DoomsdaysCW<p>Paper: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>: Assessment of the Vulnerability of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerPlants</span></a> and Approaches for their Adaptation </p><p>Adobe Acrobat PDF Document - on 6/2/25 at 12:01 PM</p><p>"Climate change will create specific risks and challenges for nuclear power plants and the electricity system as a whole. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> events caused by climate change – such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storms</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatWaves</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> – have already affected the operation of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> plants. Any increase in the temperature of the water used to cool nuclear power plants can also lead to reductions in their power output due to decreasing thermal efficiency.</p><p>"This report sets out the adaptation strategies that can be effectively implemented to improve the resilience of existing plants as well as any new installations. The costs of adaptation to climate change can vary significantly depending on the type of reactor, the climate change issues affecting them, as well as the applicable regulations and standards. However, while these adaptation costs can, in some cases, be significant, the costs of inaction – both directly at the plant level and indirectly for the electricity system – are likely to be even higher."</p><p><a href="https://www.oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61802/climate-change-assessment-of-the-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants-and-approaches-for-their-adaptation?details=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">oecd-nea.org/jcms/pl_61802/cli</span><span class="invisible">mate-change-assessment-of-the-vulnerability-of-nuclear-power-plants-and-approaches-for-their-adaptation?details=true</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearWaste</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CostOverruns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CostOverruns</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
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Nonilex<p>In more than 200 pages, the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> at that time outlined the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> & detailed how increasingly severe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatWaves</span></a>, <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storms</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> were expected to contribute to higher rates of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/death" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>death</span></a> & <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/disease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disease</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2016-08/documents/endangerment_tsd.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">epa.gov/sites/default/files/20</span><span class="invisible">16-08/documents/endangerment_tsd.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/idiocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>idiocracy</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHealth</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Preston MacDougall<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@petergleick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>petergleick</span></a></span> The <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/kakistocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kakistocracy</span></a> will probably fire Brian Fuchs and shutdown the National <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Drought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Drought</span></a> Mitigation Center so that there will be no awareness of <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> and <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wildfires</span></a> can simply be ascribed to “Acts of God”, like the predicted <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/TexasFloods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TexasFloods</span></a> where endangered children were not evacuated because a <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> coward didn’t want to be accused of ‘crying wolf’ on the slim chance that the <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> didn’t materialize.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> in <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> to combat <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>.</p>
Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> is grappling with one of the worst <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> in its history. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Water</span></a> levels in Turkish dams feeding Iraq’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rivers</span></a> remain critically low, and this year’s winter rains have failed to provide enough water for drinking or farming. As droughts become a recurring crisis, the environmental and cultural heritage of the Fertile Crescent – the cradle of ancient Mesopotamia – is slowly vanishing. FRANCE 24 report by Josh Vardey and Marie-Charlotte Roupie.<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixMlERhOpsE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=ixMlERhOpsE</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
RaymondPierreL3<p>Driving along (as you do) ABC National was on with some wank discussing data centers water requirements. Right off the bat, this ‘expert’ (didn’t catch his name) talked about everything water utilities should be doing to accommodate data centre and deflected every thing from <a href="https://aus.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> shortages, draughts, arid country and what the impact on civil society will be during water restrictions… I lasted 5 mins tops. I turned the radio off before I caused an accident. Thanks <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ABC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ABC</span></a> for making my day by giving the pro-data center guy oxygen and painting the elephant in the room fade-to-black.</p><p>I tell you what, if there is such a big market for stupid LLM-based chatbots, Data Centres don’t have to be built here don’t you know. There is such a thing as the Internet and its infrastructure has been used for decades. Begs the question doesn’t it? WHO benefits ($$) from buildling a data centre to power Generative AI (aka chatbot) in Australia?</p><p>Had it up to here with GAI…</p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/GiveMeBackMyABC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GiveMeBackMyABC</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/DataCentre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCentre</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WaterSUpplies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterSUpplies</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WaterRestrictions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterRestrictions</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>
TinJar<p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/30/do-we-need-another-green-revolution" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06</span><span class="invisible">/30/do-we-need-another-green-revolution</span></a></p><p>Ways to address the food crisis - <br>1. Minimize red meat <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consumption</span></a>, especially, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/beef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beef</span></a><br>2. Allow <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fertility</span></a> rates to fall and focus on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/redistribution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redistribution</span></a> of existing <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> to feed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poor</span></a><br>3. Since working in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/farms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>farms</span></a> will soon be impossible thanks to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwaves</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pests</span></a> ; build enclosed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vertical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vertical</span></a> farms and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/precision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>precision</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fermentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fermentation</span></a><br> <br>All three ideas are incorporated in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/solarpunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>solarpunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hopepunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hopepunk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> "A New Faith" </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>adaptation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>International Survey Shows 81% Back Forcing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOil</span></a> to Pay for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> Destruction</p><p>"People are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> giants all over the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/storms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>storms</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said the head of one green group. </p><p>by Eloise Goldsmith, Jun 19, 2025</p><p>"Large majorities of people around the world support both taxing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>coal</span></a> companies for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDamage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDamage</span></a> made worse by fossil fuels and using higher taxes on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/polluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polluters</span></a> to support communities most impacted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>, according to the results of an international survey released Thursday.</p><p>"The study, which was jointly commissioned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a> International and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxfam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxfam</span></a> International, surveyed roughly 1,200 people in each of these 13 countries: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>India</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kenya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kenya</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Spain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spain</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a>. The research was conducted by the data company Dynata, and field work was done between May 9-28, 2025. Greenpeace noted that, taken together, the countries represent close to 50% of the globe's population.</p><p>"The results of the survey showed a whopping 81% of those surveyed would support taxes fossil fuel companies to pay for damages wrought by 'fossil-fuel driven climate disasters.'</p><p>"These survey results send a clear message: people are no longer buying the lies. They see the fingerprints of fossil fuel giants all over the storms, floods, droughts, and wildfires devastating their lives, and they want accountability," said <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MadsChristensen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MadsChristensen</span></a>, the executive director of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenpeaceInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenpeaceInternational</span></a>.</p><p>" 'It's only fair that those who caused the crisis should pay for the damage, not those suffering from it,' he added.</p><p>Read more / listen:<br><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/international-survey-shows-81-back-forcing-big-oil-to-pay-for-climate-destruction" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">commondreams.org/news/internat</span><span class="invisible">ional-survey-shows-81-back-forcing-big-oil-to-pay-for-climate-destruction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigCoal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilKnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilKnew</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sunoco" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunoco</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BP</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chevron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chevron</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AmericanPetroleumInstitute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanPetroleumInstitute</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShellOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ShellOil</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExxonLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExxonLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BPLied" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BPLied</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TaxThePolluters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TaxThePolluters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilCompanies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OilCompanies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChevronDoctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChevronDoctrine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MakePollutersPay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MakePollutersPay</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WateIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WateIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlanetaryWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PlanetaryWaves</span></a> linked to wild summer weather have tripled since 1950, study finds</p><p>By SETH BORENSTEIN<br>Updated 4:51 PM EDT, June 16, 2025<br>WASHINGTON (AP) — "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating the surge in killer <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HeatWaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HeatWaves</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, a new study says.</p><p>"In the 1950s, Earth averaged about one extreme weather-inducing planetary wave event a summer, but now it is getting about three per summer, according to a study in Monday’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Planetary waves are connected to 2021’s deadly and unprecedented Pacific Northwest heat wave, the 2010 Russian heatwave and Pakistan flooding and the 2003 killer European heatwave, the study said.</p><p>" 'If you’re trying to visualize the planetary waves in the northern hemisphere, the easiest way to visualize them is on the weather map to look at the waviness in the jet stream as depicted on the weather map,' said study co-author Michael Mann, a University of Pennsylvania climate scientist.</p><p>"Planetary waves flow across Earth all the time, but sometimes they get amplified, becoming stronger, and the jet stream gets wavier with bigger hills and valleys, Mann said. It’s called quasi-resonant amplification or QRA."</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/extreme-weather-climate-change-heatwave-flooding-drought-cc4c3d93e178b6f4ab13cb7788998801" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/extreme-wea</span><span class="invisible">ther-climate-change-heatwave-flooding-drought-cc4c3d93e178b6f4ab13cb7788998801</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalHeating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalHeating</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oiligarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oiligarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a></p>
ABC Feeds<p>Ghost mushroom season off to slow start on SA's south east<br>By Josh Brine</p><p>Each year, eco-tourists head to South Australia's south east to spot rare mushrooms, but drought conditions have slowed their growth along with that of other wild fungi.</p><p><a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/ghost-mushroom-season-slow-start-due-to-sa-drought/105402460" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">abc.net.au/news/2025-06-12/gho</span><span class="invisible">st-mushroom-season-slow-start-due-to-sa-drought/105402460</span></a></p><p><a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fungi</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/TravelandTourism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TravelandTourism</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/TourismandLeisureIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TourismandLeisureIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/Weather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Weather</span></a> <a href="https://rssfeed.media/tags/JoshBrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoshBrine</span></a></p>
Peter Riley<p>Thanks <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://aus.social/@firstdogonthemoon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>firstdogonthemoon</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/jun/04/there-are-huge-floods-andor-droughts-all-over-and-insurance-is-wildly-expensive-if-you-can-even-get-it" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">picture/2025/jun/04/there-are-huge-floods-andor-droughts-all-over-and-insurance-is-wildly-expensive-if-you-can-even-get-it</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FirstDogOnTheMoon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstDogOnTheMoon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Floods</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Illustration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Insurance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Insurance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Woodside" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Woodside</span></a></p>
O=C=O<p>Children born in 2020 will face ‘unprecedented exposure’ to climate extremes</p><p>That is according to a new study, published in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a>, which calculates the number of unprecedented extreme events that people born in different decades and countries might live through.</p><p>Using a case study focused on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Brussels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Brussels</span></a>, the researchers find that people born in 2020 will experience an “unprecedented” 11 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwaves</span></a> in their lifetime – even if <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/GlobalWarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWarming</span></a> is limited to 1.5C by the end of the century.</p><p>In contrast, in a pre-industrial <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a>, a person living in the Belgian capital would likely experience just three such heatwaves, according to the study.</p><p>More than half of children born in 2020 – around 62 million people – will experience “unprecedented lifetime exposure” to heatwaves, even if warming is limited to 1.5C, the study finds. </p><p>However, this number nearly doubles to 111 million under a scenario where warming hits 3.5C.</p><p>The study also analyses crop failures, river <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, tropical <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/cyclones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyclones</span></a>, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/wildfires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildfires</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>. </p><p>The research “helps the climate community build new narratives that better clarify the impacts [of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>] on younger generations and vulnerable populations”, one expert who was not involved in the study tells Carbon Brief.</p><p><a href="https://www.carbonbrief.org/children-born-in-2020-will-face-unprecedented-exposure-to-climate-extremes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">carbonbrief.org/children-born-</span><span class="invisible">in-2020-will-face-unprecedented-exposure-to-climate-extremes/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCatastrophe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCatastrophe</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SDG3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDG3</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/SDG13" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SDG13</span></a> <br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a></p>
D-USYS ETH Zurich<p>💰🌍 Research by Sarah Schöngart et al. shows the wealthiest 10% caused TWO-THIRDS of global warming since 1990. The top 1% have an even bigger impact on extreme weather like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwaves</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>, hitting vulnerable regions hardest. <br>🔗<a href="https://usys.ethz.ch/en/news-events/news/archive/2025/05/the-worlds-wealthiest-10-percent.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">usys.ethz.ch/en/news-events/ne</span><span class="invisible">ws/archive/2025/05/the-worlds-wealthiest-10-percent.html</span></a></p>
O=C=O<p>How a Changing Climate Is Reshaping the Spread of Infectious Diseases</p><p>"...Then you have this convergence of crises—the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> overlapping with the <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/PollutionCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PollutionCrisis</span></a>. So you get this intersection between air pollution and respiratory <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/diseases" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>diseases</span></a>, and then infectious diseases more broadly, all layered on top of a changing <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a>.</p><p>When it comes to waterborne and foodborne diseases, the link to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> is even more direct. As temperatures rise, you create more favorable conditions for <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> and other <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/pathogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pathogens</span></a> to multiply. They thrive in warm environments—soil, water, contaminated areas—so warming can increase their abundance. </p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a> events are also a big factor here. Aedes <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/mosquitoes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mosquitoes</span></a> need water to complete their life cycle—from egg to larva to pupa, it all happens in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a>. When <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a> occur, all the discarded <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> and <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/trash" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trash</span></a> lying around fill with water and becomes the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes.</p><p>What’s interesting is that these diseases aren’t just associated with floods—they’re also linked to <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>. That might seem counterintuitive at first, but in many parts of the world, people don’t have safe, reliable access to clean water, especially during drought conditions. So they store water in containers that aren’t properly sealed or protected, which too can become the perfect breeding sites for mosquitoes.</p><p>Infections—particularly vector-borne diseases—are increasingly reemerging and emerging in new areas around the world for a lot of different reasons. Climate change is definitely part of that, with rising temperatures and more extreme weather events like floods and droughts. But the way we live our lives and interact with the environment also plays a huge role. I mean, first and foremost, most of us now live in urban areas rather than rural ones..." </p><p><a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26042025/climate-change-shifting-spread-of-infectious-disease/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">insideclimatenews.org/news/260</span><span class="invisible">42025/climate-change-shifting-spread-of-infectious-disease/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Health</span></a><br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>CBC: This atmospheric trend is devastating crops (and no one’s talking about it)</p><p>Scientists have coined a new term: thirstwaves. The phenomenon occurs during extended periods of unusually high evaporation — caused not from a lack of rain, but because the air is extra thirsty. Johanna Wagstaffe breaks down how thirstwaves could seriously affect farming and water supplies.</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/foodsupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foodsupply</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/climatemergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatemergency</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/agriculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>agriculture</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6727925?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.672</span><span class="invisible">7925?cmp=rss</span></a></p>
NASA<p>NASA Uses Advanced Radar to Track Groundwater in California <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-uses-advanced-radar-to-track-groundwater-in-california/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">science.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-us</span><span class="invisible">es-advanced-radar-to-track-groundwater-in-california/</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/NASA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NASA</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/Droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Droughts</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/Earth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Earth</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/Floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Floods</span></a> <a href="https://social.beachcom.org/tags/WaterOnEarth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterOnEarth</span></a></p>
AI6YR Ben<p>WMO report: </p><p>"Tropical cyclones, floods, droughts, and other hazards in 2024 led to the highest number of new displacements recorded for the past 16 years, contributed to worsening food crises, and caused massive economic losses."</p><p><a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/disasters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disasters</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/cyclones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyclones</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/hurricanes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hurricanes</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/tags/foodsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foodsecurity</span></a></p>
Niels de Winter<p>Cool study using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/treering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>treering</span></a> analysis to study precipitation variability over the past 4 centuries and aiding in the prediction of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/extreme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>extreme</span></a> precipitation events and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> under future climate scenarios<br><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003101822500183X" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sciencedirect.com/science/arti</span><span class="invisible">cle/pii/S003101822500183X</span></a></p>
Bentley<p>"<a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/WorldEconomicForum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldEconomicForum</span></a> judges what is the greatest threat to humanity every year in their annual report. Used to be <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Nukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nukes</span></a> were the greatest threat. Today <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuels</span></a> are our weapons of mass destruction. <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ExtremeWeather" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExtremeWeather</span></a>, <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>, <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a> loss etc. are now the greatest threats to humanity."</p><p>PODCAST <a href="https://www.podcastics.com/episode/347812/link/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">podcastics.com/episode/347812/</span><span class="invisible">link/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/TzeporahBerman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TzeporahBerman</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/abpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abpoli</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/EnergyTransition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnergyTransition</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/CleanEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://canada.masto.host/tags/FossilFuelNonProliferation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuelNonProliferation</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterShortage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterShortage</span></a> fears as Labour’s first <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AIGrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AIGrowth</span></a> zone sited close to new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/reservoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reservoir</span></a></p><p>First <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/datacentre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datacentre</span></a> site proposed seven miles from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbingdonReservoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbingdonReservoir</span></a> planned for water-stressed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthEastEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastEngland</span></a></p><p>by Helena Horton Environment reporter<br>Mon 13 Jan 2025</p><p>"Labour’s first artificial intelligence growth zone will be sited close to the UK’s first new reservoir in 30 years, sparking fears that the AI push will add to the 'severe pressure' on water supplies in the area.</p><p>"Keir Starmer announced on Monday that he would hugely increase artificial intelligence capacity and reduce planning restrictions on companies that wanted to build datacentres by setting up '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GrowthZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GrowthZones</span></a>' with fewer constraints [like <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ExportProcessingZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExportProcessingZones</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeTradeZones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTradeZones</span></a>]. </p><p>"The first of these will be in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulhamOxfordshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulhamOxfordshire</span></a>, only seven miles from a reservoir planned by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThamesWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThamesWater</span></a> in Abingdon, which was supposed to provide water to people in the severely water-stressed south-east of England. This is the area of the country most at risk of running out of water, according to the Environment Agency. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Oxfordshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Oxfordshire</span></a> has faced particular issues, with areas reliant on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BottledWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BottledWater</span></a> during <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwaves</span></a>.</p><p>"AI datacentres use a large amount of water, as their servers generate heat. To prevent computer systems overheating and shutting down, the centres use cooling towers and outside air systems, both of which need clean, fresh water. AI consumes between 1.8 and 12 litres of water for each kilowatt hour of energy usage across Microsoft’s global datacentres. One study estimates that global AI could account for up to 6.6bn cubic metres of water use by 2027 – the equivalent of nearly two-thirds of England’s annual consumption.</p><p>"Even without a big increase in AI datacentres, by 2050, England faces a shortfall of nearly 5bn litres of water a day between the sustainable supplies available and the expected demand. This is more than a third of the 14bn litres of water currently put into public supply. The south-east faces a potential deficit of more than 2.5bn litres a day in the same period.</p><p>"AI could wipe out gains made by businesses in reducing their water consumption; the government is seeking a 9% reduction in non-household (business) consumption by 2037-38 from 2019-20 levels, and currently businesses are on course to achieve a reduction of 6.1%.</p><p>Adrian Ramsay MP, Green Party co-leader, said: 'While communities will face <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/heatwaves" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>heatwaves</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a> and water shortages over the coming decades, this strategy locks us into pumping huge amounts of water into AI datacentres. One estimate said AI-related infrastructure may soon consume six times more water than Denmark, a country of 6 million people. What will this mean for residents in water-stressed communities like Culham in Oxfordshire?'"</p><p>Read more:</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/13/labour-ai-datacentre-growth-zone-water-shortages-abingdon-reservoir" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/jan/13/labour-ai-datacentre-growth-zone-water-shortages-abingdon-reservoir</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DataCenters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataCenters</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterShortages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterShortages</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWaterForData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWaterForData</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoWaterForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoWaterForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukesForAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukesForAI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigData</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Excerpt from "Commons, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Libraries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Libraries</span></a> & <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Degrowth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Degrowth</span></a>" by Andrewism</p><p>"How has the potent alternative present in the commons been so wiped from our collective memory?</p><p>"It goes back to the feudal concept of land ownership, the age of European <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colonialism</span></a>, and of course, the rise of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndustrialCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialCapitalism</span></a>. The king of England, for example, owned all the land in feudal England but bestowed titles for pledges of loyalty to powerful members of the nobility that allowed them to rule over large estates. These lords leased the land they were given to aristocrats, who also leased parts of their land as payment, for military aid, or for rent. This rigidly hierarchical system of obligation between landed lords and their tenants or vassals reinforced the monarchy’s ability to stake a claim on the land in their kingdom. However, at the bottom of this system were the peasants, who did all the actual work on the common land on the lord’s estate. Many were generationally serfs; legally prohibited from leaving the land they cultivated without their lord’s permission. Lords may have come and gone, but their bondage to the land was basically forever.</p><p>"After the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MagnaCarta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MagnaCarta</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackDeath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackDeath</span></a>, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crusades" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crusades</span></a>, and all the other dramas that brought <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/feudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudalism</span></a> into decline, the nobility initiated a process of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/privatisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>privatisation</span></a> that laid the groundwork for early <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> through acquisitions, settlement, and enclosure of the commons. But even though revolutions and reforms came and went and most of us have gotten rid of our inbred kings and queens and their right to rule, the concept of sovereignty over private parcels of land and the feudal relationship of landlord and tenant has endured to this day, exported globally through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EuropeanColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EuropeanColonialism</span></a>.</p><p>"Despite this violent and antisocial theft of our access to even the means of subsistence, some commons have survived and thrived, though they operate within the constraints of the State and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalCapitalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalCapitalist</span></a> status quo. Still, there is a lot we can learn from them when it comes to how to manage the commons.</p><p>"Why have they succeeded where others have failed in maintaining their commons? All efforts to organise collective action, including the commons, must address a common set of problems: how to supply new institutions, how to solve commitment issues, and how to maintain stability. It’s not easy. And yet some individuals have created institutions, committed themselves to following the rules they’ve come up with together, and assessed their own and others’ conformance to the rules in order to maintain the stability of their shared commons. Again, why have they succeeded where others have failed? External factors seem to play a significant role. Some have more autonomy than others to change their own institutions while others have change happen too rapidly for them to respond and adjust. Regardless, people try their best to solve the problems they face, despite their limitations. What factors help or hinder them in these efforts is a matter of careful study if we wish to succeed in organising and running our own commons.</p><p>"But first, we need to clarify some definitions.</p><p>"The commons are based on a common-pool resource or CPR, which is a natural or man-made resource system that benefits a group of people, but provides diminished benefits to everyone if each individual pursues their own self-interest. We must draw a further distinction between the resource system and the resource units produced by the system. Resource systems include <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>forests</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>groundwater</span></a> basins, irrigation canals, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lakes</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fisheries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fisheries</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pastures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pastures</span></a>, and even <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/infrastructure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>infrastructure</span></a> like windmills and the internet, while resource units consist of whatever users appropriate from those resource systems, such as cubic metres of lumber harvested and water withdrawn, tons of fish harvested and fodder grazed, kilowatts generated and network bandwidth used. It’s also important to maintain the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/renewability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>renewability</span></a> of a resource system by ensuring that the average rate of withdrawal does not exceed the average rate of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/replenishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>replenishment</span></a>.</p><p>"The term ‘appropriators’ refers to those who withdraw resource units from a resource system, like a fisher or farmer. Appropriators may use the resource units they withdraw, like residents powering their homes or farmers watering their crops, or they may transfer the resource units for others to use, such as a logger sending lumber to a hardware store for sale. Those who arrange for the provision of a CPR through financing or design are providers, while producers are those who actually construct, repair, and sustain the resource system itself. Providers, producers, and appropriators are often all the same people.</p><p>"Appropriators who share a CPR are deeply intertwined in a tapestry of interdependence. Acting selfishly and independently will usually obtain less benefit than they could have had they collectively organised in some way. The process of organising enables us to coordinate and change our shared situations to obtain higher shared benefits and reduce shared harm.</p><p>"Some of the commons institutions that endure today are as old as over a thousand years, while others are a few hundred at most. They exist alongside the personal property of the appropriators involved, such as their crops and livestock, but have remained at the core of these communities’ economies for generations. They have survived <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/droughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>droughts</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/floods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floods</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wars</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pestilences" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pestilences</span></a>, and many major economic and political changes. From the alpine meadows of Torbel, Switzerland to the 3 million hectares of Japanese forest to the irrigation systems of Spain and the Philippines, these projects have evolved over time in response to experience and circumstance. None of them are perfect demonstrations of anarchy or anything, nor are they necessarily the most ‘optimal’ by some metrics. But they are successful in establishing a level of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autonomy</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resilience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resilience</span></a> in the people involved in them, and they’ve managed to carefully maintain the ecology of the regions they inhabit.</p><p>"These institutions exist in different settings and have different histories, yet they simultaneously share fundamental similarities. Unpredictable and complex environments combined with engineering and farming skills combined with a predictable population over an extended period of time. These fairly egalitarian communities have developed extensive norms that define proper behaviour, involving honesty and reliability, allowing them to live without excessive conflict in a deeply interdependent environment. The perseverance of these institutions is due to the seven, and in some cases eight, key principles that Elinor Ostrom outlines in Governing the Commons..."</p><p>Read more:<br> <a href="https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theanarchistlibrary.org/librar</span><span class="invisible">y/andrewism-commons-libraries-degrowth</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AnarchistLibrary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnarchistLibrary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Resiliency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Resiliency</span></a></p>
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