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A (Friendly) Critique of the Degrowth Movement | by tedtrainertsw | Post Growth Perspectives | Mar, 2024 | Medium
2024-03-20 in MediumSufficient degrowth cannot be achieved without enormous and radical transition to some kind of Simpler Way.
CAP AND WAIT. CLIMATE FOES GET THEIR DELAYS IN WA | by Mary Liz Thomson | Mar, 2024 | Medium
2024-03-11 in MediumDo climate programs like Washington’s cap and investment law automatically raise the price of gas? No, but mainstream media usually frames the story that way. Why do we have to accept this logic? We shouldn’t, it’s not even true. But this thinking is on track to take down Washington State’s newest carbon tax. After ten years of wrangling the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) was passed as a market-based program to reduce carbon pollution and achieve the greenhouse gas limits agreed to in state law. The program held it’s first auction last spring in 2023.
Right on cue after the industry had to pay ...
Tagged under: Oil Industry | Fossil Fuels | Net Zero | Legislation | Regulation | Washington State
What Do I Do With Collapse Awareness? | by Climate Survivor | Nov, 2023 | Medium
2023-11-25 (or before) in MediumCollapse awareness is “great”, but what do I actually do with that awareness?
Tagged under: Collapse
Scientists Say: Humanity Could Descend into Cannibalism by 2060 | by Homeless Romantic | Sep, 2023 | Medium
2023-09-22 (or before) in MediumCannibalism in late stage climate change: Why and how it might happen, and how to prevent it
Tagged under: Climate Change
The Profound Loneliness of Being Collapse Aware | by Alan Urban | Medium
2023-09-07 (or before) by in MediumKnowing that civilization is going to collapse can be a profoundly lonely experience. Let’s find one other and enjoy the time we have left.
Tagged under: Collapse
FASTER THAN EXPECTED. …why most climate scientists can’t tell… | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Medium
2023-05-02 (or before) in Medium…why most climate scientists can’t tell the truth (in public)
Tagged under: Climate Change
SHEEP IN WOLVES CLOTHING — THE IPCC’S (LATEST) FINAL WARNING | by Jackson Damian - the psychology of climate change | Medium
2023-05-02 (or before) in MediumHow they hide the truth and what scientists can do about it
Tagged under: IPCC | Climate Change
Beyond the Weather Report: The Terrifying Reality of Climate Change You Need to Know About | by Sacha | Thoughts | Medium
2023-04-13 (or before) in MediumWorld leaders have gathered repeatedly to address the urgent issue of climate change now. They set a target to limit global average…
Tagged under: Climate Change
“You Must Revise Your Life” to Solve Climate Change | by Anthony Signorelli | ILLUMINATION-Curated | Medium
2023-04-13 (or before) in MediumWilliam Stafford’s words ring true now
Tagged under: Climate Change
How to save Fuel and cool the World | by Thomas Reis | Medium
2023-04-04 (or before) in MediumThe Oceans are heating up very fast, because most of our Waste Heat goes into the Oceans. It is time to think about, because there is not a…
Tagged under: Oceans
Public Nuisance. Can you recall a moment when you… | by BumblebeeUnbarred | Jan, 2023 | Medium
2023-03-08 (or before) in MediumCan you recall a moment when you suddenly saw something new and surprising in a picture which you have stared at many times? I had that…
Nothing to be afraid of: an introduction | by Emily Johnston | Medium
2022-11-24 (or before) by in MediumAbout a dozen years ago, I became friends with a couple who lived in central Washington’s Methow Valley — a wide open landscape nestled…
Tagged under: Washington State
Scientific model supported by UK Government Taskforce flags risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040 | by Nafeez Ahmed | INSURGE intelligence | Medium
2022-11-20 (or before) in Mediumby Nafeez Ahmed
Tagged under: Collapse
Storing energy using CO2. Harnessing the cause of global warming… | by Kit Fitton | Medium
2022-11-10 (or before) in MediumHarnessing the cause of global warming to help prevent it
Storing renewable electricity on the grid of the future | by Kit Fitton | Medium
2022-11-10 (or before) in MediumBatteries are going to need some help
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Electricity | Electricity Grid
Australia’s Lithium Extractivism is costing the earth | by Claire Burgess | Medium
2022-06-11 (or before) in MediumThis work is dedicated to the frontlines and to non-human kin seeking to thrive against the odds.
Tagged under: Lithium
Why It Doesn’t Matter if you Give in to Climate Despair | by Jed Bickman | The Spouter Magazine | Medium
2022-02-03 (or before) in MediumPart 1 of Hydrocarbon Corpse Juice: an Essay about Seeing Beyond Ourselves
The Mainstream Climate Narrative is a Lie | Climate Conscious
2022-01-23 (or before) in MediumThere’s no solution to climate change without the truth
Tagged under: Climate Change
Our climate won't survive without science. | The Sustainability X® Magazine
2021-12-19 (or before) in MediumHow ethically bankrupt politicians are paving the way towards ecocide
Tagged under: Sustainability
Climate change: why it made me quit my job | by Andrew Medhurst | Age of Awareness | Medium
2021-10-22 (or before) in MediumOn 1 February, I tweeted an extract of a farewell email I sent to my work colleagues on my last day. It received 100 times more interest…
Tagged under: Climate Change
Why COP26 Will Fail to Protect Our Climate | by Brad Zarnett | Climate Conscious
2021-09-25 (or before) in MediumAgreements, promises, and targets, but no real change.
Tagged under: COP26 | Climate Change
Time to unleash climate anger. This next student strike for climate… | by Gary Belkin | Medium
2021-09-25 (or before) in MediumThis next student strike for climate action should be proudly, effectively, undeniably, angry
Greenwashing in the legal industry- how to spot it and why it matters | by Liam Sharkey | Medium
2021-08-07 (or before) in MediumA new generation of engaged, climate-conscious lawyers are challenging the legal industry to adopt new standards of sustainability.
Tagged under: Sustainability
Who Decides What Is True?. How Does Science Proceed from… | by mtobis | Medium
2021-07-04 (or before) in MediumHow Does Science Proceed from Hypothesis to Fact to Common Knowledge?
A major test for Shell’s massive multi-purpose greenwashing juggernaut | by Ketan Joshi | LobbyWatch | Medium
2021-05-18 (or before) in MediumRecently, I wrote at LobbyWatch about how the gargantuan global oil and gas company Shell has been pivoting into an exhausting new way of…
Tagged under: Shell
Even running 100% on renewables, Bitcoin would still be a disaster. | Crypto Lucid
2021-04-22 (or before) in MediumInefficient systems can never be eco-friendly.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy
Innovations on Concentrated Solar Thermal Power | by Roberto Baldizon | Luszol | Medium
2021-04-06 (or before) in MediumSolar Thermal World’s published article on CSP innovations and companies in which the DOE is investing portrays an unusually positive and…
Tagged under: Solar Energy | Innovation
Stand by Greta Thunberg and they will threaten you | by We Don’t Have Time | We Don't Have Time | Medium
2021-02-23 (or before) in MediumA lonesome fifteen-year-old girl carrying the world on her shoulders outside the Swedish parliament. I was there on the first day of “the…
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg
Andreas Malm’s General Formula of Fossil Capital | by ANDREW | Medium
2020-10-18 (or before) by in MediumAndreas Malm’s book Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming (Verso 2016) is a history of the steam…
Tagged under: Capitalism
Greening energy use in a 1922 rural cottage in Yorkshire | by Prof Nick Cowern | Medium
2020-10-12 (or before) by in MediumA few years ago I moved to a small cottage tucked into a south-facing slope of the North York Moors. The house had solid walls, single…
Sucking Up to Business Leads Directly to Ecological Collapse | The Sustainability X® Magazine
2020-10-10 (or before) in MediumPlaytime is over — either we’re fighting for the climate in a meaningful way or we’re not.
Tagged under: Collapse | Sustainability
The EU is cheating with numbers — and stealing our future | by Greta Thunberg | Medium
2020-10-04 (or before) in Medium”We know we’re not in line with the Paris Agreement, we never said we were. But we have to bring the public along slowly”.
Tagged under: Greta Thunberg | The Paris Agreement
How a big polluter transformed into the greenest energy company in the world | by We Don’t Have Time | We Don't Have Time | Medium
2020-06-20 (or before) in MediumTen years ago Ørsted was one the most fossil fuel intense energy companies in Europe. Today, Ørsted has cut its emissions by 86 per cent…
To fix Climate Change, stop being a techie and start being a human | by Paul Johnston | Medium
2020-05-05 (or before) in MediumI have many conversations with people in tech who want to know how to get involved in the Climate Change fight. This is my response
Tagged under: Climate Change
A truly exceptional weather event is happening right now in the Southern Hemisphere | by Iceberg | Medium
2020-04-30 (or before) in Mediumby Martin Jucker
Stop Wall Street From Financing the Climate Crisis | by Team Warren | Medium
2020-03-08 (or before) in MediumBy Elizabeth Warren
Post Davos: Elite's Climate Strategy is Flawed | Age of Awareness
2020-02-13 (or before) in MediumWhen solving climate change, we don’t have the choice of option A or B when one of those choices almost certainly leads to a climate…
Tagged under: Climate Change
The solution to the global crisis of capitalism is simplicity itself | by tedtrainertsw | INSURGE intelligence | Medium
2019-12-09 (or before) in MediumToward the post-capitalist revolution
Tagged under: Capitalism
Pathways to the Post-Carbon Economy – INSURGE intelligence – Medium
2019-12-09 (or before) in MediumIn this exclusive online symposium, INSURGE curates a range of experts, thinkers, and practitioners to explore their very different perspectives on civilization’s transition to a post-carbon economy. We are crowdfunding adversarial investigations into power, to empower people and save the planet. Join us via www.patreon.com/nafeez.
Tagged under: Economics
War, empire and racism in the Anthropocene | by Nafeez Ahmed | INSURGE intelligence | Medium
2019-11-08 (or before) in MediumThe biophysical-economics and military-logics of industrial hyperreality
Tagged under: Economics
The flawed social science behind Extinction Rebellion’s change strategy
2019-10-30 (or before) in MediumTagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Activism
Climate is missing the point. We have an ecosystem emergency. | by Will Marshall | Medium
2019-10-27 (or before) in Medium— Why I support the principles and approach of Extinction Rebellion —
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion | Extinction
There is Nothing Naïve About Moral Clarity | by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson | Medium
2019-09-28 (or before) in MediumWe should approach the climate crisis with the moral clarity of children. Some things are simply right and some things are simply wrong.
Tagged under: Women and Children
A Postmortem for Survival: on science, failure and action on climate change | by Julia Steinberger | Age of Awareness | Medium
2019-09-25 (or before) in MediumFailing to learn from past mistakes is the only truly unforgivable mistake in science. And on climate change, the scientific community (by…
Tagged under: Climate Change
But the Greatest of These is Love | by Mary Annaïse Heglar | Medium
2019-07-17 (or before) in MediumTo face climate change, hope won’t be enough. Fear won’t be enough. And neither will anger. What we really need is love. Hear me out.
Tagged under: Climate Change
Don’t Just Be the Change: Mass-Produce It. | by Alex Steffen | Medium
2019-06-11 (or before) in MediumI got an email recently which asked the question, “If our world is really looking down the barrel of environmental catastrophe, how do I…
Can Greta’s Movement Bring Moral and Financial Responsibility Into the Climate Conversation? | by Brad Zarnett | The Startup | Medium
2019-06-05 (or before) in MediumLike a snake shedding it’s skin, we need to shake ourselves loose from governments that are beholden to corporate interests and the elite.
The Transformative Power of Climate Truth | by Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD | Medium
2019-04-20 (or before) in MediumA Collective Awakening In the Age of Trump
Responses to the Youth Strike For Climate | by Alex Morrison | Medium
2019-02-18 (or before) in MediumLessons we can learn from responses to yesterday’s Youth Strike for Climate
An Audacious Toolkit: Actions Against Climate Breakdown (Part 1: A is for Advocacy)
2019-01-27 (or before) by Julia Steinberger in MediumWhat can we do when confronted with planetary catastrophe? The answer is EVERYTHING. Wait, wait. This is not an overly optimistic “Change is easy and painless! We just all need to do X Y Z!” column…
Tagged under: Activism | Climate Change
Grieving the Planet - Reflections on the Extinction Rebellion Movement | by Lynne Davis | Medium
2018-11-26 (or before) in MediumReflections on the Extinction Rebellion Movement
Tagged under: Extinction Rebellion
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