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    TUHOKlimaticka zmena / If the fracturing of our once stable climate doesn’t terrify you, then you don’t fully understand it
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    ‘A tipping point’: how poor forestry fuels floods and fires in western Canada | Canada | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/16/canada-floods-fires-logging-british-columbia
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    overshoot

    ‘Farmers are digging their own graves’: true cost of growing food in Spain’s arid south | Water | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/16/farmers-are-digging-their-own-graves-true-cost-of-growing-food-in-spains-arid-south

    Las Tablas’ ecosystem relies on water from rainfall, the Guadiana river and a huge aquifer, but the climate crisis has resulted in Spain’s periods of drought getting longer. The Guadiana is drying up, while agriculture has depleted the aquifer and polluted the groundwater with phosphates and other chemical fertilisers. In 2009, the wetland was so dry that subterranean peat fires broke out.

    The 3,000 hectares (7,400 acres) of Las Tablas are all that remain of what, according to the World Wildlife Fund, was once a system of 50,000 hectares of wetland in Castilla-La Mancha.

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    Gosálvez says the water needed to irrigate Castilla-La Mancha’s vines, olives, pistachios, onions and melons exceeds available resources and short of a run of several years of heavy rain, the wetland can only be saved by transferring water from the Tagus river – except the Tagus is overexploited and almost dried up four years ago.

    Much of the problem dates from the 1970s, when the Spanish government embarked on a plan to turn Murcia and Almería in the south-east into Europe’s market garden. The plan had one major flaw: there was no water.

    Spain’s south-east is arid and none of the country’s three major rivers flows near it. The Douro and Tagus both rise in north-central Spain and flow west into the Atlantic at, respectively, Porto and Lisbon, while the Ebro rises in the north-west and empties into the Mediterranean nearly 400km (250 miles) north of Murcia.

    The solution was to transfer water from the headwaters of the Tagus through almost 300km of pipeline to irrigate the barren south.

    However, rather than satisfy demand, the transfer has served to incentivise unsustainable intensive agriculture that has led to the exploitation of groundwater, with disastrous environmental consequences.

    The spectacle this summer of thousands of dead fish floating in the Mar Menor, a saltwater lagoon in Murcia once known for its crystal-clear waters, was the result of fertiliser polluting the groundwater that drains into the sea. The nitrates trigger vast algae blooms that deprive the fish of oxygen.

    “The Mar Menor disaster is the result of intensive agriculture which continues to expand in a manner that isn’t sustainable, both in Murcia and in many other parts of Spain,” says Martínez-Fernández.

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    Neighbouring Almería – where the greenhouses making up the famous “sea of plastic” are visible from space – produces an estimated 3.5m tonnes of peppers, tomatoes, cucumber and melons a year. Together with Granada, it supplies about 50% of the European market. Every year Almería also produces thousands of tonnes of plastic waste, much of which ends up in the sea.

    The Tagus water transfer is not enough to meet the growing demands of agriculture in Almería, however. Over the past 40 years the amount of water that reaches the Tagus headwaters has fallen by about 40% according to estimates, and is continuing to fall. So Almería is increasingly reliant on desalinated seawater for irrigation.

    In an attempt to deal with the problem, in 1985 the Spanish government brought in a new water law to regulate its use. But it was forced to concede that anyone who had a well or access to water had the right to exploit it.

    Today, the government recognises that the situation is unsustainable. Teresa Ribera, minister for ecological transition, is under pressure for Spain to conform to European standards on water quality and quantity that come into force in 2027, and knows this can only be achieved by reducing irrigation.

    In presenting the country’s five-year water plan, Ribera recognised that water resources are in decline and parts of Spain face desertification.
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    Germany suspends approval for Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline | Energy industry | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/nov/16/germany-suspends-approval-for-nord-stream-2-gas-pipeline

    Až pětině domácností seniorů hrozí bytová nouze kvůli prudkému navýšení cen energií | HATEFREE CULTURE
    https://www.hatefree.cz/clanky/az-petine-domacnosti-senioru-hrozi-bytova-nouze-kvuli-prudkemu-navyseni-cen-energii
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    “They’re taking us for idiots”: in coal mine’s shadow, quarrelling Czechs and Poles fear for their futures | Notes From Poland
    https://notesfrompoland.com/2021/11/16/theyre-taking-us-for-idiots-in-coal-mines-shadow-quarrelling-czechs-and-poles-fear-for-their-futures/

    While the Czech and Polish governments negotiate a settlement over the Turów coal mine, André Kapsas talks to residents on both sides of the border about how they see continued mining and a green transition, with photos by Roman Koziel.
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    Coal export protesters blasted by Barnaby Joyce with claims of $60 million lost in exports in past 10 days - ABC News
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2021-11-15/coal-protests-disrupt-exports-port-of-newcastle/100620614

    Activists have staged the 10th day of protests in the NSW Hunter region, stopping coal-laden trains from entering the world's largest coal terminal, the Port of Newcastle.

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    "I am the 16th person to put my life on the line, to get in the way in a targeted disruption of the world's biggest coal port," she said.

    "We are living in catastrophic climate collapse. So, I'm here, lying on a railway track. My arm is deep inside a pipe."

    "I'm pretty terrified of what's coming next, and I'm not referring to the police who are probably on their way.

    "I'm referring to the collapse of our life support systems, and that's a fear I live through every single day.

    "If you think that my actions are extreme, if you think that this is crazy or too radical, then I don't think you're paying attention."
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    Bez započtení dodavatelských řetězců říká evropská klimatická bilance jen polovinu pravdy - TZB-info
    https://m.tzb-info.cz/klimaticke-zmeny/23092-bez-zapocteni-dodavatelskych-retezcu-rika-evropska-klimaticka-bilance-jen-polovinu-pravdy
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    MARSHUS: nejaky fotky k tomu:

    Facebook
    https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10165854587600302&set=pcb.10165854589100302


    a komentik:

    Peachland Watershed Protection Alliance
    https://www.facebook.com/PeachlandWatershedProtectionAlliance/photos/a.878308265667869/1999531240212227

    The Canada Task Force 1 that is sent to countries to help with earthquakes and such is being sent to the Agassiz slide to help.
    You know it's bad when they get sent in.
    Yet we continue to clear cut and deforest at an alarming rate all our native, built in, free, proven, successful front line methods of flood and mudslide controls, our forests. We have the science linking forest cover loss to increased hydrological events for some time now. Maybe time to be more precautionary, climate change is here.

    Taryn Skalbania

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    Klimatická politika západních elit je jen zelený nátěr na ostnatém drátě
    https://denikreferendum.cz/clanek/33351-klimaticka-politika-zapadnich-elit-je-jen-zeleny-nater-na-ostnatem-drate

    právě průmyslový sektor, který je největším viníkem dnešní krize, měl na konferenci víc delegátů než kterákoli jednotlivá země. To je podobné, jako by mezinárodní konferenci o potírání rakoviny předsedal Phillip Morris. Jen v sázce tu není život kuřáků, ale celé Země.

    V českém i obecně západním mainstreamu tento „povinný klimatický optimismus“ ale maskuje ještě jeden rozměr soustavně se stupňující krize, v jehož světle působí ještě hůř. Jedná se o soustavné přehlížení skutečnosti, že odpovědnost za klimatickou krizi není rozložena rovnoměrně, a že stejně tak vůči ní nejsou všichni lidé ve stejné míře zranitelní. Připomeňme si, že nejbohatších 10 % lidí (kam spadá i bohatší polovina České republiky) zodpovídá jen mezi lety 1990 a 2015 za víc než polovinu všech emisí vypuštěných do atmosféry a nejbohatší 1 % z toho dokonce za 15 % emisí — víc než všichni obyvatelé Evropské unie.

    Místopředseda Evropské komise Frans Timmermans v Glasgow dojemně prosil shromážděné vyjednavače, aby mysleli na jeho čerstvě narozené vnouče, které, „pokud selžeme, bude bojovat se svými bližními o vodu a jídlo.“ Ne že by právě taková budoucnost nehrozila nám všem.

    Tohle donekonečna opakované stýskání si nad osudem budoucích generací ale opomíjí, že pro miliardy obyvatel globálního Jihu není klimatická krize budoucí hrozba, zdroj „klimatické úzkosti“, nýbrž již dnešní realita. Realita každý rok horších tropických bouří a such, neúrod a hladomorů, konfliktů a kolabujících společností, rozpadajících se pod ranami stále extrémnějšího počasí.

    V takové perspektivě se selhání glasgowské konference netýká pouze budoucnosti dnešní mladé generace po celém světě. Jedná se o zcela současnou zradu na obyvatelích chudší, větší poloviny světa. Té, která na klimatický rozvrat doplácí tím hůř, čím méně k němu přispěla, a která nutně potřebuje solidaritu ze strany bohatší menšiny světa, má-li se s jeho následky vyrovnat.

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    Nedávná zpráva výzkumníků z Transnacionálního institutu pro změnu spočítala, že jen mezi lety 2013 a 2018 vynaložila sedmička bohatých zemí, zodpovědných dohromady za 48 % úhrnných emisí CO2 v atmosféře (USA, Německo, Japonsko, Velká Británie, Kanada, Francie a Austrálie) více než dvojnásobek peněz na opevňování a militarizaci svých hranic a jejich „ochranu“ před uprchlíky z chudších států než právě na podporu jejich adaptace na měnící se klima. Tolik k frázi o „pomáhání v zemích původu“.
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    v prubehu 48hod predtim nez hallam vyrazil na COP u nej byla 4krat policie. co to znamena

    Fucking Disgusting | Roger Hallam on COP26 | Glasgow | 7 November 2021
    https://youtu.be/t7oNQgDC4Hw
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    Overview o vodiku

    Creating the new hydrogen economy is a massive undertaking | The Economist
    https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/10/09/creating-the-new-hydrogen-economy-is-a-massive-undertaking
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    Record rainfall prompts evacuations along the Pacific north-west | Climate crisis | The Guardian
    https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/15/canada-floods-evacuation-wildfires-rain
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    Uniklý dokument EU specifikuje podmínky pro zahrnutí plynových elektráren do ekologických investic. Zmiňuje i jádro
    https://oenergetice.cz/energeticka-legislativa-eu/unikly-dokument-eu-specifikuje-podminky-zahrnuti-plynovych-elektraren-ekologickych-investic-zminuje-i-jadro
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    Doporucuju #bcstorm na twitteru. Stejny mista Co mely pred 140 day heat dome a skoro 50 stupnu vedro prave dostaly az 30cm deste.

    Vancouver odriznuty od vsech pozemnich cest vcetne zeleznice. Jedina dobra zprava je ze to zastavilo I ropovod.
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    Dvojice Rusů se snaží na Sibiři zastavit tání permafrostu, tedy věčně zmrzlé půdy. Vsadili na množení bizonů, koní a dalších velkých býložravců. Chtějí tak vytvořit podobný ekosystém jako z doby ledové. Vědecká studie potvrzuje, že experiment úspěšně zpomaluje vliv globálního oteplování.


    Foto: Otec a syn bojují v Rusku s táním permafrostu - Aktuálně.cz
    https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/zahranici/foto-otec-a-syn-bojuji-v-rusku-s-tanim-permafrostu/r~3197b73a43aa11ec878fac1f6b220ee8/r~f56f2642439c11ec9322ac1f6b220ee8/
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    TADEAS: To je roztomily, jak se rozciluje, ze ho lidi nepochopili s těmi “nepokoji” a necháváním se zatknout… je to boomerská myšlénka, domnívat se, že mladá generace je vykleštěná by social media manufacturing the consent?

    Btw, kdysi mě dost překvapilo zjištení, že největší demonstrace v 89 nezačaly věcma kolem palachova tydne, ale divokými protesty proti brutalnimu znečištení ovzduši/prostředí v Teplicích.
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    Shrnuti Glasgow z Carbon Brief (imho nic lepsiho nedostanete .]]

    COP26: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Glasgow - Carbon Brief
    https://www.carbonbrief.org/cop26-key-outcomes-agreed-at-the-un-climate-talks-in-glasgow
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    mann v. read

    Rupert Read
    https://twitter.com/GreenRupertRead/status/1460024597374513154?s=19

    So I just did BBC FiveLive assessing Cop, on the Stephen Nolan show.
    It was supposed to be me & Michael Mann in debate: but when Mann found out it was me he would be speaking with, sadly he chickened out.
    So he went first, me second.
    Which meant I could rebut all his points :)


    Michael Mann at 17:11, Rupert at 23:44, really worth a listen.

    Stephen Nolan - 14/11/2021 - BBC Sounds
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0011k9c
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    For Arendt, hope in dark times is no match for action | Aeon Essays
    https://aeon.co/essays/for-arendt-hope-in-dark-times-is-no-match-for-action

    For Hannah Arendt, hope is a dangerous barrier to courageous action. In dark times, the miracle that saves the world is to act

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    After the war, in a letter to the American philosopher Glenn Gray, she wrote that the only book she recommends to all her students is Hope Against Hope by Nadezhda Mandelstam. Written by the wife of the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, the devastating memoir details life under Stalin’s regime and the struggle to stay alive. (In Russian, nadezhda means hope.) Arendt called it ‘one of the real documents’ of the 20th century.

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    Even the most jaded observers of world affairs can find it difficult not to catch their breath at the moment of suspense, hoping for good to triumph over evil and deliver a happy ending. For some, discussions of hope are attached to notions of a radical political vision for the future, while for others hope is a political slogan used to motivate the masses. Some people uphold hope as a form of liberal faith in progress, while for others still hope expresses faith in God and life after death.

    Arendt breaks with these narratives. Throughout much of her work, she argues that hope is a dangerous barrier to acting courageously in dark times. She rejects notions of progress, she is despairing of representative democracy, and she is not confident that freedom can be saved in the modern world

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    In her essay ‘On Humanity in Dark Times’, she writes: ‘In hope, the soul overleaps reality, as in fear it shrinks back from it.’ And her book The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) begins with a discussion of hope: ‘Desperate hope and desperate fear often seem closer to the centre of such events than balanced judgment and measured insight.’

    Arendt’s most devastating account of hope appears in her essay ‘The Destruction of Six Million’ (1964) published by Jewish World. Arendt was asked to answer two questions. The first was why the world remained silent as Hitler slaughtered the Jewish people, and whether or not Nazism had its roots in European humanism. The second was about the sources of helplessness among the Jewish people.

    To the first question, Arendt responded that ‘the world did not keep silent; but apart from not keeping silent, the world did nothing.’ People had the audacity to express feelings of horror, shock and indignation, while doing nothing. This was not a failure of European humanism, she argued, which was unprepared for the emergence of totalitarianism, but of European liberalism, socialism not excluded ... It was an ‘unwillingness to face realities’ and it was a desire ‘to escape into some fool’s paradise of firmly held ideological convictions when confronted with facts’.

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    Reflecting back on his imprisonment in Auschwitz Tadeusz Borowski’s wrote:ů

    Never before in the history of mankind has hope been stronger than man, but never also has it done so much harm as it has in this war, in this concentration camp. We were never taught how to give up hope, and this is why today we perish in gas chambers.

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    It was holding on to hope, Arendt argued, that rendered so many helpless. It was hope that destroyed humanity by turning people away from the world in front of them. It was hope that prevented people from acting courageously in dark times.

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    Caught between fear and ‘feverish hope’, the inmates in the ghetto were paralysed. The truth of ‘resettlement’ and the world’s silence led to a kind of fatalism. Only when they gave up hope and let go of fear, Arendt argues, did they realise that ‘armed resistance was the only moral and political way out’.

    For Arendt, the emergence of totalitarianism in the middle of the 20th century meant that one could no longer count on common sense or human decency, moral norms or ethical imperatives. The law mandated mass murder and could not be looked to for guidance on how to act.

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    An uncommon word, and certainly more feminine and clunkier-sounding than hope, natality possesses the ability to save humanity. Whereas hope is a passive desire for some future outcome, the faculty of action is ontologically rooted in the fact of natality. Breaking with the tradition of Western political thought, which centred death and mortality from Plato’s Republic through to Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927), Arendt turns towards new beginnings, not to make any metaphysical argument about the nature of being, but in order to save the principle of humanity itself. Natality is the condition for continued human existence, it is the miracle of birth, it is the new beginning inherent in each birth that makes action possible, it is spontaneous and it is unpredictable. Natality means we always have the ability to break with the current situation and begin something new. But what that is cannot be said.
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    Roger Hallam
    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1455257084157693954.html

    "The environmental protesters who demand systemic change have also grasped this fundamental truth. In Fridays for Future, Green New Deal Rising, Extinction Rebellion and the other global uprisings against systemic environmental collapse, we see people, mostly young people, refusing to consent. What they understand is history’s most important lesson. Our survival depends on disobedience."
    -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/30/capitalism-is-killing-the-planet-its-time-to-stop-buying-into-our-own-destruction

    There are so many things wrong with this. First, "environmental protest" is the opposite of creating "systemic change". The latter is brought about by civil resistance. This is not "environmental" it is a political movement against a genocidal regime. It is not "protest" - it does not protest about something, it makes sure it changes through material disruption.

    Civil resistance typically involves hundreds in prison, and tens of thousands of arrests. Don’t fetishise the young - they are at present overwhelming captured by NGO narratives of performative action and embedded in self pitying vulnerability narratives pushed by radical left "duty of care" ideologies. Civil resistance is driven by a "duty to revolt". Actual civil disobedience around the world on climate is being driven by women over 50.

    Fridays for Future, Green New Deal Rising and XR are absolutely NOT involved in uprisings - an uprising is an episode of civil resistance. The gate keepers in these spaces are dedicated to stopping an uprising "because people get hurt".

    The situation on climate is totally fucked because the climate movements have NOT learnt that that survival depends on disobedience. Only when they lose all hope will they became rebels and put their lives on the line. Till then we aren’t even in the ballpark of survival.
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