Btw sledujete deni v Chile?

Chile’s constitutional rewrite confronts climate change
https://cosmosmagazine.com/earth/climate/chile-constitution-reform/

China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by a record 8% in the second quarter of 2022, a 230m tonne (MtCO2) reduction that is the largest in at least a decade.

The new analysis for Carbon Brief, based on official figures and commercial data, shows China’s emissions have now fallen year-on-year for four consecutive quarters, extending what was already the longest sustained decline in recent history.

The latest quarterly decline was driven by China’s ongoing real-estate slump, strict Covid control measures, weak growth in electricity demand and strong growth in renewable output.


Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall by record 8% in second quarter of 2022 - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-fall-by-record-8-in-second-quarter-of-2022/?

celkom tematicke :) [SATAI @ USTAV . PRO . DUSEVNE . VYSMATE]

stephenson (scifi) ma ten geoinzeneering naopak, jednotlivci globalniho severu to delaji, protoze severu to pomaha s vedrem, jenomze zaroven indii to rozbije monsun, takze se to snazi zastavit.

jinak co se tyce knih, tak nova na tema ze lidi jsou neodolatelne pritahovani uhlikem (energy dense) a bylo by potreba, aby bylo mene lidi. laicky se mi to nezda. lidi jsou pritahovany tim, co je pohodlne. kdyby bylo pohodlne slunce, tak na uhlik kaslou.

societal collapse on a global scale is inevitable, and those who manage to survive the mass death and crumbling of the world as we know it will have to live in drastically transformed circumstances. According to Jackson and Jensen, there’s no averting this collapse – electric cars aren’t going to save us, and neither are global climate accords. The current way of things is doomed, and it’s up to us to prepare as best we can to ensure as soft a landing as possible when the inevitable apocalypse arrives.

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“caught in a big Ponzi scheme that we’ve probably had for 10,000 years. We know how Ponzi schemes tend to end. They’re not nice things to have to deal with.”

The answer to this Ponzi scheme involves shrinking humanity from the current 7.7 billion people to a more sustainable 2 or 3 billion."

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LOL guardian: the authors make no effort to address the fact that such a population decline would probably be an absolute disaster for marginalized ethnicities and sexualities, those who are disabled or mentally unwell, and basically anyone not deemed fit for survival in the new world

to se smeju ze jako ty woke media porad resi ty pokrocily lidsky prava (marginalized sexualities), odmitajice si priznat, ze lidsky prava zustanou dve: poslouchat v autoritarske hierarchii, anebo se nekde snazit skrz pravo silnejsiho

‘We’re going to pay in a big way’: a shocking new book on the climate crisis | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/31/an-inconvenient-apocalypse-climate-crisis-book

TADEAS: posílal jsem to kámošovi a on mi v reakci doporučil tuto knihu:

"Scifi napsané v roce 2020 z budoucnosti začínající v roce 2026 scénou z hororové vlny vedra v Indii, při které zemřou miliony lidí, což dovede Indii k revoluci a Indickou vládu k experimentům s geoinzenyrstvim přes protesty vlád globálního severu. Pozůstalí vlny vedra organizující teroristickou globální organizaci Děti Kalí útočící na bohatou elitu. A hodně technicky popisuje ekonomické a legální mechanismy skrze které se sérií rychlých změn kapitalismus změní k něčemu co už kapitalismus není, i když nikdy není vyhlášená revoluce jako taková"

https://www.amazon.com/Ministry-Future-Kim-Stanley-Robinson/dp/0316300136

Timmermansova slova se však mohou setkat s odporem. Ten ostatně přišel už poté, co Evropský parlament minulý týden zařadil jádro a plyn mezi čisté zdroje. Rakousko se rozhodlo kvůli tomuto kroku Evropskou komisi zažalovat. Česká vláda naopak na začátku července schválila prodloužení těžby černého uhlí na Karvinsku do konce roku 2023. Ministerstvo financí, které přes společnost Prisko vlastní jediného těžaře černého uhlí v Česku, nebude ani bránit tomu, aby firma OKD začala usilovat o povolení těžby na roky 2024 a 2025. Výrobu elektřiny z uhelných elektráren začala zvyšovat i německá vláda, zároveň však ustupuje od jádra podle plánu.

Zelený guru Evropské komise překvapil. Pomoci nám může krátkodobý návrat k fosilním palivům, řekl Timmermans | Hospodářské noviny (HN.cz)
https://archiv.hn.cz/c1-67091960-eu-celi-socialnim-nepokojum-pokud-nezvladne-energetickou-krizi-pomoci-nam-muze-kratkodoby-navrat-k-fosilnim-palivum-rika-timmermans

Mame vyroci.

Today marks the 50th anniversary of a remarkable research paper on global warming.
Written by meteorologist John Sawyer, the paper – entitled “Man-made carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect” – was published by the journal Nature in 1972.
The paper discussed some of the key concepts involved in human-caused global warming and makes one of the first predictions of future global warming – that temperatures would rise 0.6C by the end of the 20th century.
Sawyer’s calculations turned out to be only a slight overestimate of how the world would warm in the decades after his paper was published.
His paper noted that “in spite of the enormous mass of the atmosphere and the very large energies involved in the weather systems which produce our climate”, the impact of human activity was “approaching a scale at which they cannot be completely ignored as possible contributors to climate and climatic change”.

Guest post: The 50th anniversary of a remarkable global-warming prediction - Carbon Brief
https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the-50th-anniversary-of-a-remarkable-global-warming-prediction/

decoupling

Next regen study off the blocks - Technology - Farm Management, Livestock, Regenerative, Research - Farmers Weekly
https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/next-regen-study-off-the-blocks/

A $26 million, seven-year project led by Massey University aims to lift the hood on pastoral farming to determine the benefits or otherwise of both conventional and regenerative practices in a New Zealand farming context.

The project brings some heavy-hitting research partners in the form of AgResearch, Lincoln University and government partner the Sustainable Food and Fibre Futures fund, run through the Ministry of Primary Industries. Other research partners include most major industry agencies and processors such as Fonterra, DairyNZ, Agricom, AgFirst and LIC.

Under the Whenua Haumanu programme, which will kick off next year, all aspects of pastoral farming will be monitored and explored, including the quality of the final food produced.

Professor Danny Donaghy of the Massey School of Agriculture and Environment said the research programme intends to be the most comprehensive study undertaken of pastoral systems and will cover dairy, cattle and sheep

oheň jako planetární fenomén

The Pyrocene by Stephen J. Pyne - Paperback - University of California Press
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520391635/the-pyrocene

A provocative rethinking of how humans and fire have evolved together over time—and our responsibility to reorient this relationship before it's too late.​

The Pyrocene tells the story of what happened when a fire-wielding species, humanity, met an especially fire-receptive time in Earth's history. Since terrestrial life first appeared, flames have flourished. Over the past two million years, however, one genus gained the ability to manipulate fire, swiftly remaking both itself and eventually the world. We developed small guts and big heads by cooking food; we climbed the food chain by cooking landscapes; and now we have become a geologic force by cooking the planet.

Some fire uses have been direct: fire applied to convert living landscapes into hunting grounds, forage fields, farms, and pastures. Others have been indirect, through pyrotechnologies that expanded humanity's reach beyond flame's grasp. Still, preindustrial and Indigenous societies largely operated within broad ecological constraints that determined how, and when, living landscapes could be burned. These ancient relationships between humans and fire broke down when people began to burn fossil biomass—lithic landscapes—and humanity's firepower became unbounded. Fire-catalyzed climate change globalized the impacts into a new geologic epoch. The Pleistocene yielded to the Pyrocene.

Around fires, across millennia, we have told stories that explained the world and negotiated our place within it. The Pyrocene continues that tradition, describing how we have remade the Earth and how we might recover our responsibilities as keepers of the planetary flame.

ignore for climate

Maybe We Should Have Done Something About ManBearPig - South Park
https://youtu.be/0AW4nSq0hAc

There is a weird phenomenon I've witnessed quite often in the climate discourse, and that I try to pin down in the essay linked below. Sometimes it feels like Westerners merely try to calm themselves by saying that they're not going to be the ones who will be affected the worst by climate change. Pure hopium, if you ask me. Everyone will be affected, just in different ways. But to think that the Global North will remain relatively unaffected while the Global South bears the brunt is a dangerous illusion, as this years' summer shows.

There is no ‘Safe Haven’ from Climate Change
https://animistsramblings.substack.com/p/safe-haven-climate-change

Disclaimer: if you’re suffering from eco-anxiety, solastalgia or a similar mental health issue perfectly reasonable reaction to the collapse of everything you hold dear, this article might be a trigger for you. Proceed at your own risk.

somebody: This utopian 'sweeping away' scenario disregards; serial pandemics from accelerated zoonotic spillover, global meltdown of nuclear power plants (in the face of armed nation-state conflict & fleeing technical staff, strategic and intercontinental nuclear weapon exchange(s), and Hobbesian aftermath. Garrison states and fluid warlord fiefdoms would be the best case scenarios. Nuclear-winter & near-total annihilation of human's, the probable outcome. Destabilization of natural-world support systems will be the catalyst for NTE, but failing nation-states will be the sweep-up batter. In other words - we will do it to ourselves.


Revolution in Our Lifetime – Spectre Journal
https://spectrejournal.com/revolution-in-our-lifetime/

TADEAS: jehož existenci jsem tímto právě objevil, dík :-)