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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / Thank you so much for ruining my day


    "Given the sheer enormity of climate change, it’s okay to be depressed, to grieve. But please, don’t stay there too long. Join me in pure, unadulterated, righteous anger."


    "I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act. Once you start to act, the hope is everywhere."

    "Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding, that the life-support systems of the Earth are being damaged in ways that threaten our survival. Yet in the face of these facts we carry on as usual."

    “We’ve got to stop burning fossil fuels. So many aspects of life depend on fossil fuels, except for music and love and education and happiness. These things, which hardly use fossil fuels, are what we must focus on.”

    A nejde o to, že na to nemáme dostatečné technologie, ty by na řešení použít šly, ale chybí nám vůle a představivost je využít. Zůstáváme při zemi, přemýšlíme až moc rezervovaně. Technologický pokrok to sám o sobě nevyřeší. Problém jsme my, ne technologické nástroje.

    Rostouci hladiny oceanu, zmena atmosferickeho proudeni, zmeny v distribuci srazek a sucha. Zmeny karbonoveho, fosforoveho a dusikoveho cyklu, okyselovani oceanu. Jake jsou bezpecnostni rizika a jake potencialni klady dramatickych zmen fungovani zemskeho systemu?
    Ale take jak funguji masove dezinformacni kampane ropneho prumyslu a boj o verejne mineni na prahu noveho klimatickeho rezimu post-holocenu.
    rozbalit záhlaví
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    TADEAS: vidím, že se teď zabýváš tímto tématem :) stíháš to všechno číst? dokázal bys vypíchnout ty zdroje, které nás aktivisty můžou nakopnout k tomu, abychom jednak překonali vlastní vyhoření, ale i změnit styl komunikace, aby např. vedení město nemělo dojem, že jsme jen nějací prudiči, ale aby sami pochopili, co je třeba dělat. Včera jsem se dívala na některé ty odkazy, ale upřímně, moc to nestíhám všechno projít. díky
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    Biden Considering New White House Office on Climate Change
    https://www.bloomberg.com/...s/2020-10-07/biden-considering-new-white-house-office-on-climate-change

    Democrat Joe Biden is considering creating a special White House office led by a climate “czar” to coordinate efforts to fight global warming if he is elected president, according to people familiar with the deliberations.

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    Already, Biden has proposed a sweeping $2 trillion climate plan that calls for an emissions-free electric grid in 15 years, and includes a target of net-zero emissions across the entire economy by 2050.
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    Climate Psychology Reading List
    https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org/~cpa/handbook/363-climate-psychology-reading-list

    Climate psychology is a relatively new field, rooted in psychotherapeutic ways of understanding human responses to the climate crisis. The writers listed below explore the nature of the human relationship to the rest of the natural world, the defences people use to avoid engaging with climate change, and the experiences of anxiety, loss, grief and mourning which people go through when they do face it properly.

    Climate psychology draws on psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, Gestalt and other humanistic approaches and on psycho-social studies. It is a fast-developing field, aimed not just at theoretical understanding but at developing psychotherapeutic practice and at supporting the broad-based practical and professional networks who are struggling to act on climate change.
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    Why climate disasters call on us to take shared ownership of our own wellbeing
    https://gendread.substack.com/p/why-climate-disasters-call-on-us

    ‪Helen L Berry‬ - ‪Google Scholar‬
    https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=L_c3R-AAAAAJ&hl=en

    Psychiatric epidemiologist Helen Berry is the first person in the world to hold this badass title: Professor of Climate Change and Mental Health, which her former employer - the University of Sydney - gave her. Berry’s extensive research shows that if we want to improve the wellbeing of the most vulnerable communities as things heat up, we must shift the bulk of responsibility for mental health care from the biomedical model to the wider social environment. Specifically, this means helping communities increase their social connectedness and social capital. Berry’s research demonstrates why we need a civic-minded approach to mental health innovation in the climate crisis; one that supports residents in a community to solve problems that they themselves define as being most concerning. Findings show that the entwined processes of self-determination, cultivating trust, and capacity building that are inherent to this approach, can prevent psychiatric harm in disastrous scenarios. Berry calls this “the pearl in the oyster” for mental health care in the climate crisis, and it was partly inspired by the pioneering work of a sociologist and psychiatrist named Alexander Leighton.

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    Now imagine what this kind of approach could do for vulnerable communities who are living on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Instead of coordinating to get what’s required to watch movies, gentle institutional support could help the community come together to decide on whatever they wish to achieve. Maybe that would look like cultivating the conditions for local food security, dealing with toxic waste pollution, or getting residents equipped with low carbon air conditioners to prepare for the next heatwave. As more goals are accomplished, the community’s ability to solve its own problems would be trusted, hope for the future would grow, and emotional support would become widespread, translating into resilience. Then when disaster strikes, residents would be much more equipped to cooperate and rebuild.

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    Research has shown that this kind of community cohesiveness can even outweigh the effectiveness of economic assistance and relief from aid or government groups to improve wellbeing. And as Berry told me when I interviewed her for my forthcoming book, “at no point would the words mental health ever even need to be mentioned.”⁠ So in this sense, community building and activism are some of the most powerful tools for mental health care (but no, not cures that promise to fix it all). And of course, coming together like this can help anyone (not only the most vulnerable people) fight the myth of individualism, which is what caused this whole frigging mess in the first place.
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    Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration — ProPublica
    https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-will-force-a-new-american-migration
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    asociace klinickejch psychologu v UK, slusny


    ACP-UK Statement on the Need for Action to Address the Climate Crisis
    https://acpuk.org.uk/climate_change_statement/

    Our profession values the importance of acknowledging emotions; but still many of us will struggle to engage with the magnitude of what is happening to our world because doing so necessarily requires us to contemplate all that we have lost and stand to lose in the years to come. Climate change is our shared trauma.

    As a profession we are well trained to reflect on our reality and to support others to engage with the resulting distress in containing ways. The profession has also come a long way towards recognising the importance of social action on issues such as racism and inequality[3], [4]. We believe that collective action is good for personal wellbeing, and also has far greater impetus for political change than individual actions. And so we must connect with the despair and work through our denial, supporting others to do so too, including those with power, because we must act. The window of opportunity has not yet closed, but it soon will; and we need action for there to be hope.


    Practitioner psychologists and the trauma of climate change. An open letter demanding immediate and effective action.
    https://docs.google.com/...QLSdU6L3NM12ikT-34ZPlp1yv-6nHcM5aqhmid6nK-M3plZGu3A/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1

    “We will see acute trauma on a global scale, in response to extreme weather events, forced migration and conflict. This would be in addition to the chronic trauma associated with long-term risks, such as the threat of danger to life. For children growing up in a landscape of ever-increasing danger and parental stress, we risk developmental trauma becoming a ‘normal’ part of childhood experience.”



    “All health professionals have a duty and obligation to engage in all kinds of non-violent social protest to address the climate emergency”

    – Richard Horton, Editor of the Lancet[12]


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    Adam Corner @AJCorner
    We've been working on something big: a toolkit for avoiding a culture war on climate change

    Coming on 18th Nov, and based on research led by @MiC_Global released today, Britain Talks Climate is a resource to engage across the whole of society



    Britain Talks Climate: a toolkit for engaging the British public on climate change - Climate Outreach
    https://climateoutreach.org/britain-talks-climate/

    Against a backdrop of growing concern about polarisation, our Britain Talks Climate project – released on 18 November – will support the climate community by providing an evidence-based, shared and strategic understanding of the British public and how to engage across the whole of society.

    Going beyond ‘left vs right’ or ‘leave vs remain’ to uncover seven nuanced segments of the British public, Britain Talks Climate captures our differences but also our commonalities.



    ‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study | Society | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/oct/24/culture-wars-are-fought-by-tiny-minority-uk-study

    A disproportionate amount of political comment on social media is generated by small, politically driven groups, according to the analysis. It found that there was actually widespread agreement in the UK over topics such as gender equality and climate change – often seen as culture war issues.
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    'Hijacked by anxiety': how climate dread is hindering climate action | Environment | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/.../oct/08/anxiety-climate-crisis-trauma-paralysing-effect-psychologists

    climate anxiety – a sense of dread, gloom and almost paralysing helplessness that is rising as we come to terms with the greatest existential challenge of our generation, or any generation.

    Now an increasing number of psychologists believe the trauma that is a consequence of climate breakdown is also one of the biggest obstacles in the struggle to take action against rising greenhouse gas emissions. There is a growing sense that this trauma needs a therapeutic response to help people beyond paralysis and into action.

    A deep sense of dread and vertiginous anxiety may be the most rational response to the dizzying pace of the climate breakdown in 2020, but it is seldom the most helpful when it comes to affecting change on the scale needed to limit the unfolding crisis.

    Caroline Hickman, a psychology lecturer at the University of Bath, says climate trauma has been lurking within western society’s collective psyche for the last 40 years, rendering most people unable to act on the looming crisis we have known for decades would come.

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    “When we look at this through the lens of individual and collective trauma, it changes everything about what we do and how we do it,” says Dr Renee Lertzman, a US-based pioneer of climate psychology. “It helps us make sense of the variety of ways that people are responding to what’s going on, and the mechanisms and practices we need to come through this as whole as possible.”

    Lertzman works with some of the biggest organisations in the world to change the way leaders “show up” in the climate conversation. She believes anyone with a public voice has a responsibility to act as a guide, not as a doomsayer or cheerleader. “We already know a lot about what the conditions are now that promote healing and promote working through trauma. It’s just that, for the most part, we haven’t yet applied that to a climate trauma context,” she says.

    In simple terms, she says, the human psyche is hardwired to disengage from information or experiences that are overwhelmingly difficult or disturbing. This is particularly true if an individual feels powerless to affect change. “For many of us, we’d literally rather not know because otherwise it creates such an acutely distressing experience for us as humans.”

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    this makes communicating the reality of the climate crisis, and examining the complex societal structures behind it, a psychological dilemma with existential consequences. In its most extreme form this inability to engage presents itself as a complete denial of the climate crisis and climate science. But even among those who accept the dire predictions for the natural world, there are “micro-denials” that can block the ability to take action.

    A mind intent on avoiding the stark reality of the climate crisis can slip into a defeated eco-nihilism or cling to the gung-ho optimism of a free-market “solutioneer”. In this way, many are able to hold the idea of the climate crisis in mind, while continuing the behaviours that exacerbate it.

    “Frankly, what a lot of us are doing unintentionally is simply retraumatising each other over and over again,” Lertzman says. “I feel like we have allowed ourselves to be hijacked by our own anxiety, our own urgency, our own recognition of the high stakes, such that it makes us tone deaf and blind to the human dimension of this story, which is that we all want to be heard and seen and respected and valued, and we all want to feel like we’re part of the solution. What we’re seeing right now is the impact of that.”

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    “A measure of mental health is having the capacity to accurately emotionally respond to the reality in our world. So it’s not delusional to feel anxious or depressed. It’s mentally healthy,” Hickman says.

    This “internal activism” can gently dismantle defences, while still demanding change, by acknowledging the desire to cling to our psychological defences and working around it. It gives rise to what she calls “radical hope”: a belief that meaningful action can make a difference, which is rooted in the reality of the crisis rather than a naive belief that it might not be as bad as we think.

    We have to help people to navigate these feelings by increasing our emotional resilience and emotional intelligence. We need to talk around people’s defences. If their defences are triggered by what you’re saying you can forget it,” says Hickman. “They won’t hear you.”
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    US election: Climate crisis struggles to influence voters | Climate Change | DW | 30.10.2020
    https://www.dw.com/en/us-election-climate-crisis-struggles-to-influence-voters/a-55437637

    The 2020 US election is the most polarized in terms of climate change concern, says Alec Tyson, associate director of research at Pew Research Center. Only 11% of Trump supporters say climate change is very important to their vote, the issue ranking last in importance out of 12 issues. This compares to 68% of Biden voters — though climate is outranked by racial and ethnic inequality (76%), among other concerns.

    The widespread lack of concern about climate change among Trump supporters has helped sideline the issue, Tyson argues. "Issues that are important to both campaigns, where they are vigorously engaged with one another, are going to get more visibility," he said.

    Climate is far less polarized in Britain, for example, and even Germany — despite a rising tide of climate denialism pushed by far right political parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD) — according to Susie Wang, a researcher at Climate Outreach. After over a decade of work communicating climate change issues to center-right and conservative voters in the UK to avoid polarization, the broad British political spectrum that was so divided on the issue of Brexit is more unified on climate action.

    By contrast, the climate message in the US can fall victim to a stark political partisanship that "pushes people apart rather than bring them together," Wang told DW. This ideological divide "doesn't leave any space" for conservatives to state their support for climate change action.

    "The US is probably the most polarized country in the world on climate change," said Wang.

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    Is there a therapy for climate-change anxiety?
    http://www.psychotherapyinbrighton.com/...hp?permalink=is-there-a-therapy-for-climate-change-anxiety



    Necessary Derangement: Steffi Bednarek in conversation with Sophie Holdstock
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBO2Z-jNiAY


    What does it take to stay with the necessary derangement of the habitual ground that our time seems to be calling for? And what is the role of psychotherapists in a time of death of the collective familiar, a time when we can’t rely on old habits to get us out of trouble?

    In order to fully be able to support others on this journey, we may need to attend to our own responses and our perhaps unexamined visions of the future. How do we participate in the collective amnesia and anaesthesia of our time?

    Together with British Gestalt Journal, Steffi Bednarek sets a container for a small journey of exploration on how to do justice to a world that may need us to step into the biggest and largest version of ourselves, at the annual BGJ Seminar Day 2020. We ask what skills and resources we already have and what needs to be fostered in order for us to rise to the enormity that lies ahead. How can we be of service in a time when life around us is dying? Can we attend to something that transcends our own self interest?

    Steffi’s work is informed by Gestalt Therapy, climate psychology, soul-centric perspectives, nature connection, deep ritual and grief work.



    Steffi Bednarek on Necessary Derangement at the upcoming BGJ Seminar Day — British Gestalt Journal
    https://www.britishgestaltjournal.com/...ek-on-necessary-derangement-at-the-upcoming-bgj-seminar-day

    'What is the role of psychotherapists in a time of death of the collective familiar?’ In what ways would you like to see the field of psychotherapy change in the coming years?

    Firstly, maybe our whole idea of who the client is, needs an element of derangement. You go to therapy as an isolated cell and you work on your interiority. This pre-supposes an externality as though there is a clearly delineated inside and outside rather than recognising how wildly entangled we are with everything.

    I talked about this in 'How wide is the field’, where I explored the aspects of psychotherapy that mirror the problematic values of the dominant capitalist paradigm. I would love to have wider critical discussions about the anthropocentrism in our theories, the individualistic notion of Self, which encourages ideas of personal growth and emphasises an ideology of separability.
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    Climate Assembly UK — Process & Outcomes Tickets, Thu 12 Nov 2020 at 11:00 | Eventbrite
    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/climate-assembly-uk-process-outcomes-tickets-127475736359

    Climate Assembly UK Launch Video
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGofA1uGt3c&feature=emb_title


    Climate Assembly UK was a UK-wide citizens’ assembly with randomly selected participants commissioned by six select committees of the House of Commons that took place earlier this year and published its report in September. The assembly considered important policy options that will guide the UK’s path to net-zero green-house gas emissions. The project involved 108 randomly select citizens from across the UK come together over several weekends to learn about climate change and develop recommendations to parliament on what measures should be implemented, and how decisions should be made as part of the net-zero transition.

    This workshop will provide insights into the process design, and what we can learn from the citizens’ deliberations, as well as talk about the role of citizens' assemblies and deliberative democracy in the context of the climate crisis.
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    Theory of change: creating a social mandate for climate action - Climate Outreach
    https://climateoutreach.org/reports/theory-of-change/

    Why is building a social mandate for climate action so important? We’re convinced we cannot tackle climate change without broad-based public engagement.

    Responding to climate change requires accelerated action across society and around the world, by placing people at the heart of tackling this critical issue.

    Technological advances as well as regulations, policies and laws are necessary for tackling climate change but these won’t work in the long term without the active engagement and buy-in of citizens. This informed consent for action is what’s known as a social mandate – and we believe it’s how real change happens.
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    PIO Summit: Psychological Tools for Planetary Action - YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5CMCz5bcujvYSSLesfOusA8KhP5LG6Os
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    Climate Crisis and Consciousness: Re-imagining Our World and Ourselves eBook: Gillespie, Sally: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Climate-Crisis-Consciousness-Re-imagining-Ourselves-ebook/dp/B07V9FMMQY/

    As a Jungian psychotherapist prior to switching her focus to pursue doctoral research investigating psychological responses to climate change, her work focuses on our unconscious responses. She explores how existential questions manifest in our dreams, emotions, and imagination as we grapple with ecological collapse. Like anyone who is not in denial about the unfolding crisis, she demonstrates how, by facing into it, we may disrupt the habitual ways of being that have precipitated it.

    Gillespie addresses the fear that everyone must surely feel when faced with facts about the likely consequences of the current trajectory of global heating, acknowledging the anger and denial that is often the reaction to a terror that seems too awful to bear. She draws on the experience of many well-known activists and scientists who have had to deal with their own grief and anxiety in order to continue their work, and she cites research showing that the apathy that seems to affect some people whose environment is already affected by climate change is not a consequence of not caring, but of caring too much.

    Gillespie guides us through the ways in which paying attention to our environment and developing an ecological consciousness changes us profoundly: ‘Arriving at the understanding that we are not apart from but an active part of the most beautiful world we can ever know, expands horizons, changes perspectives, transforms identity, opens hearts and develops relatedness’. (67)

    She leads us through the ways this happens, the various forms of ecological consciousness that are a significant aspect of Indigenous knowledge systems, deep-ecology, Buddhism, eco-philosophy and eco-psychology as well as the works of poets and dreamers through the ages who have realised the necessity, and joy, of ‘surrendering egocentric perspectives to an experience of one’s self being part of a larger whole.’ (78) She not only introduces us to ways we can ease our own anxiety but how, by finding values we share in common with even the most ardent climate deniers, such as a love for our local area or our children and grandchildren, we can open a door to the kind of human connection that is vital for survival in times of crisis.

    As the most recent global pandemic has already shown, faced with an existential threat—combined with being forced to slow down and rediscover the pleasures of less traffic, clearer air, and, for those not on the frontline, more time to stop and stare—life is changed. While it is early days, and the changes for some are terrifying, there is already evidence that whole populations can quickly adapt to behaving differently if circumstances demand it. Gillespie encourages us to make changes now, indicating ways to respond appropriately, courageously and, importantly, imaginatively, before the climate crisis becomes an emergency we can only react to with fear.
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    2019 Earth, Climate, Dreams: Dialogues with Depth Psychologists in the Age of the Anthropocene
    https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Climate-Dreams-Psychologists-Anthropocene/dp/0997955023/

    Earth, Climate, Dreams – Depth Insights Transpersonal Soul-Centered Coaching and Education
    https://depthinsights.com/earth-climate-dreams-symposium/

    Earth, Climate, Dreams Symposium - YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6O_9_P0cq7bULdR4CqW1mhmbiNsPFmGO

    Bonnie Bright, Ph.D., deserves enormous credit for having conducted and then assembled this collection of in depth interviews with prominent Jungians, generally focused on our climate emergency. And particularly focused on our cultural blindness - which many of the interviewees call the Complex - in either understanding or dealing with the climate crisis.
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    Amazon.com: Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics (9781138124868): Orange, Donna M.: Books
    https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Crisis-Psychoanalysis-Radical-Ethics/dp/1138124869/

    Psychoanalysis engages with the difficult subjects in life, but it has been slow to address climate change. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics draws on the latest scientific evidence to set out the likely effects of climate change on politics, economics and society more generally, including impacts on psychoanalysts.

    Despite a tendency to avoid the warnings, times of crisis summon clinicians to emerge from comfortable consulting rooms. Daily engaged with human suffering, they now face the inextricably bound together crises of global warming and massive social injustices. After considering historical and emotional causes of climate unconsciousness and of compulsive consumerism, this book argues that only a radical ethics of responsibility to be "my other’s keeper" will truly wake us up to climate change and bring psychoanalysts to actively take on responsibilities, such as demanding change from governments, living more simply, flying less, and caring for the earth and its inhabitants everywhere.

    Linking climate justice to radical ethics by way of psychoanalysis, Donna Orange explores many relevant aspects of psychoanalytic expertise, referring to work on trauma, mourning, and the transformation of trouble into purpose. Orange makes practical suggestions for action in the psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic communities: reducing air travel, consolidating organizations and conferences, better use of internet communication and education. This book includes both philosophical considerations of egoism (close to psychoanalytic narcissism) as problematic, together with work on shame and envy as motivating compulsive and conspicuous consumption.

    The interweaving of climate emergency and massive social injustice presents psychoanalysts and organized psychoanalysis with a radical ethical demand and an extraordinary opportunity for leadership. Climate Crisis, Psychoanalysis, and Radical Ethics will provide accessible and thought-provoking reading for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, as well as philosophers, environmental studies scholars and students studying across these fields.
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    Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis, Muir, Cameron, Wehner, Kirsten, Newell, Jenny - Amazon.com
    https://www.amazon.com/Living-Anthropocene-Love-Environmental-Crisis-ebook/dp/B08JVC5RZ4

    In this extraordinarily powerful and moving book, leading Australian writers come together to reflect on what it is like to be alive during an ecological crisis as the physical world changes all around us. How do we hold onto hope? These personal stories are more than individual responses. They build a picture of a collective endeavour towards cultures of care, respect, and attention — values and actions that we yearn be reflected in the institutions that have power to act on a scale that matches the complexity and enormity of the challenge Personal and urgent, this is a literary anthology for our age, the age of humans that reflects on how we might resist, protect, grieve, adapt and unite. Features some of Australia’s best-known writers and thinkers including: Tony Birch, James Bradley, Sophie Cunningham, Delia Falconer, Ashley Hay, Iain McCalman, Ellen van Neerven, Jane Rawson, David Ritter and many more
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    SHEFIK: bez googleni a spis principialne: skleniky jsou energeticko-materialove (=kapitalove) narocna infrastruktura, jejimz cilem je stabilizace mikroklimatu pro rust, tzn. v zime dotapis (casto plynem), nekdy je potreba i externe dodavat co2 pro rostliny. mirou dosvitu lze samozrejme taky hodne regulovat objem produkce, jestli tam je zdrojem energie plyn nebo spis elektrina, to nevim, posledne co jsem se tim zabyval, tak zacinaly byt k dispozici i ledky s odpovidajicim spektrem, takze by se narocnost toho dosvitu tim mohla snizovat.

    uplne zesiroka - opet je potreba rict, ze skleniky jsou reseni pro extenzi sezony nebo celorocni produkci v klimatech, ktery to jinak neumoznujou, zaroven jde obvykle o produkci listu, zeleniny (i kdyz v UK zastresujou i ovocny stromy, ale tam nejde o dotapeni pres zimu, spis o regulaci zavlahy), ktera ale v celkovy zemedelsky produkci je na plochu v pomeru k ostatnim land-usum docela malo narocna.

    z pohledu minimalizace tech fosilnich vstupu - lze bud vyuzivat odpadni teplo (ted treba v cr nekdo rozjel velky hydroponie na rajcata u tusimic), nebo musi bejt vstupem nefosilni plyn/elektrina/biomasa. jestli to nekdo dela, to si myslim ze zatim spis ne, protoze ten plyn je dost praktickej. do budoucnosti bude to odpadni teplo treba z tech vodikovejch palivovejch clanku. me osobne zajima i ten bioplyn, protoze tak jak to ted vidim tak farma muze regenerativne produkovat biomasu tak, aby tim uzivila pres bioplynku nejaky skleniky. hodne by me zajimalo precistovani a komprese toho biometanu, myslim ze v ramci ty energeticko-materialovy lokalizace je to zajimavy.
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    TADEAS: nevis proc uvadi, ze skleniky jsou energeticky-intenzivni a spotrebuje az 10% z celkove spotreby plynu?

    to maj ve sklenikach klimosku/topeni/sodiky?
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    Jaky je tedy vas (kdo se klimakrizi aktivne zabyvate) postoj k jeho dokumentu? Je prilis optimisticky nebo prinasi masovemu publiku akceptovatelnou zpravu, ktera muze pozitivne ovlivnit dalsi vyvoj v klicovych rozhodnutich? Nebo uplne jinak?
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    dobra reakce na attenboroughuv dokument


    Dear David Attenborough, beautiful Netflix documentary. But your ‘solutions’ destroy nature even more - The Correspondent
    https://thecorrespondent.com/...ary-but-your-solutions-destroy-nature-even-more/52432608382-481ff02e

    Dear Sir David Attenborough,

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    Your reasoning is as follows. We humans are cultivating more and more land for agriculture to support our growing global population, thereby destroying natural ecosystems. The most important example is a seemingly endless succession of palm oil plantations in Borneo, built at the expense of the richest nature on Earth, including orangutans, our siblings in the canopy.

    So, you say, we need to focus all our energies on cultivating more food on less land. “The Dutch have become experts at getting the most out of every hectare,” we hear you say with your familiar eloquent tone. “Despite its size, the Netherlands is now the world’s second largest exporter of food.”

    According to you, the Netherlands has increased its production tenfold, while using fewer pesticides and artificial fertilisers, with lower CO2 emissions. We see tomatoes growing in futuristic greenhouses, and even vertical farming: heads of lettuce growing one above the other, 10 storeys high, illuminated by purple LED lighting.

    But the fact that we are champion exporters is not because we pile heads of lettuce on top of each other or because we grow sustainable sci-fi tomatoes.

    The “food product” that makes us champion exporters doesn’t taste good: it’s flowers. We are actually focusing all our energies on supplying the growing global population with flowers!

    That requires heaps of artificial fertiliser and CO2. And thanks to horticultural exports, the Netherlands uses the largest amount of pesticides per hectare in all of Europe.

    If we don’t count flowers, the Netherlands isn’t the second largest exporter of food: Germany is. The fact that you do include flowers is probably because you got your information from an often-cited article in National Geographic, which makes the same mistakes.

    Even so, we do export a lot of food, so this isn’t the most important fact you missed. The point is: the Netherlands is cheating. We have two tricks that allow us to export so much food with so little land use. And as a Dutch ecologist, I’m afraid to say they have nothing much to do with the conservation of biodiversity.

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    Trick #1: imports

    The first trick: 30% of our exports aren’t actually grown in the Netherlands. In fact, we import them first. This is known as “re-exportation”. And the Netherlands may be fertile, but many of the raw materials for the other 70% also come from abroad.

    For its own consumption alone, the Netherlands uses two and a half times more agricultural land than the country possesses. That’s not because we pile crops on top of each other in towers: that land is situated in other countries.


    Guess where all that palm oil from Borneo goes? The Netherlands.

    After India and China, the Netherlands was the biggest palm oil importer in 2019. Unilever, one of the world’s biggest food multinationals, uses this palm oil to make supermarket products for the whole of Europe, in Dutch factories. Unilever puts oil in practically everything, from bread and peanut butter to shampoo and mascara. And palm oil is the cheapest oil on the global market. Even in formula for babies, milk fat is replaced by palm oil.

    All that processed food: that would be number four in the list of Dutch export products. This year, too, Unilever was involved in further deforestation in Indonesia


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    Trick #2: fossil fuels

    The second trick is fossil fuels. Although there is a much higher yield per square metre of agricultural land than 50 years ago, the efficiency of the production process has collapsed. In 1950, every 100 joules of fossil fuels that Dutch farmers used yielded 107 joules of nutritional value thanks to ecological processes, but nowadays, that ratio is only 100 joules of fossil fuels to 6 joules of nutritional value. All that energy goes towards the production of artificial fertiliser, building barns, driving tractors and transporting all the food. And we don’t eat the bulk of it ourselves; it’s feed for livestock.

    We use two-thirds of all agricultural land to grow grass to feed for our cows. They get a supplementary 10-20% in the form of protein concentrates, the majority of which come from outside Europe: soy and palm kernel shells.

    This brings us to our second and third largest agricultural export, after flowers: meat and dairy. Cheap pork and milk for Germany and the UK.

    I don’t have to tell you about the disastrous effects of bio-industry on the climate and biodiversity; you talk about this in your documentary. Thanks to all the cheese and cutlets, the Netherlands is also a leader when it comes to biodiversity loss.

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    Increasing food production in itself doesn’t reduce the number of undernourished people globally, but merely leads to more lower quality products at throwaway prices, and an increased consumption of luxury products by people who already had more than enough to eat. The bulk of Dutch exports goes to other European countries, all of which also consume more meat and dairy than is good for them.

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    The problem with greenhouse horticulture

    now we finally get to the tomato greenhouses. Our fifth-largest agricultural export, after flowers, meat, dairy and processed goods, is vegetables. About half of the export value of fruit and vegetables comes from greenhouse horticulture, and that accounts for only 4% of our total agricultural exports. Most of this also goes to other European countries

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    unfortunately greenhouses are expensive to build, and they are by far the most energy-intensive sector in the Netherlands, much more intensive than the steel industry. Greenhouse horticulture takes up 10% of all Dutch natural gas consumption – the same amount as half of all Dutch housing. Greenhouse horticulture accounts for 80% of all the energy used for agriculture. Economically, this is only possible because it is subject to a lower energy tax rate.

    Why do greenhouses get a reduced rate? Because otherwise they’d have to pay an enormous amount of energy tax.

    There’s no point even talking about vertical farming because that requires even more energy, and it can’t be switched off. LED lighting is relatively economical (although it has nothing on sunlight, which is free), but that’s merely promotional chatter. Its benefits are instantly negated by the number of lamps, enormous dehumidifiers and air conditioners these constructions require.

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    By praising Dutch exports, you are only repeating our food industry’s marketing slogans. Please stop. Argue for hard measures to curb our own consumption. Hold food giants like Unilever to account. Condemn agriculture that comes at the expense of biodiversity. Not only in Borneo, but also in the Netherlands, and on your own island of Britain.

    If Europe were to make it part of its policy to halve meat and dairy production in favour of seasonal vegetables, we would be able to manage without exports from outside Europe, while promoting healthier living and environmentally friendly farming. And the European Union has that power, because it has been determining farmers’ choices for decades, with a cash injection that constitutes almost 40% percent of the total EU budget. It’s a choice.

    Without Dutch imports and exports, the world outside Europe would not have less, but more to eat, and not less, but more nature would be preserved.



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