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#ClimateJustice

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Bread and Circuses

You may recall that last week I did a post about a new research paper that, according to one analyst, “turns climate science upside down.” I also included a link to a video which described the findings of that paper and explained what they meant.

Here's the post ➡️ climatejustice.social/@breadan

Well, since then there’s been a lot of blowback from the mainstream scientific community about that research paper and its conclusions. As a result, a follow-up video to the one I linked has been produced. It discusses the controversy and tries to make clear what everyone is arguing about.

If you’re interested in the subject, this new video is well worth watching.

▶️ youtube.com/watch?v=bCkPXBXGsI

Overall, it seems to me that not much has changed from what I wrote last week in the OP. The burning of fossil fuels is still a huge problem, with capitalist commerce and industry poisoning Earth’s biosphere and destroying the climate. That must stop if we are to have any chance of saving our modern civilization.

The answer, though, is not simply to “electrify everything” as we carry on with Business As Usual.

Because industrial agriculture is ALSO a huge problem. The clearing of forests to grow rice or soy, or to produce palm oil or to graze cattle, along with using massive amounts of fertilizers and herbicides and pesticides that wreak havoc on biodiversity and turn our oceans into dead zones, cannot be allowed to continue.

Pundits can argue about methodology or about specific numbers, but all that is beside the point. Unless the whole world comes together soon to end capitalism, end colonialism, and make a radical shift toward degrowth and toward climate justice, everything we care about will be lost.

Graphic says: Civilization faces a critical choice. Make drastic changes NOW in how we live (Degrowth) or have catastrophic changes forced upon us by the ecosystem we live in (Business As Usual). The question is not whether things will change, but how and when those changes are made.
#Science#Environment#Climate
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Bread and Circuses

What some people don’t understand about #degrowth is that it does not mean economic growth must decline everywhere.

If we are to achieve climate justice and social justice, which is the true aim of degrowth, then countries of the Global South — who have for too long suffered under climate colonialism, paying the greatest price for rampant consumption in the Global North — must be allowed to grow and achieve something close to parity with the rich world.

But how can that be done without utterly ravaging the biosphere and causing runaway global heating?

The only way is for countries in the Global North to *radically* reduce their economies. If the USA, Canada, Europe, etc., decide to merely slow their rate of growth while maintaining resource consumption at roughly where it is today, then we’re doomed.

Although I'm not optimistic it will happen, there still is a way out of this mess. We just need to convince enough people to support the proper choice.

LEARN MORE -- greeneuropeanjournal.eu/degrow

Green European JournalDegrowth Is About Global JusticeJason Hickel explains how degrowth can help fix the worsening ecological crisis and what it means for relations between the Global North and South.
#Politics#Economics#Environment
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Jules

Private members bill launched to require fossil fuel companies and their shareholders and owners of superyachts and private jets to pay into a fund for flood defences and home insulation.

theguardian.com/politics/2025/

Might be worth writing to your MP and asking them to support this one

The Guardian · MP to launch bill to target superyachts, private jets and fossil fuel producersBy Fiona Harvey
#ClimateJustice#UKPol#MakePollutersPay
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