"Highly unequal societies are generally lower-taxing societies and invest less in public goods like healthcare, education and infrastructure. Carbon emissions and crime rise with inequality, while mental and physical health declines."
"So-called overshoot days occur when a country's demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the planet can regenerate in that year."
There are many voices and opinions in the climate movement, and whether you side towards radical voices, or think Rupert Read has it right as he argues in this essay, the consensus says everyone now has a duty to do something.
"Globally, malaria cases are on the rise. Infections increased from 233 million in 2019 to 249 million in 85 countries in 2022. Malaria deaths rose from 576,000 in 2019 to 608,000 in 2022, according to the World Health Organization."
"The researchers estimate that the northern permafrost region emitted 38M tons of CH4 and 670,000 tons of N2O into the atmosphere between 2000 & 2020. That's very little compared with the emissions of a major industrialized country, but the pace may accelerate as the world warms."
"This year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says."
Imagine if these mostly functional devices could be upgraded instead of replace and binned. Nevermind the mining of old tech for the valuable minerals they contain instead of destroying nature for it as suggested in the article. #ClimateCrisis#resources#ClimateCollapse
A plea... let's dustbin the phrases #climatechange and #globalwarming. They sound sedate. They're distancing, easy to ignore. Even positive. (A less cold, damp spring in Scotland is hard to refuse!)
Instead, let's talk about the end game - we are on the brink of 'climate collapse'. A collapse in existing food production capabilities, starvation, wars over water, deaths through extreme weather.
Let's start bringing home to our communities that our way of life will end.
I am sitting here with the windows open and it's nearly 80 degrees F before spring has even begun.
In a few days we're forecast to have a hard freeze, so I'm putting off setting out the spinach and parsley seedlings until that has passed.
Several of our fruit trees are in full bloom, too, long before it's spring and long before they should be. Our lows this week are what our highs should have been.
"Vast swaths of the United States are at risk of running short of power as electricity-hungry data centers and clean-technology factories proliferate around the country, leaving utilities and regulators grasping for credible plans to expand the nation’s creaking power grid."
One of the world's biggest meat companies is being sued for #Greenwashing ahead of a NY stock market listing.
NY state attorney-general Letitia James alleged JBS misrepresented its environmental impact with “fake sustainability claims to boost sales”.
The lawsuit claims that the world’s largest meatpacker pledged to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to “net zero” by 2040 despite not having a feasible plan to achieve this goal."