Canada in the Year 2060

https://macleans.ca/society/environment/canada-in-the-year-2060/

Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how Canada can get through it.

#Canada #climatecollapse #turmoil #unrest #floods #dying #forests #survival

More crop failures.

Climate change is coming for your olive oil
https://grist.org/agriculture/climate-change-olive-oil-drought-extreme-heat-europe/ #climatechange #climatecollapse #collapse

The corporate oligarchs are reminding us again and again that they will not stop murdering us. If we have a problem with mass murder, that is just too bad. They don't care how many dead bodies there are in the #ClimateCollapse.

The only thing that will stop them is complete societal overthrow.

They are forcing us closer and closer to that day. Hungry peasants will overthrow an empire. Always give people a way out. If you give us the choice between death and a fight, you will get a fight to the death.

The oil men are forcing our hands into a fight to the death.

#ClimateCrisis

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suncor-oil-production-guilbeault-cap-emissions-1.6950886

‘One climate disaster after another’: North America’s long hot summer
https://www.ft.com/content/da0149d3-1a5f-41de-9c3b-83ad3562ac98 #climatechange #humanextinction #climatecollapse

3-Fold #Neoliberal Punishment System (2/4)

Let's say, you wanna save the world from #ClimateCollapse, but the measures you take have a strong economic drawback.

In that case, you will not be just punished by the drawback itself, but by a neoliberal invented multilayer system of punishment, that makes state based market interference only possible when neutral in costs, or when the states economy and its tax payers is very strong.

So, here we go ...

Amazing video with Arthur Keller on Ecological footprint, biocapacity and ecological overshoot and possible outcomes from a system dynamics perspective: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ6-Rc
If you're suffering from climate anxiety but are still holding on to a sense of sustainable business-as-usual then this might not be the right video for you, but if you've moved on from that it's well worth a watch.
#climatechange #climatecollapse

Watching the world burn on mobile phones: https://www.okdoomer.io/watching-the-world-burn-on-our-phones/ #climate #climatechange #climatecollapse

@Snoro

Well, for one thing, if each government stubbornly insists on avoiding the application of MMT we'll be in big trouble, I think. I'm neither expert in nor a regular evangelist for MMT, but I have been gradually persuaded that its advocates are speaking sense and that monetary availability is better controllable than we're letting it be. There are thongs that must be done and done now, not later, so even if we have to print money to do them, that's what we need to do.

The REAL problem seems to me to be the fatalistic theory that markets are smarter than people and must be left to themselves, that the mythical Unseen Hand never fails. Sometimes timelines matter, and during Covid capitalism did (pardon use of technical term) crap to help. Gloves, lysol, tests, toilet paper were all in short supply because the Unseen Hand of the unfettered free market just was not interested.

Since I doubt the feasability of replacing capitalism wholesale, even as I recognize it as a key part of the problem, a change to stakeholder capitalism is essential so that corporate leaders can make decisions in the interest of entities other than The Almighty Shareholders, and be graded on such. Under stakeholder theory, entities like the general public and the environment, including a habitable climate, start to matter again.

Meanwhile, any focus on debt is a potentially very bad thing just now. Monetary availability for spending on necessary climate issues is key, to the point that they could and likely should block out all else society does for a while if the public really understood the threat. Avoiding a climate disaster needs to be humanity's key buskness just now if we don't want disaster recovery and, frankly, just plain death to be humanity's key business soon.

It is as if the people we trust to tell us what is right are comfortable with the preposterous notion that if we get debt in order but fail to prevent climate change's rapid onset, all will be well, and if we get climate under control but are left with debt, that's a disaster. That cannot be allowed to stand.

I know Mastodon readers are globally distributed, but speaking from a US-centric point of view for just a moment, since national debt here infects many conversations, I have to think the world will much more easily forgive us some debt if we stop destroying the climate than they will praise us for tightening our debt position at the expense of human civilization being laid to waste. And the choice is just that stark.

(Also, don't even get me started on "growth" as an economic metric of health. If we don't figure out a way to measure health sime other way, that alone will be the siren call leading us to foul our finite nest. We must come up with ways to measure, target and enforce sustainability and to seriously, even criminally, penalize exploitation of externalities for profit.)

#environment #capitalism #climate #NationalDebt #MMT #StakeholderTheory #StakeholderCapitalism #economy #EnvironmentalJustice #Degrowth #sustainability #debt #ClimateCollapse #ClimateCatastrophe #Extinction

@volkskrant Lekker veel positieve woorden bij een wanstaltig slecht beleid.
Welke #nos nitwit typt zoiets.
Openbaar vervoer duurder maken tijdens #ClimateCollapse

"Build in silent pauses so that they start talking first"
https://bayardpartnership.com/2015/09/how-to-convince-people-who-show-high-resistance-towards-change/
#climatechange #climatecollapse

German and French governments intensifying the “anti-terror” police tactics against climate protestors, criminalizing anyone who uses a bit of social disorder while the state perpetuates a linear path to global breakdown. It just melts my mind that governments think they can preserve their tenuous power by jailing a few protestors when around the bend a mass population is about to get a deep drink of climate collapse, inevitably propelling them into an upheaval no police force can suppress or politician survive. Good luck, pigs and bureaucrats! #ClimateCrisis #climatecollapse #germany #france #police #protest https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/after-rise-climate-direct-action-europe-cracks-down-2023-08-10/

Yup
#climatechange #climatecollapse #climatecrisis

(I know the slowly boiling frog thing isn't real, but it's still a useful metaphor)

It's Now Official: July Was Earth's Hottest Month Since Official Records Began
https://www.sciencealert.com/its-now-official-july-was-earths-hottest-month-since-official-records-began #climate #climatechange #climatecollapse

As heat records break, the climate movement has the right answers – but the words are all wrong | Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public

#agw #climatebreakdown #climatecollapse

I like Paul Beckwith’s frank approach to #collapse in these #climate updates and here he’s discussing the global rise of #fascism as another (runaway?) #feedback in the failing system

https://youtu.be/QDbRhDMqS1E

#ClimateCollapse #NazisFuckOff

https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-1164-d034-5e74-d22266369044

via @joechip@libranet.de@libranet.de

We have reached a do-or-die moment in climate & eco-system collapse. I argue that a gradualist approach is no longer possible.

#Climate
#ClimateCollapse
#CollectiveAction

The Later We Stop, The Worse the Result

https://neuburger.substack.com/p/the-later-we-stop-the-worse-the-result

Each corporate sector bribes Congress. Their conflicting interests doom us to an early death on a dying planet with our children cursing our existence.
—Tom Wells, here

everything they do screams they don’t work for you… yet you still do not hear. #classwar

#climatecollapse #bribery #climateaction #directaction #corruptgovernment #governmentinaction #indirectplutocracy

The Atlantic is frying, but so far hurricanes are dying. What’s going on?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/the-atlantic-is-frying-but-so-far-hurricanes-are-dying-whats-going-on/

Can wind shear and sinking air hold historically high sea temperatures at bay?

#climate #hotocean #dynamics #hurricanes #coolingshutdown #science #confusion #climatecollapse

The Profound Loneliness of Being Collapse Aware

https://medium.com/@CollapseSurvival/the-profound-loneliness-of-being-collapse-aware-28ac7a705b9

Knowing that civilization is going to collapse can be a profoundly lonely experience. Let’s find one other and enjoy the time we have left.

#climatecollapse #foodchaincollapse #lonliness #despair #socialpsychology

Largest US Grid Declares Emergency Alert For July 27
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/largest-us-grid-declares-emergency-061927460.html #climatechange #climatecollapse #powergrid #energy #electricgrid