What does it imply when even many environmentalists are ignoring the obvious solution?
Solution https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
Climate mitigation & adaptation are actions, not climate virtue signalling.
How to DIY sustainability https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
Politics & business (economics) should (can) make sustainable living a reality.
I feel like my feed is everyone arguing that "climate change isn't a personal responsibility, look at these rich assholes and capitalist structures!!!"
My friends, it is both.
Yeah, the rich are causing the most damage, but the so-called western lifestyle of cheap consumer goods, foreign produce, high meat consumption, jetsetting, and a whole lot of other things are absolutely unsustainable as it is much less if that level of luxury was extended to the other 7 billion people on the planet.
You (yes you, personally, the individual) have to cut back, and you have to convince your friends to do the same.
If we applied this to something like basic ass white feminism, it would be like saying "why should I stop being a womanizer when there's period poverty and the glass ceiling?" You have to do the right thing for yourself and others as you simultaneously try to undo the macro or structural injustices.
There are many dishonest people (Lifestyles As Usual Folk [LSAUF]), that have heard about climate change, that really are to blame for intentionally making it far more difficult to mitigate climate change.
E.g., the fossil fuel industries & their many business associates. The "consumers" that generally ignore how to reduce their own ecological foot prints (& carry on polluting & voting as usual)
LSAUF also blame other people.
Solution https://qoto.org/@Empiricism_Reloaded/110511036586999020
@pvonhellermannn 'Delayism' - that's it. We all packed Climate Change away in a box marked Somebody Else's Problem for far too long.
@Firlefanz
Runaway consumerism ("growth") causing runaway climate change.
It's crazy because it's the opposite of how to mitigate climate change. #Degrowth of the aviation industry.
Complete madness in the #aviation industry: «Boeing expects the global aircraft fleet to almost double over the next 20 years, from about 24,500 jets in 2022 to 48,600 by 2042. Last year's outlook predicted a global fleet of 43,470 aircraft in 2041.»
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-boosts-20-year-outlook-planes-due-narrowbody-demand-2023-06-17/
Heather setting up the logging system on the mast from which turbulent fluxes are measured.
You might have heard that the company that owns Instant Pot has filed for bankruptcy. The makers of Instant Pot did something horribly wrong: they made a really good product that works very well and does not need to be replaced frequently. This means that owners of Instant Pots might only need to buy one and rarely replace it, if at all.
This is a great success from the perspective of *industry,* in Veblen’s sense, but terrible for *business.* The makers of Instant Pot failed to sufficiently sabotage their product by, say, building in intentional obsolescence. Maybe they should have used cheaper parts that wear out faster, or installed software that requires regular updates, or deliberately inserted components designed to make it fail.
But they didn’t, and so sales were stagnant. The firm that owns Instant Pot borrowed lots of money in an attempt to make a new version of Instant Pot they somehow hoped to sell to consumers of Instant Pot. It was too much; the firm did not earn enough differential profits—profits at a faster rate than its competitors—and so the firm is failing, despite the success of the product.
https://thetakeout.com/instant-pot-maker-parent-brand-file-for-bankruptcy-2023-1850534708
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There was a stretch when Elon Musk took over twitter and started charging for blue checks (lmao) and some of his sycophants started talking about “Veblen goods.”
A Veblen good is something for which demand *increases* as price increases, in contact to the neoclassical orthodoxy that demand decreases axiomatically with price.
Veblen goods are things that rich people buy to signal their wealth and status. Jewelry, fancy watches, yachts, Ivy League degrees. Things that cost many thousands or millions of dollars.
The idea that an $8 verification on twitter would ever be a status symbol for the rich was fucking ludicrous.
1/8
Britains most turd-free swimming spot highlighted in orange.
‘Countries are drowning’: climate expert calls for urgent rethink on scale of aid for developing world
Persaud breaks this down further, estimating that about $1.4tn a year will be needed from mainly the private sector, for the green transformation of poor countries; about $300bn will be needed to help them adapt to the effects of the climate crisis; and about $100bn a year must go to “loss and damage”, which is the rescue of countries stricken by climate catastrophe
What #wales is doing today, the world will do tomorrow.
The story of how one small nation responded to global climate issues by radically rethinking public policy for future generations
https://janedavidson.wales/book
‘A truly pioneering Act that puts sustainability at the heart of every governmental decision combined with a country seeking to reimagine itself – the story of this revolutionary engine for change holds enormous possibility and is a true beacon of hope.’ (MICHAEL SHEEN OBE, actor and UNICEF ambassador)
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Sustainability is an international, cross-disciplinary, scholarly, peer-reviewed and open access journal of environmental, cultural, economic, and social sustainability of human beings. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
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The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”
Despite being disproportionately responsible for the climate catastrophe, the super-rich will be the least affected by it........Astoundingly, Reid Hoffman, the multi-billionaire who cofounded LinkedIn, reports that “more than 50 percent of Silicon Valley’s billionaires have bought some level of ‘apocalypse insurance,’ such as an underground bunker. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk
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It seems amazing to me that the Land Workers Alliance is only ten years young - they have done so much for #Agroecology, #FoodSovereignty, #LandUse, #SmallScaleFarmers and #laviacampesina
Please support them if you can.
https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/10-years-of-the-lwa/
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