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1/ Todays #rewildingscience paper sees us take a look at Dolly Jørgensen’s Rethinking Rewilding which investigates how the term rewilding was adopted and modified in ecological scientific discourse - sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #rewilding #ScienceTwitter Image
2/ The author starts by pointing out that the term rewilding has not come from nowhere and that ‘Wilderness’ as a conservation target, particularly in the US, has a long history.
3/ The Wilderness Act in 1964 defined it as ‘an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man’, yet wilderness was also a ‘resource’ for human use.
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On March 26 2020 the Club of Rome published an open letter: Call to Action from the Planetary Emergency Partnership*: Emerging from the Planetary Emergency and partnering between People and Nature"

clubofrome.org/impact-hubs/cl…
"#Covid19 has shown us that overnight transformational change is possible. A different world, a different economy is suddenly dawning."

The transformational change consists of a multi-pronged global transformation. The finalization of nature (#NewDealForNature) & reboot to #4IR.
First signatories to the open letter include Christiana Figueres, Sandrine Dixson (Co-President of The Club of Rome) Kate Raworth, Johan Rockström (#CI), & Hunter Lovins.

#NewDealForNature
#VoiceForThePlanet
#4IR #SmartCities
#TheyMeanBusiness
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(Wdh.) George #Monbiot ist "gefühlter" Stichwortgeber für Fridays For Future, Extinction Rebellion und darüber hinaus. Er spricht von System und, Kate Raworth ähnlich, einem Design von Wirtschaft.
(Screenshot von freitag.de/autoren/the-gu…)
Damit liegt er auf Linie mit den reformerisch-sozialdemokratischen Partner-Zeitungen #TheGuardian und #Freitag. Er hält das Wachstum im Kapitalismus für das non plus ultra des Untergangs der Menschheit und für einen politischen Imperativ. Er ruft dabei aus, Denkern zu folgen.
Luxus hält er für die Basis unserer Ordnung, vermutlich der westlichen. Bei all dem kommt bei ihm ein Mix aus antikapitalistischem Unbehagen und Pseudoökonomie heraus, wenig hilfreich für das Verstehen und Umwälzen des Bestehenden, hilfreich für die Mobilisierung der
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This is going to be a very important thread.

#WorldEconomicForum
#FourthIndustrialRevolution
#GretaThunberg
#SavingCapitalism with
#StakeholderCapitalism
#RedefiningCapitalism
#NewDealForNature

Let's start here, with this misleading article shared by the GT account.
To start. From the article:

"The theme of this year’s gathering in #Davos is “#stakeholders for a cohesive and sustainable world”. According to the forum’s website, leaders will meet to discuss ideas and improve our global progress on climate change."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
What is not shared is the primary focus:

"Focus of the meeting will be on renewing the concept of stakeholder #capitalism to overcome income inequality, societal division and the #climate crisis."

This #WEF release is new (Jan 14 2020) - but the focus & theme is not.
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Created Nov 2017:

#2020SuperYear: "We're working to secure an ambitious #NewDealForNature and People in the year 2020."

2017: 1 #WWF retweet on Dec 18

Created/managed by Bernadette Fischler Hooper - works at WWF-UK as Head of Advocacy – Our Planet / 2020 Project.
April 2019, Friends of the Earth:

"Happy 2020. It's going to be a big year"

"Will our government and business leaders act on the triple emergency of climate, nature and poverty, or will business as usual win?...
"What would life be like in 2030 if restoring nature, stabilising our climate & making strides in human development & poverty reduction were daily priorities for all gov'ts & every business for the decade starting in 2020?"
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Fast alle bisherigen Threads+ zur #Klimakrise, zu #FridaysForFuture, zu #ExtinctionRebellion etc. vom WRKSHP, nichtchronologisch, zum Teil in-medias-thread bzw. Drukos oder als HTMLisierter thread und doppelt:

(Foto: "Beuys-Baum" mit "-Stein" vor dem Kasseler Kohlekraftwerk)
George #Monbiot ist "gefühlter" Stichwortgeber...


#FridaysForFuture bisher noch ganz im Rahmen der herrschenden gesellschaftlichen Funktionsweise
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