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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
    SHEFIK
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    GlobalData: Coronavirus threatens China’s battery sector dominance; 26 GWh hit in 2020 - Green Car Congress
    https://www.greencarcongress.com/2020/04/20200405-globaldata.html
    LINKOS
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    KEB: tak pochopitelně, co by to mělo dělat jiného?
    KEB
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    Většina uhlíku z poražených stromů skončí opět v atmosféře, zjistila studie - Euro.cz
    https://www.euro.cz/udalosti/vetsina-uhliku-z-porazenych-stromu-skonci-v-atmosfere
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    Deep-sea worms and bacteria team up to harvest methane
    https://m.phys.org/news/2020-04-deep-sea-worms-bacteria-team-harvest.html
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    Restoring Marine Life Can Happen Quickly & Will Pay Enormous Dividends | CleanTechnica
    https://cleantechnica.com/...4/restoring-marine-life-can-happen-quickly-will-pay-enormous-dividends/

    Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia have published a report in the journal Nature that claims the ability of the oceans to support an abundance of plant and animal life could be greatly increased in as little as 30 years.
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    Climate disasters up armed conflict risk in vulnerable countries - Futurity
    https://www.futurity.org/armed-conflict-severe-weather-2325552-2/
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    CT scan of sediment core - Antarctic rainforest
    https://vimeo.com/402614855

    The sediment core revealed that during the mid-Cretaceous, West Antarctica had a mild climate, with an annual mean air temperature of about 54 F (12 C), similar to that of Seattle. Summer temperatures were warmer, with an average of 66 F (19 C). In rivers and swamps, the water would have reached up to 68 F (20 C).

    In addition, the rainfall back then was comparable to the rainfall of Wales, England, today, the researchers found.

    These temperatures are impressively warm, given that Antarctica had a four-month polar night, meaning that a third of every year had no life-giving sunlight. However, the world was warmer back then, in part, because the carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere was high — even higher than previously thought, according to the analysis of the sediment core, the researchers said.

    "Before our study, the general assumption was that the global carbon dioxide concentration in the Cretaceous was roughly 1,000 ppm [parts per million]," study co-researcher Gerrit Lohmann, a climate modeler at Alfred Wegener Institute, said in the statement. "But in our model-based experiments, it took concentration levels of 1,120 to 1,680 ppm to reach the average temperatures back then in the Antarctic."

    These findings show how potent greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide can cause temperatures to skyrocket, so much so that today's freezing West Antarctica once hosted a rainforest. Moreover, it shows how important the cooling effects of today's ice sheets are, the researchers said
    TADEAS
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    TADEAS: ad "ecologically powerful" - jsem zvedavej jestli v ty novy publikaci TADEAS konecne budou teoretizovat vzhledem k ty critical zone / ekosystemu taky jeho management a manazery, aka hyperpredatorskou roli, aka (vymirajiciho) farmare ... ne pouze vedu o tomto, soil scientists a podobne.
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    Who’s ’The Elite’ in the Anthropocene? - Nikolaj Schultz (2017)
    https://www.academia.edu/37867214/Whos_The_Elite_in_the_Anthropocene

    The Elite should focus on a minority of politically powerful (officials, politicians), a minority of economically powerful (business leaders, the rich) or a minority of culturally powerful (artists, intellectuals, media).
    But, what about the ecologically powerful? These are left out of the discussion. And thus,
    the elite debate unfortunately ends up as a rather dull and unimaginative affair, since
    nobody seemingly tries to rethink the elite question in the light of our times’ most
    paramount challenge: the ecological mutation.

    ...

    Of course our generation has a power over the lives of future generations! Of course our
    and previous generations dominate future generations possibilities to breathe, to not see
    their territories erode and become inhabitable. It does not take much metaphysical
    imagination to realize so. Unfortunately, it takes a lot more imagination to imagine the
    opposite.

    And hence, we might also have to understand that we, the Modern, Western capitalist
    civilisation is, will be and was a ’Geo-Historical Elite’, while future generation – both rich
    and poor, Western and non-Western – will be the ’Geo-Historical Non-Elites’, living in
    our ruins.
    TADEAS
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    Life as Exodus - Nikolaj SCHULTZ
    2020, Bruno Latour (ed) (2020) Critical Zones - The Sciences and Politics of Landing on Earth
    https://www.academia.edu/38879902/Life_as_Exodus

    Tech-libertarian billionaires try to colonize Mars, they create sea-steads to avoid the juridical, physical and economical constraints of the nationstate and they build climate secured luxury bunkers in New Zealand to escape a coming ecological apocalypse. In short, the ultra-rich escapists are abandoning modern ideals of progress for all and are explicitly planning to leave us behind as crumbles on a plate. In a tonality that tries to capture both the utter seriousness and the humour of the situation, this draft (of a chapter) seeks to describe these psycho-spatial strategies and their ideological source.


    “Surely, Mr. Musk, you must be joking!”
    Even the most religious modernist must have been a bit astonished when realizing that a Tesla Roadster was now circulating around in space.
    “Well, of course it is a joke!” he responded, seemingly surprised that anybody would think anything else. Sure, there was indeed a Tesla gazing at planet Earth from outer space, destined to orbit the sun for the next ten years, but obviously it was all arranged as a joke. What other reason could there possibly be, he asked, than it being“silly and fun”?
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    Geo-Social Classes - Nikolaj SCHULTZ
    Krogh, Marianne (ed.) Connectedness – An Incomplete Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, Copenhagen: Strandberg Publishing (Forthcoming), 2020
    https://www.academia.edu/40826814/Geo-Social_Classes

    geo-social classes - These are classes not defined by their ownership over the means of production in the production process, but by their access to a broader range of material conditions of reproduction in the engendering process. While social classes were collectives defined by economic position, geo-social classes are collectives defined by territorial position, by their position in the reproduction processes of the soil. It is the distribution of these conditions of reproduction in the engendering process that define the stratifications of societies in our New Climatic Regime
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    Forum 4: the environmental privilege of borders in the anthropocene
    https://rsa.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17450101.2019.1601397

    dl: https://dacemirror.sci-hub.tw/journal-article/b8c0e4623aa877a7c8b7bb5881faa501/sun-heepark2019.pdf

    This essay focuses on the significance of borders in creating environmental privilege in the Anthropocene. Environmental privilege is accrued through the exercise of economic, political, and cultural power that enables the construction of exclusive environmental amenities such as clean air and water, open space, and safe neighborhoods. For years, environmental justice scholars have revealed the burdens and oppressive conditions associated with environmental inequality, but few studies consider the flipside of that reality. We argue that environmental privileges enjoyed by some rest upon the manipulation of the mobility of others – human and nonhuman. We believe border making will come under greater pressure as the effects of climate change increase, and the volume of resources required to maintain exclusive spaces intensifies. Continued mass migration will bring heightened anxieties about national identity and calls for greater border enforcement, despite the reality that borders – both literal and figurative – consistently fail to alleviate migratory pressures while exacerbating the effects of climate change and environmental injustice. Our research shows that greater ecological instability increases efforts to create privatized places as pristine spaces untouched by global turmoil, thereby reinforcing those social forces that produce environmental injustices in the first place.
    TADEAS
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    TUHO: hehe, no trochu situace dohnala jeho mysleni. ale stejne zaspava v teoretizaci stacku/hyperkortextu/hyperdermu, a misto aby tu hypermodernitu ala musk bral vazna, tak si z toho akorat delaj soufky... pritom je to validni a dulezita linie vyvoje, i kdyz se musi sjednotit s tim terrestrial/ekosystemovym rozmerem. ... a skrze tu nyni mozna nekde nalezanou solidaritu zrodit planetaritu .) ... oni si z tech uniku elit na zeland (ve skutecnosti jich tam pramalo realne zije) delaj srandu, ale ty vlny jeste prijdou, protoze ted si z toho srandu delat jeste muzem.
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    TADEAS: Jak me driv Latour sral svym intousskym lavirovanim, tak cim je starsi, tak tim ho mam radsi :)
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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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

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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
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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.
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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
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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
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