#habitability — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #habitability, aggregated by home.social.
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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 -
An unbearably hot planet
Corporate climate disclosures: Companies planning for an unbearable future"Australia’s largest companies are forecasting business-as-usual in a much hotter world."
"The assumption that business-as-usual will be possible in a hotter world is out of step with the latest science..This increase would put the Australian economy, environment and community at severe risk." >>
https://theconversation.com/some-of-australias-biggest-companies-are-planning-for-an-unbearable-climate-future-290234
#FossilFuels #mining #extractivism #climate #ClimateCosts #ClimateFiasco #ICJ #habitability #Australia #BAU -
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 -
Life goes on on Snowball Earth, but beyond that, the cryogenic regime might be more forgiving on the surface biosphere than our own world...
Read more at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2026/08/14/ice-forgives-some-thoughts-on-the-extended-habitable-zone/
This post's featured image is a shot of some frost on the door, taken by me.
#climate #alienplanet #climatology #habitability #planetaryhabitability #astrobiology #habitablezone #science #iceplanet
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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 -
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The 2026 episode questions the livability of territories.
"We do not rule out having temperatures around 48-50 degrees in a punctual and very regional manner in France.""Climate change which is linked to our predatory and unsustainable lifestyles is emerging."
We need to quit management and embrace transformation.
"The priority no longer is to return to normal, no longer to do things as before, it is to change."There are worldviews to transform.
Christophe Cassou researches climate. Listen to him in French: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/l-invite-e-des-matins-d-ete/christophe-cassou-face-a-l-ete-cataclysmique-vivre-ce-que-l-on-a-passe-sa-vie-a-annoncer-2357103
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#foresight #adaptation #habitability #livability #climateForcing #carbon #climateDrift #wildfires #climateChange #climate #ecologicalTransition #greenTransition #anticipation #forests #pines #France #risks #riskAssessment
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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."
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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 -
"Sea level rise (SLR)
poses a prominent challenge to current and future generations, impacting the habitability of coastlines, trade routes, and major infrastructure systems near the ocean.""Our results highlight geographic variability in exposure and demonstrate the benefits that low-emissions pathways imply for preserving built environments."
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Willard-Stepan, M., Gomez, N., Cardille, J.A. et al. Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South. npj Urban Sustain 5, 72 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z
#FossilFuels #coast #inundation #SeaLevelRise #SLR #CoastalInfrastructure #infrastructure #habitability #erosion #ClimateDisruption -
"Sea level rise (SLR)
poses a prominent challenge to current and future generations, impacting the habitability of coastlines, trade routes, and major infrastructure systems near the ocean.""Our results highlight geographic variability in exposure and demonstrate the benefits that low-emissions pathways imply for preserving built environments."
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Willard-Stepan, M., Gomez, N., Cardille, J.A. et al. Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South. npj Urban Sustain 5, 72 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z
#FossilFuels #coast #inundation #SeaLevelRise #SLR #CoastalInfrastructure #infrastructure #habitability #erosion #ClimateDisruption -
"Sea level rise (SLR)
poses a prominent challenge to current and future generations, impacting the habitability of coastlines, trade routes, and major infrastructure systems near the ocean.""Our results highlight geographic variability in exposure and demonstrate the benefits that low-emissions pathways imply for preserving built environments."
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Willard-Stepan, M., Gomez, N., Cardille, J.A. et al. Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South. npj Urban Sustain 5, 72 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z
#FossilFuels #coast #inundation #SeaLevelRise #SLR #CoastalInfrastructure #infrastructure #habitability #erosion #ClimateDisruption -
"Sea level rise (SLR)
poses a prominent challenge to current and future generations, impacting the habitability of coastlines, trade routes, and major infrastructure systems near the ocean.""Our results highlight geographic variability in exposure and demonstrate the benefits that low-emissions pathways imply for preserving built environments."
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Willard-Stepan, M., Gomez, N., Cardille, J.A. et al. Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South. npj Urban Sustain 5, 72 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z
#FossilFuels #coast #inundation #SeaLevelRise #SLR #CoastalInfrastructure #infrastructure #habitability #erosion #ClimateDisruption -
"Sea level rise (SLR)
poses a prominent challenge to current and future generations, impacting the habitability of coastlines, trade routes, and major infrastructure systems near the ocean.""Our results highlight geographic variability in exposure and demonstrate the benefits that low-emissions pathways imply for preserving built environments."
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Willard-Stepan, M., Gomez, N., Cardille, J.A. et al. Assessing the exposure of buildings to long-term sea level rise across the Global South. npj Urban Sustain 5, 72 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-025-00259-z
#FossilFuels #coast #inundation #SeaLevelRise #SLR #CoastalInfrastructure #infrastructure #habitability #erosion #ClimateDisruption