Animated short film "Sad Beauty" (2020) - by Arjan Brentjes
https://youtu.be/RBjPpJHddSM


An Artist’s Imagining of Life After Humanity | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/screening-room/an-artists-imagining-of-life-after-humanity

it was not his main intent to sound an alarm about climate collapse. People interested in the film, he pointed out, are likely already concerned with the environment, and don’t need anyone to tell them about the dangers of climate change. Instead, Brentjes hopes that “Sad Beauty” provides viewers with an “extreme form of consolation.” Around the time he came up with the seeds of what would eventually become the film, Brentjes had been watching documentaries about nature, deep time, and the history of the cosmos. As he watched them, he found an unexpected source of solace—bacteria. “I discovered that bacteria were around for, like, three billion years. And they were, in a way, the basis of life. At some point, [humans] are there, but we are also just carrying the original life of the world around with us, which are the bacteria,” he told me. (A study from the National Institutes of Health estimates that the ratio of bacterial to human cells in the typical person is about one to one.) “And then I thought, Well, it’s actually quite beautiful.”

Brentjes’s musings echo those of the biologist E. O. Wilson, whose work has shaped our understanding of biodiversity on Earth. Wilson, too, has contemplated the horror of extinction: “Deeper than despair, more terrifying than death, is the thought that everything in time will disappear, that all we have been and will become will leave no trace whatsoever,” he writes. But he also believes that it is possible for humans to envision “a different kind of immortality,” beyond the thriving of our own species. That possibility, Wilson writes, “resides in those remnants of the natural world we have not yet destroyed. The rest of life is a parallel world. It could exist and continue evolving for what to the human mind is an eternity.” This is the “extreme form of consolation” that Brentjes hopes to offer through his film. He told me, “We have to try to make the best of it on Earth, but if we don’t succeed there is still beauty. There will be beauty in one million years on this planet

Americká společnost získala miliardy na jadernou fúzi, do roku 2024 má být první prototyp
https://oenergetice.cz/elektrina/americka-spolecnost-ziskala-miliardy-jadernou-fuzi-roku-2024-ma-byt-prvni-prototyp

Sam Altman financuje fúzi v naději že se to stihne nějak tak aby to bylo na škálovatelný v boji proti klima kolapsu. Ekonomicky rentabilní prototyp mají mít 2024. Jsem už myslela že se toho nedožiji povídá se o tom od 80. let

SEJDA: me z toho vynech, ja niceho takoveho neocekavam :)

Trochu benzinu do ohne

Studie: Emise bohatých ohrožují dosažení klimatických cílů - Ekolist.cz
https://ekolist.cz/cz/zpravodajstvi/zpravy/studie-emise-bohatych-ohrozuji-dosazeni-klimatickych-cilu

Jedno procento nejbohatších lidí světa je na cestě k tomu, aby mělo až 30krát vyšší uhlíkovou stopu, než je zapotřebí k tomu, aby se globální oteplování omezilo na 1,5 stupně Celsia. Naopak emise nejchudších 50 procent populace klimatické cíle nepřevyšují. S odkazem na výzkum dvou evropských environmentálních agentur o tom informuje zpravodajský web BBC.

White House-Backed Carbon Tax in Sight for Biden’s Climate Bill - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-06/white-house-backed-carbon-tax-in-sight-for-biden-s-climate-bill

U.S. now within a single vote of passing a carbon tax, the single most effective climate mitigation policy

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Honest Government Ad | Net Zero by 2050
https://youtu.be/1FqXTCvDLeo

Climate depression is real. And it is spreading fast among our youth | Peter Kalmus | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/04/climate-depression-youth-crisis-world-leaders

The climate mental health crisis is already hitting those who have lost everything in worsening climate infernos. It’s already hitting farmers in Australia, India and elsewhere who face serious and sometimes insurmountable challenges growing food in a rapidly changing climate (which, incidentally, should be a climate wake-up call for anyone who eats). It’s hitting Indigenous and vulnerable communities, for whom climate breakdown is the culmination of centuries of colonial and social oppression. It’s hitting parents, who feel unable to protect their children; I sometimes cry while talking about climate breakdown when I think about my kids. And of course, it’s hitting young people.

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A recent survey by a team of psychologists probed the climate anxiety felt by 10,000 young people aged 16-25 from countries in the global south and north. In the survey, 77% said “the future is frightening”, 68% feel sad, and 63% feel anxious. 39% feel “hesitant to have children”. This distress correlates with a belief that climate action from governments is inadequate

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Therapy can help people struggling with climate anxiety and depression; but since climate emotions are driven by real, intensifying, physical processes on Earth, therapy only treats the symptom. Something that helps me is being part of a vibrant community of activists. I could not handle the weight of this knowledge if I had to do so alone.

However, as everything gets worse – and unfortunately it will get worse – we’re all going to need more than friends, as important as they are. We’re also going to need a sense that, collectively, society is finally heading in the right direction, with emergency speed

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It is psychologically devastating to feel climate and ecological catastrophe closing in every day while watching those in power not only failing to act, but actively making things worse by expanding the fossil fuel industry. Instead of more empty words and distractions, humanity desperately needs real action. World leaders must orchestrate a rapid end to the fossil fuel industry, for the sake of us all – but especially for the sake of young people.