More gas mining and coal mine expansions give the lie away of 2050 net - zero emissions, and Australian Labor Party climate action pretensions.

This presentation by Nate Hagens is informed, honest and open ended.  It covers a lot to consider. Worth sharing, as the results of very creative efforts on conversations for understanding the nature of our reality,  communicated in metaphors, stories and graphics, by Nate and the GS team.

Tim Morgan (Surplus Energy Economics modeller) , writes about our ongoing linked energy and financial systems collapse. Plus still baking in our future climate systems collapse. Why do we keep voting for the same purchased-party politicians who have led us to the systems collapses of here and now?

We cannot grow or trade our way out of global systems tipping points...

World trade and the global economy has become brittle as it slowly approached then surpassed planetary limits. It has now reached its tipping point, generating a ton of anxiety and prompting world leaders to break the system which has ceased to function for them. In their folly they failed to realize that it really doesn’t matter who wins, as resource depletion, climate change, growing wealth inequality, falling living standards, plummeting birth rates, disintegrating societies and the failure of technology and science cannot be stopped by waging wars.

Record breaking hot ocean temperatures in the Coral Sea drove the intensity of flooding from Tropical Cyclone Alfred. Global warming is happening faster.  Make your politicians listen to the facts, helpfully summarized by the Climate Council,  if they want to stay in office.

Welcome to the world of negative sum games: where we lose, but you lose bigger.

[ Economic Growth and Renewable Energy replacements ] are predicated on an unfettered access to cheap, easy-to-get raw materials and having prodigious quantities of similarly cheap and easy-to-get fossil fuels.

Problem is that the easy-to-get (low cost) part of those necessary resources have now been consumed, and what remains would require an exponential increase in energy and material expenditures to get… A rather big and nasty fly in the ointment indeed.

Now is really an important time ...  to think clearly about our existential emergency and a positive way forward.

Raise awareness and thereby government policies, and finally media attention, that we need to treat ecological overshoot and economic overgrowth, as the central causes of the human species predicaments and growing suffering that we are facing as our unavoidable future. This petition needs your signature.

The Australian Institute wants you to know, about what most Australian's know, and feel, about climate change.  It is in their latest annual "Climate of the Nation" report. It shows what Australian citizens would like have done, that would be meaningful climate action, and suggests that our political parties are way behind actual voter intentions on climate action, and politicians are not listening to climate voters at all.   How shall we get rid of these troublesome political parties who are so blinded by corporate ideology? Or is it hoped that publication of the extent of strong climate action memes will change their policies?

Some young people in Australia, have realized, from a sane ecological perspective, that continuing our addiction to fossil fuels, which started growth of modern techno-industrial civilization using coal, is already taking our biosphere rapidly towards a future where earth's climate will be unfit for survival.  Most of earth's larger and slow reproducing species, including humans, will go extinct our predicted future hot-house earth. Many people have gathered around Newcastle to take part in this organized "Protestival" over several days. They are doing a temporary blockade of passage of Coal Ships that need to cross the narrow waters of the Newcastle harbor channel, over this weekend. This is symbolic as far as the annual coal shipment figures are concerned, but there were still official legal hurdles to overcome, and all the police actions are paid for by taxpayers.

William Rees is an ultra-distinguished ecological scientist, and an original researcher on human impacts on biosphere life. Eric Lee has cleaned up, and published a formatted transcript with slides, taken from Prof. Rees recent webinar presentation titled - "Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? Have Humans Become Obsolete?". It is presented here, because of the disinterest of mainstream media and conventional political narrative.

The idea of a renewable-energy powered future that allows for economic growth is a ... delusion — a death sentence for Earth’s ecosystems and posterity’s well-being. It reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of reality. ...

The real problem lies in the way we think — that’s the true dark matter operating beneath the surface, shaping how we perceive and engage with the world.

Eric Lee works hard to understand, organize and quote from people who actually have a clue as to what is going on.

I present the text of the "Climate Emergency Forum" this week, the video is published on YouTube, State of the Climate 2024 - Earth in Crisis.  Discussion centered around the publication in the BioScience journal, available online -  "The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth".  This was published on 08th October 2024, by an author list of Climate Scientists in prestigious institutional paid positions, who are not known to be given to alarmist predictions without strong evidence. A number of factors suggest the earth's climate system warming resistance is collapsing. Terrestrial carbon sinks are not working as well as before. Well known climate tipping point processes are getting bigger. And of course human civilization continues to pump out more greenhouse gases every year.

Ugo Bardi offers a flash of insight into reasons for differences in strategy of Nation-State majorities, versus the ideology of  elites in charge of Empires.

... Nation-States persecute minorities, while Empires try to protect the rights of its minority groups, something that an independent power can often do. A nation-state, instead, is a natural born killer of minorities. Simply, it has no mechanisms to protect them from the whims of the majority.

... In Western democracies, you can vote for any candidate as long as he/she obeys the orders of the US elites. Once people lose their trust in democracy, the American Empire cannot last for long.

The Climate Analytics (CA) report published this week confirms that Australia has one of the world’s highest total per capita emissions for all greenhouse gases, double that of China and nine times bigger than India. . . .

According to the CA report, Close to 80% of Australia’s total fossil fuel CO2 footprint in 2022 was due to exported carbon. Australia is the third largest fossil fuel exporter in the world, after Russia and the US. In terms of total greenhouse gas footprint, Australia ranks second, however, due to our love of emission-intensive coal.

When EPA made DDT illegal, in 1972, pesticide merchants used DDT in the making of new compounds. They dubbed the DDT parts of these new chemicals “inert” in order to mislead the government and the user, telling them those inert chemicals were harmless. Indeed, all pesticides include toxic and untested ingredients branded inert. - Evaggelos Vallianatos -   https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/08/05/pesticides-existential-danger/

Evaggelos Vallianatos worked as an Analyst inside the USA EPA, and is author of the book "Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA". Yes, global poisoning is still going on. No, you cannot buy the E-Book version from outside the USA.  A printed version can be ordered from Abbey's books.

Since coming to power, the Albanese Labor government has been working hard not to talk about climate warming impacts, not to lead the nation in a public conversation about how to face the greatest threat to our future, and it shows in recent public opinion research.

...The government does not want to talk about future climate risks because it is conspiring with the fossil fuel industry to make the problem worse.

This is no longer the same planet Earth we once knew, that loved us.

It doesn’t matter if climate scientists cannot accurately say if this is code red, or code purple. They should be labeling it as code “extinction” or “collapse”, and communicating it accordingly.

According to conventional econometrics, GDP per capita has never been better.

The global middle class are living in Maximum Human Supremacy.

Meanwhile, our biosphere has never been more at risk.

Our denial is in the comforting lies of statistics - The Unbearable Anthropocentrism of Our World in Data

...While Australia debates the merits of going nuclear and frustration grows over the slower-than-needed rollout of solar and wind power, China is going all in on renewables.

New figures show the pace of its clean energy transition is roughly the equivalent of installing five large-scale nuclear power plants worth of renewables every week.

The China Energy Council estimated renewables generation would overtake coal by the end of this year.