'Emergency on Planet Earth' - XR Scientists present the case for rebellionArchived Message
Posted by Ian M on August 29, 2020, 10:06 am
Long doc with lots of hyperlinks to lose yourself down. Navigable by subheadings on the left at least, so you can dip in to the bits you're interested in directly:
I looked up the agriculture & livestock sections (cowspiracy 51% emissions figure dismissed but still endorsing the FAO's 15%, asserting that 'deforestation, cow burps and farts, and fertilisers produce more greenhouse gases than all the world’s cars, lorries and planes put together' which is rubbish - https://www.thelandmagazine.org.uk/articles/convenient-untruth-1 ) the 'why should we care about the loss of our [sic] wildlife?' (all appeals to self-interest based on the logic of torturous logic of 'ecosystem services', ignoring the fact that for farming-based societies wildlife depletion is a measure of success, ie: we +don't+ depend on 'healthy ecosystems') and the sections at the end on the UK govt which thankfully mentions the 'embedded emissions' in manufactured products and the fact that, along with emissions from aviation & shipping, they're not included in official measurements of the UK's GHG output. Some welcome critique of tech 'solutions' and off-sets being an excuse for business-as-usual.
I guess quite remarkable for scientists to be advocating for mass nonviolent civil disobedience and a complete re-arrangement of how society operates.