#habitability — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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