> Because it couldn't possibly be more clear that existing political systems are committed to behaviors that will cause our extinction, one has to ask: can we just sabotage the fossil fuel economy out of existence? In this episode, we assess three answers to that question, and the underlying psychologies that produce them. One, the fossil fuel industry's, or in any case their proxies in the field of security studies. Two, the mainstream climate movement's, albeit a unique faction of it, represented by the Andreas Malm book How to Blow Up a Pipeline. Finally, the radical environmental movement's, as represented by a literature review I wrote in 2016. In the end, we'll see how worldview and tactics/strategy are deeply related, and how the climate justice narrative doesn't motivate the same confrontational behavior as the radical environmental narrative.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/69424 This font spells out collapse in no uncertain terms. > The font’s design is based on data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (https://nsidc.org) and predictions provided by the IPCC (https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/). The heaviest font weight represents the minimum extent of the Arctic sea ice in the year 1979, when satellite measuring began. The lightest weight represents IPCC’s 2050 forecast, when the Arctic sea ice minimum is expected to have shrunk to only 30 % of the 1979 extent.

Here you are: https://lemmy.ml/c/lowtech@collapse.cat There are some more related communities (Collapse, energy crisis, environmental emergency) available at Lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.ml/search/q/collapse/type/Communities/sort/TopAll/listing_type/All/community_id/0/creator_id/0/page/1

cross-posted from: https://collapse.cat/post/770 > Readers of this blog will know that I have come to some big-picture conclusions about success and failure that are unsettling. I don’t like them myself. > > Not only do they create an inner sadness about where I think the human endeavor is heading, but they result in a sort of isolation that I would rather not suffer—introvert though I am.

cross-posted from: https://collapse.cat/post/767 > ... In a system which depends upon growth just to exist, anything which causes the system to falter – like supply shortages, fossil fuel depletion or collapsing supply chains – will bring forward the day of reckoning. > > And where supply chains collapse at the speed of a slow container ship, the banking and financial superstructure will be blown apart at the speed of a photon in a fibre optic cable.

cross-posted from: https://collapse.cat/post/349 >  >

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/86063 > And grass is green, more news at 11.

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