In their Early days Green Party's *were* anti-capitalist

They understood that one of the causes of the #EcologicalCrisis of our time is #capitalism. The industrialization, the profit above all else mentality, the disregard of the costs to our environment.

Capitalism is the major obstacle to solving #ClimateChange

Global Capitalism: Challenging Capitalism [March 2023]

Episode webpage: https://globalcapitalism.libsyn.com/challenging-capitalism-march-2023

Media file: https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/globalcapitalism/GC.March2023.mp3?dest-id=640710

#feminism #GreenParty #capitalist #politics

"The lived experience of the summer of 2023 suggested that the big changes long forecast are going to be bigger and come faster than we had expected. …

We are not only unprepared for what comes next, we remain deeply unsure of what exactly does come next besides ever-rising temperatures."

~ David Kurtz

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #EcologicalCrisis #EcologicalDisaster

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/the-summer-we-faced-a-world-on-fire

Growing number of countries consider making ecocide a crime
New laws to criminalise environmental destruction.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/26/growing-number-of-countries-consider-making-ecocide-crime
#Ecocide #StopEcocide #law #crime #destruction #logging #LandClearing #deforestation #harm #pollution #climate #EcologicalCrisis #biodiversity

#PolyCrisis #EcologicalCrisis
#ClimateCrisis

Map of Soil Degradation in the World

An estimated 75% of the Earth’s land surface has been degraded through human activities, negatively impacting the well-being of at least 3.2 billion people, pushing the planet towards a sixth mass species #extinction event

There are known solutions (that work) to mitigate soil degradation
https://www.soilassociation.org/news/

But, evidently, many cultures, their business leaders & political parties, are causing the crisis

A truly great (and not too long) podcast series on what's wrong with especially Western societies and how to fix things. Highly recommended! #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #democracy #degrowth #regenerativeagriculture #SystemsThinking #ecosocialism #commons
The Water We Swim In https://shows.acast.com/the-water-we-swim-in/episodes/trailer via @acast

Ben Okri makes all the right observations in his poem Earth Cries in today’s Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/05/earth-cries-ben-okri

We all know, deep down, that he’s right; and many of us know it not-so-deep down, too.

But we are simply not meeting the challenge.

#sustainability
#biodiversity
#ecologicalcrisis
#poetry

Clever WWF ad (click to expand if necessary).

#biodiversity
#climatechange
#ecologicalcrisis

"Weeks of scorching summer heat in North America, Europe, Asia and elsewhere are putting July on track to be Earth’s warmest month on record, the European Union climate monitor said on Thursday, the latest milestone in what is emerging as an extraordinary year for global temperatures."

~ Raymond Zhong

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #heatwave #EcologicalDisaster #EcologicalCrisis

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/climate/july-heat-hottest-month.html

“A new study finds this month’s record-shattering global heat wave would not have been possible without the continuing buildup of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere due to human activity.”

~ Democracy Now

#ClimateChange #heat #heatwave #GlobalWarming #EcologicalCrisis #EcologicalDisaster

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/25/headlines

"How do tech bros plan to ride out Armageddon?" Arwa Mahdawi asks.

Her answer: "Living it up on their private islands."

She points to the case of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and his younger brother, Gabriel, who wanted to buy a Pacific island to escape the coming Armageddon — to whose coming their me-first tech-bro libertarianism has lavishly contributed.

#TechBros #libertarianism #EcologicalCrisis #ClimateChange

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/tech-bros-armageddon-private-islands-sam-bankman-fried-nauru

"The system of chaotic markets must be replaced by democratic planning, that of competing states and hegemons by cooperation, and social hierarchy by solidarity and equality.
Mainstream pundits see that prognosis as unrealistic, and they’re right. Yet it is the most coherent and least fanciful of the options at this ‘wicked’ juncture in which all prescriptions are necessarily unrealistic." #GreatTransformation #ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #ecosocialism
https://theecologist.org/2023/jun/30/great-acceleration-it-ending-and-what-comes-next

"The effort to protect Earth systems and the human systems that depend on them is led by people working at the margins with tiny resources, while the richest and most powerful use every means at their disposal to stop them."
#ClimateCrisis #EcologicalCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown

"We have not at all come close to grasping the scale and scope of the crisis we’re facing. And that is not alarmist; that is just kind of the straightforward reality of where we are."

~ Jeff Gooddell, author of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

#ClimateChange #heat #GlobalWarming #EcologicalCrisis

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/7/17/extreme_weather_jeff_goodell

Meditations | 07-17

I cannot control the outcome.
I cannot control if the British Petroleum company cuts corners and allows yet another spill into sacred land.
I cannot control the acidification of the oceans.
I cannot save each and every reef.
I cannot regenerate every lost grassland, hold every captured wild mustang.
I cannot control the actions of the few who are responsible for the greatest tyrannies of the world, nor the actions of the many who unthinkingly go about life making choices that benefit those few.

I will live my life in service to the land,
I will live my life in service to my community,
I will plant each and every tree, and store each and every molecule of carbon in freshly regenerated soil that I can,
I will make the most responsible choices I can,
I will educate as many as will listen,
and perhaps that is all I do.
And perhaps it will still all burn around me.
And I will have to accept that: my lack of control, the lack of permanence of all things.

And so, may we have the strength to do what we can.

#Meditations #Contemplations #Siin #EcologicalCrisis

👀Look at how bleak this landscape is and no wonder that so many species are facing extinction 😱⚰️🪦

#extinction #ecologicalcrisis #SaveTheBees #savewildlife #EndSpeciesism #AnimalCruelty #AnimalRights #vegan #veganfuture #ClimateAction

Ecological doom-loops: why ecosystem collapses may occur much sooner than expected

https://theconversation.com/ecological-doom-loops-why-ecosystem-collapses-may-occur-much-sooner-than-expected-new-research-207955

>And when you combine these stresses with an increase in climate-driven extreme weather, the date these tipping points are crossed could be brought forward by as much as 80%.

>This means an ecosystem collapse that we might previously have expected to avoid until late this century could happen as soon as in the next few decade

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Collapse #EcologicalCrisis #Environment

« Third, the car industry is dependent on resources which are sourced at the significant social and ecological cost associated with appropriation. » (A. Katharina Keil & @jks)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2023.2223132

#Cars #Capitalism #EcologicalCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Look, I get that increased biodiversity is great and all, and insect life is the basis of the whole food web, and we all need to make farmers shift over to organic methods...but... on the otherhand... It has been years since I was last bitten by a horse fly, and I just now was reminded those wee bastards hurts.

Yeah, I know, small price to pay for a functioning ecosystem, but still, owie!

#Biodiversity #EnvironmentalEmergency
#EcologicalCrisis

Plastic Pollution Is So Pervasive That It’s Causing a New Disease in Seabirds

Researchers coined the term “plasticosis” to describe stomach damage related to ingesting trash.

https://www.audubon.org/news/plastic-pollution-so-pervasive-its-causing-new-disease-seabirds

#birds #extinctions #biodiversitydecline #environmentalism #systemchange #ecosocialism #extinctionrebellion #pollution #fossilfuels #ecologicalcrisis #ecosocialism

A photograph of a landscape in #Cumbria , #England that will be hammered by droughts (summer) & floods (generally autumn) as the effects of climate change intensify.

#FossilFuels #deforestation #SheepFarming #tourism

#ClimateHeating #ClimateChange #TippingPoints #WildFires #FoodCrisis #EcologicalCrisis #unsustainable #economy #ecosystem