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No to reform! My review of Kohei Saito's 'Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism'.
| Steady State Manchester steadystatemanchester.net/2023/05/02/no-…
#Saito #degrowth #Marx #anthropocene #BookReview
"Saito’s key finding, and key argument, is that the later Marx rethought his earlier positions, both as a result of, and as a reason for, pursuing extensive studies in the physical and biological sciences, on the one hand, and pre-capitalist societies on the other."
"Marx thoroughly revised his position. That included abandoning the notion of stages of history and, critically, the idea that socialism must follow capitalism, standing on the pillars it had erected."
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"That the #Anthropocene, at its core, is a fundamentally bourgeois concept should surprise no one. After all, it tells us that behind the current, disastrous state of world affairs is the #Anthropos. It’sa trick ...

researchgate.net/publication/26… #history #capitalism #ideology
... as old as #modernity – the rich and powerful create #problems for all of us, then tell us we’re all to blame. But are we? And just who, in any case, is ‘#we’?"
"The #Anthropocene concept has graced the cover of The Economist magazine and received the blessing of The New York Times’ editorial board – for the very sound reason that anthropogenic arguments obscure capitalogenic realities." #Science/#Society
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"This long Malthusian cycle brewed the ideological alchemy of Good #Science and the Civilizing Project. Each moment produced new scientific and imperial regimes that simultaneously mapped, secured, and justified ever more extensive and violent...

scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/emancipations/… #society
... appropriations of unpaid #work/energy for capital. Every moment of enclosing waste (the commons) involved grand movements creating #waste on the frontiers. In this long #history of natural law, Good #Science has been mobilized not only as a “productive force” but as the...
... ideological cement for securing the “general interest”. Thus decisive ideological function for successive #class compacts between ruling strata and the scientific, administrative, and military strata ...
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"The 21st Century Question: Emergently Engineering the Future"

Follow this 🧵 today and tomorrow for highlights from our 2022 #AppliedComplexity Network and Board of Trustees Symposium:

santafe.edu/events/annual-…

#Web3 #Cities #Polarization #EmergentEngineering #Decentralization
We start with a talk by SFI President David Krakauer:

"Would anyone care to guess why we're so GOOD at building transistors and so CRAP at designing drugs?"

"This thing [points to transistor] lives in a centralized system. This thing [points to cancer drug] lives in US."
"I'm going to pick on economics, because we like to do that at SFI. 'Ooh, look at that cover! So techy. Global, heat maps...' But here's 'Networks' [in the textbook]. THAT'S IT. Here's '#ComplexityEconomics.' NOTHING."
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🌍 IGN, cartographe de l'#Anthropocène | Les résultats 2022 de l’inventaire forestier national & son mémento viennent de paraitre ! Quels grands enseignements sur la #forêt ? [THREAD] 👇inventaire-forestier.ign.fr/spip.php?rubri…
1⃣ La superficie forestière métropolitaine continue de s'étendre : 17,1 millions d'hectares en 2021 📈🌳
2⃣ Le taux de boisement (rapport entre la superficie forestière et la superficie totale du territoire) s’élève à 31 % en France métropolitaine. Cette moyenne masque néanmoins de fortes différences départementales.
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One million US homes are built on floodplains. It would cost $200B to relocate the people who live in them. If we do that, we will save $1T. Those homes are doomed. 1/ A leafy suburb, flooded to the roofline. In the foreground i
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/07/29/man… 2/
When (not if) people leave them (either before or after floods come), they merely be arriving at a conclusion that is inevitable today.

prospect.org/environment/ho… 3/
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"In the fullness of the #Anthropocene, what does a hard look at the relationships between #ecosystems and economic #systems in the broadest sense suggest about our collective #future?"

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
"Before articulating prescriptions, we first need a comprehensive diagnosis of the patient. In 2019, we are beyond a #piecemeal listing of what’s wrong. A coherent description of the global economy requires a #systems view"

#systemism
"Ecological economics acknowledges that real economies are completely dependent on energy. However, orthodox economic theory remains blind to this reality. As a result, so do our institutions and our citizenry. The disconnect has massive implications for our future."
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Difficile en tant que Guadeloupéen de regarder ce docu sur les difficultés rencontrées par les pêcheurs espagnols avec les algues, sans penser à ce que les #antilles connaissent avec les sargasses mm si les origines diffèrent (Amazonie VS Asie?) #écologie
Une étude (2019) parlait pour la #Caraïbe de phénomène "connecté à deux facteurs : d'une part, la hausse de la déforestation et de l'utilisation d'engrais en Amazonie à partir de 2009 et d'autre part, des courants ascendants venus d'Afrique de l'Ouest."
geo.fr/environnement/…
Mais une autre étude (2021) semblait nuancer le rôle de la déforestation et pollution sur les fleuves : de ce que je comprends ce ne serait pas la *cause* de la prolifération des sargasses, ms cela pourrait être un *facteur* de ce qui les fait croître. Attendons la suite donc... Image
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And here we go...
PART TWO: Visualizing the Accumulation of Human-Made Mass ⚖️🏗️🛠️🧱🔩 (incl. 🧵) #anthropogenicmass #biomass #construction #mining #dataviz #infographics #sciart #datavisualization #visualjournalism #science #scicomm #scienceillustration #anthropocene Infographic/data visualization comparing the total dry weigh
Since 1900, we've been making a LOT of stuff...and it's been piling up. In 2020, the material output of humans on Earth SURPASSED the total (dry) weight of all living things on Earth!
One grim part to this story (there's many 😵‍💫) is that we've now produced double the weight of plastic than the entire Animal Kingdom. Two groups of blocks, representing data, showcasing that the
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Aujourd'hui et demain, retrouvez ici le #LT du colloque #NosSoeursLesPlantes organisé par le @LIED_UP7 @UmrLadyss @CentrePolTerre.
Les participants arrivent petit à petit, début des discussions à 9h30 dans l'amphithéâtre Buffon de l'@UnivParisSaclay ! 🔽🔽🔽 ImageImage
Le programme du colloque s'annonce passionnant ! #NosSoeursLesPlantes
Dans le hall vous pouvez également profiter d'une exposition photographique : les contributions sont magnifiques ! 🤩 ImageImageImage
Pour celles et ceux qui ne peuvent pas être présents, sachez que toutes les conférences sont rediffusées ! #NosSoeursLesPlantes
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Incubation in the #Anthropocene
Or "The bird that mistook its eggs 🥚🥚 for a plastic container"
🙄 This is its story: ⬇️ Thread ⬇️
This Kentish #plover pair incubated a nest of two eggs 🥚🥚 for 22 days, until it was preyed upon by a fox 🦊. But the fox left a strange "egg" 🧐 inside the nest. The female has continued to incubate it for weeks. In #albuferadevalencia
At the beginning of May 2021 the Kentish plover female laid 2 eggs. 🧐 Can you spot them in this photo? Some pairs are able to camouflage them very effectively.
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🏹3è épisode du cours public "De l'extractivisme au métabolisme urbain" @MichelLussault: Anthrome, une traversée de l'histoire humaine.
Extraction, transformation, subsistance, déforestation depuis l'aube du Néolithique
Résumé🧵1/
@EcoleUrbaine
2/ La subsistance est au centre des préoccupations et des rapports de/au pouvoir. La question anthropocène peut se formuler en spirale relationnelle de production de la subsistance, càd de production des ressources à partir de matériaux
3/ L’espèce humaine est spatiogénique: l’espace de l’espèce humaine (écoumène) n’est pas un espace naturel, c’est par définition un espace anthropisé donc artificiel.
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Des empires sous la terre - Mohamad AMER MEZIANE
Une autre histoire de la sécularisation et une approche inattendue de l'#anthropocene
"Sécularocène": "c’est la critique du Ciel qui a bouleversé la Terre"🧵1/
@EcoleUrbaine
#Islam
editionsladecouverte.fr/des_empires_so… @Ed_LaDecouverte
2/ Une autre histoire de la sécularisation, "ds laquelle la proclamation d’un monde sans Dieu est le fruit d’une "impérialité" hantant l’Europe et ses colonies depuis l’échec de la réunification de l’Empire chrétien par Charles Quint".
3/ "En l’absence d’un Royaume de l’au-delà, la Terre devient le seul monde "sacré", et l’exploitation de ses sols et sous-sols la source unique de la légitimité de l’Empire.
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#BillGates's #mosquito technological (naive) intervention, is a very bad idea, that I think emerges from the #Anthropocene framework. Thats why I has been pushing #Technocene instead, bc it tends to induce a more #precautionary approach:

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

RT @nntaleb
*have
As a matter of fact, humans have coevolved with mosquitoes (biologically, cultural and technologically).. see our paper:researchers.one/article/2019-0…
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/21/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/04/21/dai…
Planting the Anthropocene’s roots in globalization-Book Review by Wolfgang Lucht

nature.com/articles/d4158…

#anthropocene #globalization #history
Lumber frenzy drives up home prices as suppliers can't keep up

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

#HomePrices #LumberShortages #ConstructionCosts
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Hey #energytwitter, if you want to tune in to the Senate and House hearings on the #TexasBlackout, links are in next tweet. I'll tweet on it throughout the day on this thread.

Please tweet using #txlege and #txenergy, esp. if you have relevent info that could help going forward
Joint hearing House Energy Resources and State Affairs house.texas.gov/video-audio/

Senate Business & Commerce
senate.texas.gov/av-live.php
First witness in Senate is Bob Rose, meteorologist with @LCRA #txlege #txenergy
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🏙️#ecoleanthropocene2021 Cours public de @MichelLussault "A la recherche du métabolisme urbain". Petit FIL🧵⬇️1/8
#teamHG #Geography #metabolisme #urbain
@EcoleUrbaine @APHG_National
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2/ La masse anthropogénique (masse de la matière et des artéfacts produits par l’humain) dépasse désormais la biomasse (masse du vivant)
theconversation.com/sur-terre-la-m…
3/ L'augmentation exponentielle de la masse anthropogénique correspond à la #GrandeAccélération depuis 70 ans. Elle est directement liée à l'#urbanisation généralisée du monde🏙️🌆🌇🌃
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🏙️#ecoleanthropocene2021 Ds son cours public @MichelLussault revient sur les critiques adressées au terme #Anthropocene qui ferait porter la dégradation de l'habitabilité de la🌍à l'ensemble de l'humanité (anthropos)⬇️1/
▶️A voir en replay
@EcoleUrbaine
2/ +qu'une nouvelle ère géologique, l'#Anthropocene est une nouvelle époque historique dans le processus d'humanisation de la planète qui se traduit par une #urbanisation généralisée et le #ChangementGlobal
3/ Les études sur l'#Anthropocene, ce moment particulier de l'#histoire humaine, mettent en évidence les #inégalités vertigineuses dans la responsabilité des différents humains quant au forçage du système biophysique de la planète
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Olivier Hamant: La #Pandemie et l'#Anthropocene nous renvoient à nos croyances fixistes: on a du mal à imaginer que demain sera différent d'aujourd'hui
#conservatisme
#ecoleanthropocene2021
@EcoleUrbaine
📉Olivier Hamant: L'#anthropocene est le moment où la #performance est contreproductive
#resilience #IvanIllich
#ecoleanthropocene2021
@EcoleUrbaine
Olivier Hamant: Imaginer la nouvelle mission des ingénieurs/euses où l'objectif ne serait pas la performance mais la gestion de l'incertitude
#formation #ecolesdingés
#ecoleanthropocene2021
@EcoleUrbaine
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