Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13842896
> >Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.
Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
>Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.
Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leade
No it isn't, such foolish, ney stupid thinking.
The entire COP process has been co-opted by fossil fuel interests and is now irrelevant , we're a massive exporter of fossil fuels and have zero interest in moving foward to zero emissons, voters will never tolerate not being able to fly and told they can't drive cars, stop owing meat eating pets etc
If we wanted to be "leaders" we'd not be holding the Olympics in Australia, not be spending billions expanding Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart airports, we'd have abandoned all new road projects and only be building PT and AT infrastructure and be closing coal mines and gas extraction and redoing society for low energy dependence, while starting managed abandonment of coastlines and Northern Australia.
Just stick to denial and useless tokenism with a few solar panels and ecars like other developed countries and stop with the hypocrisy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.
“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”
Still so much 2FA via SMS where I am in Aus.
I'd prefer to move everything over to something like Signal but I neeed a phone # to register for that but how do u tell the bank my Signal ID is @hanrhan.666
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
>“It’s down to creative accounting,”
The tool.used by most white collar grifters.
Which is widely know but surprisingly well supported by a vast number of voters.
Sure, thats why the police shouldn't be there, they only ever escalate, antognise and make it worse.
Good news! Fuck the Swiss.
Works for me
If I can't walk there, I don't go.
Grand schemes, many backed by government, masquerade as taking action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Theres none so blind as those who don't want to see.
Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, according to an international research team including scientists from T...
>Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared
Seems like we're doing the opposite with wider support by voters for the orthdoxy of destruction. Even then I remain sceptical.
Yeah, smart TV, never connect it to the 'net, get a used shield pro, ADB and side load F Launcher. No ads.
Shelds remote can control the TV volume and its connected via HDMI and the Shiekd Pro remote switches both off and on. I use Kodi, Prime, Smart Tube Next and a couple local TV apps.
Not what u want but that's where I am and it works well.
Be interested to see the responses
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal democracy?
Filipino preacher and self-proclaimed ‘son of God’ Apollo Quiboloy appeared in court after a weeks-long manhunt.
Thats a dark road to tread.
An example,
no alchol consumption is safe, so using your line of thinking you'd need to argue that anyone who partakes of alcohol at any anytime would fall under that line of thinking
Processed red meats simailary, especially those treated with nitrites, so those eating bacon, ham etc shouldn't be entitled to public heath care under your reasoning
Or are those things ok becase you do them ?
On the upside, now you've excluded 95% of the population, public healthcare will be cheap :)
Contra to most peoples thinking, if you're concerned about public healthcare costs, you should "encourage" obesiety and smoking, they all die early, most health care coats are associated with healthy people in their old age. See here
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html
Adults are stupid and greedy, we all are.
New Australian Housing and Urban Institute research has found that about 70 per cent of households have reported building quality problems. It also found that most of Australia's existing housing stock was energy-inefficient and of poor quality.
>It found about 70 per cent of existing homes have building quality problems, while more than two-thirds of homes have an energy rating of three stars or lower.
>Australia really just doesn't have the policy instruments or policies in place that one might expect for building performance and housing quality and condition," Dr Daniel said.
>So all of these homes were almost effectively reducing their useful life, because it's almost as soon as they're built, they're not up to what we might consider a standard that's fit for purpose," she said.
>"In the future, we can imagine that people living in those homes are going to be much more exposed to fluctuations in energy prices because they're over-reliant on heating and cooling.
What a cluster fuck
This is the most depressing thread I've read for some time.
It's horrific to read some of the posts twisting bad news and making out as though it's good news. It's like the posters are watching children in a sandpit playing, ignoring the monster flood thats about to wash them away but taking joy in their play. Wtf?
Professor Boyd is right https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
And after reading this thread, i am even more sure Rees is
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits
Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”
You both use Signal, problem solved.
I've never even browed the local feed on the Masro server I'm on.
Just pick a non mainstream one that has been around for a bit ?
I use Fedilab, Megalodon and Rodent.
I haven't found out how but that would be a kewl feature as I have wanted to a couple times. e.g how to browse all the communities on aussie.zone from my instance on slrpnk.net ?
Neither firi trains.
We solved this a loooong time ago, put some wires up ffs.
Thanks for that I have been considering a foldable and the creaae doesn't worry me but how's the durability ?
I am all for banning pokies and casinos though, on balance, they add misery to the world.
If it was banned it would not stop gambling, just have to look to places like China, where offshore gambling is massive.
"The standard human condition is greed and stupidity" - Charlie Munger
And work for them , like Ms Higgins ?
I used to use YouTube Downloader but it seems to have shit the bed and isn't updated.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-free-android7-0-youtube-downloader-v8-1.2335450/
Wondering if anyone has any recommended Android app they use and a URL to download said app?
A radical sovereign citizen group co-invented by a fugitive mother is using a fake court to justify attempted child abduction, extortion, and intimidation of court officials.
>Over the past six months members have filmed themselves entering or attempting to enter court houses, police stations, local council chambers and commercial offices across the country.
>During these interactions, an NDA "sheriff" typically approaches a polite, but often confused, front desk worker to proclaim Australia is now a "demilitarised zone" and that all government authority has been dissolved before handing them a written notice.
>The notice warns "failure to be fully compliant" with NDA's rules "will certainly place you at severe risk of possible persecution, imprisonment or financial ruin".
>Over time, these interactions have become more confrontational.
>Video seen by ABC Investigations showed police forcefully ejecting members of the group from Gympie Court House in May.
What in tarnation?
The psychological and cultural aspects of systems change are commonly neglected — but they’re crucial to finding effective solutions to global crises.
>Understandably, material concerns dominate the policy conversation around sustainability and systemic transformation. Yet at the root level, our crises are created and perpetuated by factors in our psychology and meaning—making.
>From consumerist values to evolutionary impulses that skew our perceptions and political behaviours, these inner dynamics subtly dictate the course of our external world. It’s why Donella Meadows, the lead author of The Limits to Growth, saw this arena of “mindsets” as the “deepest leverage point for change.”
A few weeks ago, the Jones family was waking to icy cold winter mornings. Now, they're seeing how far their thumbs can take them on the journey from central Victoria to India.
>In an age where giving lifts to strangers is mostly advised against, this family sees it as their preferred option to get to India, for environmental and social reasons.
>Mr Jones and Ms Ulman do not own a car, have not been overseas in 20 years, and wanted to show their son the world, in the least polluting way possible.
>"We've done a lot of travel before on bicycles and hitching and public transport in Australia," Mr Jones said.
Exclusive: French survey of 26 countries finds fewer Australians than global average agree that climate change is the greatest health threat facing humanity
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10807072
> >Australia has one of the lowest rates of people acknowledging that 'climate disruption' is caused by humans > > > Colour me not suprised >
The South Australian RSPCA receives an influx of livestock welfare reports, with some animals starving to death.
>South Australia has been suffering through one of the driest starts to the year on record, leaving little for livestock to graze on in most agricultural regions.
Homeowners are worried insurance companies will use the report as an excuse to refuse to cover their homes.
Wot did I just read..wtf??
Woman claims boyfriend breached ‘verbal contract’ by not picking her up, causing her to miss her flight
A 10-part series exploring the social, economic and political barriers to meaningful global climate action.
We know our planet’s ecosystem is breaking down…much of the destruction is irreparable. So, why haven’t things changed faster?
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10713443
> >For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated. > > >In some ways, this argument might not seem all that new. Multiple authors have pointed out that green capitalism, not rightwing deniers of the crisis, is our greatest obstacle to properly confronting the problem. DeLay agrees. The difference is the lens he brings to it – using psychoanalysis to explain the mechanisms behind denial. > >
New research suggests the world's climate change authority has underestimated the severity of future bushfires in Australia.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10670770
> >Central to their concerns are how the IPCC predictions rely on a tool called the Forest Fire Danger Index (FFDI), which does not capture the full potential of future fires in drought and heatwave conditions. > > >Bureau of Meteorology senior research scientist Mika Peace and independent study co-author Lachlan McCaw identified several variables missing from the IPCC report's fire predictions under climate change. > >
