#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

"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