@DrDanMarshall @sz_duras
we don't need a metaphor. climate change extinction/apocalypse is a fact and an event. there have been a number of "singularities," events confirming a state of affairs i call human responsibility at #biospheric scale: 1945 Nagasaki/Hiroshima, 1967 Manabe & Wetherald predict doubling CO2 could raise global temperatures by 2°, 1972 publication of "The Limits to Growth," and 1990, the First Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report confirms human agency

Today, I had a chance to talk about #academic #activism and #CivilResistance in my old PhD department!

Thanks to the CTEG seminar organizers at UC #Berkeley for making a space for me to chat with students, researchers and faculty about the #biospheric #emergency and the urgent need for #scientists to change tactics, in order to push governments to #ClimateAction via #Degrowth.

#ScienceMastodon #ecology #biology #ClimateCrisis @ScientistRebellion

What (else) can #scientists do to fight the #biospheric #emergency?

Decades of #scientific research point to the same conclusion: our current #economic and #political structures have an increasingly devastating impact on #climate & #ecology. Yet governments are still driving us off the cliff.

What (else) can scientists do? Join this online talk by Teresa Santos & João Carvalho to hear about more effective forms of #ScientificEngagement in the form of #CivilResistance:

https://ce3c.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/outreach/press&events/ver.php?id=1461

You know a paper is going to be a doozy when it starts with "(w)e are running out of time," and has an entire section called "Acknowledging failure."

Title of Racimo et al.: The #biospheric #emergency calls for #scientists to change tactics

Link: https://elifesciences.org/articles/83292

Also contains practical advice for better and more effective #environmental #advocacy. Worth a read!