I'm currently reading Murray Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism (1971), and it's full of prescient bangers like this:

"It can be argued on very sound theoretical grounds that this growing blanket of carbon dioxide, by intercepting heat radiated from the earth, will lead to more destructive storm patterns and eventually to melting of the polar ice caps, rising sea levels, and the inundation of vast land areas."

#SocialEcology #PoliticalTheory #ClimatecChange

Phys.Org:

From the article: Tropical forests nearing critical temperatures thresholds

"The new research suggests that leaf death could become a new factor in the predicted "tipping point" whereby tropical forests transition due to climate change and deforestation into savannah-like landscapes."

#forestecology #ClimatecChange

Original study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06391-z

Link to article: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-tropical-forests-nearing-critical-temperatures.html

Australia’s greenwash plan to host COP31
"Australia has been gaming UN climate agreements for decades ... It has signed pledges it has no intention of meeting, has argued consistently and successfully to water down language, and has manipulated international emissions accounting to its advantage."
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2023/06/17/australias-greenwash-plan-host-cop31
#COP31 #ClimatecChange #pollution #FossilFuels

The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice. A win for the Pacific.
the UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking the International Court of Justice to provide an advisory opinion on a country’s climate obligations.
https://theconversation.com/the-un-is-asking-the-international-court-of-justice-for-its-opinion-on-states-climate-obligations-what-does-this-mean-202943
#ClimatecChange international #Obligations #Litigation #UN #ICJ #ClimateJustice

"A recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that a warming planet means more particles in the atmosphere, including dust and organic aerosols from plants. While we usually think of plants for their benefits to the environment, in certain circumstances they can actually release compounds that aren’t great for our respiratory systems."

https://gizmodo.com/an-unexpected-reason-itll-be-harder-to-breathe-as-earth-1850173753

#ClimatecChange

Who knew #President #Biden would turn out to be such a two-faced traitor on the issue of #ClimatecChange?
I am absolutely disgusted by this. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/climate/biden-willow-oil-alaska.html

We’re hearing a lot these days about threats of sea level rise, of raising ocean temps, of plastic pollution - and all are serious #Environmentalimpact issues. Our.#oceans are vital & at risk. But the immediate threat of #oceanacidification may trump all other risks. This 15 minute video explains the nature and immediacy of the crisis, and it is a crisis. https://youtube.com/watch?v=OVWZyDz--30&feature=share #environment #globalwarming #climatecchange #video

I just finished reading this article by Ben Debney, which employs both social ecology and world ecology to analyze both the economic and social forms of oppression that characterize the current climate crisis, and which defines the Capitalocene:

"Social Ecology in the Capitalocene"

https://harbinger-journal.com/issue-1/social-ecology-in-the-capitalocene/

#ClimatecChange #SocialEcology #PoliticalTheory #Capitalocene