“It’s been crazy over here. Between the extreme heat and the wildfires, it feels apocalyptic,” Eleni Myrivili, a friend recently appointed to the role of Athens’ first chief heat officer, wrote in an email on Thursday as the army was deployed to assist firefighters. “Ash is raining down on us here in Athens.”

From the sky, it was frighteningly clear that the city was under siege, caught in a cycle of insufferable heat fuelling conflagrations on terrain so parched it was ready to ignite at any moment.

Fires, some big, some small, some extinguished and then rekindled, were raging nationwide, the country’s civil protection chief, Nikos Hardalias, told reporters. Conditions were not only “extremely dangerous” but unprecedented, he said, estimating that firefighters trying to protect populated areas, electricity installations and historic sites had battled 154 wildfires over the space of the week. More than 60 conflagrations were still raging on Saturday.

‘Apocalyptic’ scenes hit Greece as Athens besieged by fire | Wildfires | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/07/apocalyptic-scenes-hit-greece-as-athens-besieged-by-fire

TADEAS: "12 monkeys" scenario next pls :)

docela by me zajimalo, cim maji v planu tihle uvedomeli nemci topit v zime, biomasou, solarama, vetrnikama pro celou zem, nejaky ty uhelky v polsku/cesku? to bude jeste legrace az golfskej proud krapet zpomali a budou poradny zimy

postupujeme do faze sabotaz, nemecko

https://twitter.com/fridaysforsabo2/status/1422191993812230159?s=19

Thread by @fridaysforsabo2 on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1422191993812230159.html

At the weekend we sabotaged a gas pressure regulation measuring system on a natural gas pipeline (damaged with political intention and thereby impaired its function). No person was endangered. All preparations were made under this condition.

We tried to cause at least a small amount of damage and thus disrupt operations. We are thus directed against the operators of the pipeline, who approve of the damage to people and nature in order to increase their own prosperity.

They do this within a system that rewards and suggests this behavior. Therefore, the action is primarily directed against the capitalist system in which we live.

We see ourselves in the tradition of civil disobedience and show solidarity with the actions of @Ende__Gelaende . We see the need to broaden our forms of action and also to take other means.

There were many protests in the context of the @ Fridays4future movement, in which millions took part. Nevertheless, the seriousness of the climatic situation is not recognized and the normal capitalist and patriarchal state of white domination is accepted.

The choice of our forms of action is not based on laws, but on the urgency of the matter and the pursuit of a good life for everyone
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It is clear to us that the form of action we have chosen is not accessible to everyone and is based on a situation that is privileged in many ways. It is clear to us that even sabotage usually does not leave the framework of a symbolic action.
The anti-Castor protests have shown, however, that sabotage is both effective and supported by large sections of society. We feel connected to historical and current struggles of this kind.

We hope that sabotage will establish itself as a legitimate means of protest in the climate justice movement and that it will influence the discourse on forms of action. There are many places of destruction, but just as many places of possible resistance.

The campaign is not directed against the domestic and private use of gas - at the same time, a structural change in our energy supply is possible.

We want to work for a radical change in conditions, for a society in terms of supply and production that meets the interests and needs of all people, instead of less meeting profits.

Sabotage and have fun, (hopefully ;-)) faster than the police!

#science

While the report includes some positive trends — like record increases in the use of solar and wind energy, and institutions divesting money from the fossil fuel industry — it paints a generally bleak picture of the future, accentuated by ongoing surges in climate-related disasters like floods, hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves, the authors wrote. The planet may also be about to pass (or has already passed) critical natural tipping points — such as the Amazon rainforest becoming a carbon source rather than a carbon sink — from which it will be hard to recover, the team added.

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To accomplish this task, the team suggests a three-pronged near-term policy approach: 1) Implement a "significant" global carbon price to reduce emissions; 2) phase out and eventually ban fossil fuels; and 3) restore and protect key carbon-rich ecosystems, like forests and wetlands, to preserve the planet's largest carbon sinks and protect biodiversity.

Ignoring climate change will yield 'untold suffering,' panel of 14,000 scientists warns | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/earth-vital-signs-climate-change-suffering.html

// byl to chytak ,)) (antizapadni a antikapitalistickej :P)

TADEAS: zalezi kterou polovinu :D

TADEAS: hadanka: kolik net zero aut muze automobilka vypustit, kdyz vybije polovinu populace lidi? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #shellknew

SEJDA: #positive #livethechange

Nemusite se rozcilovat, je dobry vedet co co zpusobuje, ne? Ten clanek prece neimplikuje zadnou dalsi akci, jen prinasi vedecky poznani.

Stejne jako kravy produkujou metan ve svym zazivacim ustroji. Nebo sou naky temata tabu pri prosazovani klimatickejch zajmu?

Z #positive soudku

Výrobce palmového oleje přišel o certifikát udržitelného lesnictví. Investigace BBC odhalila vypalování lesa - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/vyrobce-palmoveho-oleje-prisel-o-certifikat-udrzitelneho-lesnictvi.investigace-bbc-odhalila-vypalovani-lesa

Podařilo se nám zjistit, že požáry vznikaly postupně a v určitém směru. Navíc byly vždy pouze uvnitř hranic území, které spadalo pod společnost Korindo. Kdyby požáry vznikaly v důsledku sucha nebo cizího zavinění, nikdy by v nich nebyla taková systematičnost,” komentuje Samaneh Moafi z Goldsmith University.

Pod tíhou důkazů došlo nakonec k tomu, že společnosti Korindo bude od října oficiálně ukončena možnost prokazovat se certifikátem FSC. “Ze strany společnosti Korindo jsme bohužel nezaznamenali žádné výrazné pokroky ve zlepšení jejího sociálního a environmentálního chování,“ komentuje generální ředitel FSC Kim Carstensen.

SEJDA: pointa clanku, ktery uz tu probehl, je, ze kdyz automobilka vybije divoka prasata, muze na silnice vypustit 1,1 milion net-zero aut ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Trocha historie

Jak se světu nepovedlo vyřešit změnu klimatu - - - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/cz/kultura/clanky/jak-se-svetu-nepovedlo-vyresit-zmenu-klimatu

Téměř všechny rozhovory o klimatu, které se vedou dnes, se vedly už v roce 1979,“ píše Nathaniel Rich v knize Jak ztratit zemi, Dějiny včerejška (pozn. redakce: v roce původního vydání knihy, 2019). Podrobně rozebírá, jak se jasný úkol ochránit klima planety Země proměnil v ideologické bojiště, kde má vědecký fakt stejnou váhu jako politický názor.