[spectre] // Climate and Collapse //

[Julian Oliver]

..on Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 03:00:45PM +0000, John Maher wrote:
>  all brilliant but a bit of a rant and an ode to stop shopping
> a better response would be found in the Tim Morton / Justin Brice Guariglia installation maxim:
> "Don't Eco Shop, Eco Vote [Instead]" to which I would add "Do Eco direct action"

We have 5 elections between now and 2050, in most Western states - states
responsible for over 50% of GHG footprint. That's 5 rolls of the big dice. 

Tim and Justin proffer dangerously poor advice, unfortunately. We need /both/
policy and per-capita change, this being the expressed recommendation of 15,364
scientists from 184 countries (the most scientists to sign a single document in
history), in their recent 'Second Warning to Humanity':

"As most political leaders respond to pressure, scientists, media influencers,
and lay citizens must insist that their governments take immediate action as a
moral imperative to current and future generations of human and other life. With
a groundswell of organized grassroots efforts, dogged opposition can be overcome
and political leaders compelled to do the right thing. It is also time to
re-examine and change our individual behaviors, including limiting our own
reproduction (ideally to replacement level at most) and drastically diminishing
our per capita ­consumption of fossil fuels, meat, and other resources."

    https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/67/12/1026/4605229

To ignore that advice would be, well, anti-science.

Cheers,

Julian

>     On Friday, November 2, 2018, 10:00:44 AM EDT, heath bunting <heathbunting at irational.org> wrote:  
>  
>  as climate change is now an existential threat to all humans
> it will become a subject of mass denial
> 
> out of those that accept the collapse though, only self sabotaging people
> such as artists and those that have a long view will have the potential 
> to act and those will be very rare
> 
> for example, we all know that using amazon, google and facebook is against
> the interest of all people on the planet, including our own, but we still 
> use them
> 
> buying an item on amazon feeds directly into the cia drone strike program 
> in afghanistan, but we continue to buy
> 
> we also know that using mobile telephones is an extreme threat to our 
> person security, but we all use them
> 
> i remember a time when people would boycott corporations because they 
> underpaid their staff, now we ignore corporations assassinating people, 
> because online shopping is convenient
> 
> i invite you all to self sabotage by stop using google, facebook and 
> amazon and bin your phones and start the revolt
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Julian Oliver wrote:
> 
> > Dear Spectre,
> >
> > Posting here a recent interview of French historian Christophe Bonneuil,
> > meticulously translated to English by Crystelle Vu:
> >
> > Thoroughly recommended reading, not only as it deeply implicates the near future
> > of Europe itself.
> >
> > //----------------------------------------------------------------------------->
> >
> > 'Climate and collapse: Only Through the Insurrection of Civil Societies Will We
> > Avoid the Worst'
> >
> > Are we under the threat of an imminent "collapse" as a result of global warming
> > and the over-exploitation of resources? For the historian Christophe Bonneuil,
> > there is no question: major social, economic and geopolitical upheavals have
> > already been triggered and will only accelerate. Instead, the issue needs to be
> > repositioned, in turn inciting "political thinking" of the current situation:
> > who will be the winners and the losers? How can we exert an influence on the
> > nature of these changes? Mass migrations, risk of conflicts over resources:
> > despite his brutal observation of this emerging world, the historian appeals to
> > avoid the trap of a "romanticism" of collapse. "Another end of the world is
> > possible," he says. It is up to civil societies to write the final scenario.
> >
> >    https://www.activisme.fr/climate-and-collapse/
> >
> > //<-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Globally warm regards,
> >
> > -- 
> > Julian Oliver
> > https://julianoliver.com
> > https://criticalengineering.org
> > PGP https://julianoliver.com/key.asc
> > Beware the auto-complete life
> >
> >
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