Climate Change
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ysabetwordsmithHere are three articles about different aspects of climate change, why they are bad, and what you can do ...
Climate-change-triggered 2023 mega-landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days
A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study. The study concluded that this movement of water was the cause of a mysterious, global seismic signal that lasted for nine days and puzzled seismologists in September 2023.
He added: "As a landslide scientist, an additional interesting aspect of this study is that this is the first-ever landslide and tsunami observed from eastern Greenland, showing how climate change already has major impacts there."
Well, that's disturbing. 0_o
How El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction
Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the effects of rapid climate change in the Permian-Triassic warming were so devastating for all forms of life in the sea and on land.
Just in case you thought global warming wasn't that big a deal. Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
Path to prosperity for planet and people shrinking rapidly, scientists warn
Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows.
While humans have a sense of what fairness is, many of them do not wish to apply it. Most of the societies that excel at fair distribution of resources -- like Turtle Island's gift economy -- have been overrun by expansionist, capitalist ones.
The only way to provide for everyone and ensure societies, businesses and economies thrive without destabilising the planet is to reduce inequalities in how critical Earth system resources, such as freshwater and nutrients, are accessed and used -- alongside economic and technological transformation.
In other words, break capitalism. It's all about inequality. It's also based on limitless growth in a finite system, which is the philosophy of the cancer cell. I don't think people will give it up willingly. And in a global context where money talks, the megacorps and billionaires will decide what happens. They certainly will not choose to give up the vast majority of their wealth so that other humans can survive, let alone the environment.
To reach this space, the paper calls for change in three areas. Firstly, a push for changes to how we run the economy, finding new policies and funding mechanisms that can address inequality whilst reducing pressure on nature and climate.
Well, we could establish survival needs as human rights: food, clean water, shelter, health care, etc. We have the capacity. People just damn well don't want to do it.
Secondly, more efficient and effective management, sharing and usage of resources at every level of society -- including addressing the excess consumption of some communities which is limiting access to basic resources for those who need them the most.
The problem with this is that the people with excess have all the power.
Thirdly, investment in sustainable and affordable technologies, which will be essential to help us use fewer resources and to reopen the Safe and Just Space for all -- particularly where there is little or no space left.
This seems to have the most potential. At least it's a place to start.
Things you could do ...
5 Ways to Improve Tree Equity in Our Communities
10 Ways Businesses Can Fight Poverty In Their Community
15 Ways To Support Social Justice & Civil Rights
How to Take Climate Action in Your Community
Inequality Is Increasing. What Can You Do?
Realistic Ways You Can Fight Climate Change Today
This one has fun sliders for different levels of cost, time, and effort. \o/
Solutions to poverty that actually work
And just in case you want to tilt at that windmill ...
12 Economic alternatives as strategies
Explore Cooperatives
Find Community Supported Agriculture
Find, Join or Start a Credit Union
Find a Worker Co-op
Food Co-op Finder
From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world
Hour Exchange
Post-capitalism
Top 19 Alternatives to Capitalism (video)
Climate-change-triggered 2023 mega-landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days
A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study. The study concluded that this movement of water was the cause of a mysterious, global seismic signal that lasted for nine days and puzzled seismologists in September 2023.
He added: "As a landslide scientist, an additional interesting aspect of this study is that this is the first-ever landslide and tsunami observed from eastern Greenland, showing how climate change already has major impacts there."
Well, that's disturbing. 0_o
How El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction
Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the effects of rapid climate change in the Permian-Triassic warming were so devastating for all forms of life in the sea and on land.
Just in case you thought global warming wasn't that big a deal. Bend over and kiss your ass goodbye.
Path to prosperity for planet and people shrinking rapidly, scientists warn
Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows.
While humans have a sense of what fairness is, many of them do not wish to apply it. Most of the societies that excel at fair distribution of resources -- like Turtle Island's gift economy -- have been overrun by expansionist, capitalist ones.
The only way to provide for everyone and ensure societies, businesses and economies thrive without destabilising the planet is to reduce inequalities in how critical Earth system resources, such as freshwater and nutrients, are accessed and used -- alongside economic and technological transformation.
In other words, break capitalism. It's all about inequality. It's also based on limitless growth in a finite system, which is the philosophy of the cancer cell. I don't think people will give it up willingly. And in a global context where money talks, the megacorps and billionaires will decide what happens. They certainly will not choose to give up the vast majority of their wealth so that other humans can survive, let alone the environment.
To reach this space, the paper calls for change in three areas. Firstly, a push for changes to how we run the economy, finding new policies and funding mechanisms that can address inequality whilst reducing pressure on nature and climate.
Well, we could establish survival needs as human rights: food, clean water, shelter, health care, etc. We have the capacity. People just damn well don't want to do it.
Secondly, more efficient and effective management, sharing and usage of resources at every level of society -- including addressing the excess consumption of some communities which is limiting access to basic resources for those who need them the most.
The problem with this is that the people with excess have all the power.
Thirdly, investment in sustainable and affordable technologies, which will be essential to help us use fewer resources and to reopen the Safe and Just Space for all -- particularly where there is little or no space left.
This seems to have the most potential. At least it's a place to start.
Things you could do ...
5 Ways to Improve Tree Equity in Our Communities
10 Ways Businesses Can Fight Poverty In Their Community
15 Ways To Support Social Justice & Civil Rights
How to Take Climate Action in Your Community
Inequality Is Increasing. What Can You Do?
Realistic Ways You Can Fight Climate Change Today
This one has fun sliders for different levels of cost, time, and effort. \o/
Solutions to poverty that actually work
And just in case you want to tilt at that windmill ...
12 Economic alternatives as strategies
Explore Cooperatives
Find Community Supported Agriculture
Find, Join or Start a Credit Union
Find a Worker Co-op
Food Co-op Finder
From freecycling to Fairphones: 24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life in a capitalist world
Hour Exchange
Post-capitalism
Top 19 Alternatives to Capitalism (video)
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-15 07:54 pm (UTC)We're movers. We rearrange the environment, like elephants, but we do it on a much vaster scale and intelligently, i.e we can analyse and plan what we do. We can make large scale changes far faster than 'natural' process do.
The problem is, we've lost the notion of stewardship and use our abilities to exploit the natural for our own selfish gain instead. No, actually that's not quite right... a few greedy people make others exploit the natural world for their selfish gain.
Cancer cells will often co-opt other normal cells to feed them. Like a tumour forcing healthy vascular tissue to grow more blood vessels by hijacking the hormonal signalling, thus feeding the tumour.
Gaia is working to try and deal with the problem, that's what climate change is. But we work on decades or at most century long time scales, and Gaia's response are on the millennial or epoch scale.
We're way too fast growing for her to cope.
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-15 08:27 pm (UTC)Or maybe we're just rowdy and destructive teenagers.
I'm not going to bother trying to live to 100 if there won't be any place to celebrate it.
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-15 08:38 pm (UTC)Oh it's not that bad! Climate change will impact a lot of places fairly lightly, you're actually in one of the better locales to avoid the worst.
I dunno if even the worst case scenarios would be enough to completely collapse civilisation. I think what we regard as 'normal' will cling on in a number of places, with changes of course, like adopting greener tech, growing more food locally and organically and so on... Same way as when the Roman Empire collapsed, life went on pretty much unchanged for a lot of the more far-flung citizenry for centuries afterwards, slowly morphing into what we call the middle ages.
Besides, You've got a birthday party to attend in one of the lunar colonies.
(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-16 04:34 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-17 09:48 am (UTC)The sensible thing to do would be to focus building on the inland side of coastal cities. The ocean might rise, but it's still gotta make a beach somewhere. You can just roll back until it settles.
Of course, people don't want to do that, so they're wasting the best time they have to get ahead of the problem.
If you don't want to deal with coastal storms, then you can move inland, but humans tend to prefer settling near water. So you're looking at lake and riverfront, and there's less of that.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-17 09:25 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-18 08:53 am (UTC)Check elevation maps. If you can find a house on a hill, it's less likely to flood; and if you have your back to the ocean with a hill between you, that will buffer a great deal of storm activity. Upward and inward is better if you can manage that.
>>I suspect this is just one of those problems we'll solve when we HAVE to.<<
Sadly so -- and by then, people won't have the resources to address it all at once.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-18 06:10 pm (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-19 10:40 am (UTC)As for assisted living, consider hiring someone to come to your home. It's consistently cheaper and better for health, up until someone needs major medical care all the time.
Re: Yes ...
Date: 2024-09-19 10:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-09-16 02:56 am (UTC)Not everyone. That's actually a main tenant of my religious subculture, and we evolved from a whitefella majority culture.