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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Mar 20

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · Mar 20

FUCK - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITEN WHO CANT BELEIVE THAT SOMEONES ACTUALY GOTTA DO SOMETHING TO FIX EVERYTHING TAHTS GOING ON, AND AS WE FIND INSTITUTION'S WE THOUGHT WERE ON OUR SIDE CAPITULATE ONE BY ONE TO DA LOOMING TERROR IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT WHAT COME'S NEXT HAS HAPPENED MANY TIME'S BEFORE , AND WILL HAPPEN AFTER THIS TIME ,BUT WE ALL SORT OF THOUGHT IT WOULDENT BE FOR A WHILE, THE WARS WERE TO FAR AWAY, TO LONG AGO, AND BESIDE'S IF SOMETHING BAD WERE GOING TO HAPPEN, SOMEONE WOULD OF STOPPED IT BY NOW, SOMEONE IN POWER WOULD PUT THERE FOOT DOWN, SOMEONE WOULD HOLD YOUR LIFE AS SACRED AS THERE OWN, BUT THERE ARE NO HUMAN'S AT THE TOP ONLY WORM'S, AND ITS RAINING NOW, AND THERE HAPPY AND WET AND EVIL, BUT THE SUN WILL COME OUT, AND THEY WILL DRY ONTO THE PAVEMENT, AND TURN TO DUST, IT JUST SUCKS THAT WERE THE ONES THAT APPARENTLY GOTTA MAKE IT ALL HAPPEN, ANY WAY DA TEXT SAYS "SO WHAT DA FUCK DO WE DO NOW ??? DAMB IT " -= DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Mar 20

There’s something truly beautiful about this scale and extent of dystopia

Andrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · Mar 20

NO THANK YOU

Astronomers Fight Ads in Space

Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit

www.scientificamerican.com

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Mar 17

Super strong 'B-roll exposition from a dystopic future where we failed on climate' energy.

Predicted demand for EVs "seems not to have materialised" and it's all petrol SUVs instead. The Markets heard our prayers but did not answer, guess that's that, gg all

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · Mar 4

Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Mar 14

“The 2050 target is legally binding. If the country misses it because consumers don’t do their part, the government is subject to lawsuits”

*stirring music plays, patriotic sentiment swells*

Good piece to be clear but god I miss social movements and non-consumer citizenship. 2017 energy…

Olivia Rudgard @oliviarudgard.bsky.social · Mar 14

New from me: In its 7th Carbon Budget, @thecccuk.bsky.social put a figure on exactly how much of the UK's carbon-cutting is directly linked to consumers between now and 2040: 37%. I looked at what's behind that number and what it says about some wealthy countries' progress to net zero. Gift link:

What It Will Take for Rich Countries to Reach Net Zero: You

If you live in the UK, your dishwasher and fridge’s carbon footprint has shrunk by a lot, largely because the government and companies have spent billions of pounds to install wind and solar power. Ov...

www.bloomberg.com

Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Feb 26

"Shell and Norwegian company Equinor have already scaled back their plans to invest in green energy"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This whole trend (see also banks de-greening) seems to be so brazen and obvious that no one's scandalised. But like... this is really, really, really bad right?

BP to slash renewables investment and ramp up gas and oil production.

The energy giant will announce its strategy later after rivals also rowed back on green energy plans.

www.bbc.co.uk

Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Feb 10

Chad/saint behaviour, mad respect

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Feb 2

Finding the 'pessimism of the intellect' part much easier than the 'optimism of the will part' rn 🙃

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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · Jan 28

What if worsening climate disruption doesn't act as a wake up call?

An emergent feature of the new climate reality: anger at the failure of incumbent parties to protect us from climate disruption is benefiting political forces that deny climate change and delay action

But we can break this loop 🧵

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jan 24

Full solidarity with Andrew, I have so much respect and gratitude for what he does

The PM's personal attack against him is appalling - Andrew is one of the most selfless, altruistic and giving campaigners I've ever met, to accuse him of being virtue signalling or in it for himself is ludicrous

Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · Jan 23

"It's quite pathetic of Keir Starmer to think that he will put off the environmental movement .." by attacking campaigners after he attacks me in Daily Mail

I talk to @samcoatessky.bsky.social

See full clip here x.com/SkyPoliticsH...

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

P.S. for ideas on Anthropocene-ready politics/narratives please see @tadziomueller.bsky.social, @rupertread.bsky.social, @rogerhallam.com, @justcollapse.bsky.social, @materialistjew.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @meadwaj.bsky.social, @charliejgardner.bsky.social

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

Bit of a chestunut but that Gramsci line feels almost literal today: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters".

Solidarity to all of us facing this storm; may our dread give us strength.

(11/11)

#stormEsso

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

Probably none of this is surprising; but it is different first-hand.

To feel it in your body, see it in your city, as our limp neoliberal/Holocene routine is eclipsed by the looming reality. To feel the yearning lack of a collective narrative/politics that meets the situation's needs (10/11)

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

There's wry wisdom in the meme "Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it". Spectacle all the way down.

Maybe one day we'll finish filming and start doing something?
(9/11)

Cover of Guy Debord's Society of the Spectacle; also a very good book!

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

And by failing to join the macro dots, they fail to produce/invite much of a social reality. Per neoliberal SOP our collective experience is of passive, isolated spectators: i.e., barely collective at all. We're asked to be a patient audience and wait until this all blows over.

But it won't.
(8/11)

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

I've barely seen a whisper that today's *disruption* might have any relevance to Labour overriding legal protections to ram new airports through, or their spineless U-turn on the Climate Bill which is, insanely, happening TODAY(!!!)

(7/11)

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill

Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits

www.theguardian.com

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

All this rolling coverage of downed trees, blackouts and wind-speeds is like reporting on a war with no mention of the aggressor (not that that would ever happen...)

They're methodically depoliticising, decontextualising, essentially laundering what is in truth a glaringly political reality (6/11)

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

Per Charlie Young, globally many victims of 'natural disasters' understand them as 'acts of god'.

This system of meaning doubtless has its upsides, but one big con is that it excises the causes and indeed the culprits of these horrors. Our 'extreme weather' narrative is frankly no better. (5/11)

The cover of Charlie Hertzog's Spinning Out - awesome book, go read it!

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

This is especially apparent in that central "once in a generation" line. At once a worthy warning and completely bonkers, verging on outright denial. Which generation would this be, the Flappers???

In their efforts to assure, our institutions demonstrate their refusal to face the reality (4/11)

IPCC infographic showing how Zoomers and Gen A are getting horribly screwed in comparison to older generations

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

But the response still feels profoundly insufficient: unable to reckon with what this storm represents, our media class is just recycling obselete Holocene tropes.

The script presents extreme weather as 'exceptional', in what feels almost like of an act of will to conjure the 'normal' (3/11)

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

It could be worse. Highlight was 4.5 million of us receiving aptly alarming 'code red' alerts by phone last night. Real Scottish Anthropocene milestone.

And this is backed up by all the sensible news soundbites you'd expect: 'threat to life', 'once-in-a-generation', 'do not go outside' etc. (2/11)

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

#StormEowyn feels like my (and Edinburgh's) first direct taste of climate breakdown. Watching crazy, hurricane-force winds outside my windows rn - feeling a strange sense of disconnect...

This isn't do to with the weather (genuinely frightening) but the way the whole event is being mediated (1/11)

Picture of some trees and clouds in windy Edinburgh, calling to mind that Bible(?) bit about how you can't see wind except through its effects

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 24

Currently sitting in the middle of #StormEowyn and taking ecocidal indifference from Labour more personally than usual

Extinction Rebellion UK @extinctionrebellion.uk · Jan 24

⚠️IT'S HAPPENING NOW

With #StormEowyn bringing 'danger to life' warnings, the UK gov's opposition to the #CANBill —despite prior support—is deeply disappointing.

Amid #Trump ditching the #ParisAgreement & Labour backing airport expansion, today's #vote is critical for climate action!

Wake Up‼️

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · Jan 24

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Douglas @douglasrogers.bsky.social · Jan 23

Normally wary of 'as bad as Trump' talk, but think it actually lands here.

Proscribing "excessive" legal challenges, with reference to this enemy within of "blockers" "using our court processes to frustrate growth”.

Straight up conspiratorial rhetoric; this is poison to democracy

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jan 23

4. Starmer’s rhetoric, and the government’s plans, are actually worse than anything the Conservatives came up with. It’s hard to get your head around it, after a succession of Tory disasters. But we seem to have stepped out of the frying pan and into the fire. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth

Keir Starmer hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will send a message to business to build more

www.theguardian.com

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