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#DontLookUp

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Xamanismo Coletivo

Where @ethanz tells us about the cultural power of #DontLookUp:

"But there’s something Don’t Look Up gets right. Many of our #institutions are failing us. The experts don’t know what to do. The feelings of terror and helplessness lead people to behave strangely and unpredictably. McKay doesn’t offer us a solution to an ongoing #apocalypse, but this #film, at its best, offers us a moment of #empathy. Look past the machinations of the politicians and the media stars, and look towards the people in the background trying to make sense of a reality that no longer makes sense, disrupted by #COVID or #climatechange or by a slide into #authoritarianism. If there’s a solution to this polycrisis, this interconnected mess of apocalyptic threats, it’s in the #groups working to live through this scary moment, not through the politicians or celebrities who’ll get to escape to their bunkers or spaceships."

ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/04/

Ethan Zuckerman · Science on Screen: Don't Look Up - Ethan ZuckermanDon't Look Up anticipates the stupidity of our political moment, but misfires on the power of authenticity. Enjoy the apocalypse.
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crusy

Sorry, aber ich finde diesen aufdringlichen Dauersonnenschein einfach nur noch gruselig. Wie diese Kinder im Film, die einen schweigend angucken: Es passiert an sich nichts Schlimmes, aber die ganze Situation ist so unangebracht und sie dauert und dauert, bis man einfach nur weglaufen will. Allein: Wohin?

Es ist bis Ostern praktisch kein Regen angekündigt. Seit Ende Februar gab es hier einen, vielleicht zwei Liter pro m².

Szene aus "Das Dorf der Verdammten": Viele Kinder mit identisch grauen Haaren stehen einfach schweigend da
#Klimakollaps#Klimakrise#DontLookUp
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OccasionalDucks

This is a bad decision, and against the advice of the Planning Inspectorate (yes, the PI is occasionally right, hard though that may be to believe at times). There is no need for it whatsoever, and a very pressing need not to add to our emissions. Crisis, what crisis?

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4vg2

Remember, #FlyingIsForDucks, and you are #NotADuck.

An artist impression of the new terminal at Luton airport.
BBC NewsLuton airport expansion approved by governmentAnnual passenger numbers are due to almost double to 32 million, despite environmental concerns.
#TransportPlanning#LLA#LondonLutonAirport
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Twra Sun

🔴 📈 - 42°C IN CHINA … IM MÄRZ.

Heute haben 535 Stationen ihre März-Rekorde gebrochen oder eingestellt, sieben Provinzen haben ihre März-Hitzerekorde gebrochen. Die Menschen und Tiere in China erleben gerade die stärkste Hitzewelle, die je im März in ihrem Land gemessen wurde…

#DontLookUp#KlimaKrise
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OccasionalDucks

It's common knowledge that we have known about the greenhouse effect since the late 19th century. Having started Andrea Wulf's "The Invention of Nature" about Alexander von Humboldt, its interesting to read that he observed human activity changing climate as well as destroying ecosystems and tried to warn of the risk at the very beginning of that century.

Good thing we paid attention and rapidly learned not to trash the planet, eh?

When nature is perceived as a web, its vulnerability also becomes obvious. Everything hangs together. If one thread is pulled, the whole tapestry may unravel. After he saw the devastating environmental effects of colonial plantations at Lake Valencia in Venezuela in 1800, Humboldt became the first scientist to talk about harmful human-induced climate change. Deforestation there had made the land barren, water levels of the lake were falling and with the disappearance of brushwood torrential rains had washed away the soils on the surrounding mountain slopes. Humboldt was the first to explain the forest’s ability to enrich the atmosphere with moisture and its cooling effect, as well as its importance for water retention and protection against soil erosion. He warned that humans were meddling with the climate and that this could have an unforeseen impact on ‘future generations’.
#ClimateChange#ClimateCrisis#BiodiversityCrisis
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