventually this idea of a question mark and exclamation point and another question mark bloomed in my mind and I quickly returned to the clearance bin to scoop up the paint bottle. I wanted this piece to convey the panic and desperation that I feel as a citizen of the world living in the beginning of the global climate crisis.

“What now? What do we do? What can I do? How can we save ourselves? Is it too late?” All these questions bounce around my brain regularly. And I don’t have a clear answer for any of them.

The global climate crisis is here and it is only going to worsen in the coming years. And unfortunately it’s predicted to disproportionately negatively impact BIPOC and impoverished communities globally. Every minute counts. It’s not good enough to not know anymore. We all need answers and hope. This painting is a desperate call for both of those.

I also wanted to express that this big bloody question is ALL of ours as it will effect ALL of us. No one will be spared from an inhospitable planet and no amount of money will save anyone from the global destruction that we are barreling toward collectively.

Capitalism caused our global climate crisis.

Capitalism is the root cause of the destruction already occurring.

Capitalism is predatory in every way.

Capitalism needs to be replaced today.

#art #original art #painting #acrylic #acrylic painting #original content #original painting #image described #global climate crisis #replace capitalism today #capitalism is evil #anti capitalism #late age capitalism #capitalism #capitalist hell #end capitalism not the world #capitalism is predatory in every way

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homo-house · 6 months

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hey uh so I haven't seen anyone talking about this here yet, but

the amazon river, like the biggest river in the fucking world, in the middle of the amazon fucking rainforest, is currently going through its worst drought since the records began 121 years ago

picture from Folha PE

there's a lot going on but I haven't seen much international buzz around this like there was when the forest was on fire (maybe because it's harder to shift the narrative to blame brazil exclusively as if the rest of the world didn't have fault in this) so I wanted to bring this to tumblr's attention

I don't know too many details as I live in the other side of the country and we are suffering from the exact opposite (at least three cyclones this year, honestly have stopped counting - it's unusual for us to get hit by even one - floods, landslides, we have a death toll, people are losing everything to the water), but like, I as a brazilian have literally never seen pictures of the river like this before. every single city in the amazonas state is in a state of emergency as of november 1st.

pictures by Adriano Liziero (ig: geopanoramas)

we are used to seeing images of rio negro and solimões, the two main amazon river affluents, in all their grandiose and beauty and seeing these pictures is really fucking chilling. some of our news outlets are saying the solimões has turned to a sand desert... can you imagine this watery sight turning into a desert in the span of a year?

while down south we are seeing amounts of rain and hailstorms the likes of which our infrastructure is simply not built to deal with, up north people who have built everything around the river are at a loss of what to do.

the houses there that are built to float are just on the ground, people who depend on fishing for a living have to walk kilometers to find any fish that are still alive at all, the biodiversity there is at risk, and on an economic level it's hard to grasp how people from the northern states are getting by at all - the main means of transport for ANYTHING in that region is via the river water. this will impact the region for months to come. it doesnt make a lot of sense to build a lot of roads bc it's just better to use the waterway system, everything is built around or floats on the river after all. and like, the water level is so incomprehensibly low the boats are just STUCK. people are having a hard time getting from one place to another - keep in mind the widest parts of the river are over 10 km apart!!

this shit is really serious and i am trying not to think about it because we have a different kind of problem to worry about down south but it's really terrifying when I stop to think about it. you already know the climate crisis is real and the effects are beyond preventable now (we're past global warming, get used to calling it "global boiling"). we'll be switching strategies to damage control from now on and like, this is what it's come to.

I don't like to be alarmist but it's hard not to be alarmed. I'm sorry that I can't end this post with very clear intructions on how people overseas can help, there really isn't much to do except hope the water level rises soon, maybe pray if you believe in something. in that regard we just have to keep pressing for change at a global level; local conditions only would not, COULD NOT be causing this - the amazon river is a CONTINENTAL body of water, it spans across multiple countries. so my advice is spread the word, let your representatives know that you're worried and you want change towards sustainability, degrowth and reduced carbon emissions, support your local NGOs, maybe join a cause, I don't know? I recommend reading on ecological and feminist economics though

however, I know you can help the affected riverine families by donating to organizations dedicated to helping the region. keep in mind a single US dollar, pound or euro is worth over 5x more in our currency so anything you donate at all will certainly help those affected.

FAS - Sustainable Amazon Fundation

Idesam - Sustainable Developent and Preservation Institute of Amazonas

Greenpeace Brasil - I know Greenpeace isn't the best but they're one of the few options I can think of that have a bridge to the international world and they are helping directly

There are a lot of other smaller/local NGOs but I'm not sure how you could donate to them from overseas, I'll leave some of them here anyway:

Projeto Gari

Caritás Brasileira

If you know any other organizations please link them, I'll be sure to reblog though my reach isn't a lot

thank you so much for reading this to the end, don't feel obligated to share but please do if you can! even if you just read up to here it means a lot to me that someone out there knows

also as an afterthought, I wanted to expand on why I think this hasn't made big news yet: because unlike the case of the 2020 forest fires, other countries have to hold themselves accountable when looking at this situation. while in 2020 it was easier to pretend the fires were all our fault and people were talking about taking the amazon away from us like they wouldn't do much worse. global superpowers have no more forests to speak of so I guess they've been eyeing what latin america still has. so like this bit of the post is just to say if you're thinking of saying anything of the sort, maybe think of what your own country has done to contribute to this instead of blaming brazil exclusively and saying the amazon should be protected by force or whatever

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