Wir sind *nicht* alle gleich verantwortlich für die Klimakatastrophe. Die reichsten 10% sind für 52% der Emissionen 1990-2015 verantwortlich, die ärmere Hälfte der Weltbevölkerung 50% für 7%.
Daher: #Klimagerechtigkeit und #Postwachstum
Wer ist für den Anstieg der CO-2 Emissionen verntwortlich, seit wir vom Klimawandel wissen? Vor allem die reicheren Teile der Weltbevölkerung. Neue Dinosaurier-Graphik von @oxfam. Studie hier: oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/hand…
Fossil fuel companies “have not simply been lying to the public, they have been killing members of the public at an accelerating rate, and prosecutors should bring that crime to the public’s attention.”
"The paper is rooted in part in the growing body of evidence fossil fuel companies knew of the harm their products caused and misled the public about them." @BenFranta
While the energy and material used for the production of bicycles increased over recent decades, in line with carbon emissions, life expectancy decreases.
One reason are changing materials.
As we argue in The Future is Degrowth @VersoBooks:
"As long as the primacy of economic efficiency – rather than criteria of sustainability and utility – dominates design processes and investments in technical infrastructures, this transformation will not succeed."
It starts by taking stock of the post-Covid situation, in which the "engines of this unjust status quo—capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, and various fundamentalisms—are making a bad situation worse"
And then analyses how the "energy transition" plays out differently in the Global South and the Global North
While postgrowth and degrowth are often defined as the “planned” reduction of production and consumption, there is little engagement with what “planning beyond growth” could look like.
There is a wide acceptance, at the abstract, most general, even definitional level, that degrowth involves planning or amounts to a planned transition. 2/
However, there is strikingly little explicit engagement with, debate on, and research into what exactly ‘planning for degrowth’ could look.
Scientists for civil disobedience and against the eviction of #Luetzerath
Here's our open letter with @SciReb_Germany calling to stop the eviction of this village that is blocking the expansion of one of Europe's biggest lignite mines.
Please sign, spread, support, come. 🧵
We cannot accept the decision that the village of Lützerath is to be sacrificed to the open-cast lignite mine Garzweiler II.
As scientists we say: In view of the climate catastrophe, not a single tonne of fossil fuels should actually be subsidised and burnt worldwide any longer.
The destruction of Lützerath is symbolic of the ignoring of scientific findings by political decision-makers.