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Compiled Climate News & Information

The U.S to struggle to meet President Biden's 2035 decarbonization plan

Talking Through The Tangled Terms Of Climate Change

Climate Crisis leaving 'millions at risk of trafficking and slavery'

California Wildfires threaten famous Sequoia trees

Greenpeace: Climate Hope Is Everywhere You Are

Eco-Anxiety information and management resources in my pinned post

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Help Stop Line 3 By Texting " PDDGVP " to 50409

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first nations institute is doing a match for match with donations rn if you have the means to donate; it goes to native american communities who need funding for health & food programs!!

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Compiled Climate News & Information

Environmentalist groups call to protect 80% of the Amazon rainforest at summit in Marseille

Indigenous Resistance Against Carbon is one of many groups who's protests have curbed a spectacular amount of the US and Canada's GHG pollution

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Compiled Climate News & Information

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For decades, corporations responsible for polluting and harming the planet have fought workers rights and dismantled local environmental protections. Now, organizations in the heart of the Appalachia coal country are fighting back, insisting that climate action and workers rights must go hand in hand.

President Joe Biden tours the damage in the northeast caused by Hurricane Ida, acknowledging that "we don't have any more time"

Environmental groups including Sierra Club go to Congress for funding, asking billions in funding and introducing a "climate test" - a detailed list of programs they want lawmakers to support.

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Ecological Philosophy: How it operates, and how we can incorporate it into our lives and thoughts

Note: this light research and summary is a lot to think about at once. If you're unfamiliar with big words (seriously, no shame, I had to google this stuff too) and have trouble digesting abstract concepts, feel okay with coming back to this post later once you feel confident in understanding the smaller parts of the greater whole.

For accessibility purposes, this is a list of some somewhat complex words and their definitions you should know to fully understand this information. Other words or phrases that may be complex will have a small link after they are said.

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Ethics: moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.

Philosophy: the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

Metaphysics: the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

Ontological: relating to the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

Holism: the theory that parts of a whole are in intimate interconnection, such that they cannot exist independently of the whole, or cannot be understood without reference to the whole, which is thus regarded as greater than the sum of its parts.

Reductionism: [sometimes used derogatorily] the practice of analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of phenomena that are held to represent a simpler or more fundamental level, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.

Epistemic: relating to knowledge or to the degree of its validation.

Rationalism: a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response.

Empiricism: the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience.

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Wikipedia defines ecological philosophy as (somewhat paraphrased) "a concept under the philosophy of science centred on the practice and application of ecology, its moral issues, and the intersectionality between the position of humans and other entities [x].

The Methodology[x] of Ecological Philosophy centers around two debates. Though ecological philosophers today are more pluralist[x] and eclectic, it's valuable to understand these two debates. The first is Holism vs Reductionism [x], which feuds over the basic foundation of investigation in this area of philosophy, and the relationship of it between things like chemistry or physics. Though the debate, by nature, goes nowhere, as nothing in the physical world can resolve it, it's worth dissecting. The debate itself has progressed in the past and present as follows:

Both sides developed the theoretical foundation for their way of thinking, and therefore fleshed out their respective assumptions and views about reality.

Holists, however, struggled to build upon their foundation with models, tools, or experimental techniques, which somewhat conceded that the foundation itself didn't really correlate to the real world.

Two ontologies, one methodology (the reductionist one).

Most ecologists (philosophical and otherwise) accepted this dichotomy[x], but were unconvinced of its relation to the real world, the down-and-dirty ecology, since both sides were attempting to or using mixed strategies, simply superimposing their ontology on top and therefore not really adding anything of physical value to ecology.

Because of that, eclecticism[x] was a common practice.

Physical ecologists were starving for a good philosophy, but the philosophers weren't coming up with anything of substance.

To add to that, the physical ecologists and philosophers weren't on the same page about what "Holism" and "Reductionism" even meant.

In short, the more analytical and arguably more philosophical Holists built a foundation for their ontology based on the analysis of the systems and individual parts of the greater whole - the whole of nature and ecology. However, the Reductionists on their own foundation were more pragmatic[x] about ecology, and thus had more ability to apply their ontology to physical ecology (My ap-ology for all these -ology words. Ha.)

The second debate is between Rationalism and Empiricism. This debate is less concerned with the ontology, but more, rather, with the mindset each side thinks is needed when going into ecological work. For this reason, it's much easier to explain in short. The Rationalists are mathematical, and believe in using ecological theory as a guide to create logistic[x] models for ecology. Rationalism in ecology was most pronounced around the 1920s, through the work of Vito Volterra and later by Alfred Lotka, combined creating what is known as Lotka-Volterra equations by which Rationalist activities are used and done. Empiricism, on the other hand, was less focused on theoretical mathematical models and more interested in gathering empirical[x] scientific data from the real world. Once again, the dichotomy is understandable and accepted, but the practice of combining the two is important. Mathematical theories can be made to predict the empirical data. Once the empirical data is physically collected and recorded, the discrepancies[x] between the theory and the reality can be compared and corrected, allowing the mathematics to further accurately predict how the environment is actually doing, and the process repeats. That said, a pluralistic combination model of Rationalism and Empiricism has yet to be developed, and I'm speaking purely in speculation.

The ethics of ecological philosophy are encompassed, by, well, Environmental Ethics. Environmental Ethics was developed in the 1970s as a response to the classical anthropocentrism[x]. You're likely already familiar with Environmental Ethics without having the name for it. It's concerned with the human proclivity[x] of polluting the planet, and the act of preserving the life on the planet for its own sake, believing that Earth itself is a moral motivation, the survival of humanity simply being a nice side effect.

Further explanation and exploration of environmental ethics will come with later posts, so follow for more climate communication, information, and activism.

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Compiled Climate & Technology News

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As those in charge of electricity slowly transition to cleaner energy, tensions with what to do with fossil fuel plants escalate, as illustrated by a clash between Minnesota Utility and its main energy supplier

The first completely sustainable, crewless cargo ship will make its first voyage this year

Although climate disasters have ramped up significantly in the past 50 years, the earlier warnings for them we have now are saving lives

Leaded fuel, as a whole, is gone. Everywhere.

Asia and the Pacific deal with a "triple-threat" of disease, natural disasters, and temperatures warming.

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Also, I want to say Thank You to - er - @tony-the-tigers-juicy-armpit , for reblogging my Hurricane Ida donation resources post. I'm a small blog, so I really was not expecting it to get any notes, but I guess enough people follow him to actually spread that around.

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Outlets to Donate & Aid Hurricane Ida Victims

🌀Mutual Aid Disaster Relief [Information courtesy of @powerstruggles ]

🌀The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies

🌀Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative

🌀Second Harvest Food Bank

🌀Team Rubicon

🌀GoFundMe

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Thank you for the information, I'll trim the fat off my post and add MADR with credit to you.

Outlets to Donate & Aid Hurricane Ida Victims

🌀Greater New Orleans Foundation

🌀The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies

🌀Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative

🌀Global Giving

🌀United Way of Southeast Louisiana

🌀Cajun Navy Relief

🌀Second Harvest Food Bank

🌀Team Rubicon

🌀GoFundMe

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Outlets to Donate & Aid Hurricane Ida Victims

🌀Mutual Aid Disaster Relief [Information courtesy of @powerstruggles ]

🌀The Partnership for Inclusive Disaster Strategies

🌀Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative

🌀Second Harvest Food Bank

🌀Team Rubicon

🌀GoFundMe

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before ida hits and yall inevitably have to hear about louisiana and mississippi being fucked, i’d just like to put out there that while, yes, the loop current intensifies hurricanes (warm area in the gulf of mexico), climate change is MOST DEFINITELY partly contributing to the sheer increase of hurricanes that have undergone rapid intensification in this area. and the thing is that louisiana isn’t poor because companies dont want to be there, but because companies (OIL COMPANIES) want to be there to avoid having to pay higher taxes elsewhere. and this hurricane is going to cost them A LOT of money, but these companies still dont care about climate change or the effect that it has on their business as long as they can make a quick buck.

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Help To Stop Line 3 By:

🛑 Texting PUCZGE to 50409

🛑 Writing letters to officials

🛑 Signing the petition(s) (Check my pinned post)

🛑 Listening to and boosting Indigenous voices

🛑 Showing support for protestors in Minnesota and beyond

🛑 Educating others and spreading information

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Good Climate News

Carbonate rockmounds on the seafloor host microbes that eat methane, which would otherwise bubble to the surface and act as another greenhouse gas.

Microbes in cow stomachs can recycle certain plastics such as those found in soda bottles, food packaging, and synthetic fabric

Solar powered food delivery trucks are being rolled out, replacing diesel-powered trucks with sustainable energy

Solar energy can be used to purify water

Sewer sludge can be converted into energy and mineral salts

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This gives me hope!

By CNN Climate

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✨current read✨

I totally recommend this book to anyone! It’s important for us to educate ourselves in on going problems for our world. Please give this book a chance! It’s super short and is a total eye opener 🌎🌲☘️🌷

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I know times are scary

And I, too, have heard terrifying news about the recent climate events around the world.

I know some of you might be scared, and that’s understandable and valid. But I truly believe that these kind of times can either make or break us. And if we treat what’s happening as the end, we really wouldn’t have a chance to change it.

Let what you fear be the thing that drives you, if nothing else does. Be powerful and driven and don’t lose hope, because that might be the most dangerous thing. Make changes and speak up and fight and let yourself be heard in the way that you deserve to.

We’re all scared, we’re all tired, but this is no time to give up trying. 

Please, contact me if you need anything, have a question or just want to vent. I haven’t been around much since life got in the way, but I’m still here and I haven’t given up.