#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

Gas from the Beetaloo Basin will only pour fuel on the climate change fire
"The NT will become unliveable within decades..."

"In terms of gas reserves, the Beetaloo is bigger than Western Australia’s North West Shelf project, the nation’s largest fossil fuel development which accounts for more than 40% of Australia’s oil and gas production."

"The Beetaloo Basin is covered with pastoral leases and different forms of Aboriginal tenure. Some of this tenure is the NT’s Aboriginal Land Rights Act land, which provides fairly strong rights for Traditional Owners. But most of the Aboriginal title in the basin is federal native title tenure that does not allow Traditional Owners to veto resource extraction."

"Climate forecasts suggest many parts of the NT will become unliveable within decades, due to the lethal heat caused by climate change. The NT News headline, “NT will be cooking with Beetaloo gas”, sums this dilemma perfectly, if accidentally. The irony of this headline won’t be lost on anyone who is familiar with the science."

"No amount of jobs or money can compensate for this devastating future. By turning on the Beetaloo tap, we risk watching the climate crisis worsen before our very eyes." >>
https://theconversation.com/gas-from-the-beetaloo-basin-will-only-pour-fuel-on-the-climate-change-fire-290535 >

* Australia's first National Climate Risk Assessment
"Climate forecasts suggest many parts of the NT will become unliveable within decades, due to the lethal heat caused by climate change".
https://www.acs.gov.au/pages/national-climate-risk-assessment

#FossilFuels #habitability #unliveable #Australia #BeetalooGas #NT #SacrificeZone #oilgas #extractivism #climate #ExtremeHeat #risks #FirstNationsPeoples

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

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

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

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

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

A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
A habitable world is possible

"The Global Justice Report is part of a broader international agenda for planetary habitability, social justice, and reform of the global financial architecture."

"The Global Justice Project attempts to set out a new vision for global progress in the 21st century: grounding human development and equality in planetary habitability. It explores the conditions under which the world could move toward this horizon and traces an economically and ecologically consistent transition path from 2026 to 2100." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/

Summary: The Global Justice Report
A Plan for Equality & Prosperity Within Planetary Boundaries
"It is possible to reconcile planetary habitability and high well-being for all, but only if the transformation rests on three pillars simultaneously. Fast decarbonization of energy systems is necessary. But we also need a major shift toward sufficiency – understood as a sharp reduction in labour hours and material footprint and large changes in consumption patterns, food habits, land use, and forest cover. In addition, neither decarbonization nor sufficiency can be financed and politically sustained without a drastic reduction in inequality of income, wealth and power, both between countries and within them. The compression of global inequality is not only compatible with deep decarbonization; it is a necessary condition for shared prosperity on a finite planet." >>
https://globaljusticeproject.wid.world/insight/summary/
#GlobalJusticeReport #inequality #SocialJustice #redistribution #WealthTax #ExorbitantPrivileges #SWF #Climate #PlanetaryBoundaries #ClimateCosts #disasters #PlanningCertainty #habitability #HabitableWorld #BigChange #IgnoredByMSM

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

Freedom of movement and freedom to stay
Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy

* " As the habitable areas of the Earth shrink under climate change and as many governments around the world adopt measures to deport migrants and refugees, it is time to re-examine our traditional notion of freedom. In the Western tradition, freedom is generally understood in relation to space: it is the freedom of movement, and the freedom not to be obstructed in one's movement by the state or anyone else. In The Freedom to Stay, von Redecker puts forward the radical argument that we should think of freedom in temporal rather than spatial terms."
The Freedom to Stay. Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-freedom-to-stay--9781509574292

* "The core of fascism is an unleashed logic of property. Its counterparts are not people, but things; its enemies are not opponents, but thieves."

The New Fascism. Entitlement and the Urge to Destroy, Eva von Redecker >>
https://www.fischerverlage.de/verlag/rights/book/eva-von-redecker-dieser-drang-nach-haerte-9783103977240
#property #liberalism #NewFascism #EcologicalFreedom #ClimateCrisis #habitability #RightToStay #entitlement #destruction #TemporalLiteracy #mobility #freedom #theory #books

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory: massive, sometimes abrupt, and undoubtedly disruptive. A much less habitable state of the climate for us.

"The world is closer than thought to a “point of no return” after which runaway global heating cannot be stopped, scientists have said."

"The public and politicians were largely unaware of the risk of passing the point of no return, the researchers said. The group said they were issuing their warning because while rapid and immediate cuts to fossil fuel burning were challenging, reversing course was likely to be impossible once on the path to a hothouse Earth, even if emissions were eventually slashed."

“We know we are running profound risks on the current climate trajectory, which we can’t rule out could turn into a trajectory towards a much less habitable state of the climate for us. " >>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points
#FossilFuels #climate #HothouseEarth #AMOC #cryosphere #SeaLevels #habitability

🦠 Life can flourish in Earth’s most hostile corners. What does that resilience suggest about where life could persist beyond Earth?

✍️ Read the full exploration: https://TPC8.short.gy/mgHJjLGk

Perhaps the cosmos holds more tenacious possibilities than we expect.

#Astrobiology #Extremophiles #Tardigrades #Habitability #Biodiversity #Cosmos #Microbes #Science #LifeBeyondEarth #Biology #TPC8