Another exciting #GameStudies book around the corner!
"#Ecogames" brings together chapters by a diverse group of authors to explore the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecocritical engagement in and through #VideoGames. 🌱🌎🎮
@plants@nature #SevenOnSunday is #Smoke and #Clouds and lowering #Sun #Berries turning #red and #summer#green slipping away
smoky days, wet days, clear and warm days last week, now we go into a week forecast above average, sunny and dry-- good for farmers harvesting, though chilly most nights. I should get some garden stuff wrapped up, start thinking about cutting firewood for the inevitable drop! #autumn#September#Alberta#landscape more in replies
Carbon Credits are a scam. Not just because a lot of the projects are literal scams but because the fundamental idea is fucked. The market will not solve this. Quite the opposite.
(Title: Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact) https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963543
How can you offset destruction by dislocating climate-damaging #CO2 to another place /time? You monetarize #emissions in form of a license to kill the environment while somewhere a few trees might be planted or a forest is not being cut down - in theory.
Net zero arithmetics shift a lot of waste industrial #capitalism produces to the Global South or in dubious CCS-projects - #Green#colonialism for a #white conscience.
Absolute emission reduction is the only way - #degrowth.
To make our paper straws more resistant to water we of course found it necessary to use an unhealthy chemical coating. In other words, we’re replacing shit with bigger shit. Conclusion? Don’t use straws.
"You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of #science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a #dream, why do we have #toes, why is the #moon round, what is the birthday of the #world, why is #grass#green?"These are profound, important #questions. They just #bubble right out of them.You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become #incurious.Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade." #CarlSagan