presandberg

@presandberg@spore.social

Born at 328ppm. Masters in BioAnthropology.

On the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee (Dish With One Spoon, 1701)

Focuses: #GreenBuildings #PassivHaus | #cleantech #collaborative
#CarbonPrice lobbying
#CircularEconomy #ShareEconomy #DoughnutEconomics
#ExtinctionRebellionTO

Began #Indigenous #permaculture #regenerative #degrowth recently

Centering now on post-collapse #bioregional economy activation with EarthRegenerators(dot)org. Re-indigenising biomes

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presandberg, to random

"The study findings underscore just how out of step some jurisdictions in Canada are with global energy markets. In Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith has railed against proposed federal climate policies like capping oil and gas sector emissions, while knee-capping $33 billion worth of renewable energy development by pausing approvals for clean energy projects. ...

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/10/26/news/canada-out-step-unstoppable-green-energy-transition-iea?nih=4ef352d82c0b3506a0df2ed486d44b17&s=09

jeffowski, to random
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"If you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.
A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts" Margaret Mead said.

presandberg,

@jeffowski a worthy definition regarding the nature of civilisation, or perhaps even humanity. That said, there is a long history of anthropologists attempting to define decisively human characteristics, frequently followed by arguably similar behaviour by others in the animal kingdom. A case in point, there is evidence for the healing of many fractures in hominins that predate those normally referred to as modern humans. ...

https://theconversation.com/neanderthals-cared-for-each-other-and-survived-into-old-age-new-research-93110

presandberg, to academia

"I didn’t know when I started grad school if there were sites that were older than 13,000 years, so I emailed an archeologist at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, just out of the blue, and asked him if he knew of older sites. He emailed me back saying yes, there were some, but to not tell anybody what I was studying. He said, “They’re just gonna call you crazy. And you will never get grants.”" ...

  • Dr. Paulette Steeves

#colonialism #academia #objective

https://broadview.org/paulette-steeves-interview/

presandberg, to random

“An Indigenous food systems lens provides a holistic approach to food production, distribution, and consumption, that centers humans’ coexistence with other living beings and prioritizes a cultural-ecological equilibrium over exploitation or fixed restoration goals."

https://grist.org/article/study-the-best-way-to-restore-ecosystems-is-to-listen-to-indigenous-peoples/

presandberg, to random

"When you look at the landscape of economic development & Indigenous economic growth in Canada & the U.S., you have to keep in mind that history is still very much with us."

"As many as 8 million bison roamed the plains in the mid-19th century. Plains First Nations depended on them for food, clothing, trade goods, homes & tools."

"But by the turn of the century, all but about 500 bison had been slaughtered — a collapse that happened in some regions within a decade."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/bison-prairies-first-nations-1.6969322?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

presandberg, to random

"Obokata said he spoke with a number of migrant workers who described having to work excessive hours with no access to overtime pay, being denied access to health care and being forced to live in cramped and unsanitary living conditions."

#FoosSecurity #MigrantWork

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/un-special-rapporteur-migrant-worker-program-modern-form-of-slavery-1.6958592?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&s=09

peterdutoit, to climate
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    presandberg,

    @peterdutoit the answer depends on whether your interests are invested into mops, taps, or the spreadsheets that map the business models. #FramingTheNarrative

    breadandcircuses, to environment

    Another selection from a recent article at the Guardian with statements from various scientists about the alarming and accelerating pace of the climate crisis...

    "Climate scientists’ horror and exasperation as global predictions play out"
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/northern-hemisphere-heatwaves-europe-greece-italy-wildfires-extreme-weather-climate-experts

    Bill Hare, a physicist and climate scientist, also chief executive of Climate Analytics, says:

    We knew by the mid-1990s that lurking in the tails of our climate model projections were monsters: monstrous heatwaves, catastrophic extreme rainfall and floods, subcontinental-scale wildfires, rapid ice sheet collapse raising sea level metres within a century.

    But as today’s monstrous, deadly heat waves overtake large parts of Asia, Europe, and North America with temperatures the likes of which we have never experienced, we find that even 1.2C of global warming isn’t safe.

    Driving all this is the fossil fuel industry. Enabling it are political leaders unwilling to bring this industry under control, and who promote policies such as offsetting that simply enable this industry to continue.

    #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

    presandberg,

    @breadandcircuses the last paragraph sums up our current political and economic quagmire. In democracies, due to needing to get a majority of votes to govern, political parties do not 'lead' change, they follow popular interest. Currently, popular interest is driven by marketing in a system reliant on growth.

    I see no other pathway out of our current trajectory than a framework respecting #PlanetaryBoundaries, which requires #PostGrowth approaches.

    breadandcircuses, to environment

    Why are so many people in the United States so unaware and so unconcerned about the climate catastrophe racing toward us?

    Because governments, industries, billionaire business owners, and corporate media all have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. The longer they can keep pretending that Business As Usual is just fine, the more money they will make.

    Here is evidence of that...

    TV is still the main source where most Americans get their news, especially the weather. So it’s concerning that TV is one of the last bastions of climate skittishness.

    Only 5% of TV stations that covered the heat waves in Texas and the Southwest connected them to the climate crisis, a new study from Media Matters found. The majority of major TV networks failed to report the direct link between global warming and record-breaking temperatures.

    ABC, CBS, and NBC aired a combined 123 segments about the heat wave, but only seven mentioned climate change. Major cable networks did no better: CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC aired 187 segments about the heat waves, but only 8 mentioned climate change.

    At this point, failing to connect extreme heat to climate change is more than oversight — it’s misinformation. The scientific evidence that climate change is exacerbating both the frequency and intensity of heat waves is overwhelming. There’s no excuse to leave out the connection.

    FULL ESSAY -- https://heated.world/p/oil-companies-are-laughing-while

    #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

    presandberg,

    @breadandcircuses Framing and managing the narrative.

    presandberg, to random

    The Anthropocene is a colonial construct and very misleading. Referring to the human species as the influencer of a new geologic epoch beginning less than 100 yrs ago ignores 200,000 to 2,000,000 yrs of humans living within #PlanetaryBoundaries.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66132769

    presandberg,

    A Eurocentric perspective & genocidal land theft that eliminated #Indigenous cultures forcing changed land use & industrialisation to the scale of #ecocide created this new epoch. The term Anthropocene spreads fault across humanity, which does NOT correlate with the changes.

    presandberg,

    #LandBack across Turtle Island, #Regenerative agriculture, and a #bioregional approach to economics would all but bring an end to the "Anthropocene". #decolonisation #PostGrowth #HonourTheTreaties #DoughnutEconomics #CircularEconomy

    presandberg, to random

    @jasonhickel just published a really good piece on #degrowth and technology, which debunks some of "degrowth is against green tech". We have enough trouble facing down the fossil fuel industry, we shouldn't such false debates internally. #GreenGrowth #PlanetaryBoundaries

    via @jksteinberger

    https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/on-technology-and-degrowth/

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