The wisdom of the market:
The people who make cars have known for a very long time that their main product is not cars, it’s CO2 via coal to smelt metals. Doesn’t make much difference if there’s an internal combustion engine in it or a battery.
Many have decided to address this by making cars bigger and heavier.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored so that the secondary product is as profitable as possible
The wisdom of the market:
The people who make steel have known for a very long time that their main product is not steel, it’s CO2.
In aggregate, they have done close to nothing about it.
In large part because the market does not want to price in something which it intentionally has ignored in order to make the secondary product cheaper
…bearing in mind that the postponed legislation is not generating sustainability anyway. It’s about the measurement and reporting of just how little we care about becoming sustainable.
Because as we all know, having good data on our emissions over the last 35 years has helped us drastically reduce global emissions
#ClimateDiary Oh no! Climate crisis might destroy CAPITALISM! Help! We must do something!
Australia records hottest 12 months and warmest March on record
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/03/australia-records-hottest-12-months-and-warmest-march-weather-on-record?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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#ClimateDiary The ice is not freezing as it should’: supply roads to Canada’s Indigenous communities under threat from climate crisis
This article is not just about supply roads, but all the challenges First Nation communities in Northern Ontario face. The injustice of it all.
Antarctic Sea Ice Plunged in Summer 2025
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/154112/antarctic-sea-ice-plunged-in-summer-2025
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So great to see so many amphibians out in the park tonight. Toads and newts mainly, also heard a frog calling. Had to put on my torch to avoid treading on them, it was warm today but is now cold so they were a bit lethargic moving across the path #Phenology #Spring #biodiversity #ClimateDiary
So great to see so many amphibians out in the park tonight. Toads and newts mainly, also heard a frog calling. Had to put on my torch to avoid treading on them, it was warm today but is now cold so they were a bit lethargic moving across the path
#Phenology #Spring #biodiversity #ClimateDiary
#Helsinki #ClimateDiary and if my post above wasn’t enticing e enough: here’s the event trailer! A brilliant trailer!
Join us next week (9th and 10th April) for "What is Possible": an online and in-person workshop at the University of Helsinki on engaged Scholarship on Healthcare, Humanitarianism, Education, and Climate Action.
I will speaking about local governments as a nexus for climate action, based on my own experiences here in #Eastbourne.
Registration free, by 7.4.25
#Helsinki #ClimateDiary
@tutam @avi
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/resilient-and-just-systems/events/what-possible
Kinda hoped this would get at least some engagement, so here’s another go via the #climateDiary and #degrowth hashtags
Dear #ClimateDiary, I am finding it frustrating today that people who ignore scientists just openly screaming about the approach of a three-degree hell-world are snapping to attention now that a bank has used the same data to promote a bullish outlook for air conditioning
I took a look at how the UK’s consumption-based emissions (cos those are the ones that matter) have been going.
According to Our World in Data, they peaked in 2004 at 757.04 million tonnes (MT) and have been dropping at an average rate of 2.404% per year since then.
If we carry on at that rate they’ll be 247.17 MT in 2050, which will be about 3.6 tonnes per person (and 37% of 1990 levels).
What chance us carrying on at that rate or better?
Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change | Scientific American
https://subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eenews/2025/03/31/big-banks-predict-catastrophic-warming-with-profit-potential-00259938
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Having done a lot of demonstrating around Westminster Bridge recently, I suddenly realised what a good shot you can get of the Shard.
@quixoticgeek Same here. I noticed a few hardy balcony plants that normally look after themselves were looking a bit peaky and was puzzled, until it dawned on me that they were thirsty. In March. Felt too early to be fetching a watering can to compensate for what wasn't falling from the sky.
Arctic winter sea ice at record low this year, scientists say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/31/weather-tracker-arctic-winter-sea-ice-record-low-this-year-scientists?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Anyway, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding how we got to this point and how we might prevent ecological and societal collapse.
#Degrowth #Collapse #ClimateDiary (9/9)
