Rickd6

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breadandcircuses , to random
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If you'd like to take a deeper dive into that conflict between mainstream scientists aligned with the conservative IPCC, and other researchers who say climate change is accelerating, I'll recommend a 2023 Scientific American article which provides a thorough review of the situation, along with a couple of my previous posts on the same topic...

SciAm article -- https://archive.is/wao2d

Previous post 1 -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111562144915686983

Previous post 2 -- https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/111562288341069556

Rickd6 ,

@breadandcircuses your posts always have been well researched. Thanks

NBarreyre , to histodons group
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A question on Canadian History.

I teach for new graduate students in US history an historiography seminar, where I assign 2 articles/chapters per session. And I'd very much like to include articles on Canada, 19th & 20th century. They're becoming good critical readers of scholarship, but know nothing about Canadian history (except what I did with them on early modern period). Any recommendations?

@histodons

Rickd6 ,

@NBarreyre @histodons two people on twitter who may have some ideas on Canadian history for you are Collin Frizzell and Craig Baird. There is one who also writes about Canadian war history but ?

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Rickd6 ,

@MikeDunnAuthor this they don’t want to see

breadandcircuses , to random
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Climate protest is not a crime.

Or at least it SHOULDN'T be a crime. But in our capitalist, neoliberal world, it is.

Greta Thunberg and four other climate activists were put on trial today after being arrested at a protest outside a gathering of fossil fuel bosses in London last October.

Speaking about this, Thunberg said...

"Even though we are the ones standing here, climate and human rights activists all over the world are being prosecuted, sometimes convicted, and given legal penalties for acting in line with science."

"We must remember who the real enemy is. What are we defending? Who are our laws meant to protect?”

See -- https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/01/greta-thunberg-to-appear-in-uk-court-after-arrest-at-london-fossil-fuel-conference

Rickd6 ,

@breadandcircuses so true

breadandcircuses , to random
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This is from the chapter by Jason Hickel (@jasonhickel) in "The Climate Book" --

Degrowth calls for a planned reduction of excess resource and energy use in high-income nations to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a just and equitable way.

What does this look like in practice? Instead of assuming that every sector of the economy must grow all the time, regardless of whether or not we actually need it, we should decide which sectors of the economy we actually need to improve (for example renewable energy, public transportation, and healthcare) and which sectors are clearly destructive and should be scaled down (SUVs, air travel, fast fashion, industrial beef, advertising, finance, the practice of planned obsolescence, the military industrial complex, and so on).

There are huge chunks of the economy that are organized mostly around corporate power and elite consumption, and we would all be better off without them.

Jason Hickel video -- https://inv.n8pjl.ca/watch?v=HckWP75yk9g

Get "The Climate Book" by Greta Thunberg -- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709837/the-climate-book-by-greta-thunberg/

Get "Less is More" by Jason Hickel -- https://www.jasonhickel.org/less-is-more

Rickd6 ,

@jasonhickel @breadandcircuses so many areas open to improvement

breadandcircuses , to random
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You have no right to complain. The continuation of Business As Usual makes rich people even richer. And isn't that the only thing that matters?

See -- https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/01/oil-companies-shareholders-payouts-bp-shell-chevron-exxonmobil-totalenergies

Rickd6 ,

@breadandcircuses as the money heads to the five.

breadandcircuses , to random
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"How We End Consumerism"
Watch -- https://yewtu.be/watch?v=omcUaD8pxaY

This video tells how degrowth and ecosocialism can work in tandem to stop consumerism and overconsumption and reduce emissions in order to transition to a zero-carbon, post-climate-change world.

Degrowth is a response to the rampant growth/profit capitalist paradigm that fuels consumerism and is causing climate change. Degrowth de-centers capitalism and consumerism and instead argues for a world wherein there's a planned contraction of rich economies to allow for the well-being of everyone in the world.

Degrowth, however, can't function well without ecosocialism. Ecosocialism recognizes that the climate crisis is a capitalist crisis and vice versa. In order for degrowth to work it needs to incorporate full democratic control of the means of production and the state in order to avoid draconian measures of austerity.

Degrowth and ecosocialism represent an end to consumerism and overconsumption.

Alternate link (if you prefer YouTube) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omcUaD8pxaY

Rickd6 ,

@breadandcircuses very interesting- with actual directions to take

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    Rickd6 ,

    @breadandcircuses incredible.

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