#consumption

@samsterby Neither point is valid. Global #energy #demand is going to exceed the increase in #supply by #renewables, leaving a gap filled by #fossilfuels, even in 2050. Under the #capitalist system, the Jevons Paradox ensures that increases in energy #efficiency result in increases in energy #consumption, rather than the reverse, & #social #justice is unobtainable under #capitalism. If we want #climate justice, capitalism has to go. But there's no way that you can have a scenario with (1/2)

**1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA. BBC Archive**

"_It's no longer a fight to survive in a world in which there's too little, but a fight to survive in a world in which there is too much. We can now make more of practically everything than we can ever possibly hope to use. And to prosper, we must become a race of massive consumers wasting to live._"

#Video length: forty-nine minutes and forty-nine seconds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGlybglr28.

#Documentary #History #USA #US #UnitedStates #Culture #Consumerism #Consumption

Countries must prevent harm to the climate system and tackle fossil fuels to ensure the right to life.

"...The international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution."

"The unanimous opinion covers a wide range of matters under international law. It says states are liable for all kinds of activities that harm the climate, but it takes explicit aim at fossil fuels. It says that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through the production and consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies, “may constitute an international wrongful act which is attributable to that state”.

"The court said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was a precondition for exercising many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules
#climate #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #harm #consumption #reparations #restitution #justice #law #HumanRights #Pacific #RightToLife

Consumption https://mrfunkedude.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/consumption/ #Consumption, #Essays, #Food, #Internet, #SocialMedia, #Wordpress

https://www.europesays.com/uk/246364/ Homeowner shares creative hack to quickly start wood fires: ‘Works great so far’ #AirPollution #Business #ChangeTheWayYouBuyAndUsePlastic #ChangeTheWayYouTakeCareOfYourself #Consumption/RecyclingHack #Drink #Environment #Fashion #FastFashion #Hack #Hacks #home #Outdoors #plastic #Reddit #RepurposeContainersAndPackaging #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #WasteLess #YahooLife

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Ways to address the food crisis - 1. Minimize red meat #consumption, especially, #beef 2. Allow #fertility rates to fall and focus on #redistribution of existing #food to feed the #poor #books #booksky #climatechange #adaptation #solarpunk #hopepunk #novel

Do We Need Another Green Revol...

Stop giving your money to the oligarchs controlling our media and cultural narratives!

Pirate everything.

Set up recurring donations with the money you save to independent media and organizations fighting an uphill battle to save democracy from the fascist oligarchs!

This is ethical consumption, actually.

#media #culture #consumption #impact #money

Evaluating adherence of hospital meals to Mediterranean diet: the case of a developing country | Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition https://www.diningandcooking.com/2151434/evaluating-adherence-of-hospital-meals-to-mediterranean-diet-the-case-of-a-developing-country-journal-of-health-population-and-nutrition/ #ClinicalNutrition #consumption #Epidemiology #foodservice #HealthPromotionAndDiseasePrevention #Hospitals #InfectiousDiseases #MaternalAndChildHealth #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanDietRecipes #MediterraneanFoodRecipes #MediterraneanRecipes #NutritionalValue #PublicHealth

'Fast tech' warning as demand for cheap gadgets heats up

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx20kd173z1o
#environment #waste #consumption

The damage from US #tariffs on #Eurozone consumer spending will be relatively mild. This is crucial for the Eurozone economic outlook, as the gradual rebound in private #consumption is the only growth engine at present, notes @oxfordeconomics

This absolute gem of a talk deserves millions of views and likes!

AI, Solarpunk, and an Uncertain Future in Computing
https://youtu.be/pdYT1vUrj34
Recorded Fri 12 Jul 2024
Uploaded Fri 22 Nov 2024

by rolltime @rolltime

Slides, references & links:
https://rollti.me/hope2024

#AI #Solar #Punk #Solarpunk #Computing #Hack #Degrowth #Tech #Ecology #Energy #Electricity #Permacomputing #DataCenter #Consumption #Sustainable #GreenIT #GreenTech #Fediverse #ActivityPub

https://www.europesays.com/2174032/ NZ drug report shows sharp rise in cocaine, methamphetamine use #%Increase #229 #across #broader #cocaine #Consumption #country #drug #illicit #in #Methamphetamine #NewZealand #NZ #recent #reflecting #report #rise #Sharp #Shows #surged #use #years #zealand

The #Genocide in #Gaza may be a problem for the news and entertainment industries, even #ConsumerCulture.

To the extent that the slaughter becomes something that #Consumers recognise their own complicity in via their governments, the glamour and success of #Consumption is lessened, tarnished by the knowledge of children being killed when consumption is happening.

#ProSportAndGenocide?

Oh look, Quanta Magazine has finally cracked the riveting mystery of brain energy #consumption, just in time for absolutely no one to care. Spoiler: it’s less than the energy it took to read this pointless #article.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-much-energy-does-it-take-to-think-20250604/ #QuantaMagazine #brainEnergy #science #satire #HackerNews #ngated

#US is a strange place. #Wealthy but #consumes like #poor country. #China is the opposite. Which model is #better for the #world ? #climate #climatechange #adaptation #climatecrisis #climateaction #consumption #adapt

Let them have dogs

"Forty-eight percent of Australian households own dogs; to those of us on the outlay for food, treats, toys, grooming, kennels, vets and puppy school, $500 seems like a rare bargain."

"Australians have always been pet people, but we are now living in the wake of a post-pandemic pet proliferation that between 2019 and 2021 raised the proportion of Australian households with pets from 61% to a goggling 69%, marking the largest increase in decades."
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/02/our-obsession-with-spoiling-pets-has-gone-too-far-your-dog-doesnt-care-if-its-collar-is-from-burberry
#pets #dogs #PetOwners #WesternCountries #consumption #PetIndustry #accessories #petfluencer #puppycation #DogAttacks #cars #meat #fossilfuels #biodiversity #wildlife #BiodiversityCrisis

https://www.europesays.com/uk/144689/ Book lover shares brilliant hack using common item that usually gets thrown away: ‘So smart’ #Books #Consumption/RecyclingHack #Entertainment #GetHealthier #Hack #Hacks #home #TikTok #UK #UnitedKingdom #WasteLess #YahooLife

#People acting like #consumption is their only form of #resistance is #depressing

Record of 3.2 Billion Euros in https://www.diningandcooking.com/2090639/record-of-3-2-billion-euros-in/ #canada #Canadian #Cheese #consortium #consumption #distribution #food #Italia #Italian #ItalianCheese #italiano #italy #Markets #Parmesan #ParmigianoReggiano #PDO #retailers #sales