#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

Travelling through the hot outdoors

"Extreme heat poses an urgent threat to human health. It kills thousands of people each year, and research suggests this figure is rising due to the effects of human-induced climate change. In Australia alone, the number of deaths from heatwaves is expected to double in the next 40 years."

"Research shows people often recognise the risks of extreme heat, but don’t believe it will affect them personally. educating people about extreme heat led them to avoid heatwave-prone places." >>
https://theconversation.com/extreme-heat-is-altering-when-where-and-how-we-travel-new-research-289498
#ExtremeHeat #Heatstroke #heatwaves #outdoors #travel #mobility #TourismIndustry #StrandedAssets #FossilFuels #climate #habitability #environment #wildlife

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