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Capitalism is a hostage situation -Not an economy

Our current #mainstreaming path of paywalls stacked on paywalls isn’t life, it’s a trap, we need a way out. In our everyday lives, we’ve come to accept the absurd:

You pay to eat food grown on land you don’t own,

Pay to sleep under a roof that someone profits from,

Pay to drink water privatized by corporations,

Pay to breathe, because the air is poisoned by industries that sell you both the problem and the solution.

And if you miss a payment? Game over. That’s not a […]

Les privilégiés qui avez un jardin, racontez-moi tout ce que vous avez fait ces dernières années pour le rendre plus résilient et plus robuste 🤩

Je crois que moi c'est l'action (ou le plan d'action) qui m'aide à aller mieux, et là hier j'ai vrillé quand j'ai réalisé qu'on allait avoir 1 mois entier sans pluie, alors qu'on attaque tout juste juillet. Si j'avais un plan pour que mon jardin et les petites bêtes dedans ne crèvent pas sous mes yeux, je crois que ça irait mieux.

Photo de ma mare au 15 juin...

#Jardin#Potager#Robustesse #resilience

7.8: Why Do These Cancelled Science Grants Matter?

In this episode, Christina talks to Dr Gabriel Filippelli - one of the first scientists to have a running project canceled by the Trump administration. This fascinating interview reveals just how important internationally these American grants can be, and Dr Filippelli passionately describes this unprecedented attack on science and education and what we all lose when the work that scientists do grinds to a halt or is extremely politically curtailed. It's important, he tells us, to support the institutions that you care about and are vital to the continued knowledge of how to survive our climate-changed future.

Dr Filippelli is the Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences at Indiana University Indianapolis and the Executive Director of the Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute. He works at the junction between biogeochemical cycles, climate change, and human health.

Dr Filippelli has also written the book Climate Change and Life: The Complex Co-evolution of Climate and Life on Earth, and Beyond, which explores Earth's ecological resilience to the great changes in climate that have occurred over the history of the Earth. He was also part of the driving force behind Climate Change and Resilience in Indiana and Beyond, which details local efforts to reduce the risks and lessen the harmful impacts of climate change, as well as prepare for the unavoidable consequences of climate change.

https://youtu.be/8ub129iucIg

#solarpunk#podcast#SolarpunkPresentsPodcast#Season7#Episode #science#ResearchGrants#AmericanPolitics#USPolitics#DOGE#BioGeoChemistry#USAID#Academia#AcademicResearch#AcademicFunding @academicchatter#Resilience #ClimateChange#AirQuality

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

Here's the actual impact.

"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

@tante @Nonya_Bidniss
The internet was construction to be resilient to failure of any node, with many pathways. How is building a (small number) of mega-data centers contributing to resilience. Do these not represent a small number of single points of failure?
#resilience#AI #datacenters #risk

Because in theory, that replaces a fossil fuel car without creating a new demand on the grid. If the subsidised combo also includes a certain amount of home storage for the electricity generated when it's sunny (eg a bank of sodium ion batteries), that's even more likely to be grid neutral.

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"This drop in total energy use is due to the fact that electric machines like heat pumps, induction cooktops and EVs are so much more efficient than the gas and oil machines that we use today, and can do the same job with less energy."

#DominicThorn, 2024

https://www.rewiring.nz/watt-now/energy-use-in-new-zealand

This is true. However, efficiency sits at one end of a continuum, and at the other end is resilience.

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#resilience

Science, researchers and research communities increasingly need to be resilient to threats and actual incursions relating to budget, academic freedom, safety in the public arena, availability of science databases and infrastructures and more. We created this framework to inspire communities in their resilience. It is quite generic, so needs to be customised to specific contexts and threats. #safeguardingresearch #defendresearch #resilience #academnicfreedom @RShetty