Climate Change & Environmental Issues - It's Not Weather

[petitesuite]

In general, I would like to see (in the U.S.) more environmentally friendly choices subsidized rather than having less green choices taxed. (I would also like to see greater emphasis/acknowledgment of the fact that individual consumers have very little impact and we really need stronger corporate regulation, but one pipe dream at a time is probably enough.) The amount we spend on highways versus public transit is ridiculous and we have so little investment in environmentally-conscious infrastructure. I really like a lot of what I've read about the Green New Deal, it would be cool if even a fraction of that gets implemented.

Mugsy, I would guess that a lot of people think 'if the bags are here, they must be necessary,' but I agree it's an absurd thing to do!

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It’s going to be all ok, the British Parliment are taking things very seriously......

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Sir David Attenborough tells UK MPs young people's concern for the planet is his inspiration and "a source of great hope"

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( it’s nearly August am I forgiven a double(triple eek) post if I bring a teeny bit of goodness)
Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record to help towards climate change.


Reminds me of when Ireland did a thing for the year 2000 we all got a tree planted we got certs and locations and all sorts, I wonder if mine is still alive...Millennium tree being planted for every household

[talesofblah]

There's the depressing obstacle in solving the climate crisis: misogyny. The Misogyny of Climate Deniers

For climate skeptics … it was not the environment that was threatened, it was a certain kind of modern industrial society built and dominated by their form of masculinity.

The connection has to do with a sense of group identity under threat, Hultman told me—an identity they perceive to be under threat from all sides. Besieged, as they see it, both by developing gender equality—Hultman pointed specifically to the shock some men felt at the #MeToo movement—and now climate activism’s challenge to their way of life, male reactionaries motivated by right-wing nationalism, anti-feminism, and climate denialism increasingly overlap, the three reactions feeding off of one another.

“There is a package of values and behaviors connected to a form of masculinity that I call ‘industrial breadwinner masculinity.’ They see the world as separated between humans and nature. They believe humans are obliged to use nature and its resources to make products out of them. And they have a risk perception that nature will tolerate all types of waste. It’s a risk perception that doesn’t think of nature as vulnerable and as something that is possible to be destroyed. For them, economic growth is more important than the environment” Hultman told Deutsche Welle last year.

[prisma]

You're right. That's so depressing. But it absolutely rings true.

It makes me think about how "Mother Earth" is always described as female. She's here to serve and be raped. The big joke is that Mother Earth will totally be ok--we are the ones who won't. I just don't understand how the client change deniers can't see that.

[Mugsy]

There is a package of values and behaviors connected to a form of masculinity that I call ‘industrial breadwinner masculinity.’ They see the world as separated between humans and nature. They believe humans are obliged to use nature and its resources to make products out of them. And they have a risk perception that nature will tolerate all types of waste. It’s a risk perception that doesn’t think of nature as vulnerable and as something that is possible to be destroyed.

That's really interesting. I would take it further by positing that industrial masculinity sees women in the same way - something to be used and tossed aside, without any perception of destroying them. Like prisma said, Mother Earth. It translates to actual women too.

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Greta ThunbergTalking with Trevor Noah

Here it is something you believe or not; where I come from -it is fact”

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Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat

Functional extinction is when a population becomes so limited that they no longer play a significant role in their ecosystem and the population becomes no longer viable. While some individuals could produce, the limited number of koalas makes the long-term viability of the species unlikely and highly susceptible to disease.

No words.

[chonies]

Nov 24, 2019 9:33:53 GMT -4 fitz said:

Koalas ‘Functionally Extinct’ After Australia Bushfires Destroy 80% Of Their Habitat

Functional extinction is when a population becomes so limited that they no longer play a significant role in their ecosystem and the population becomes no longer viable. While some individuals could produce, the limited number of koalas makes the long-term viability of the species unlikely and highly susceptible to disease.

No words.

I've been trying to process this intellectually to protect my heart.