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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day
    TADEAS
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    Extremely busy hurricane season 2020 now taps into the Greek alphabet
    https://www.severe-weather.eu/tropical-weather/greek-alphabet-atlantic-hurricanes-mk/

    There are still several months left until the official end of hurricane season 2020, but there has already been twice the average number of storms. With 23 storms under the belt, the traditional hurricane names are used. We are moving into the Greek alphabet. Alpha and Beta formed on Friday, but more is on the way!

    What makes this season being so extreme and record-breaking, is the fact that storms with the same letters are developing weeks earlier than normally expected. And even much earlier than previously set records.

    Such satellite image of numerous active storms is almost typical for 2020. While there was very active Tropical Atlantic not enough, even the Mediterranean produced a tropical storm – Medicane Ianos!

    ...

    the temperatures are around 1-2 degrees Celsius warmer than the long-term average (1981-2010) across the Western Atlantic, Caribbean, and also in part of the Gulf. Seas are particularly warm along the US East Coast, even up to 3 °C warmer.

    VOYTEX
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    Reditel chemicky ministrem zivotniho prostredi. Vetsi zmrd nez vsichni jeho predchudci dohromady.

    "Ohledně možného roku takzvaného „konce uhlí“ nechtěl příliš spekulovat. „Já se domnívám, že to může být někdy do roku 2032,“ řekl Brabec. Klimatické organizace a hnutí přitom požadovaly konec do roku 2030. „My to nevidíme jako realistické, protože by to tu celé krachlo,“
    ...
    "Odklad konce skládkování Brabec hájí
    V diskusi se věnovali také odpadu. Konec skládkování se zřejmě posune o šest let na rok 2030."
    Konec uhlí do roku 2030 není podle Brabce technicky možný. Celé by to tady krachlo, upozornil — ČT24 — Česká televize
    https://ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/...ku-mohl-nastat-do-roku-2032-rekl-brabec-novy-unijni-plan-na-snizeni
    XCHAOS
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    SHEFIK: tak nevím. reálně spotřeba v tom Holandsku neklesne, může to teda energii lehce zdražit. V síti ale nejsou tak obrovský ztráty jak si myslíš - převážet pár set km elektřinu skutečně může být výhodnější, než vozit to uhlí (a v Holandsku se podle mě už netěží téměř určitě, i když zcela jistý si nejsem... nemám ale všechny informace, např. nejspíš to byla elektrárna na černé uhlí, to hnědé se na moc velké vzdálenosti převážet nevyplácelo nikdy, nejdál se vozí ještě tak možná u nás...)

    Nevím, jestli postupují dobře nebo špatně. Zavírání uhelných elektráren by mělo provázet zavírání energeticky náročných provozů. U nás by to znamenalo dál omezit vývoz elektřiny, což mi jako problém nepřijde. Pokud místo toho jen stoupne dovoz zemního plynu do plynových elektráren, je to nepatrně lepší než to uhlí (ty se startují, jen když zrovna OZE nedodávají nic, což třeba u toho větru není zas tak moc často).
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    XCHAOS: vnimas to v kratkym casovym kontextu. dulezity je to, ze ten soud vyvolava politicky tlak na akci a medializuje problem. nikdo nechce dokola resit pokuty, nebo dovazet drazsi elektrinu (v siti jsou obrovsky ztraty, tedy lokalni bude v principu na dlouhodobym horizontu levnejsi nez dovoz). a kdo se chce udrzet u koryta, musi jednat... tohle je naopak jeden z nejlepsich spolecenskych nastroju jak dat veci do poradku

    principem vsech zakonu neni primarne napravit nechteny stav (napr. vrazdu), ale ramec, jakym chces spolecnost dlouhodobe smerovat
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    YMLADRIS: pokuf tě zajímá tohle, pomož mi s debatou zde [ Nepodmíněný Základní Příjem ]

    (jinak ovšem můj názor na tohle "testování" je skeptický - jakkoliv si myslím, že Basic Income je v obecné rovině cesta, tak jeho otestování na nějakých "vzorcích" populace, když zbytek lidí kolem je normálně vystaven ekonomickým tlakům, není moc odlišné od "testování" toho, že někdo někde vyhraje v loterii, akorát v tomhle případě vyhraje celá vesnice nebo město)
    XCHAOS
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    YMLADRIS: lze to udělat. prostě jim soud nařídil dovést elektřinu z hnědého uhlí ve východním Německu (nebo, dovedeno do důsledků, klidně od nás - síť v EU je propojená).

    Je to blbý, ale unilaterální akce v propojeném světě větinou nemají žádný reálný dopad (leda v tomto případě, diskutabilně, se nějaké emise ušetří, když se do toho Holandska "doveze", tedy dovede, ta elektřina po již existujících drátech, a nevozí se tam to uhlí, byť vozit ho na lodích po Rýnu má asi relativně malou enviromentální stopu, proti železnici u nás, což je zase jiný problém).

    V tom Holandsku jde určitě hlavně o energii potřebnou pro jejich zemědělskou a průmyslovou produkci: jako přímořský stát, který kombinuje oceánské klima (tedy většinu roku spolehlivě nad nulou) s abundantním větrem, mají z hlediska spotřeby domácností jednu z nejlepších šancí v Evropě být neutrální, a když se k tomu přidají ta kola, jsou v podstatě za vodou (ovšem současně brzy pod vodou)
    YMLADRIS
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    The Netherlands must reduce carbon emissions by the end of the year, but can this be done? | Euronews
    https://www.euronews.com/...must-reduce-carbon-emissions-by-the-end-of-the-year-but-can-this-be-done

    soud Holandsku nařídil snížit do konce 2020 emise o 25 % oproti 1990.
    YMLADRIS
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    volně souvisí - infografika kde po světě byl testován Basic income

    https://www.visualcapitalist.com/?p=95764
    YMLADRIS
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    článek v ekonomistu o Citizen assemblies, ale za paywallem či mailwallem

    Some assembly required - Citizens’ assemblies are increasingly popular | International | The Economist
    https://www.economist.com/international/2020/09/19/citizens-assemblies-are-increasingly-popular
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    'Shocking': wilderness the size of Mexico lost worldwide in just 13 years, study finds | Environment | The Guardian
    https://amp.theguardian.com/...erness-the-size-of-mexico-lost-worldwide-in-just-13-years-study-finds

    https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(20)30418-8

    Wilderness across the planet is disappearing on a huge scale, according to a new study that found human activities had converted an area the size of Mexico from virtually intact natural landscapes to heavily modified ones in just 13 years.

    The loss of 1.9m square kilometres (735,000 sq miles) of intact ecosystems would have “profound implications” for the planet’s biodiversity, the study’s authors said.

    Using mostly satellite imagery, 17 scientists across six countries examined the human footprint across the globe and how it had changed between 2000 and 2013.

    Almost 20% of the earth’s surface had deteriorated, the study found, while human pressure had eased on only six per cent of the planet.

    Russia, Canada, Brazil, and Australia held the largest intact areas, together responsible for 60% of the world’s most untouched places.

    Some 1.1m sq km (425,000 sq miles) of wilderness identified from imagery in 2000 had some human impact 13 years later.

    Tropical savannahs and grasslands lost the most area to human pressure, the study, published in the journal One Earth, found.

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    Energy Flow Trends in Big History | SpringerLink
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33730-8_9
    https://www.academia.edu/.../62374223/2020_Big_History_Singularity20200315-18964-5xj2s5.pdf#page=195

    Energy flow is a major necessary component driving evolution of living system (along with information processes, organization, and entropy management). Energy flow is defined as the rate of energy use, after thermal heat losses are considered, i.e., free-energy power. Chaisson identified the energy flow density as a major determinant of complexity. Energy (such as food) is used to restore order among living systems (cell, animal, person, and civilization) overcoming the natural tendency to decay and diffuse. New energy mechanisms have been identified through the evolution of life, humans, and civilizations. The rate of energy innovation events is the same hyperbolic trend (with a singularity) that is seen in formation of new organizations. Here, we also investigate estimates of the energy flowing through evolving systems from early hydrothermal vents to the current global situation. It is found that the energy flow increases a bit faster than the population (or mass) in the system. For example, human bodies (such as early humans) use about 100 W of energy flow, whereas the global average is now roughly 3000 W per person with wide disparity (e.g., 10000 W/capita in the USA and 1000 W/capita in India).
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    2019 On the Circular Bioeconomy and Decoupling: Implications for Sustainable Growth
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800918317178

    This paper explores the existing confusion around the conceptual definitions and interpretations of the term circular bioeconomy. The co-existence of diametrically opposite interpretations of the concept indicates lack of a serious discussion of its theoretical foundations. Two narratives on circular bioeconomy are explored in depth: (i) the new economic paradigm based on technological progress (the economics of technological promises) that seeks perpetual economic growth; (ii) an entropic (thermodynamic) narrative that reflects on the limits on economic growth imposed by nature. The latter narrative makes a distinction between primary, secondary and tertiary resource flows and helps to identify what can and cannot be re-circulated within the metabolic pattern of social-ecological systems. Adopting the biophysical view, it becomes clear that the industrial revolution represented a linearization of material and energy flows with the goal to overcome the low pace and density of biological transformations. The required level of productivity of production factors in contemporary developed economies (flows per hour of labor and per hectare of land use) is orders of magnitude larger than the pace and density of supply and sink capacity of natural processes. Relying on nature to ‘close the loop’ will simply slow down the economic process.
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    2019 Terraforming Earth: Climate and Recursivity
    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/761285

    Terraforming began as a fantasy about making other planets earthlike, then returned to earth as a frame for what humans have done, are doing, or will do to the planet. Toward a reading of the phrase “terraforming earth” that would prove fruitful for criticism and theory, I analyze it into three forms of recursivity: formal, historical, and ecological. The three-loop analytic illuminates examples from science fiction and contemporary culture: H.G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds, Kim Stanley Robinson’s novel Green Mars, and Elon Musk’s desire to terraform Mars. The political theory of Sylvia Wynter offers a way of conceptualizing terraforming in terms of the difference between those who do and do not have access to optimal, immunized ecosystems and those who do and do not have agency over the earth system. I draw conclusions about terraforming’s scale-specificity and political implications, especially for understanding subject-formation in the Anthropocene.
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    2017 Biosphere, Noosphere, and the Anthropocene: Earth's Perilous Prospects in a Cosmic Context
    https://www.academia.edu/...phere_and_the_Anthropocene_Earths_Perilous_Prospects_in_a_Cosmic_Context

    Visions of a high-tech 'good' Anthropocene as well as ambitious world-making projects like Biosphere 2 have roots in a quasi-religious form of cosmism and attendant notions of the noosphere: a planetary sphere of mind. Cosmic perspectives often celebrate and naturalize an image of humans as participants in and ultimately directors of planetary and cosmic processes. This brand of cosmism encourages fantasies of eeing our 'used' planet in search of our presumed interstellar destiny, and it encourages a disregard of earthly, ecological, and even bodily limits. I argue that the turn to planetary and cosmic perspectives is the wrong move for those who care about the future of the Earth and more-than-human life.
    TADEAS
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    TUHO: standardni dopoledni cviceni v maximalizaci uhlikovy a materialovy stopy pouzivanim googlu .) zacal jsem u toho jestli sociologie pojednava kardashev scale (jak je na tom nejakej prekryv antorpologie/sociologie/astrofyziky a energetickyho/termodynamickyho chapani civilizace) a odtamtud uz jsem projel jen nekolik related vetvi spriznenejch clanku a knih pres g. scholar
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    TADEAS: Sakra solidni serka zajimavyho cteni. To abych si vzal dovolenou. Kdes k tomu prisel? Si zabil nejakyho bosse?
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    2018 Major Transitions in Planetary Evolution
    https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/isal_a_00024

    Earth has undergone a succession of stages driven by physical, chemical, geological, biological, and social processes. Among the most significant transitions in Earth’s planetary evolution are the emergence of life and subsequent biochemical innovations, the emergence of social behavior and cognition, and the emergence of technology. After life emerged, planetary processes became much more complex due to increased diversity in what is biogeochemically possible. With the evolutionary emergence of collective behaviors, social systems, and cognition, an increasing number of planetary processes became controlled by life. Since the emergence of technology, intentional steering of the environment became possible. In each stage, new mechanisms of control, mediated by new information processing architectures, are added to existing levels of control on the planetary environment. We can classify these evolutionary stages of planets into matter-dominated, life-dominated, and agency-dominated phases, where each is distinguished by the extent to which information processing systems control planetary processes. We aim to characterize how each phase shapes planetary environments.
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    2020 Gaian Systems - Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene
    https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/gaian-systems
    https://books.google.cz/...Ll8c3iN61&sig=ckJNie6_ftoMazC0T6kftgnoQ1A&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

    *Gaian Systems* reviews and assesses the different dialects of systems theory brought to bear on the discourse of Gaia. Gaia theory is systems theory. In particular, James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis’s initial Gaia research was concurrent and conceptually parallel with the new discourse of self-referential systems that emerged within neocybernetic systems theory.

    A primary outlet for the Gaia hypothesis was CoEvolution Quarterly, the periodical successor to the Whole Earth Catalog. This venue insured that early in their mutual developments, Gaia theory intersected with second-order cybernetics, a leading edge of systems theory’s own epoch of countercultural transformations. The recent Gaia discourses of Donna Haraway, Isabelle Stengers, and Bruno Latour variously contest its cybernetic status.

    *Gaian Systems* sharpens this debate by engaging Latour in particular on the issue of Gaia’s systems description. Lovelock and Margulis consistently position Gaia theory as an application of either first- or second-order cybernetic systems theory. From these affirmations and exigencies I extend my own systems-theoretical synthesis under the technical phrase metabiotic Gaia.

    *Gaian Systems* shows how metabiotic Gaia discourse illuminates current issues in neighboring theoretical conversations, including system boundaries, biopolitics, the immunitary paradigm, symbiosis, the holobiont, astrobiology, the Anthropocene, the geological turn, and the new geocentrism.

    *Gaian Systems* uniquely traces the particular signature of Lynn Margulis on the evolution of Gaia theory. Other critical treatments tend to take Lovelock’s Gaia as the last word on the topic. In fact, Margulis occasionally published her own variations on Lovelock’s cybernetics. This study is the first to follow Margulis’s lead to see what the autopoietic turn can add to Gaia’s conception and description.

    *Gaian Systems* also makes selections from Margulis’s unpublished professional correspondence available for the first time. Additionally, no previous study has gone into this level of detail on the commerce of the Gaia hypothesis with the systems counterculture, the remarkable collegial network established by the Whole Earth Catalog, CoEvolution Quarterly, and the Lindisfarne Association.
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    2019 Algae and oxygen, humans and carbon: A Precambrian analogue for the Anthropocene
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2053019619852165

    In 2003 Paul Crutzen and Will Steffen asserted that across Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history no analogue could be found for the Anthropocene. An analogue can, however, be located in the dim Precambrian past when, through oxygenic photosynthesis, cyanobacteria produced enough oxygen to alter the composition and character of the Earth System. The ‘Great Oxygenation Event’ that followed wiped out much of Earth’s anaerobic life while giving rise to all subsequent aerobic life. It also offers a clear comparison with the Anthropocene that implicates how we think about our current predicament.

    ...

    What of the similarities? Despite their differences in scale, scientists have fixed both within the same geological reckoning of linear time. Both events derived from essential, inherent, and specific life processes. Both involved a lifeform finding a way to utilise energy in ever more efficient and potentially lethal ways. And the first culminated – while the second shows every sign of repeating the same pattern – in events that altered the course of life on Earth involving equal helpings of vast destruction and profound creation. If the analogue to the supposedly ‘no-analogue’ state has anything to tell, then, it is that a monotheistically derived scientific sense of anthropocentric and anthropocenic exceptionalism, more so than the chemical by-products of our consumption, perhaps puts us most in peril because it leads us to deny the implacable fact that both the Anthropocene and its analogue were and are wholly consistent with the destructive and creative processes of life and perhaps even normal and unremarkable when set against the broad sweep of Earth’s billions of years.
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    2020 Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences
    https://www.academia.edu/...anetary_Social_Thought_The_Anthropocene_Challenge_to_the_Social_Sciences

    This is an unpublished full draft of a book by Nigel Clark and Bronislaw Szerszynski, due to be published by Polity Press in late 2020.

    More than just putting new causes for alarm on the agenda, we argue in this book, the Anthropocene offers incitements for thinking about our planet across a range of timescales, fields of vision and trajectories. Such provocations, we propose, can and ought to prompt us to ask some far-reaching questions. What kind of planet is this on which we find ourselves? What has our planet done in the past and what might it be capable of doing in the future? And closely associated with these ‘planetary’ themes, we also need to ask: what kind of creature or being are we? How have ‘we’ inhabited and made use of this planet in the past, and what might we find ourselves doing with the Earth and all its shifting, changeable processes in the future? This is what we refer to as planetary social thought.
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