The Lazy Sunbathers / Climate Change

[BillCatz123]

They are starting to ban single use plastics in the uk, like chip shop forks and boxes etc. but not plastic packaging. They changed single use plastic bags to bags-for-life - which in my opinion are worse than single use bags as people just buy those instead and they are harder to break down and recycle. The co-op have plastic carrier bags that can decompose in compost, they are the leading the way on the carrier bag front. All extremely boring but it needs to sorted out, they aren't sorting it out very well imo.


https://www.coop.co.uk/environment/carrier-bags

 

[goinghome]

They are starting to ban single use plastics in the uk, like chip shop forks and boxes etc. but not plastic packaging. They changed single use plastic bags to bags-for-life - which in my opinion are worse than single use bags as people just buy those instead and they are harder to break down and recycle. The co-op have plastic carrier bags that can decompose in compost, they are the leading the way on the carrier bag front. All extremely boring but it needs to sorted out, they aren't sorting it out very well imo.


https://www.coop.co.uk/environment/carrier-bags

Thank goodness for businesses like the Co-op.

So-called Big Toxics industries have their people on it discouraging governments from picking up pace and being more stern - https://www.socialeurope.eu/which-comes-first-big-toxics-profits-or-health

Sign every petition going, I guess...

You'd imagine they might also think of their children and grandchildren?

 

[Lucifer Sam]

You'd imagine they might also think of their children and grandchildren?

I'm guessing they think their children and grandchildren will be ensconced in a verdant bio-dome or a luxurious underground solar-powered shelter somewhere. They're probably not wrong. The survivors will be the precious few who had the money and means to make it happen. And the descendants of billionaire bros will inherit the earth: an exceedingly hot earth.

 

[goinghome]

I'm guessing they think their children and grandchildren will be ensconced in a verdant bio-dome or a luxurious underground solar-powered shelter somewhere. They're probably not wrong. The survivors will be the precious few who had the money and means to make it happen. And the descendants of billionaire bros will inherit the earth: an exceedingly hot earth.

Sometimes that's how it seems.

I came across a documentary on 'minimalism' which is about people cutting free from material needs

In one way it's sort of ceding to the greedy fat-cats but in another it's about becoming nimble and self-sufficient, temporarily anyway. George Monbiot goes deep into the mad unfairness of the opposite, land ownership . And to really make your day, see how the human costs of global warming are quantified - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01132-6

 

[goinghome]

Some climate gossip to put something between the ears!

There's research now saying no matter what anyone does, sea levels around the world will have risen by over 2 metres at the close of this century
https://nos-nl.translate.goog/colle...uto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder explains how and why the earth's surface is heating



Fossil fuel industries have played the science to their advantage - https://covertactionmagazine.com/20...il-fuel-industry-came-to-love-climate-change/

This is an intriguing if brain-bending one.
The reality of our biophysical nature, its interdependence, has been subsumed by ideology, which is not real. Revealing it is not simple when caught within a simulation and a hyperreal world. Talking about it is simply not enough. We need to create biophysical reflections of that reality in order to create the systems which reveal and then proliferate that reality. We need to create a real that is invested in the real, not in the simulacra which affords an ideological restructuring of the real to benefit power. If the simulacra creates the simulation, the hyperreal, then we need to de-simulate using de-simulacra to reveal the real....
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/ho...792&post_id=137692728&isFreemail=true&r=22u0q

Yanis Varoufakis sees the replacement of capitalism by feudalism happening in front of our eyes - https://www.truthdig.com/articles/living-in-a-technofeudalist-hell/

A great reset without the fanfare? Some sensible minds are starting to think so.

https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/
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https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/05/team-billionaire-is-winning/
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https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/...tent&eId=31a8f7e4-052a-44dd-95d9-b08bd5be2fd1

I guess it's all good if you're a billionaire or on the way?! What are the counter-arguments?

 

[goinghome]

Since 2019, nearly 700 dead gray whales have washed up on beaches in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. A new study suggested the die-off is a result of declining sea ice in the Arctic.

https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/rese...aling-grim-future-for-the-species-its-tragic/