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Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists

January 13, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Place holder for The Guardian article “Human ‘behavioural crisis’ at root of climate breakdown, say scientists”   “We’ve socially engineered ourselves the way we geoengineered the planet,” says Joseph Merz, lead author of a new paper which proposes that climate breakdown is a symptom of ecological overshoot, which in turn is caused by the deliberate … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, the Anthropocene, Thinking about Tagged: behavioural, carbon emissions, climate breakdown, climate change, consuming, consumption, crisis, geoengineered, large families, neuropsychology, norms, Population, renewable energy, social signalling, waste

Arctic permafrost thawing

June 19, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted Ice blocks frozen solid for thousands of years destabilized ‘The climate is now warmer than at any time in last 5,000 years’ Reuters Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.02 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.58 EDT A cemetery sitting on melting permafrost … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Politics, Science, Thinking about Tagged: Alaska, climate, climate breakdown, climate emergency, decarbonise, permafrost, thawing, thermokarst, tipping point

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