What are some of your favorite pieces of writing about #climatechange? Any genre, directly or indirectly related content, but a piece where the writing really stands out to you.
The End of Eden
Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
An exquisitely written and deeply researched exploration of wild species reacting to climate breakdown, The End of Eden offers a radical new kind of environmental journalism that connects humans to nature in a more empathetic way than ever before and galvanizes us to act in defense of the natural world before it's too late.
On #climate#COP28: My fear is that getting international agreements in place is the easiest part of the problem. The hard bit will be the proverbial last-mile. People will have to change their behaviour in ways that are pro-environment. And for that, they will have to be more pro-social. It is here that things get stuck.
Environmental goals are difficult to achieve without social capital. Getting international agreement on climate issues is the easy part; the difficult bit is getting hyperdiverse societies to cooperate at the everyday level.
A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster from Chamorro human rights lawyer and organizer Julian Aguon.
Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon’s No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming-of-age story and a call for justice—for everyone, but in particular, for Indigenous peoples.
Climate Change on Mountains
Reviving Humboldt’s Approach to Science
This book presents concepts, methodologies and major achievements of recent research in climate change ecology in mountains by placing this research in a historical perspective, that of travelers and naturalists of the Romantic era, and first of all Alexander von Humboldt.
When we think of #food, we often aren’t paying attention to soil, but it’s actually what sustains our global food system.
Unfortunately, #ClimateChange, unsustainable farming practices & more are degrading soil around the world.
I don’t get to see each episode of Serving Up Science until they are published, but I like this new video. And I’m so glad they let me talk about soil health. https://youtu.be/FnOHwq6iSpk?si=5umwoGQU7DFrdhCD
@Sheril That is pure fiction. All crops GMO or not will take various minerals out of the soil. Those need to be returned somehow. GMO allows us to use less intensive farming practices like no-till and thus allow us to build up topsoil.
#Today, I am celebrating my 4 years without flying ✈️.
The #Earth’s #climate is perturbed by #human activites. One of the easiest things to do towards #sustainability is to cut air travels. Thus, 4 years ago, I cut my frequent flyer cards and decided to #StayGrounded, using only low-#carbon travel means such as #train.
@AlexSanterne@StayGrounded_net@labos1point5@academicchatter When I was a kid in the 80s, we travelled by train to Poland to see my mums family. In fairness it was more for economic reasons as budget airlines weren’t a thing back then. It took two days and being a kid, I hated it, though crossing the Berlin Wall (still up in those days) was interesting.
For the love of Mike, get past your ableism, academia!
You should already have done it for the sake of disabled academics, but climate emergency means it is utterly wasteful and foolhardy to keep holding in-person events that everyone has to pony up to travel to instead of academia investing in creative, accessible online events.
It also makes the event more accessible to those who cannot get visas, $ to travel, etc. @academicchatter
@Konfettispaghetti@academicchatter
Zoom is not tantamount to all online. That is part of the problem - just because institutions went with Zoom doesn't mean it was the online app/mode available. Furthermore, there is such a thing as conflicting access needs. So even a very well-made solution (online OR offline) will not meet every single person's access needs as-is. We need to make things to the highest common denominator of accessibility as the default. Those who have access needs above that
The driving force behind these images of death and destruction in Ukraine, Gaza and Acapulco (and many other places around the world) is a small segment of humanity with a lust for power, wealth and cruelty, who control governments and who have the means, including technology developed by us, to manipulate the gullible population into fear and hatred against their fellow beings and into working against their own interests.
Harvested the Passiflora lutea today. This is for the food security + rewilding project.
There are around two seeds in every berry and I collected enough already for everyone who wanted them. They don’t taste very good: sweetish pen ink with hints of dish soap. They stain a blueish purple. The flowers are edible though and can be used as a garnish.
"In a new statement about #ClimateChange, #PopeFrancis criticized #FossilFuel companies and said the transition toward renewable energy is 'not progressing at the necessary speed.' And you know you're in trouble when the #CatholicChurch thinks you're stuck in the past." ~Seth Meyers, 5-Oct-2023
Great to see that the report from ORF (austrian television) picked up on the point I highlighted in the interview (in German) that we need to include indigenous environmental knowledge when looking at migration and #resilience in the context of environmental change
Der Klimaschutz - auch als Fluchtgrund - ist schon jetzt ganz klar in der Allgemeinen Erklärung der Menschenrechte enthalten. So z.B. in den Artikeln 22 und 25, sowie in der Konvention über die Verhütung und Bestrafung von Völkermord (Art 2c)
Inwieweit es sinnvoll wäre, das in einer zusätzlich Konvention (z.B. analog der UN-BRK) explizit auszudefinieren, ist auf jeden Fall bedenkenswert. Könnte aber auch - versehtlich oder vorsätzlich - zu Schlupflöchern führen.
@K_Reuss_Manaus@geography ja es gibt wichtige Schritte in die richtige Richtung und auch im GCM und GCR wird der Umweltwandel als Faktor für Migrationsentscheidungen anerkannt. Jedoch bleiben die Formulierungen sehr vage und es gibt derzeit noch keine rechtlichen Mechanismen, die umgesetzt werden können. Aber ich sehe es wie sie Menschen in Notlagen haben immer das Recht sich in Sicherheit zu bringen. Auch im Vorfeld von Umweltereignissen!
Although we've mentioned this before, it's grim news that bears repeating. Global heating caused by human industry is melting glaciers and sea ice all around the world — but nowhere more dramatically than on and near Antarctica.
Sea ice that covers the ocean around Antarctica hit a record low surface area in the winter, a preliminary analysis of US satellite data shows, and scientists fear the impact of climate change is increasing at the southern pole.
“This is the lowest sea ice maximum in the 1979 to 2023 sea ice record by a wide margin,” said the NSIDC, a government-supported programme at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
At one point this year, sea ice had dropped to 1.03 million sq km, far smaller than the previous record low and an area of loss roughly the size of Texas and California combined.
“It’s a record-smashing sea ice low in the Antarctic,” NSIDC scientist Walt Meier said in comments published by NASA.
The excerpt above is from a news story published at Al Jazeera.
Over at Medium, an article by Ricky Lanusse goes into more depth on the subject, and concludes with this heartfelt lament...
It’s been 33 years since the first IPCC report on climate change. Three-plus decades of climate negotiations and disappointment: emissions soaring, climate denial, on-paper optimism, and ‘net zero, but not in my term’ speeches.
Now, the northern summer of 2023 is officially the hottest on record, pushing global sea temperatures to record highs and disrupting ocean ecosystems. Over 3.8 billion people — almost half the world — felt the wrath of human-induced extreme heat between June and August.
You don’t grab buckets or towels when your bathtub overflows, ignoring or denying the problem. You turn off the tap. Climate change isn’t a future problem; it’s here. And you might think it won’t affect you, but as temperatures climb, more will face such dire choices. The question is not if but when.
Antarctica’s struggle isn’t a far-off concern; it’s a glaring reminder that climate change is here and spares no place on Earth.