Notices by Scientist Rebellion (scientistrebellion@social.rebellion.global)

1/ Degrowth ~Tuesday~ /Thursday Tea Break: #Extractivism Chapter 2 🌱

💥 The economic growth system is sustained only by theft.

#BeyondGrowth #DegrowthTuesdayTeaBreak #DegrowthNow

2/ Capitalism needs not only profit, but exponentially growing profit.

So...dig dig dig!

Extraction and accumulation of natural resources is the only way. It must take more from life than it gives back.

Capitalism requires energy to turn natural resources into waste: Energy = Resources = Labour

3/ Of course, there’s nothing naturally cheap about labour & nature. On the contrary, they’re actively cheapened.

European capitalists came up with this dualism that casts humans as subjects with mind and agency, & nature as an object to be exploited and controlled for human ends.

4/ Such a system breeds inequalities and ecological breakdown.

Claim of capitalistic growth and material ‘progress’: improving everyday life for millions.

Reality: the majority is barely keeping their heads above water.
(We will refer you to a previous post on GDP...)

In most societies, there are strong inequalities, colonial legacies,
racism, to this day.

#decolonise #fuckGDP

5/ ❗Dispossession, enslavement and exploitation are legitimized by shunting nonhuman beings, Black and Indigenous people, and most women as not-quite-fully-human.

6/ ➡️ Colonialism is a precondition, as well as a consequence of the need for energy of the capitalist system. The North (Minority World) appropriates this energy and the South (Majority World) pays the highest price.

7/ ⚠️ For degrowth, the problem is not the behaviour of individual “consumers” but rather the structure and logic of the underlying economic system: capitalism.

8/ ✊ THIS IS A SYSTEM THAT LEAVES THE MAJORITY WITHOUT SATISFACTION OF BASIC NEEDS.

We need a restructuring of the system away from profit to the needs of all people

The arctic is on fire.

The rich would rather watch us burn than take a single less flight.

Ban private jets now

#ClimateChange

https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/arctic-on-fire-wildfires-turn-polar-region-into-carbon-source/

COP 29 is a fossil fuel scam

For 30 years the UN COP Climate Conferences have failed to deliver meaningful change. They have served as a ‘talking shop’ with the big polluters given seats at the top table to cast doubt over the sciences and delay meaningful action.

This November’s #COP29 event opens under the same bad auspices of last year. A petro-state – Azerbaijan - once again assumes the COP Presidency.

1/n

Toronto breaks weather record merely a day after the world superpower elects a science denier who fails to understand that billions will die.

Scientists cannot afford to be silent. We must stand united.

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/11/06/toronto-breaks-temperature-record-november-weather-forecast/

#ClimateChange

COP is as joke pretending to do something about the Climate Crisis while accelerating us to our doom.

Fossil Fuels should not be part of COP.

Foxes have no business arranging the security arrangements of the hen house.

We deserve better than this scam.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/23/cop29-host-azerbaijan-set-for-major-fossil-gas-expansion-report-says

#ClimateChange
#FossilFuels
#ClimateCrisis

Corporations having more rights than people are a thing of dystopian nightmares, yet it is the reality many of us live in under capitalism's reign.

Degrowth means putting power back in the hands of people and letting people, not corporations decide on the fate of the environment and planet.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03102024/honduras-investor-state-dispute-settlement-report/

#Degrowth
#ClimateChange

The science was clear: the DNA on the crime scene did not match the one of Marcellus Williams. Death penality is State murder and has to be abolished. The execution of yesterday was the assassination of an innocent black man by US officials.

https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

Amazon, Tesla, and Meta are the new ExxonMobile.

In the 90s and early 2000s, ExxonMobile and other Fossil Fuel companies spent billions to undermine science.

In the 2020s, tech companies are spending billions to undermine democracy.

All in the name of profits for an elite few.

We must support political efforts to stop billionaires from destroying our democracy. Our planet depends on it.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/sep/23/amazon-tesla-meta-climate-change-democracy?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#CapitalismKills
#ClimateChange
#Degrowth

Remember when the politicians kept telling us that Climate Change was too expensive to fight?

They said that Oil Executives buying mega yachts was more important than the rest of us having food, or viable living conditions.

This is the second "once in a century" flood in the Toronto area this summer

#FossilFuels
#Degrowth
#ClimateChange

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18/weather-rainfall-warning-issued-for-toronto-mississauga-brampton-ontario/

The insect crisis we are facing is not independent of our agricultural practices. The insects are dying from it and so are we.

Our capitalistic system is the driving force of #ClimateBreakdown

#Degrowth is our only path to avoid mass extinction for the planet, including ourselves.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/clean-fruit-vegetables-pesticides?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

August 1st is #EarthOvershootDay - the date when demand on our planet’s resources surpasses its capacity to regenerate them.

Earth Overshoot Day is getting earlier and earlier in the year. mostly due to our wasteful lifestyles.

If everyone lived like the USA or Australia, we need 5 Earths for sustainability.

If the world lived like Japan, China or most European nations, we need 3 Earths.

We have only 1 Earth
#Degrowth

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Professor Dr @wolfgangcramer , environmental geographer and global ecologist, is research director (CNRS) at the Mediterranean Institute for Biodiversity and Ecology (IMBE) and a contributor in many roles to the IPCC, including Lead Author for the 6th Assesment Report. He is "appalled by the decision of a UK court to jail" the #WholeTruthFive, completely ignoring the urgency of the climate collapse we are witnessing.

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Satire is often a better reflection of reality than news media.
This piece simply says what many are thinking out loud. Politicians are allowing entire towns to burn to the ground for the sake of the oil industry.

All our lives are expendable. They must be stopped.
#ClimateBreakdown

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/danielle-smith-the-loss-of-jasper-is-tragic-but-we-can-all-take-comfort-in-how-much-money-the-oil-industry-is-still-making/