J. Klein @jklein@social.degrowth.club
Hydrologist
California, USA
Anything that makes a city a worse place to drive makes it a better place to live… 👀
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Is building a house of bread bricks considered a natural building technique? I may be in business.
Three groups — "Fridays for Future", "Fight Fossil Fuels", and "End Fossil Fuels USA" — are teaming up to stage mass climate protests and strikes all around the world next month.
Here's part of their message...
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Our world is in crisis. Extreme weather caused by the climate emergency is wreaking havoc in our communities and ecosystems across the globe, causing social insecurity and harm to people.
The biggest cause of this crisis is fossil fuels — coal, oil, and gas.
The fossil fuel industry is driving a predatory and destructive economic system that harms people and the planet, fuelling climate break down.
Fossil fuels are bad for the climate, for ecosystems, for our people, for our health, for our democracies, and for our economies.
The science is clear: what the world needs now is a rapid and just transition to an energy and economic system that is efficient, fair, and universal. A system based on clean energy sources and produced with respect for nature and the sovereign rights of Indigenous peoples.
This September, as world leaders discuss climate action at the United Nations in New York, people on every continent will join the largest-ever globally coordinated action and together WE WILL end fossil fuels.
The climate crisis is escalating but so is the global movement for climate justice. We need all hands on deck to win this fight.
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LEARN MORE --
✊ https://fightfossilfuels.net/
✊ https://fridaysforfutureusa.org/sept-15/
✊ https://www.endfossilfuels.us/
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateAction
Degrowth is the only hope
"Many economists criticising the developing degrowth movement fail to appreciate this critical point of Earth’s biophysical limits. Ecologists on the other hand see the human economy as a subset of the biosphere. Their perspective highlights the urgency with which we need to reduce our demands on the biosphere to avoid a disastrous ecological collapse, with consequences for us and all other species."
My cat will throw up on my bed, expect me to clean it up, then immediately insist I feed her. This is how corporate bailouts from the government work.
#LateStageCapitalism #SocialistCats
Is degrowth an imposition by rich countries (imperialism)?
#Degrowth is anti-neoliberal in its conception, and certainly is anti-imperialist in its position as it seeks to oppose the valorization process of capital and money. If “neocolonialism” is to mean anything, it means extracting value from semi-colonies. Degrowth seeks to stop this extraction wholesale.
Degrowth is not the policy of any country in the world, period, much less the policy of imperialist countries. Degrowth is a movement pushed by grassroots as an attempt to save the world, to create a human society that lives in compliment to the natural world. The policy of rich countries is pro-growth, endless growth, i.e. the ideology of the cancer cell. Degrowth is anti-imperialist in that it seeks to stop the wholesale destruction of the natural world by economic development.
I do think we are beyond "tax the rich". We are deep in "expropriate the rich" territory.
Why invent complex system of taxation they'll evade? Just take some shit back.
It's getting hard to see all the fossil-fuel deals on Wall Street
#climate #nywx #wildfires #exxonweather
Hydrologist
California, USA
