Goa Tse-tung posted:

love that there is a tribunal about the fate of this thread in SAD right now, and nobody asked in here for feedback or anything

Microplastics posted:

Huh so there is. Here's the link in case anyone wants to defend the thread:

silicone thrills posted:

Reading Fathoms: The World in a Whale right now and im about 40% in but its really really eco doomer and well written. Mostly about how humans totally loving decimated the whale population by 99.7% in around 100 years and it goes some into how whales are basically their own carbon sinks and have a real affect on climate. But also the psychological implication of "why do we suddenly give a poo poo after we murdered them this hard" and the psychology of caring about endangered species.

Tzen posted:

Trixie Hardcore posted:

This post seems like a trap

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/DoctorVive/status/1654822738052169728?s=20

Zodium posted:

the english version is Marx in the Anthropocene.

Mola Yam posted:

Wheeee posted:

lol just look at this stupid fuckin post

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brakeless posted:

Im exxxtremely insane + stupid and this is my favorite thread on the entire internet, please don't take it way mr. website man

Mola Yam posted:

Zodium posted:

the english version is Marx in the Anthropocene.

quote:

The world is on fire. We are experiencing ‘the end of the end of history’. With the rapid deepening of the global ecological crisis in various forms such as climate change, oxidation of the ocean, disruption of the nitrogen cycle, desertification, soil erosion and loss of biodiversity, Francis Fukuyama’s declaration of ‘the end of history’ after the collapse of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (Fukuyama 1992) is approaching a totally unexpected dead end today, namely the end of human history.

In fact, the triumph of neoliberal globalization only accelerated the rapid increase in environmental impacts upon the earth by human activities since the end of the Second World War – the so called ‘Great Acceleration’, the age in which all major socio-economic and Earth system trends record a hockey stick pattern of increase (McNeil and Engelke 2016) – and ultimately destabilized the foundation of human civilization. Pandemic, war and climate breakdown are all symptomatic of ‘the end of history’, putting democracy, capitalism and ecological systems into chronic crisis.

Many people are well aware of the fact that the current mode of living is heading towards catastrophe, but the capitalist system does not offer an alternative to the juggernaut of overproduction and overconsumption. Nor is there any compelling reason to believe that it will soon do so because capitalism’s systemic compulsion continues to employ fossil fuel consumption despite consistent warnings, knowledge and opposition. Considering the fact that rapid, deep decarbonization that could meet the 1.5-degree-Celsius target of the Paris Agreement requires thorough transformative changes in virtually every sphere of society, more radical social movements embracing direct action have emerged, demanding to uproot the capitalist system....

It is surely too naïve to believe that the further development of productive forces in Western capitalism could function as an emancipatory driver of history in the face of the global ecological crisis. In fact, the situation today differs decisively compared with that of 1848: capitalism is no longer progressive. It rather destroys the general conditions of production and reproduction and even subjects human and non-human beings to serious existential threat. In short, Marx’s view of historical progress appears hopelessly outdated. In this situation, if there is a slight hope of a revival of Marxism in this historical conjuncture, its essential precondition is the radical reformulation of its infamous grand scheme of ‘historical materialism’ that pivots around the contradiction between ‘productive forces’ and ‘relations of production’. This constitutes the central topics of this book in order not to end (human) history but to envision another clear, bright future from a Marxian perspective without falling into pessimism and apocalypticism in the face of global ecological crisis.

Stereotype posted:

drat i stood up to do this, beaten to the punch

Harik posted:

lol another one?

lmao at worrying bout the "mental health" of posters here when they're so freakishly obsessed

Xaris posted:

this seems promising

though lol at calling extinction rebellion a radical movement embracing direct action. it's a joke to diffuse actual unrest energy

quote:

This chapter, following Marx’s ecological analysis and method, defends his ecosocialist realism in a non-Cartesian manner against monist conceptions of the world. While many critiques of the Anthropocene narrative are valid, they do not immediately justify the claim that monism is superior to dualism in conceptualizing the current ecological crisis (I). The problem of monism becomes particularly visible when investigating influential discourses in current environmental geography. Prominent critiques of Cartesian dualism of Society and Nature in the Marxist tradition come from Neil Smith’s ‘production of nature’ and Jason W. Moore’s ‘world-ecology’. Although their reconceptualization of the human–nature relationship looks quite radical at first glance, a series of theoretical difficulties in these monist approaches become discernible upon closer examination.

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Methane leaks alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK, satellite data has revealed.

Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas from the oil- and gas-rich country are “mind-boggling”, and an “infuriating” problem that should be easy to fix, experts have told the Guardian.

The data produced by Kayrros for the Guardian found that the western fossil fuel field in Turkmenistan, on the Caspian coast, leaked 2.6m tonnes of methane in 2022. The eastern field emitted 1.8m tonnes. Together, the two fields released emissions equivalent to 366m tonnes of CO2, more than the UK’s annual emissions, which are the 17th-biggest in the world.

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Most of the facilities leaking the methane were owned by Turkmenoil, the national oil company, Kayrros said. Further undetected methane emissions will be coming from Turkmenistan’s offshore oil and gas installations in the Caspian Sea, but the ability of satellites to measure methane leaks over water is still being developed.

Kayrros also did some high-resolution monitoring of the North Bugdayly field in western Turkmenistan. The number of super-emitter events there doubled to almost 60 between 2021 and 2022, with one recent super-emitter pouring out methane for almost six weeks.

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Turkmenistan is China’s biggest supplier of gas and is planning to double its exports to the country. Until 2018, Turkmen citizens had received free gas and electricity. However, the country is also very vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis, with the likelihood of severe drought projected to increase “very significantly” over the 21st century and yields of major crops expected to fall.

Cuttlefush posted:

americans are the stupidest motherfuckers on the planet

Microplastics posted:

Huh so there is. Here's the link in case anyone wants to defend the thread:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031532&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Microplastics posted:

Huh so there is. Here's the link in case anyone wants to defend the thread:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4031532&pagenumber=1&perpage=40

Harik posted:

lol another one?

lmao at worrying bout the "mental health" of posters here when they're so freakishly obsessed