Today is #EarthOvershootDay , the day when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services for 2023 exceeds what Earth can regenerate.

While especially today it's tempting to draw attention to #overconsumption, in this blog post I argue that it's both ineffective to target individuals but also not the way the economy works.

Our focus should be on #overproduction.

https://tiuraniemi.org/blog/overproduction

Today is #EarthOvershootDay , the day when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services for 2023 exceeds what Earth can regenerate.

While especially today it's tempting to draw attention to #overconsumption, in this blog post I argue that it's both ineffective to target individuals but also is not the way our productive system works.

Our focus should be on #overproduction.

https://tiuraniemi.org/blog/overproduction

1929 was not an #overproduction crisis, it was an #underconsumption crisis, due to a lack and hurdles in #logistics. First an international state innovation program called #WWII established worldwide #infrastructure, (plenty of streets, worldwide net of air cargo, new means of transportation in container, plenty of cargo ships), that gave fordistic #production finally the necessary amount of #consumers.

Australian shelters and pounds kill 50,000 mostly healthy cats and kittens in a year. There’s a way to prevent this pointless killing
"Despite the scale of this killing, Australia’s stray cat numbers are not decreasing. The evidence shows an urgent need for proactive community cat programs offering free #desexing of cats in targeted problem areas.
At least 50% of cats entering pounds and shelters are kittens less than six months old. These figures highlight why community cat programs are urgently needed across Australia to protect cats, native wildlife and people."

https://theconversation.com/australian-shelters-and-pounds-kill-50-000-mostly-healthy-cats-and-kittens-in-a-year-theres-a-way-to-prevent-this-pointless-killing-201947
#Roaming #Cats native #Wildlife #CatContainment #Trauma #Staff #StrayCats #DomesticCats #Consuming #Pets #Overproduction

SkyFi's Satellite Image Confirms Massive Clothes Pile In Chile's Atacama Desert
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https://www.skyfi.com/blog/skyfis-confirms-massive-clothes-pile-in-chile <-- shared blog post
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https://atmos.earth/atacama-desert-chile-unwanted-clothing-waste/ <-- shared media article
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“The Atacama Desert: A Surprising Dumping Ground for Fast Fashion Leftovers
Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest desert in the world, has been a dumping ground for fast fashion leftovers. A mountain of discarded clothing, including Christmas sweaters and ski boots, cuts a strange sight in the desert, which is increasingly suffering from pollution created by the fashion industry…"
#gis #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #chile #atacama #atacamadesert #fastfashion #clothing #waster #dumpingground #fashion #fashionindustry #pollution #discarded #waste #overproduction #supplychain

#Capitalism works!

If you say something different, sorry you are still to much #capitalist indoctrinated. When you believe, capitalism doesn't work, you basically say, that capitalism any time in history had good intentions.

But capitalism was already from its enlightened composition made in a way, that its task was to keep rich ppl. rich and richer ppl. white. The perfect #PostColonial #ideology for the #West.

It never intended to feed everyone or to provide everyone with minimal #survival needs if that person works as hard as it can. It's quite the opposite, if food output in capitalism would be that high, that nobody has to starve, not even the homeless, than capitalism would reduce this "#overproduction", so the poor have too obey again.

This holds true, even though capitalist science managed to increase food output, which is a result of science, a side product of capitalism. Still, agriculturally speaking, capitalism destroys the planet, while keeping many people starving and in #FoodInsecurity.

10 to 15 billion people could otherwise sustainably live on #earth. (According UN)

The white West never expected, that there could be something equally or even more important than becoming rich, which is their newborn to survive #ClimateChange. And now, they #panic.

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> the food industry is only playing by a set of rules written by our government. (And maintained, it is true, with the industry's political muscle.) The #PoliticalChallenge now is to rewrite those rules, to develop a new set of agricultural policies that don't subsidize #overproduction -- and #overeating. For unless we somehow deal with the mountain of cheap grain... the calories are guaranteed to keep coming.
#FoodIndustry #Agriculture #Subsidies #MarketRules #Markets #FreeMarket

> Three of every five Americans are now overweight, and some researchers predict that today's children will be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents... we have been here before, sort of, though the last great American binge involved not food, but alcohol... farmers turned their corn into whiskey..

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-10-12-03-the-agri-cultural-contradictions-of-obesity.html

#MichaelPollan with #WJRorabaugh's #TheAlcoholicRepublic on the #USABinge #OverProduction

@troeter looks more to me that it's because of declining demand.
They are giving incentives here in Ontario if you buy a Tesla until the end of December.
#overproduction

Today with #elokapina (#ExtinctionRebellion Finland) we're protesting against #overconsumption and #overproduction and blocking a street in Helsinki city center. Finland must reduce material use by 70% – 81% to stay within planetary boundaries.

#ClimateAction now!

'Even if we were able.. to shift from #FossilFuels to #RenewableEnergy, wouldn’t there still be the problem of this, the #OverProduction of capitalism.. the problem.. of having to deal with the e-waste, of.. the batteries for the electric cars.. changing of our batteries every year because the companies have to keep producing new models and keep the #consumption flow going? '
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/10/the_nutmegs_curse
#JuanGonzalez #AmitovGhosh on the need for #DeGrowth ?
Thanks to @cocoron for a good link.

RT @KBartholmess@twitter.com

I love seeing The Guardian take auch a bold step in banning ads from fossil fuel firms. Bravo! — Now that this is possible how about a world without advertising at all! That would put a swift end to rampant #overproduction and #overconsumption 🤗 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jan/29/guardian-to-ban-advertising-from-fossil-fuel-firms-climate-crisis

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KBartholmess/status/1222565621793280000