As the world burns, some reading:

Climate tipping points
Exceeding 1.5°C global warming could trigger multiple climate tipping points
“Climate tipping points are conditions beyond which changes in a part of the climate system become self-perpetuating. These changes may lead to abrupt, irreversible, and dangerous impacts with serious implications for humanity.”
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.abn7950

Deep warming
‘Man is unwittingly conducting a vast geophysical experiment’ – an experiment with a highly uncertain outcome, but clear and important risks for life on Earth.”
“We will need to transform the human story... It must become a story of doing less, not more. A novel rupture is needed: Use less energy”
https://aeon.co/essays/theres-a-deeper-problem-hiding-beneath-global-warming

..."You must change your life."
Rainer Maria Rilke, The final line of “Archaic Torso of Apollo"
https://poets.org/poem/archaic-torso-apollo

#Climate #InternalCombustionEngines #CTPs #Transformation #Energy #FossilFuels #Growth #Consumption #ResourceIntensiveLifestyles #MetabolismWithNature #Narrative

Safe and just Earth system boundaries
"#Nature study quantifies "planetary boundaries" for aerosol pollution, fresh water, nutrient cycles, biodiversity, land use and #climate, beyond which the planet is longer "safe and just" for humans."
“These rapid changes to the Earth system undermine critical life-support systems with significant societal impacts already felt and they could lead to triggering #TippingPoints that irreversibly destabilize the #Earth system...These changes are mostly driven by social and economic systems run on #unsustainable resource #extraction and #consumption."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06083-8
#Stability #EarthSystem #EarthSystemBoundaries #Limits #Growth #OutOfControl #ESBs #Interdependencies #PlanetaryBoundaries #Destabilising #Planet #Extractivism #Risks #MetabolismWithNature #Safe&Just

“The answer to the question of “Are electric vehicles really eco-friendly?” largely depends on how we manage the #Downsides associated with their batteries. Changes in how we design, produce, use and recycle electric car #batteries are urgently needed. These changes can ensure that, in solving the problem of #FossilFuel #Emissions, we also minimise other environmental harms.”

https://theconversation.com/batteries-are-the-environmental-achilles-heel-of-electric-vehicles-unless-we-repair-reuse-and-recycle-them-205404
#Shared #EVs #Cars #EBus #ZeroRepairability #Reuse #MetabolismWithNature #SupplyChains

"Narratives of supply chains and raw materials are a poor fit for early modern Europeans’ “thrifty” habit of reusing and reworking goods into new forms. This essay stresses the importance of such habits for early modern work using the example of paper, as a medium, instrument, and epistemic resource in various domestic and scientific spheres. Thrifty perspectives challenge not only linear supply narratives but also enduring accounts of the identities of materials themselves."
Diverse Shapes: Used Goods as Material Resources in Early Modern Sciences, Simon Werrett
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724876

Thrifty Science: Making the Most of #Materials in the #History of Experiment, Simon Werrett
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo35612006.html

#Oeconomy #SupplyChains #Recycle #Repurposed #Repaired #Reuse #Thrift #RawMaterials #Nature #ExtractiveNarratives #Extractivism #Deforestation #Paper #Sustainability #MetabolismWithNature

#Biodiversity and the unsettling present

“Humanity is currently “burning the library of #life."
The massive loss of #wildlife a “biological annihilation” representing a “frightening assault on the foundations of human #civilisation”.
What’s destroying biodiversity?
We are, particularly as the human population rises and wild areas are razed to create farmland, housing and industrial sites. The felling of forests is often the first step...
Giving nature the space and protection it needs is the only answer.”
(Excerpt)

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/12/what-is-biodiversity-and-why-does-it-matter-to-us
#Conservation #Wildlife #Extinction #MetabolismWithNature #BiologicalAnnihilation #PlanetaryBoundaries #Logging #Sprawl #Prometheus #GlobalArson #climate