#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target.

* "Every increase will bring more extreme weather, more loss of nature, more loss of land to the sea and more harm to humans". >>
https://theconversation.com/a-landmark-un-report-says-the-world-will-overshoot-the-1-5-c-climate-target-what-happens-now-290818

* "A polycrisis (from the French polycrise) describes multiple crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, or technological) occurring simultaneously and interacting in ways that amplify each other, producing outcomes more severe than the sum of the individual crises." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
#FossilFuels #harm #climate #ClimateFiasco #polycrisis #crises #CascadingEffect #DominoEffect #ExtremeHeat #habitability #loss

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target.

* "Every increase will bring more extreme weather, more loss of nature, more loss of land to the sea and more harm to humans". >>
https://theconversation.com/a-landmark-un-report-says-the-world-will-overshoot-the-1-5-c-climate-target-what-happens-now-290818

* "A polycrisis (from the French polycrise) describes multiple crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, or technological) occurring simultaneously and interacting in ways that amplify each other, producing outcomes more severe than the sum of the individual crises." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
#FossilFuels #harm #climate #ClimateFiasco #polycrisis #crises #CascadingEffect #DominoEffect #ExtremeHeat #habitability #loss

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target.

* "Every increase will bring more extreme weather, more loss of nature, more loss of land to the sea and more harm to humans". >>
https://theconversation.com/a-landmark-un-report-says-the-world-will-overshoot-the-1-5-c-climate-target-what-happens-now-290818

* "A polycrisis (from the French polycrise) describes multiple crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, or technological) occurring simultaneously and interacting in ways that amplify each other, producing outcomes more severe than the sum of the individual crises." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
#FossilFuels #harm #climate #ClimateFiasco #polycrisis #crises #CascadingEffect #DominoEffect #ExtremeHeat #habitability #loss

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target.

* "Every increase will bring more extreme weather, more loss of nature, more loss of land to the sea and more harm to humans". >>
https://theconversation.com/a-landmark-un-report-says-the-world-will-overshoot-the-1-5-c-climate-target-what-happens-now-290818

* "A polycrisis (from the French polycrise) describes multiple crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, or technological) occurring simultaneously and interacting in ways that amplify each other, producing outcomes more severe than the sum of the individual crises." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
#FossilFuels #harm #climate #ClimateFiasco #polycrisis #crises #CascadingEffect #DominoEffect #ExtremeHeat #habitability #loss

A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target.

* "Every increase will bring more extreme weather, more loss of nature, more loss of land to the sea and more harm to humans". >>
https://theconversation.com/a-landmark-un-report-says-the-world-will-overshoot-the-1-5-c-climate-target-what-happens-now-290818

* "A polycrisis (from the French polycrise) describes multiple crises (economic, environmental, geopolitical, social, or technological) occurring simultaneously and interacting in ways that amplify each other, producing outcomes more severe than the sum of the individual crises." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrisis
#FossilFuels #harm #climate #ClimateFiasco #polycrisis #crises #CascadingEffect #DominoEffect #ExtremeHeat #habitability #loss

Anti-Fascist Economics
In Defense of Affordability, Dignity, and Democracy, By Isabella Weber

"In a neoliberal world, we tell people at the same time: Democracy is the highest form of political organization. And: When it comes to the economy, to the material foundation of our life, the best the representatives of the people can do is to subordinate their constituencies to the corporate pursuit of profits.This basic contradiction between the rule of the people and the rule of the market makes neoliberal democracy vulnerable to the threat of fascism..." >>
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804175/anti-fascist-economics-by-isabella-weber/

Isabella M. Weber >>
https://www.isabellaweber.com/
#inequality #instability #affordability #precarity #indignity #PlannedDismantling #habitability #EthnoNationalism #WhiteRacialStatusAnxiety #authoritarianism #FarRight #fascism #war #books #PE #AntiFascistEconomics #transformation #democracy

Setting our world on fire as we stagger towards the flames.

* "This is not a natural calamity: it is being done to us knowingly."
Tim Winton

"The dangerous conditions climate scientists long warned of have become our common, if deeply unwelcome, experience, and season by season, our acquaintance with disorder and extremities deepens. In both hemispheres, wildfires rage right into our cities and incinerate entire neighbourhoods. Marine heatwaves are bleaching corals and cooking seagrasses on a global scale. This northern summer has brought temperatures most Europeans associate with the Australian desert. Heat events in Europe have paralysed whole countries, destroyed infrastructure and killed citizens in their thousands."

"There’s nothing accidental or inadvertent about what we’re all suffering through together. We’ve had enough time now and have sufficient expertise to understand that this is not a natural calamity. This is something that is being done to us. Knowingly. Which makes it a crime." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2026/aug/24/this-is-not-a-natural-calamity-it-is-being-done-to-us-knowingly

* Our habituation to horror and violence: Paul Virilio's concept of the "integral accident" refers to a global, systemic catastrophe triggered by instantaneous telecommunications and hyperconnected technologies, rather than a localized mechanical failure. >>
The Original Accident, Paul Virilio >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-original-accident--9780745636139
#FossilFuels #climate #progress #techne #IntegralAccident #ManMadeCollapse #habituation #experience #GlobalHeating #HotOcean #Heatwaves #ClimateFiasco #crime #ClimateCosts #FossilFuelIndustry #disasters #malpractice #denial #parrhesia #journalism #habitability #loss

Hot climate extremes and overcrowded industrial agriculture

* Extreme heat wave in France kills hundreds of thousands of poultry >>
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/06/extreme-heat-wave-in-france-kills-hundreds-of-thousands-of-poultry/

* "The ​heat is also hitting cattle farmers. High temperatures reduce feed intake, increase ​water demand and ⁠cut milk output. They're standing there with ​their mouths wide open, just trying to find air...It's very difficult, physically for people and for the animals." >>
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/record-heat-causes-mass-poultry-deaths-france-2026-06-24/
#FossilFuels #Climate #HotPlanet #FactoryFarming #livestock #Meat #poultry #cattle #pigs #DieOff #ExtremeHeat #water #cyanobacteria #eutrophication #Birds #wildlife #Biodiversity #MassMortalities #carcasses #agriculture #Pathogens #PoultryFlu #overstocking #habitability

Immersion in a hot toxic soup

From humans, wildlife and invertebrates: Simultaneous exposure of toxins and climate harms likely to cause reduced fertility

An " ‘alarming’ effect on fertility across global species from simultaneous exposures."

"The chemicals are ubiquitous in consumer goods, so humans are often regularly exposed."

“There is enough evidence in both areas to act to reduce our impact on the planet...The solution to the systemic problems would involve reining in climate change and reducing the use of toxic chemicals." >>

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/26/toxic-exposure-climate-crisis-study
#biodiversity #immersion #FossilFuels #ClimateCrisis #toxins #plastic #ForeverChemicals #pollution #WesternCountries #harm #ToxicChemicals #Pfas #organochlorines #pyrethroids #Phthalates #ConsumerGoods #ClimateHarms #habitability #HealthHazards

Traumatic landscapes of plastic, pollution and exploitation

The coastline of Spain is known as the ‘Sea of Plastic’ ("Mar de Plástico”) It is the world’s largest plastic greenhouse complex with 350 square km of fruit and vegetables grown by immigrant labour for the horticultural industry. >>
https://www.behance.net/gallery/22272681/Mar-del-Plastico#

Could we do the same thing to the coast of NSW?
NSW Greens to move bill to let councils better regulate berry industry as it continues rapid expansion

“People move into these beautiful valleys for the lifestyle and the environment but then wake up one day and within months they are looking at an industrial-scale blueberry farm."

"Faehrmann’s bill will call for mandated buffers between intensive horticulture farms and homes and waterways, as well as strict controls on spraying, runoff and irrigation and greater monitoring of produce for pesticides."

"Blueberry farming is rapidly expanding beyond Coffs Harbour, where it began several decades ago, into the Nambucca Valley and the Kempsey area to the south, and west toward Grafton and Bellingen."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/australia-berry-industry-bill-nsw-greens
#rivers #water #extractivism #pesticides #MidNorthCoast #ChinasOrchard #horticulturalIndustry #regulation #runoff #pollution #plastic #PALM #blueberries #SeaOfPlastics #TraumaticLandscapes #NSWCoast #NSW #CoffsHarbour #Nambucca #Kempsey #Grafton #Bellingen #residents #habitability #NSWLogging