Confused Haploa (Haploa confusa)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2021-06-29 _F2A9824aaap
“The Future is the termination shock:
On the Antinomies and Psychopathologies of Geoengineering. Part One.”
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“As capitalist society remains incapable of addressing climate breakdown, one measure is waiting in the wings: solar geoengineering. No other technology can cut global temperatures immediately. It would alleviate the symptoms of the crisis, not its causes. But might it be combined with radical emissions cuts? This essay, the first instalment of two, scrutinises the rationalist-optimist case for geoengineering: the idea that soot planes in the sky can shield the Earth from the worst heat while society rids itself of fossil fuels. A more likely outcome is that they encourage business-as-usual to continue, while negative side-effects from geoengineering itself pile up. The logic of the enterprise points in the direction of a catastrophic termination shock.”
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“450+ Climate Groups to UN: 'No COP Overseen by a Fossil Fuel Executive' Can Be Legitimate
"Appointing a petrol company executive as president of COP28 is an effrontery several orders of magnitude beyond anything that happened before in the history of the U.N. climate process."”
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“Traffic Air Pollution Can Impair Human Brain Function Within Just Two Hours, Study Finds”
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“The best way to save forests? Legally recognize Indigenous lands.
A new report says the key to saving Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is recognizing Indigenous territory.”
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The only true adaption to biosphere collapse is to die:
“Tired of being told to ‘adapt,’ an Indigenous community wrote its own climate action plan
On the Flathead Reservation, a "living document" speaks to thousands of years of history while facing new challenges.”
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America is welcher:
“Africa objects to US chairing UN climate fund, citing unpaid $2bn”
The Green Climate Fund is making cutbacks to its project portfolio, while the US fails to deliver on a years-old funding pledge”
[Note to Reader: it has been shown that initial announcements have a greater penetration and are more memorable than any subsequent announcement that revises it]
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“4 environmental 'heresies'”
“The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. This talk at the US State Department”
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