Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
>Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.
>Australians are the worst offenders per person due to our excessive resource use.
Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13842896
> >Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.
Sufficiency is a new approach to solving humanity’s consumption problems. It’s about using less, ensuring wellbeing for all humans, and staying within planetary boundaries.
>Humanity’s rapacious consumption is more than Earth and its climate can handle, which is driving an ecological crisis.
How did a Philippine nature reserve get caught up in an information battle?
Manila has spent billions of dollars on flood mitigation projects but few have been completed.
>Government data shows that just one of the smaller “flagship” projects was completed this year, while the rest have languished in their preparatory stages since at least 2018.
>The DPWH also reported that 70 percent of Metro Manila’s “antiquated drainage system” was clogged with rubbish and silt, hampering flood management. It also reported that the country lacks a national flood control master plan, with only 18 scattered plans for major river basins which are “still being currently updated”.
Cop31 is a chance to redefine ourselves from climate laggard to global leade
No it isn't, such foolish, ney stupid thinking.
The entire COP process has been co-opted by fossil fuel interests and is now irrelevant , we're a massive exporter of fossil fuels and have zero interest in moving foward to zero emissons, voters will never tolerate not being able to fly and told they can't drive cars, stop owing meat eating pets etc
If we wanted to be "leaders" we'd not be holding the Olympics in Australia, not be spending billions expanding Brisbane, Melbourne and Hobart airports, we'd have abandoned all new road projects and only be building PT and AT infrastructure and be closing coal mines and gas extraction and redoing society for low energy dependence, while starting managed abandonment of coastlines and Northern Australia.
Just stick to denial and useless tokenism with a few solar panels and ecars like other developed countries and stop with the hypocrisy.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Boyd said: “There’s no place in the climate negotiations for fossil-fuel companies. There is no place in the plastic negotiations for plastic manufacturers. It just absolutely boggles my mind that anybody thinks they have a legitimate seat at the table.
“It has driven me crazy in the past six years that governments are just oblivious to history. We know that the tobacco industry lied through their teeth for decades. The lead industry did the same. The asbestos industry did the same. The plastics industry has done the same. The pesticide industry has done the same.”
Still so much 2FA via SMS where I am in Aus.
I'd prefer to move everything over to something like Signal but I neeed a phone # to register for that but how do u tell the bank my Signal ID is @hanrhan.666
In the form of bottles, tires, packaging and piping, millions of tons of plastic waste are dumped every year in the world's waterways, often ending up in the oceans.
>The Philippines, which has thousands of islands, dumps the most plastic into the sea. Its Pasig River, which flows into Manila Bay, is "the most (plastic) polluted" in the world.
Guy yesyerday on Whirlpool saying he had to replace the tyres on his BMW i4, at 40,000km. He was shocked :)
The new like for like tyres were $2500 (in Australian banana dollars).
Tyre pollution is a real killer and made much worse with EVs :(
Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims. Can it keep up the ruse? | Technology | The Guardian
Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official figures
>“It’s down to creative accounting,”
The tool.used by most white collar grifters.
Which is widely know but surprisingly well supported by a vast number of voters.
Sure, thats why the police shouldn't be there, they only ever escalate, antognise and make it worse.
Good news! Fuck the Swiss.
Works for me
If I can't walk there, I don't go.
Beware the great green deception: ‘perceptionware’ is being used to hoodwink us
Grand schemes, many backed by government, masquerade as taking action on the environment. They should be disowned, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Theres none so blind as those who don't want to see.
Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, according to an international research team including scientists from T...
>Earth will only remain able to provide even a basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared
Seems like we're doing the opposite with wider support by voters for the orthdoxy of destruction. Even then I remain sceptical.
Yeah, smart TV, never connect it to the 'net, get a used shield pro, ADB and side load F Launcher. No ads.
Shelds remote can control the TV volume and its connected via HDMI and the Shiekd Pro remote switches both off and on. I use Kodi, Prime, Smart Tube Next and a couple local TV apps.
Not what u want but that's where I am and it works well.
Be interested to see the responses
Report says governments in global north increasingly using draconian measures while criticising similar tactics in global south
Hypocrisy, thy name is liberal democracy?
So jealous of the mushrooms, just not a thing really here in Australia, so can't even learn :(.
We do collect wild garlic and blackberries but we've got so much of our own now. (Thornless blackberries and wild garlic in pots)
Filipino preacher and self-proclaimed ‘son of God’ Apollo Quiboloy appeared in court after a weeks-long manhunt.
Thats a dark road to tread.
An example,
no alchol consumption is safe, so using your line of thinking you'd need to argue that anyone who partakes of alcohol at any anytime would fall under that line of thinking
Processed red meats simailary, especially those treated with nitrites, so those eating bacon, ham etc shouldn't be entitled to public heath care under your reasoning
Or are those things ok becase you do them ?
On the upside, now you've excluded 95% of the population, public healthcare will be cheap :)
Contra to most peoples thinking, if you're concerned about public healthcare costs, you should "encourage" obesiety and smoking, they all die early, most health care coats are associated with healthy people in their old age. See here
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/health/05iht-obese.1.9748884.html
Adults are stupid and greedy, we all are.
More than two-thirds of Australian homes have building issues, new report says - ABC News
New Australian Housing and Urban Institute research has found that about 70 per cent of households have reported building quality problems. It also found that most of Australia's existing housing stock was energy-inefficient and of poor quality.
>It found about 70 per cent of existing homes have building quality problems, while more than two-thirds of homes have an energy rating of three stars or lower.
>Australia really just doesn't have the policy instruments or policies in place that one might expect for building performance and housing quality and condition," Dr Daniel said.
>So all of these homes were almost effectively reducing their useful life, because it's almost as soon as they're built, they're not up to what we might consider a standard that's fit for purpose," she said.
>"In the future, we can imagine that people living in those homes are going to be much more exposed to fluctuations in energy prices because they're over-reliant on heating and cooling.
What a cluster fuck
I use Webull for Aus shares and Charles Schwab for uS shares .
This is the most depressing thread I've read for some time.
It's horrific to read some of the posts twisting bad news and making out as though it's good news. It's like the posters are watching children in a sandpit playing, ignoring the monster flood thats about to wash them away but taking joy in their play. Wtf?
Professor Boyd is right https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy
Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’
And after reading this thread, i am even more sure Rees is
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/06/14/opinion/science-civilization-collapse-environment-limits
Rees bluntly states, “the human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphere” and “wide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted — collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.”
You both use Signal, problem solved.
I've never even browed the local feed on the Masro server I'm on.
Just pick a non mainstream one that has been around for a bit ?
I use Fedilab, Megalodon and Rodent.
I haven't found out how but that would be a kewl feature as I have wanted to a couple times. e.g how to browse all the communities on aussie.zone from my instance on slrpnk.net ?
Neither firi trains.
We solved this a loooong time ago, put some wires up ffs.
Earth’s climate has become dangerously unstable, and it’s only a matter of time before somewhere in Australia erupts in uncontrollable fire.
Bees 'starving' for pollen as native flowers fail to bloom - ABC News
After four consecutive dry winters, beekeepers in Western Australia are warning of diminished hives and biodiversity loss as fewer flowers bloom and pollen dries up.
In today's news of a continually deteriorating environment (depressing story before this was more roads being built)
>The native bushland on Western Australia's central coast would normally be bursting with springtime blooms but after four years of increasingly dry winters, only a handful of plants are starting to bud.
Australian Taxation Office fires warning shot over 'hopelessly flawed' sovereign citizen movement's tax advice
Sovereign citizens are using tax time to spread misinformation about the Australian Taxation Office, including the claim "tax is voluntary" and the authority is "not a legal entity".
The Australian Taxation Office says Australia's controversial sovereign citizen movement has used tax time to spread misinformation about taxes, including the claim "lodging is voluntary".
The ABC understands the authority is investigating complaints about one woman from Queensland, who claims she is a "spiritual accountant" and is allegedly advising people on how to avoid taxes.
The "cloud" that powers everything from sending an email to asking an AI chatbot a question needs massive amounts of power to run, and that's making energy experts nervous.
>Morgan Stanley estimates that data centres are currently using 5 per cent (1,050 MW) of the electricity on Australia's power grid and that is expected to grow to 8 per cent (2,500 MW) by 2030.
>Some estimates even suggest they could require up to 15 per cent of the power on the grid by then.
Gold Coast high-rise apartment owners hit with 'view tax' as council raises rates
The Gold Coast council is under fire for slugging unit owners living on higher floors of apartment buildings with massive rate rises.
>"I appreciate there is definitely going to be property owners in high-rises that will be frustrated ... but the premise that a person living in a $2 million, $3 million, $5 million penthouse should pay exactly the same rates on the ground floor unit isn't a fair model," he said.
A sovereign citizen group is using a fake court to justify child kidnapping and extortion
A radical sovereign citizen group co-invented by a fugitive mother is using a fake court to justify attempted child abduction, extortion, and intimidation of court officials.
>Over the past six months members have filmed themselves entering or attempting to enter court houses, police stations, local council chambers and commercial offices across the country.
>During these interactions, an NDA "sheriff" typically approaches a polite, but often confused, front desk worker to proclaim Australia is now a "demilitarised zone" and that all government authority has been dissolved before handing them a written notice.
>The notice warns "failure to be fully compliant" with NDA's rules "will certainly place you at severe risk of possible persecution, imprisonment or financial ruin".
>Over time, these interactions have become more confrontational.
>Video seen by ABC Investigations showed police forcefully ejecting members of the group from Gympie Court House in May.
What in tarnation?
Native vegetation loss potentially 'devastating' after record dry autumn, botanist warns
Dying and starving native trees are becoming more common across South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania after months of little rain.
>Dr Moore said while Australian natives were resilient and well-adapted to harsh conditions, recent seasonal changes led to more dying out.
>"It's often becoming a bit warmer in these places," he said.
>"It's drier and when the rain falls, it's sometimes falling in the drier months, so that water evaporates as well.