Je reviens dans cette discussion, car je veux clarifier la contribution scientifique de @ysaheb. Valérie Masson-Delmotte a bien sûr raison, le terme de sobriété (=sufficiency) a apparu dans de précédents rapports du GIEC. Par contre, il n'a jamais apparu dans le résumé pour...
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https://twitter.com/Cobra_FX_/status/1778767372456783890

décideurs (=Summary for Policy Makers=SPM) qui est approuvé par les gouvernements et donc a le poids d'un texte onusien, c'est à dire que tous les gouvernements reconnaissent la validité précise du contenu et des termes. Non seulement c'est grâce au travail scientifique ...
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Not entirely comfortable doing this, but Twitter is where I think my thoughts out loud, and I recently read (*) "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" by Andreas Malm, and I have ... thoughts. A 🧵, obviously.
😍 First of all, I LOVED it, which I was not expecting. It is a thoughtful ...
1/ careful book, interested in people and ideas and history. It is much less a rah-rah manifesto, and much more a "what have people done in the past, what can we do now, let's think through pros and cons, ok?" kind of book. It is lovely. Read it. It is not long, 3 main chapters.
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I have something unformed to say, but basically it comes down to hiding or refusing to face reality being, at their very core, evil.
Israel is determined to kill-expel every single man, woman and child in Gaza. 99% of their actions and words point clearly that way, since Oct.
1/ Pretending otherwise, paying attention to the 1% words, deflection, Holocaust-washing and symbolic actions designed to draw attention away from a thorough and deliberate genocide, is evil. Because it gives protection to the genocide and the genocidaires.
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I need everyone, esp in academia, to watch this clip and understand what @mayaywind is saying when she says that Israeli universities are deeply complicit in the Gaza genocide. Hebrew Uni is helping define targets. Tel Aviv Uni is developing arguments against human rights.
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https://twitter.com/democracynow/status/1768623553560097189

Read this commentary based on her book "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom."
It is one of the most chilling pieces I have ever read. Israeli legal and ethics scholars are trying to redefine international law ...
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dawnmena.org/how-israeli-un…

Ok listen up. some people in replies are saying that a port is better than airdrops of aid. DO NOT FALL FOR THIS CON.
There are 1000s of trucks full of aid waiting outside Gaza. Israel is the one stopping them. If they can let trucks in to construct a port, they bloody well...
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https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1767193737388589160

can let trucks full of actual aid in. Like right now. This second. Full of food and medicine and vitally needed supplies to save lives RIGHT NOW.
This port, like the airdrops, is a smokescreen. If Israel and US wanted the aid to get through, it would happen instantaneously.
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A bunch of people in replies trying to use the opportunity to dump on Navalny. Let's get things straight. Navalny was not perfect - he was a racist. But he was also an immensely courageous anti-corruption and pro-democracy activist, with more guts than 99.9999% of humanity.

https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1761650308696977602

He was a hero, flawed as all heroes must be. It should be possible to criticise his major flaws while also recognising his immense qualities, and to mourn him and what his murder means for dissidents and citizens in Russia an beyond.

It's becoming clear to me how generalised Western Islamophobia has prevented "us" (media, politicians, public...) from truly understanding the violent, extreme Zionism that rules Israel. For instance:
1⃣ we recognise indoctrination of children by ISIS, but not by Zionist orgs.
1/ But Zionist organisations teach children false history and indoctrinate them into violence against Palestinians and Arabs more generally.
2⃣ we recognise violent terrorism as 'belonging' to Islam, but we fail to recognise the long patterns of violent terrorism ...
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Speaking of UK institutions sliding into fascism, the new social media policy of my former employer, @UniversityLeeds is a piece of work.

Based on this policy, a whole bunch of vital communication would be banned.
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hr.leeds.ac.uk/info/83/social…


1⃣ Campaigns like fossil fuel divestment could not call out "Petroleum@Leeds", the Leeds institute funded by fossil fuel companies and advancing their interests, since it would (absolutely rightfully) bring the university into disrepute.
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Honestly it is hard to do any kind of work right now, between the accelerating of planetary destabilisation and the breakdown of any pretence of international law and human rights.
It's hard to breathe, even.
There has to be a way of working towards good. There has to be.
1/ One thing that has been very striking is that the neoliberal (or whatever this is) world order is in some ways even worse than aristocracy or theocracy. With aristocracy or theocracy, from time to time, by chance, a few decent people occur who can shift things for the better.
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Which is one core reason why the green transition must also be a sufficiency and equity transition: the less energy we use, the less of these minerals need to be dug up.
And also why the database @OurWorldInData should include material use. The choice *NOT* to account ...

https://twitter.com/Prof_FSultana/status/1753989245042139441

... for materials is an explicitly political one. For CO2 emissions, we see some decoupling with GDP, even if it is not universal or fast enough. For materials, there is none. Accounting for materials puts the lie to green growth. Material use is a core part of environmental...

3 full months of ACCELERATING genocide in Gaza & there is something that paralyses me: what could possibly ever cause anyone, apart from the most exceptional monster, to justify this?
I know Hannah Arendt answered this question. I know the monster is banal & unexceptional.
A 🧵. I know/knew people who support this. I know/knew people who soft-pedal their criticism out of regard for the perpetrators. I know/knew people who are trying to play 'greater good' long term games in their reasoning. I know/knew people like this. I should understand. I don't.
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Lots of people (not that many actually lol) are asking me my opinion on COP28. Here it is.
1. Loss and Damage fund major breakthrough thanks to Hana Al-Hashimi, no thanks to Al Jaber.
2. OF COURSE fossil fuel companies and petrostates will do everything to stop climate action.
🧵 I wrote about this earlier this year and don't have much to change. ""We continue to witness the rise and triumph of the fossil fuel industry over our societies."

3. I don't want to write about climate any more because the climate science community ...
2/ climatica.lamarea.com/climate-2023-j…

I have something unformed to say, and it's not safe to speak without the right dose of nuance these days. It makes understanding worse, or entails disproportionate consequences. But here goes:
Palestinians have a right to self defence, including violence. But violence sucks.
1/ I am seeing a lot of people, both pro-Palestinian and tired/uncreative around climate, advocate for potential further violence as a means to an end. And none of these people have (a) first-hand experience of violence (b) the slightest strategic notion of how it might help irl.
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The @derspiegel hit piece on @GretaThunberg (researched by 6!!! journalists) is sooooo much worse than even its critics are making it out to be. I can't go through the whole thing, it would take waaaay too much time. I'll just cover some parts.
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spiegel.de/international/… While @derspiegel minimizes and glosses over the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza as "civilians are suffering and dying", it at the same time accuses those who support Palestinian rights of "ignoring" the Oct 7 Hamas massacre "because the victims were Jewish". 🤯🤯🤯
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I am just constantly on the verge of breaking down. The dissonance and horror are too much. What does it even mean to be human if humans willingly inflict so much suffering on others, while others cheer on? What is the actual point?
But you see, there is a point to life.
1/ I didn't always know what the point of our lives was. But now I do.
Here it is, the secret to life, the universe, and everything:
Humans like, above all, to care for others, and be cared for.
That's it. That's all.
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I don't think there is enough popular awareness that extreme Judaism, example Netanyahu's invocation of Amalek, is EVERY bit just as heinous and violent as extreme Islam, Christian fundamentalism, extreme Hinduism etc.
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motherjones.com/politics/2023/… Extreme Judaism, NOT to be confused with orthodox or reform Judaism, explicitly views non-Jews (and quite often non-conforming Jews) to be non-human, hence unworthy of any rights or consideration, including the right to life.
This is the view of Netanyahu and much of his govt.
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Something I have been thinking about for days and nights this past month: what happens now? We keep struggling and marching and pressuring our complicit leaders, ok - but what else given the collapse of any pretence of international support for human rights, against genocide?
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https://twitter.com/alison_phipps/status/1723092854111600664

All I can come up with is this: as with all massive global challenges of good vs evil (climate, inequality, neo-colonialism etc), we have to think & work much harder to counter the organised forces of destruction than to demonstrate the necessity/possibility of a better world.
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I have another point to make on Oct 7 and antisemitism. I have several dear, dear friends on the "other" side. They are grievously hurt that their safety and protection, after the Hamas Oct 7 massacre and hostage-taking, isn't being taken to heart by the global left.
1/ This is another danger. Any incomplete story is a misleading story, leads to false analysis. There is antisemitism on the left, as on the right. I have seen self-styled ecosocialist accounts on here make antisemitic jokes and partake in Oct 7 denial, calling it a "massacre".
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Listen up. Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century. This is what the first real signal of this new century looks like, out in the open, clear for all to see.
1/ I am finding it hard to put into words. It is not just the knowledge of deliberate mass death and atrocities being committed: it is the realisation that our goverments are brazenly, proudly, supporting it.
Switzerland cancelled funding for human right NGOs last week ffs.
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Wow. When a third rate, fascist-wannabe German "political columnist" attacks a the daughter of a Holocaust survivor as an "insane antisemitic liar" ... you cannot make this up. Maybe he should lose his job?
My father stood for Palestinian human rights as well, btw. He said this after I had the temerity to criticize a thread and published column (!) where he calls for unconditionnal support for Israel and harsh, immediate, repression against any critics. Then he blocked me. His words are here, for all to read.
threadreaderapp.com/thread/1715445…

The only news coverage of the outrageous firing of a climate scientist FOR NOT FLYING I can find is by @juliakconley in @commondreams .

This is ... also outrageous. Why is this not a bigger story, shared more widely by journalists & scientists? 🤔🤔🤔
1/ commondreams.org/news/flying-ca…

https://twitter.com/JKSteinberger/status/1708790374926258247

I think it's because @GGrimalda 's integrity & consistent actions are uncomfortable to many of us. So many academics & even climate activists continue to fly, we make up convenient excuses for ourselves. Dr Grimalda refuses to & his integrity holds up an uncomfortable mirror. 2/