From the news on: the climate crisis [Note: Content Warning - links to reports on the climate crisis and associated outcomes/issues. Reader discretion is advised]

Note: CONTENT WARNING - some of this content is about upsetting, disturbing or triggering events & attitudes. Seek competent help - including professional - if you need it. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that linked articles may contains names and/or images of deceased people. READER CAUTION IS RECOMMENDED! For anyone distressed by anything in this post, or for any other reason considering seeking support, resources are available in Australia here, here, and here. In other nations, you will have to do an Internet search using terms such as “mental health support - <your nation>” (which, for instance, may lead to this, this, and this, in the USA, or this, this, and this, in France [biased towards English-language - my apologies]), or perhaps try https://www.befrienders.org/. 

From this week’s news on the climate crisis:

• “Earth's 'vital signs' are at their worst levels in human history: A bleak snapshot in six charts”   https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/earths-vital-signs-are-at-their-worst-levels-in-recorded-history-a-bleak-snapshot-in-charts/pmljv4wzp    

• “As Rainforests Worldwide Disappear, Summit to Protect Them Opens in Brazzaville”   https://www.voanews.com/a/as-rainforests-worldwide-disappear-summit-to-protect-them-opens-in-brazzaville/7328077.html   

• “Ghana sends its vital seeds to the Arctic Circle 'doomsday vault'”   https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/ghana-sends-its-vital-seeds-to-the-arctic-circle-doomsday-vault/n4j09w8  
  

• “Valleys in Antarctica haven’t seen sunlight for over 14 million years, but that may change”   https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/10/25/antarctica-retreat   
  

• “Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here’s what climate change is doing to it”   https://theconversation.com/remember-the-climate-map-from-your-school-atlas-heres-what-climate-change-is-doing-to-it-216171   
  

• “How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia”   https://theconversation.com/how-to-beat-rollout-rage-the-environment-versus-climate-battle-dividing-regional-australia-213863   In my words: the construction of renewables vs protection of environmental issues challenge    

• “Pushing water uphill: Snowy 2.0 was a bad idea from the start. Let’s not make the same mistake again”   https://theconversation.com/pushing-water-uphill-snowy-2-0-was-a-bad-idea-from-the-start-lets-not-make-the-same-mistake-again-216170   “But there’s another factor – a failure to acknowledge the pace of technology change in ever-better solar panels and wind turbines as well as in battery storage”    

• “Grand plan to drought-proof India could reduce rainfall”   https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03193-1   

• “Gagged and grief stricken, but not without hope”   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-24/odyssey-climate-scientists-suppress-truth-or-risk-funds-careers/102968970   the gagging of climate scientists   

• “World 'failing' on pledge to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030”   https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20231024-world-failing-on-pledge-to-halt-and-reverse-deforestation-by-2030    

• “How 'Green Wall Street' Crashed: The Nature Repair Market explained by Richard Denniss”   https://youtu.be/X_J27iBphIo?si=ZWc9-4zbIFDy3T1G  

 

From my links for activism post to aid any activism  you may decide to do on any/all of these:

• on the CLIMATE CRISIS (noting the UNFCCC) and ENVIRONMENT (noting multiple  international agreements)

 

Assumptions / basis 

In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following: 

• this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;

Possible flaws 

Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:

• there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan  Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”; 
  
• I could be wrong - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
  

 

If they are of any use of interest, the activism information links from my former news posts are available in this post. 

 

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