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btschumy

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Amateur astronomer; Astronomy educator; Zoologist; Weather buff; Mobile software developer; ME/CFS
• Co-author of "SkySafari" planetarium app.
• Latest app: "Our Galaxy". Shows the 3D locations of objects in and around our galaxy.

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CelloMomOnCars , to random
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Fossil fuel use and emissions hit record highs as world struggles with deadly heat, storms and fires

"The growth in drove a 2.1% increase in energy-related last year, pushing them above 40 billion metric tons for the first time, according to the report by the Energy Institute.

Even though the world is adding clean, renewables at record levels, global energy demand is growing so fast that fossil fuels are filling the gaps."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/20/climate/fossil-fuel-emissions-record-climate-intl/index.html

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@CelloMomOnCars @breadandcircuses “Even though the world is adding clean, renewables at record levels, global energy demand is growing so fast that fossil fuels are filling the gaps."

Right now it is a pretty big “gap” they are filling. Probably more accurate to say that renewables are adding a thin layer of icing on top of a fossil fuel cake.

GottaLaff , to random
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⚠️Yet another #recall:

Whole, fresh cucumbers sold in 14 states recalled due to possible salmonella - ABC News https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/fresh-cucumbers-sold-14-states-recalled-due-salmonella/story?id=110768143

btschumy ,
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@GottaLaff That picture needs a content warning for all the cats browsing Mastodon.

btschumy ,
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@GottaLaff Do a web search of “cats scared of cucumbers”. It will all become clear.

alice , (edited ) to random
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    btschumy ,
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    @alice Rather than a quarter pounder, it looks like you got a quarter incher.

    breadandcircuses , to random
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    Colonialism is not dead. It lives on in the North-South divide, a vast gulf of economic inequality and ecological exploitation.

    Learn more in this speech delivered recently by Dr. Jason Hickel, Professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Visiting Senior Fellow at the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics, and Chair Professor of Global Justice and the Environment at the University of Oslo...

    The severity of the ecological crisis we are in stares every sane observer in the face. But the dominant analysis of this crisis and what to do about it is woefully inadequate.

    We call it the Anthropocene, but we must be clear: it is not humans as such that are causing this crisis. Ecological breakdown is being driven by the capitalist economic system, and – like capitalism itself – is strongly characterized by colonial dynamics.

    This is clear when it comes to climate change. The countries of the Global North are responsible for around 90% of all cumulative emissions in excess of the safe planetary boundary – the emissions that are driving climate breakdown. By contrast the Global South, by which I mean all of Asia, Africa, and Latin America, are together responsible for only about 10%, and in fact most Global South countries remain within their fair shares of the planetary boundary and have not contributed to the crisis at all.

    And yet, the overwhelming majority of the impacts of climate breakdown are set to affect the territories of the Global South, and indeed this is already happening. The South suffers 80 to 90% of the economic costs and damages inflicted by climate breakdown, and around 99% of all climate-related deaths.

    It would be difficult to overstate the scale of this injustice. With present policy, we are headed for around three degrees of global warming. At this level some two billion people across the tropics will be exposed to extreme heat and substantially increased mortality risk; droughts will destabilize agricultural systems and lead to multi-breadbasket failures; and hundreds of millions of people will be displaced from their homes.

    Climate breakdown is a process of atmospheric colonization. The atmosphere is a shared commons on which all of us depend for our existence, and the core economies have appropriated it for their own enrichment with devastating consequences for all of life on Earth.

    There is much more, and I hope you’ll read the whole thing.

    FULL SPEECH -- https://progressive.international/blueprint/1f26392c-176d-405e-948e-75a6333edc45-climate-energy-and-natural-resources/en

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    @breadandcircuses Thanks for this article. Once again, I don’t have much hope we are going to escape a disaster. We may be able to mitigate the damage somewhat, but not escape it.

    alice , (edited ) to random
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    @alice @catsalad I had a zoology prof in grad school who used to say “without mucus, life itself would be impossible”.

    Count yourself fortunate.

    btschumy ,
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    @alice @catsalad Thanks. I needed something to haunt me tonight.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    “It’s a staggering number: 16,000 plastic chemicals, with at least 4,200 of those considered to be “highly hazardous” to human health and the environment, according to the authors.”

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/health/toxic-unregulated-chemicals-report-wellness?cid=ios_app

    btschumy ,
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    @GottaLaff And people wander why the incidence of various illnesses is rising. Cancers, autoimmune dysfunction, allergies and chronic illnesses like ME/CFS. We are literally killing ourselves.

    Rasta , to random
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    MEMO TO THE MEDIA:

    Give the people the full picture

    via @rbreich
    #Media #Inflation #Profits #AltText

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    @Rasta @sshann @rbreich Also point out that the US inflation rate is the lowest among all other developed countries. This is not just a US problem.

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