#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

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

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."
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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

Pushing people/ life outside the “human climate niche”
Modelling shows gas project emissions will cause hundreds of heat-related deaths

"According to the study, another 356,000 people globally would be pushed outside the human climate niche, a comfort zone defined by scientists as the climate conditions in which human societies have thrived historically."

"Under Australia's current environmental laws, the environment minister is not required to consider the climate impacts and emissions when approving a fossil fuel project."

"According to the Climate Council, since the Albanese government came to office, it has approved 31 fossil fuel projects resulting in 6.5 billion tonnes of carbon-equivalent emissions directly and from combustion of the coal and gas they produce."

"If there are actions around liability for the harms that have been caused by particular projects to demonstrate for compensation or reparations for the harms that are caused by fossil fuel developments."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-14/fossil-fuel-climate-impact-study-models-heatwave-deaths/105870098
#climate #AttributionSci #FossilFuels #pollution #CoalGas #liability #harm #biodiversity #habitability #Australia #GBR #ExtremeHeat

Marine ecosystems: Human activities have pushed Earth beyond its Safe Operating Space.

"World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life. The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/sep/24/worlds-oceans-fail-key-health-check-as-acidity-crosses-critical-threshold-for-marine-life
#ocean #MarineLife #biodiversity #pollution #FoamAndBloom #MassMortalityEvents #acidity #GBR #coral #FossilFuels #deforestation #ecosystems #boundaries #wildlife #ClimateDisruption #habitability

This essay calls "for a radical shift in language from narratives that obscure violence to those affirming Palestinian presence, history, and sovereignty."

by Abdalrahman Kittana: https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/gaza-uninhabitable-challenging-colonial-frames-of-erasure/

@palestine @geography

#struggles #agency #decolonial #dignity #resistance #survival #habitability #unliveable #humanitarian #necropolitics #geography #agnotology #collapse #demolition #reconstruction #colonialConvergence #TelAviv #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #racism #coloniality #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #Zionism #colonialism #connivance #complicity #entanglement #historyOfIdeas #landManagement #BritishEmpire #BritishRule #pineTrees #ongoingNakba #genocide #ethnicCleansing

The upcoming extremely large telescopes will provide the first opportunity to search for signs of #habitability and #life on non-transiting #terrestrial #exoplanets.

For the most accessible nearby target, #Proxima Centauri b, we may be able to rule out a sub-Neptune #atmosphere in as little as a single hour of observing, and some #biosignature disequilibrium pairs may be accessible in 10 hours.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08592

"Since 1900, heatwaves have killed more people in Australia than floods, fires, and all the other disasters put together. Extreme heat is often called the silent killer. It’s the deadliest of natural disasters."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/heatwave-of-2009-australias-deadliest-natural-disaster/104648912
#FossilFuels #GHG #emissions #harm #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate #disasters

"Since 1900, heatwaves have killed more people in Australia than floods, fires, and all the other disasters put together. Extreme heat is often called the silent killer. It’s the deadliest of natural disasters."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/heatwave-of-2009-australias-deadliest-natural-disaster/104648912
#FossilFuels #GHG #emissions #harm #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate #disasters

"Since 1900, heatwaves have killed more people in Australia than floods, fires, and all the other disasters put together. Extreme heat is often called the silent killer. It’s the deadliest of natural disasters."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/heatwave-of-2009-australias-deadliest-natural-disaster/104648912
#FossilFuels #GHG #emissions #harm #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate #disasters

"Since 1900, heatwaves have killed more people in Australia than floods, fires, and all the other disasters put together. Extreme heat is often called the silent killer. It’s the deadliest of natural disasters."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/heatwave-of-2009-australias-deadliest-natural-disaster/104648912
#FossilFuels #GHG #emissions #harm #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate #disasters

"Since 1900, heatwaves have killed more people in Australia than floods, fires, and all the other disasters put together. Extreme heat is often called the silent killer. It’s the deadliest of natural disasters."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/heatwave-of-2009-australias-deadliest-natural-disaster/104648912
#FossilFuels #GHG #emissions #harm #ClimateBreakdown #heatwave #ExtremeHeat #ExtremeHeatwaves #habitability #HabitableClimate #disasters

Final talk before the break is on: PhD student Jedy Chebly is talking about the Quantification of the Environment of Cool Stars Using Numerical Simulations

#BadHonnef23 #astronomy #astrodon #habitability #corona #coolstars