Hope in Hell | Book by Jonathon Porritt | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster UK
https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Hope-in-Hell/Jonathon-Porritt/9781471193279


Rupert Read je spolu s uživatelem Jem Bendell a dalšími (17).

I'm going to the virtual book launch of Porritt's new book, HOPE IN HELL, this evening... Jonathon Porritt has for years been seen as the patron saint of eco-optimism. When he writes a book that suggests that we are now -in- a kind of Hell, that we’ve allowed to be created albeit with the best of intentions, and that a more or less literal Hell — a world on fire, with societies collapsed — will be the fate of our children unless we change everything fast, then it’s clear that “Shit just got real”. As indeed it has.
And yet: there is hope. In fact, as Jonathon writes in the Introduction to this book, perhaps more hope than there has been for some time. For the surreal and terrible shock of the coronavirus crisis put the world temporarily on pause. This book offers some real hope for how we might reset, postcorona. As Jonathon puts it: the 2020s are the decisive decade, truly the last chance for humanity, and it turns out because of the virus that 2020/2021 will be the decisive year.
If there is indeed hope, then why say that are we already in a kind of Hell? Really, because it =is= Hell, for us to be well on the way to a slow-motion mass suicide that will most cruelly impact our descendants. For we humans (primates, mammals) aspire above all else to give them a better life.
It is fascinating to see how Porritt has become a full-scale climate-realist. He now states plainly the bitter truth, that “there is no hope whatsoever in another ten years of incremental change”. If we are to avoid civilisational nemesis, the only option now, he states with clarity, is “mass civil disobedience”. In which Porritt is prepared — as in integrity he must, given his diagnosis
— to take part; and that is what he promises, in this book. 'On behalf' of Extinction Rebellion, I
welcome him, and look forward perhaps to the day we’ll get arrested together.
There are many good reasons for reading Hope In Hell, but the most compelling reason of all for reading this book is to listen to one of the world’s most hopeful and best-informed environmentalists now telling the truth without varnish: that this — right now, this year — really is the last chance saloon for avoiding climate-driven societal collapse. When Jonathon Porritt says this, the world surely can’t avoid listening...

TUHO: Mala story o tom, jak uz si vlastne 'zvykame' na sucho. Na jare jsme kopali studnu. V cca 80 cm jsme narazili na trubku, ktera vedla ze sklepa (byvaly odpad). Zajasal jsem, protoze jsem tim padem mel pruchodku ze studny do domu bez prace. Akorat jsem si lamal hlavu, proc ji delali jen v 80 cm a ne v nezamrzne hloubce. Obzvlast, kdyz je tady dlouhodobe hladina vody asi 1.9m pod terenem. Kdyz se ted konecne doplnily zasoby v prvni zvodni, tak hladina vystoupala az skoro k te trubce (cca 30 od ni). Kdyz to delali, tak moc dobre vedeli, co delaji. Zaroven mi prijde neuveritelne, ze to stouplo o tolik za pouhych par tydnu ...

Can green sand help to clean up our carbon?
On an undisclosed Caribbean island, researchers are poised to test whether green sand could help to clean up our atmospheric mess. Project Vesta aims to sequester carbon by speeding up the natural weathering process of a mineral called olivine. The olivine will be ground up into sand and spread on the beach, where — in theory — the wave action will accelerate the sequestration process. The project hopes to show whether ‘enhanced mineral weathering’ can be done in a cost-effective way that’s safe for the marine environment (and acceptable to people who might not fancy the idea of a green-sand beach).

https://www.technologyreview.com/...how-green-sand-could-capture-billions-of-tons-of-carbon-dioxide/

TUHO: zarámovat na památku?

Plus to, ze jsme tedka skoro na urovni roku se super El Ninem ukazuje, ze trend akceleruje

Moznost dosazeni ambicioznejsiho cilu Parizsky dohody 1.5 °C do roku 2100 asi padne velmi brzy... Ted jsme na 1.3 °C otepleni.

Important figure - graph shows global climate variability (bumps) and climate change (long-term upward trend). The 12-month running mean is about 1.3°C above pre-industrial level...

Do Karibiku dorazil písek ze Sahary, je ho nejvíce za půl století - Seznam Zprávy
https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/...-karibiku-dorazil-pisek-ze-sahary-je-ho-nejvice-za-pul-stoleti-110439

Věcný záměr energetického zákona
Materiál - Portál Aplikace ODok
https://apps.odok.cz/veklep-detail?pid=KORNBQLGLK0X

Materiál:
https://apps.odok.cz/attachment/-/down/KORNBQQGS2UE

TUHO: + komentar od Nafeeze Ahmed

But there’s a deeper problem. New scientific research confirms that capitalism’s structural obsession with endless growth is destroying the very conditions for human survival on planet Earth.
A landmark study in the journal Nature Communications, “Scientists’ warning on affluence” — by scientists in Australia, Switzerland and the UK — concludes that the most fundamental driver of environmental destruction is the overconsumption of the super-rich.
This factor lies over and above other factors like fossil fuel consumption, industrial agriculture and deforestation: because it is overconsumption by the super-rich which is the chief driver of these other factors breaching key planetary boundaries.
The paper notes that the richest 10 percent of people are responsible for up to 43 percent of destructive global environmental impacts.
In contrast, the poorest 10 percent in the world are responsible just around 5 percent of these environmental impacts:

https://medium.com/...lism-is-eroding-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists-6e469132dbba

The affluent citizens of the world are responsible for most environmental impacts and are central to any future prospect of retreating to safer environmental conditions. We summarise the evidence and present possible solution approaches. Any transition towards sustainability can only be effective if far-reaching lifestyle changes complement technological advancements. However, existing societies, economies and cultures incite consumption expansion and the structural imperative for growth in competitive market economies inhibits necessary societal change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16941-y

@Intersucho
Stav půdní vláhy je na celém území ČR v obvyklém či lepším stavu (bílá barva), než je průměr z období 1961-2010. Za posledních šest let jsme takto jednobarevnou mapu, znamenající nulové riziko sucha ve vegetačním období, vydat nemohli.