Limits to Growth @limits2growth@qoto.org

-Michael Mann: We Are Even Closer To Climate Disaster Than IPCC Predicts | https://youtube.com/watch?v=JSg4KpijU9k

As The UN Warns Of Climate Catastrophe By 2030, The EU Is Pulling Back Climate Ambition - https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2018/10/08/as-the-un-warns-of-climate-catastrophe-by-2030-the-eu-is-pulling-back-climate-ambition/

The IPCC global warming report spares politicians the worst details | Bob Ward | Opinion - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/08/world-leaders-climate-change-ipcc-report

"The technical, economic and environmental barriers of Negative Emission Technologies are very real. In formulating climate policy, I believe we cannot count on the future use of NETs to compensate for our failure to do enough mitigation today." | https://m.phys.org/news/2018-10-reverse-climate-negative-emissions-technologies.html

“I try to approach it from the perspective of what do we need to maintain a livable Earth and humanity, not what do we need to appease the business community. " | https://www.economist.com/business/2017/09/14/china-moves-towards-banning-the-internal-combustion-engine

Majority of top U.S. newspapers fail to mention landmark climate change report on their homepages. After new U.N. IPCC climate report comes out, only 22 of the top 50 U.S. newspapers' homepages made note of it - https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/10/08/Majority-of-top-US-newspapers-fail-to-mention-landmark-climate-change-report-on-their-home/221608

Google did not disclose a security breach to its Google+ social network because it feared regulation, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing documents and people briefed on the incident. - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/08/google-reportedly-exposed-private-data-of-at-least-hundreds-of-thousands-of-plus-users.html

Cost of cigarettes must rise to reflect environmental damage from tobacco industry, WHO says: Sector's carbon footprint is comparable to entire countries, study finds - https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/cost-cigarettes-rise-tobacco-industry-smoking-environment-who-climate-change-pollution-a8564796.html

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Plastics Are Predicted to Rise - The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/climate/climate-change-plastics.html?smid=tw-nytclimate&smtyp=cur

Half a degree makes all the difference - https://m.dw.com/en/ipcc-15-c-degree-report-points-to-high-stakes-of-climate-inaction/a-45791882

'No downside': New Zealand firm adopts four-day week after successful trial - Perpetual Guardian says staff were more focused and productive after the experiment and better able to manage work-life balance - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/02/no-downside-new-zealand-firm-adopts-four-day-week-after-successful-trial

UN climate change report: only 12 years left to cut fossil fuels and avert wide-ranging damage - https://www.vox.com/2018/10/8/17948832/climate-change-global-warming-un-ipcc-report

Hunger, not violence, fuels Guatemalan migration surge. Years of meager harvests, drought and “coffee rust” fungus is speeding up an exodus of families from villages bereft of food. - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hunger-not-violence-fuels-guatemalan-migration-surge-us-says/2018/09/21/65c6a546-bdb3-11e8-be70-52bd11fe18af_story.html?noredirect=on

How to Write About a Vanishing World - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/how-to-write-about-a-vanishing-world

[Humor] Climate Scientists Confirm There’s Still Time To Blow Up The Earth - https://www.theonion.com/climate-scientists-confirm-there-s-still-time-to-blow-u-1829609666

Announcing the Nobble Prize in Economics | Prof Steve Keen on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/announcing-prize-21925874

"Until the IPCC (and society more generally) are prepared to acknowledge the huge asymmetry in consumption and hence emissions, temperatures will continue to rise beyond 1.5 and 2°C – bequeathing future generations the climate chaos of 3°C, 4°C or even higher." | http://blog.policy.manchester.ac.uk/posts/2018/10/response-to-the-ipcc-1-5c-special-report/

Why am I so skeptical?

"This year’s Laureates have designed methods for addressing some of our time’s most basic and pressing questions about how we create long-term sustained and sustainable economic growth."

https://www.nobelprize.org/

Nobel Prize in economics awarded to William Nordhaus and Paul Romer "This year's Laureates have designed methods for addressing some of our time's most basic and pressing questions about how we create long-term sustained and sustainable economic growth," - https://edition.cnn.com/2018/10/08/business/nobel-prize-economics/index.html

U.N. Panel Warns on Climate Change: It's Life or Death -- "But they provide little hope the world will rise to the challenge." - https://www.truthdig.com/articles/u-n-panel-warns-on-climate-change-its-life-or-death/