Notices by Pauline von Hellermann (pvonhellermannn@mastodon.green)

#ClimateDiary The wonderful climate activist (and co-author and friend) Aaron Thierry writing yesterday about his village in Wales and Storm Bert.

The psychological strain of back-to-back disaster (village was badly flooded in 2020 too) as well as traumatic memories of the Aberfan disaster 60 years ago (and fears it will happen again) are immense.

“We’re also going to have to look after each other as best we can through community building and mutual care. “

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/26/wales-valleys-floods-aberfan-climate-adaptation?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

@aral yes!! I have been getting really frustrated by the stupidity of thise takes on Musk. And in general: can’t you see who is winning everything? It’s not us

#ClimateDiary A powerful essay by Sally Rooney on what is driving the destruction of our world: not humanity, but capitalism and all that it requires - growth, property, fossil fuels.

Why don’t we all just start saying what really needs to be said: we need eco-socialism.

I am an eco-socialist because it is the only way we will have a liveable future. It’s not radical.

#EcoSocialism

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/23/sally-rooney-when-are-we-going-to-have-the-courage-to-stop-the-climate-crisis/

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https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/113543955791948071

Welcome to all the new people joining Mastodon at the moment!

Just wanted to tell you all about #ClimateDiary - a hashtag to share everyday observations, thoughts, feelings as we are all living through this. You can follow #ClimateDiary or just search it - i love reading several days posts together. And of course, please contribute! Wherever you are

#FediWelcome #introduction https://mastodon.green/@pvonhellermannn/109884795065085875

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https://assemblag.es/@hugo/113525804863307093

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Adding this article on the US military’s catbon footprint - bugger than that of Portugal or Belgium

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/12/elephant-in-the-room-the-us-militarys-devastating-carbon-footprint

#ClimateDiary #COP29

Just finished listening to this excellent Upstream podcast with the film maker Abby Martin, on “Earth’s Greatest Enemy’ - the US military. Quite staggering that since COP1, the military of all countries has been excluded from net zero targets - it’s this big fat pretence that it doesn’t exist, when in reality its emissions are enormous and the industrial military complex really does shape everything. Thanks for sharing @chis_r https://aus.social/@chis_r/113512020135087312

#ClimateDiary 💔 account by Leoncia in the Philippines. This is what it’s like; this is what the #FossilFuel lobby is doing to people.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/nov/18/when-the-water-subsided-i-saw-our-house-was-gone-this-is-climate-breakdown?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 43/n Now of course Elon Musk - having made 2/3 of Twitter staff redundant - has been hired by Trump to head the new “Efficiency Department”. i find this prospect alone deeply, deeply scary - both in terms of public services disappearing and I feel for the 1000s who will lose their jobs. As you all know: there is absolutely nothing “efficient” about these kinds of cuts whatsoever. They are deeply destructive, nothing else.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/trump-appoints-elon-musk-government-efficiency-department

#FollowTheMoney 🧵42/n Firstly, I am conscious of my own #redundancy being very much part of the wider hollowing out, draining out of both public services and professional, creative industries everywhere (see many posts ⬆️). I am really scared about this - it’s strange how this is happening but not really talked about; no #unemployment crisis narrative at all, as of course most people, like me, end up not being “unemployed” but doing smaller, precarious jobs; very few of us on benefiso no stats

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 31/n I think the graph came from this New York Times piece but don’t have a subscription so can’t check.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/03/opinion/global-billionaires-tax.html

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 32/n Watched “The Founder” on Netflix yesterday, about McDonalds. Really interesting- would recommend it. Particularly how the real breakthrough came when Kroc, advised by Sonneborn, went for real estate. Checked it on Wikipedia:

“McDonald's present-day real-estate holdings represent $37.7 billion on its balance sheet, about 99% of the company's assets and 35% of its annual gross revenue.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_McDonald%27s

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 33/n

Today an overlap with #ClimateDiary: British farmers are struggling due to climate change, Brexit AND supermarket power:

Most farmers receive less than 1% of the profit made from the food they grow. Of the 20% food inflation experienced by the public a minuscule proportion made its way back to the farmer. Tesco made a £2.3bn profit last year, while 49% of fruit and veg farmers fear they’ll be out of business before the end of this one.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/08/british-farmer-food-climate-crisis-business?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#FollowTheMoney 🧵34/n #ClimateDiary

We had a veg box for 12 years from Hankham Organics; 3 weeks ago we suddenly had a note with our box that they were closing, as it wasn’t working financially any more. 😢😢😢

And a fish merchant who we got smoked salmon for Christmas from closed this year too, for the same reasons. Plus Goldsmiths’ woes of course (#AcademicVenting). So many good, small organisations struggling and ending.

#FollowTheMoney 35/n #ClimateDiary #AcademicVenting

This is why:

https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/112408392604056154

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 36/n Here a positive, progressive use of money flows:

1400+ Columbia University alumni from its 20 schools have pledged to withhold all “financial, programmatic, and academic support” until school meets demands related to divestment, student discipline, and community safety.
Group website says over $63 million of donations at risk. #Gaza #studentprotests

#FollowTheMoney 🧵37/n

Even though all of us living in the UK know that homelessness is terrible (and has grown exponentially since 2010), it is still shocking to see this graph.

(There are notes on methods: all countries included both rough sleeping and invisible homelessness).

https://www.oecd.org/social/homelessness-country-notes.htm?utm_term=pac&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1-CorporatePriorityContent,2-Recovery%5BSupportingPublicandSocialPolicies%5D,3-ELS&utm_source=twitter

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 38/n

A rare silver lining to severe cuts in local council budgets: for the last few years Eastbourne have stopped spraying our streets and I love this time of year, flowers reclaiming the streets everywhere. #Rewilding #ClimateDiary

#FollowTheMoney 🧵 39/n

Have to add this here. The last 14 years summarised in 4 images #UKPolitics #GE2024

EDIT: here link itself too as images in screenshot i complete

https://x.com/ACORNunion/status/1793934201860792465