mastodon 4.6.8La Prof Militante. Ecosocialist bluestocking. Immigrant & settler 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇺🇸🇬🇧. Social ecology & ecological economics @unil in 🇨🇭. Bad at email. She/her.
Just your regular reminder that those who claim we need new technologies to address the climate crisis are *really* saying that the overconsumption of the richest is more important than the rest of life on earth.
We have the tech we need for decent lives for all. 😘😘😘
Jesus everloving christ this chart from @ourworldindata@vis.social showing life expectancy loss due to covid. The US & Bulgaria lost 3 years (=2 decades of progress), but Mexico, India and South Africa lost 4 years - 3 decades of progress in Mexico's case. The macro-scale human cost is immense.
Absolutely tremendous #EconomicsForRebels podcast episode by ESEE
with financial sector expert Katie Kedward. Essential listening and learning for everyone on planet earth. Wow.
https://podtail.com/en/podcast/economics-for-rebels/what-ecological-economists-need-to-know-about-the-/
@Narvuntien@mastodon.au How about the certainty of giving up a liveable planet?
Job alert!!! tenure track assistant professor in ecological transition at SciencesPo. Candidats should have PhD in sociology or political science.
https://www.sciencespo.fr/cso/en/news/recruitment-assistant-professor-tenure-track-sociology-environment-and-ecological-transition.html
@Narvuntien@mastodon.au I deal with reality, and observable reality says that the fight for public services and the fight for lowering resource demand within planetary boundaries are the same.
@wall0159@aus.social Hi Gussy, this is 3rd link. Rebound effect is all but eliminated with sufficiency: that's the whole point of decent living standards.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac1c27
Playlist for long evening of paperwork ...
Anohni covering If it be your will by Leonard Cohen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1JiJhWkM9M
ok I tried again. Why does the internet hate me. Anohni is so so very good though. Perfect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw
@jonas@techhub.social lol fail google it yourself 😂 😂
@crash_course@todon.eu @ourworldindata@vis.social
AIDS. A preventable disaster, moreover. Horrible.
@Prof_BearB@sciences.social @costrike@spore.social @bandit@mastodon.nz @ourworldindata@vis.social
Mexico and India have very similar colours, is that the issue? Colours are automatically generated.
@LolaPoliticka@masthead.social
Ok you're right, I should have said women outside fundamentalist religions ... similar things in orthodox judaism. Ugh ugh ugh.
