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Per Espen Stoknes - How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming [TEDGlobal_NYC]
The biggest obstacle for dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes.
He explains how people put up barriers to climate news like distance, doom, dissonance, denial and identity. But using Social Norms or Supportive reframing around health, tech and jobs we can start to tackle the barriers. We can also make things Simple so that climate friendly behaviours are the default. We can have quality visual Signals which indicate progress. Importantly we can flip people's identity with compelling Stories.
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The biggest obstacle for dealing with climate disruptions lies between your ears, says psychologist and economist Per Espen Stokes.
He explains how people put up barriers to climate news like distance, doom, dissonance, denial and identity. But using Social Norms or Supportive reframing around health, tech and jobs we can start to tackle the barriers. We can also make things Simple so that climate friendly behaviours are the default. We can have quality visual Signals which indicate progress. Importantly we can flip people's identity with compelling Stories.
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https://www.ted.com/talks/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming
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Cosmo-localism: The production and distribution of value that combines the universal (cosmo) sharing of knowledge (unimpeded by patents or other IP barriers), with physical production occurring as close to the place of need as possible.
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Futures_of_Production_Through_Cosmo-Local_and_Commons-Based_Design
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Futures_of_Production_Through_Cosmo-Local_and_Commons-Based_Design
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is basically anarchist.
Specifically eco-anarchist.
It portrays a population who’ve been fooled into thinking a ruling class care for them and that chaos would break out without them, when really they’re parasites draining people and planet dry.
And it recommends total social and ecological revolution as the solution to this issue, with the plot concerning the characters spreading revolutionary consciousness throughout the masses.
Here’s some more reasons why:
• One of the characters, Brea, from the educated upper-middle class, has an epiphany upon realising that there is no natural hierarchy between the clans of Gelflings. And that viewing others as "higher" and "lower" is nonsensical. Representative of the leftwing intelligentsia joining the cause of the multitude?
• Another, Deet, from a clan that’s a stand-in for indigenous peoples, is the first to realise there’s an ecological catastrophe underfoot, which the ruling class (Skeksis) continuously deny is even happening – okay, yes, the analogy is a little on the nose.
• The Skeksis use a tithe system and inter-clan bigotry as tools to (a) keep Gelflings at each other’s throats, and (b) lacking the independent means to fend for themselves. The Skeksis’ greatest fear is the Gelflings putting aside racism and realising "we are many, they are few" and uniting against them in class war.
• Skeksis actively promote the idea that anyone who believes they’re draining people and planet (human and ecological exploitation) must be mentally ill. Those who spread the truth are most often disbelieved, and ratted out by true believers.
• There’s disagreements within the ruling class as to whether they should exploit covertly, treating them like sheep – "would you rather be a pet or an enemy?" – or go all out and just ravage them when they have the means to do so (capitalism vs fascism). They also justify their predatory hierarchy as "natural".
• Eco justice + animal liberation + class struggle.
The solution of intersectional class struggle and revolution is framed in explicitly ecological terms (to save the planet Thra as well as the Gelflings) and also extends beyond Gelflings to other species.
• Indigenous solidarity
When Deet tells the spider-people they’ve been played for fools, promised their ancestral home in exchange for fighting for the Skeksis, knowing they’ll be killed by the blight, they realise their struggle is one and the same and promising reconciliation. Upon realising she’s been living on "stolen land", Deet tells them, an alien species to hers, that her people take their name, Grottan, from the caves, and that as far as she’s concerned that makes them all Grottan, Gelflings and spider people both.
In short, watch Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
It’s the eco-anarchist fantasy epic you never knew you wanted. (from Solarpunk Anarchist FB page)
Specifically eco-anarchist.
It portrays a population who’ve been fooled into thinking a ruling class care for them and that chaos would break out without them, when really they’re parasites draining people and planet dry.
And it recommends total social and ecological revolution as the solution to this issue, with the plot concerning the characters spreading revolutionary consciousness throughout the masses.
Here’s some more reasons why:
• One of the characters, Brea, from the educated upper-middle class, has an epiphany upon realising that there is no natural hierarchy between the clans of Gelflings. And that viewing others as "higher" and "lower" is nonsensical. Representative of the leftwing intelligentsia joining the cause of the multitude?
• Another, Deet, from a clan that’s a stand-in for indigenous peoples, is the first to realise there’s an ecological catastrophe underfoot, which the ruling class (Skeksis) continuously deny is even happening – okay, yes, the analogy is a little on the nose.
• The Skeksis use a tithe system and inter-clan bigotry as tools to (a) keep Gelflings at each other’s throats, and (b) lacking the independent means to fend for themselves. The Skeksis’ greatest fear is the Gelflings putting aside racism and realising "we are many, they are few" and uniting against them in class war.
• Skeksis actively promote the idea that anyone who believes they’re draining people and planet (human and ecological exploitation) must be mentally ill. Those who spread the truth are most often disbelieved, and ratted out by true believers.
• There’s disagreements within the ruling class as to whether they should exploit covertly, treating them like sheep – "would you rather be a pet or an enemy?" – or go all out and just ravage them when they have the means to do so (capitalism vs fascism). They also justify their predatory hierarchy as "natural".
• Eco justice + animal liberation + class struggle.
The solution of intersectional class struggle and revolution is framed in explicitly ecological terms (to save the planet Thra as well as the Gelflings) and also extends beyond Gelflings to other species.
• Indigenous solidarity
When Deet tells the spider-people they’ve been played for fools, promised their ancestral home in exchange for fighting for the Skeksis, knowing they’ll be killed by the blight, they realise their struggle is one and the same and promising reconciliation. Upon realising she’s been living on "stolen land", Deet tells them, an alien species to hers, that her people take their name, Grottan, from the caves, and that as far as she’s concerned that makes them all Grottan, Gelflings and spider people both.
In short, watch Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.
It’s the eco-anarchist fantasy epic you never knew you wanted. (from Solarpunk Anarchist FB page)
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Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out As Part of Global Climate Strike - Press Release
FOR: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: amazonemployeesclimatejustice@gmail.com More Than One Thousand Amazon Employees Pledge to Walk Out As Part of Global Climate Strike The walkout is the latest employee action to ask the company to take action on the climate…
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2 of our biggest crises are one amazon growing too fast and the other amazon shrinking too fast
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Filet Oh! Fish (54:27min) | Nicolas Daniel, Upside Distribution
Published: 2013
Everybody agrees that fish is healthy. In 40 years, its global consumption has doubled. Each year, the market needs to find more fishes and new ways of production. Where does the fish of our daily sushi come from? How is it fed? In which water does it live? A dramatic investigation about healthy food...or maybe not?
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Published: 2013
Everybody agrees that fish is healthy. In 40 years, its global consumption has doubled. Each year, the market needs to find more fishes and new ways of production. Where does the fish of our daily sushi come from? How is it fed? In which water does it live? A dramatic investigation about healthy food...or maybe not?
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http://www.upsidedistribution.com/?Filet-Oh-Fish
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Equipotentiality
"...peer production processes are characterized by the adoption of equipotentiality as an organizing principle. This means that everyone can potentially cooperate in a project, that no authority can pre-judge the ability to cooperate, but that the quality of cooperation is then judged by the community of peers, i.e. through Communal Validation. In equipotential projects, participants self-select themselves to the module to which they feel able to contribute."
"...peer production processes are characterized by the adoption of equipotentiality as an organizing principle. This means that everyone can potentially cooperate in a project, that no authority can pre-judge the ability to cooperate, but that the quality of cooperation is then judged by the community of peers, i.e. through Communal Validation. In equipotential projects, participants self-select themselves to the module to which they feel able to contribute."