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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
    TADEAS
    TADEAS --- ---
    Cosmology and Class: An Interview with Bruno Latour by Nikolaj Schultz | In the Moment
    https://critinq.wordpress.com/...mology-and-class-an-interview-with-bruno-latour-by-nikolaj-schultz/

    Let us not forget that ecological mutations are unprecedented. We have never before had a moment where we had to reengineer the whole system of reproduction piece by piece, house by house, mobility by mobility, food by food. We have the experience of production and modernization, but we do not have any experience of reproduction and remodernization. Eight billion people and every single material entity that binds their societies together and make them live are controversial. Meat is controversial, clothes are controversial, transport is controversial. In this situation, we cannot skip the phase of description of territory, unless you want to end up in an abstract world of identity or values. This is what happened in England. If we do not do the work of description, we cannot go forward.

    ...

    We are extraordinarily bad at describing what allows people to subsist. We talk a lot about identity, we have a lot of discussions about values, but please describe to me the territory in which you survive, in which you invest, and might want to defend. I think the lack of such descriptions is what renders the political scene so interesting but also so violent today. We begin to realize that this is the real question, but we do not know how to answer it. ... So if the question of geosocial classes is difficult to answer, it is because we all have very little idea about where we get our subsistence from. We have simply lost the habit of describing what we are attached to, what we are connected to, and what allows us to survive. In a way, Marxism used to be a vocabulary that allowed such descriptions of our conditions of subsistence, which we could use to locate ourselves inside the system of production. Can we do the same thing today with what I call the processes of engendering? From Proudhon to Marx, socialism described the practical and material realities of industrial society. They described where people within this society got their subsistence from, which allowed people to position themselves in the system of production. But today, we live in a different world. Today, if one would have to describe the practical, material world in which one lives it would not only be about industry, we would furthermore have to add entities like the climate, carbon dioxide, water, bugs, earth worms, soil, and others—the wider array of material conditions of existences that you spoke about before. And this is what ecologists never managed to bring to the attention of socialists. It is still the question of inequality, of justice, and of the material world out of which we get our subsistence; it is simply that the world has changed form.



    critical zones and critical-zone scientists are words used in geoscience, hydrology, geomorphology, geochemistry, and in soil sciences to denote the thin crust or skin of the Earth and the scientists that are studying it. And, yes, when I have been following and studying these scientists for five years now, it is exactly because I think they help with the redescription of territories in a very practical way. First, because they are not global. They are not working with the Earth as the globe. Rather, it is the Earth as a thin skin. Everything on which life forms live exists only here, on a few kilometers thick pellicule of the earth, reaching from the atmosphere and a few kilometers down in the rocks. So, what they study is comparable to Lovelock’s discoveries. It is another tool to get away from the idea of nature, which is simply too big, abstract, and imprecise. When you study critical zones, you study a series of things or connections on the crust of the Earth, so it has a modest reach. It is about very limited entities; it is not the whole cosmos. The second interesting thing about these sciences is that they explicitly study the differences between what they see in the laboratory and what they see in the field. Again, there is this modesty, it is a boots-on-the-ground type of science—a bit like natural history or like Alexander von Humboldt’s natural science.

    ...

    Epistemologically, they are far from the other sciences that I have been following for many years. And since they underline the discrepancies between their observations and the chemical reactions, it means that they are redescribing and rematerializing the question of territory, which we simultaneously try to redescribe and rematerialize in political and social theory. This is also where there is a link between Lovelock’s discovery, the political question of geosocial classes and critical zones. This is why I am interested in them

    ...

    climate denial arises not despite the fact that the climatic mutations are real, it arises because the climatic mutations are real and because the price of solidarity is too high to pay. It is the same with Trumpism. These are just the people that take the extreme consequences and choose to leave.
    ... If we could describe the material conditions of existence and the moral economies of these exiters and compare them with those who are stuck behind deprived of habitable territory, we would probably have a better grasp on tomorrow’s class struggle, a struggle over territory and not over the means of production

    TADEAS
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    The Climatic Virus in an Age of Paralysis | In the Moment
    https://critinq.wordpress.com/2020/03/21/the-climatic-virus-in-an-age-of-paralysis/

    not only are we watching social systems change, we are even discovering how social values are changing accordingly. Sure, some people are reinventing themselves as Ayn Randian, sovereign individuals by hoarding toilet paper, and a few of the ultra-rich escapists that Bruno Latour and I have previously discussed as a geosocial elite have fled to New Zealand where they are hiding from the virus in their climate secured bunkers[iii]. However, as Rune Lykkeberg notes, in general, the panic seem to have generated practices of solidarity that were impossible to even imagine a few weeks ago.

    This only makes the relief even bigger. Both our material and social destiny are still negotiable. And if this is an important realization, it is of course because of the hope that we – when the time is right – will be able to take advantage of the current, collectivist momentum and its political energy to create a realistic connection between the direction of civilization and its earthly, material conditions of existence. However, the possibility of this is much greateer if we understand that it might already be the absence of such a connection that we are reacting to, in panic as well as with relief.

    This relief might very well disappear from the horizon within a few days or weeks, when the virus crisis reaches its ultimate point. Fear will be all we have left and we will unequivocally wish ourselves back to the days where everything was as it used to be. However, this does not necessarily make its insights any less important or valid – perhaps even the contrary.

    It will be a strange spring and perhaps even a strange summer. However, maybe the concrete threat has given us a number of cognitive and practical strategies to counter the more abstract crisis that we are facing with climatic mutations. Despite its tragedies, the virus might end up as an emancipatory tool in an age of paralysis
    TADEAS
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    BOREC: atlantida revival, jako mezizastavku vyuzijeme zeland nebo chile/argentinu :) ... ty pulrocni cykly ale nebudou nic moc a rostliny budem potrebovat uplne novy, na tohle adaptovany.
    BOREC
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    TADEAS: Atlantida!
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    Remains of 90 million-year-old rainforest discovered under Antarctic ice | Live Science
    https://www.livescience.com/amp/ancient-rainforest-antarctica.html
    TADEAS
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    ESA: CORONAVIRUS-LED DROP IN AIR POLLUTION IS BUT A “SHORT BLIP”
    https://www.cnnmoney.ch/shows/big-picture/videos/esa-coronavirus-led-drop-air-pollution-short-blip
    TADEAS
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    Jiří Hlavenka: Pokles emisí CO2 jako vedlejší produkt koronavirové krize - Ekolist.cz
    https://ekolist.cz/...mentare/jirin-hlavenka-pokles-emisi-co2-jako-vedlejsi-produkt-ekonomicke-krize
    TADEAS
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    U.N. Postpones Global Climate Summit Over Pandemic Concerns - Scientific American
    https://www.scientificamerican.com/...le/u-n-postpones-global-climate-summit-over-pandemic-concerns/
    JINDRICH
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    TUHO:


    - úvodní obrázek jsou denní lety podle Flightradaru, celosvětově. V podstatě až do 13. března se létalo tak jako vždycky, s minimálními omezeními (tedy s potenciálním šířením viru po celé planetě). Až pak to začalo padat - nicméně i v těchto dnech je okolo 30 000 běžných letů (pasažéři i náklad, dolní zelená čára) denně.

    via fcb havlenka
    TADEAS
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    Revealed: Extinction Rebellion’s plan to exploit the Covid crisis | The Spectator
    https://www.spectator.co.uk/...cle/revealed-extinction-rebellion-s-plans-to-exploit-the-Covid-crisis

    + reakce ruperta reada:

    "The idea of not letting a crisis go to waste is an entirely standard one within Government: it is attributed to Rahm Emanuel, former White House Chief of Staff (although the germ of the quotation is often attributed to Winston Churchill in the context of the final stages of World War Two). All I meant by using the phrase is that it’s quite obvious that it would be a gross collective dereliction of duty if we were not as a nation to learn from this coronavirus. The crisis it has imposed upon us should be used to ensure that we make ourselves less vulnerable to future crises: whether future pandemics, or the climate crisis, or whatever. It would be stupid to let this crisis go to waste, by not preparing, through it, for future crises. That’s just common sense.”

    TUHO
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    NASA developed the new tool together with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with the team drawing on data from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On (GRACE-FO) satellites. Launched last year, these spacecraft circle the Earth to map its gravitational field, and by detecting variations in that gravitational field, can reveal the shifting of mass, such as the global flow of water and ice.
    The GRACE-FO observations were mixed with computer models that simulate water and energy cycles to spit out time-varying maps of water distribution at different depths. This includes the moisture of the soil at the surface, root zone soil moisture that takes up the top 3 feet of soil, and shallow groundwater, with the water distribution presented in the form of weekly global maps.

    Global Maps of Dryness Help Prepare for Water Use Around Globe
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IJOYhYibeQ


    NASA's first global groundwater maps reveal drought in remote areas
    https://newatlas.com/environment/nasa-global-groundwater-map-drought/
    DZODZO
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    SUMAC: to zaplatia, vsak emituju 2 trilionove mince a penez bude plny trakar
    TUHO
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    In an obscure corner of the American physical oil market, crude prices have turned negative -- producers are actually paying consumers to take away the black stuff.
    The first crude stream to turn upside down was Wyoming Asphalt Sour, a dense oil used mostly to produce paving bitumen. Mercuria Energy Group Ltd., a trading house, bid negative 19 cents per barrel in mid-March for the crude, effectively asking producers to pay for the luxury of getting rid of their output.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/...020-03-27/one-corner-of-u-s-oil-market-has-already-seen-negative-prices
    SUMAC
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    Aviation giants 'push for Virgin Atlantic' bailout
    The Covid-19 crisis is putting all airlines under severe pressures, including Virgin Atlantic - who has been hit by Donald Trump’s travel ban, and flight restrictions elsewhere.

    Now, Sky News reports, a “frantic lobbying campaign” to secure taxpayer support for Virgin Atlantic Airways is underway.

    Apparently it involves two of the aviation industry’s biggest manufacturers, Airbus and Rolls-Royce Holdings, and Heathrow Airport - who are also all suffering from the crisis.

    tak kdo si tipne jak to dopadne?
    TUHO
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    World Meteorological Organization
    30 min ·
    TAKE TWO
    Some parts of the observing system are already affected. Most notably the significant decrease in air traffic has had a clear impact. In-flight measurements of ambient temperature and wind speed and direction are a very important source of information for both weather prediction and climate monitoring.
    Commercial airliners contribute to the Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay programme (AMDAR), which uses onboard sensors, computers and communications systems to collect, process, format and transmit meteorological observations to ground stations via satellite or radio links.
    In some parts of the world, in particular over Europe, the decrease in the number of measurements over the last couple of weeks has been dramatic. (see chart below provided by EUMETNET).
    The AMDAR observing system has traditionally produced over 700 000 high-quality observations per day of air temperature and wind speed and direction, together with the required positional and temporal information, and with an increasing number of humidity and turbulence measurements being made.

    SHEFIK
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    Equinor quits oil-lobby group due to its lack of climate-change policy - Electrek
    https://electrek.co/...0/04/01/equinor-quits-oil-lobby-group-ipaa-lack-of-climate-change-policy/amp/
    TUHO
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    A lot of people have an “Oh, shit” moment with climate change — something that wakes them up to the scale and severity of the crisis. What was your moment?
    I think it happened in two phases. The first moment happened at Standing Rock. I was there with native communities and leaders. It was their land, secured via treaty with the United States, that we decided to violate because a fossil-fuel company had essentially purchased our politics. Just standing there, [seeing] people organized against these massive tanks, these armed guards. [But] it wasn’t the U.S. military that people were standing up against; it was a militarized corporation — a fossil-fuel corporation. That, to me, was the “Oh, shit” moment in terms of what it’s actually going to take — because it’s not just about the science, it’s about the systems that protect all of the power that goes into defying the science.

    But in terms of the cost and the scale, the second “Oh, shit” moment happened with Hurricane Maria the following year. I lost my grandfather in the aftermath of Maria.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/...res/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-on-how-to-build-a-green-new-deal-965807
    YMLADRIS
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    YMLADRIS: U.S. to Announce Rollback of Auto Pollution Rules, a Key Effort to Fight Climate Change

    SHEFIK
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    TUHO: rikam to od samyho zacatku... pritom stacilo pouzit selskej rozum a spravne formulovat hypotezu misto panickyho povyku kolem korelace hdp/carbon.
    Kliknutím sem můžete změnit nastavení reklam