Notices by Bargearse (largess@mastodon.au)

Anohni mourns the Great Barrier Reef in her Sydney Opera House shows

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-23/anohni-johnsons-barrier-reef-vivid-opera-house/105314580

>The reason I don't intend to travel anymore to Australia with large groups of musicians is because it's just not environmentally tenable," Anohni says.

>"The footprint is too abhorrent. The amount of carbon that I burned to get here … it's football fields full of forests for me to come here with a group."

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Good on her !!! Some good news for once. Hopefully we cancel the Olympics in Brisbane!

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https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying

>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.

#ClimateChange #GBR #ClimateCrisis

@bmacDonald94

So many amazing acts on Playing for Change. Although I'd rather not see Cat Stevens there.

@CelloMomOnCars

>UN experts say the same deep shift in thinking is key to solving the #climate crisis."

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Behavioural experts differ in that opinion

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329820-200-understand-faulty-thinking-to-tackle-climate-change/

>DANIEL KAHNEMAN is not hopeful. “I am very sorry,” he told me, “but I am deeply pessimistic. I really see no path to success on climate change.”

>Kahneman’s views are widely shared by cognitive psychologists. As Daniel Gilbert of Harvard University says: “A psychologist could barely dream up a better scenario for paralysis.”

@BrianHarrod @bmacDonald94

@apps
Some Markdown no longer shows for me. Sone does though, so quite weird.

@The_Tim @bmacDonald94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9afwZON8dU

@causeburn @bmacDonald94

Thats Nick McKim, a Greens Senator for Tasmania. The Greens are Australians only slightly left of centre party.

https://greens.org.au/tas/person/nick-mckim

Many years ago thr leader of The Greens, Bob Brown, was banned from Australian parliment because he was going to protest a then president George Bush speech to parliment

That's when I started voting Green, that the Australian government would ban an elected Senator from Parliament showed it was rotten to the core, since then it's only gotten worse.

@tius @bmacDonald94
Why cant we have a standard bike charging protocol ? Like CCS2 for bikes, where we can just plug in ! We have to carrrry big chargers with us for long journeys on e-bikes :(

@lcallinan
From today's AFR, pragmatism will be the death of us.

The stupid hurts.

Tourism emissions surge over last decade and now make up 9 per cent of global total, report finds

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-11/tourism-air-travel-carbon-emissions-surge-environment/104701158

> As Australians gear up for the holiday season, new research reveals the growing environmental cost of global tourism.

>Emissions from the tourism sector have surged by 40 per cent over the past decade and now make up 9 per cent of the world's greenhouse emissions, a new study has found.

>Experts warn the figure could double every 20 years, which is incompatible with the Paris Agreement's goal for the sector to reduce its emissions by more than 10 per cent annually.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

And from
@ClimateHuman

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying

>Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.

@kim_harding

@darnell
New normal? no, it only gets progressively worse bevase we won't face up to the issue of the rich living beyond the planetary boundaries.

Meanwhile in Japan

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/japan-urges-200000-people-to-evacuate-due-to-heavy-rain/ar-AA1tnmiD

And The Philippines

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/10/23/photos-thousands-evacuated-as-tropical-storm-batters-philippines?traffic_source=rss

Carbon emissions are now growing faster than before the pandemic

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453198-carbon-emissions-are-now-growing-faster-than-before-the-pandemic/

>Instead of a “green recovery”, global greenhouse gas emissions are rising much faster now than they did in the decade preceding the global pandemic. Emissions rose 1.3 per cent to 57.1 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2023. That is a far faster annual rate of growth than during the decade 2010-2019, when emissions grew on average 0.8 per cent per year

>All sources of greenhouse gas emissions except land use are rising,

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Not surprising I guess, just open the flight radar web page, or glance out the window at the endless cars , hear endless dogs barking (large meat eating pets). We haven't changed how we act, which would typically lead to changing how we vote.

Nearly everywhere there has been minor gains by Greens they are in retreat rather the massive surge needed to change policy. We concentrate on stupid shit like ecars rather then the changes needed.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

@LisaKalayji

Just to reinforce Lisa's post

>At their very simplest, anarchist beliefs turn on to two elementary assumptions. The first is that human beings are, under ordinary circumstances, about as reasonable and decent as they are allowed to be, and can organize themselves and their communities without needing to be told how. The second is that power corrupts. -- David Graeber

@igd_news @gerrymcgovern

Beware the great green deception: ‘perceptionware’ is being used to hoodwink us

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/12/fossil-fuel-companies-environment-greenwashing

> Grand schemes, many backed by government, masquerade as taking action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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When he says "hoodwink us", thats deliberate ignorance on our part. It's reflected in who we vote for as well.

There's none so blind as those who don't want to see.

#ClimateChange #GreenWashing #ClimateEmergency

Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

> Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures

>“It’s down to creative accounting,”

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The tool used by nearly all white collar grifters.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency

@clacke
>This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis)

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She is far to generous and kind, as a then 15-16 yr old girl, that she had more understanding then 99.9% of humanity is one if the reason we're in this worse and worse mess. This deliberate and long standing ignorance of such an exestential crisis is a travesty and and anyone older then her who doesn't understand that should ba hanging their heads in deep fucking shame.

If you're wathing the Olympics, or some football match or a concert you flew to, browsing this on a holiday in Thailand then you're the problem.

Good on you Greta for at least trying. How we treat the biosphere and each other is beyond apaling, most edays I wonder if trying to preserve this horror is the right thing or not?

We are all Nero now, fiddling and emitting heavily while the planets biosphere becomes uninhabitable and burns.

Monkeys ‘falling out of trees like apples’ in Mexico amid brutal heatwave

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/monkeys-mexico-heatwave

>“They were falling out of the trees like apples,” Pozo said. “They were in a state of severe dehydration, and they died within a matter of minutes.” Already weakened, Pozo says the falls from dozens of yards (meters) up inflict additional damage that often finishes the monkeys off.

>By 9 May at least nine cities in Mexico had set temperature records,

#ClimateChange #Environment #BiodoversityLoss

@bmacDonald94
These days people then reply with, "I better see this before it goes", and then make sure they enable the destruction to accelerate with thier massive emissions to go have an Insta moment.

The number of times this has been said about the Great Barrier Reef before people drive from all over Australia, or book airfares from all over the world to do their utmost to help ensure its destruction accelerates is... troubling.

I am reminded of that video of the Thylacine here in Tasmania. It's all we have left.

Even that photo in the OP is soul piercing, much like that giant scar in the middle of the photo :( why must we destry everywhere and everything ?

@chu

@ExtinctionR
There is NO solution to climate change, environmental degradation, resources depletion etc that doesnt have active and electrified public transport and the removal of private cars and aircraft.

Ecars are the distraction ensuring the changes we need don't occur and are ensuring the continual destruction of the biosphere and the disappointment is they're so strongly defended even in here.

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-expert-comment-future-electric-fast.html

>"Only by curbing all motorized transport, particularly private cars, as quickly as possibly can we tackle the climate and air pollution crises"