GeofCox@GeofCox@climatejustice.social
"Chemical pollution a threat comparable to climate change, scientists warn" - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/06/chemical-pollution-threat-comparable-climate-change-scientists-warn-novel-entities
Are we putting too much emphasis on climate change, when what's really happening is a broad climate-ecological breakdown ?
The problem with the focus on climate is that it may be amenable to technological solutions - but the broader crisis, encompassing other forms of pollution, soil degradation/erosion, deforestation, etc, can clearly only be mitigated by more fundamental changes to our lifestyles/economies.
Simon Johnson@Simon318ppm@mastodon.sdf.org
@GeofCox@climatejustice.social I think one of the really important contributions of the emergence of Extinction Rebellion was to focus on the climate AND nature emergency as 2 sides of the same coin
But I think the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s planetary boundaries model is the really powerful description of where we are, which hardly ever gets a mention in the media, despite, or maybe because, it portrays very clearly the deep shit we’re in across all key domains