Posts by malte@radikal.social
(DIR) Post #B2csk1yshaAdLQ5hui by malte@radikal.social
2025-01-16T23:12:01Z
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I just had an idea, I'd like to explore with you: We make campaigns with our walled garden friends where there's a list they can sign vouching that "If all the others on this list move to the Fediverse, then I will too". Every time a new person signs it, it can potentially be the small difference that makes another person sign it too, and so on. Each campaign is local to a community and has a deadline: "We move this date". You finish with a celebration. #fedimigration #mastodonmigration #fedi
(DIR) Post #B2cskQ5n3XxQ7nVZ0y by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T15:13:30Z
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Climate conscious folks, can you help me answer this question: If we want to stay within the planetary boundary defined by 1.5°C global warming, how many emissions in CO2e can each person make per year?I know there are several ways to make the calculation. I just want to get a ballpark number so we can get some proportions in our lifestyle choices.#CarbonFootprint #EmissionQuota #Degrowth
(DIR) Post #B2cskRxi6YgNvJk8hM by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:28:43Z
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@fideldonson Thanks! I'm happy to get a response to my question. This is significantly less than 2,3. Still many countries in the world are below that quota, but for people like us in the overdeveloped world - quite drastic changes we need to make.
(DIR) Post #B2cskY7VD4531QN2nI by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T15:18:23Z
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The Institute for European Environmental Policy set the qouta at 2,3 tonnes. That's roughly half of an average Danish person, but most countries in the world could actually increase their per capita emissions under that quota, esp. in Africa, but also places like Brazil, Armenia, India and Pakistan are below the quota today https://ieep.eu/publications/carbon-inequality-in-2030-per-capita-consumption-emissions-and-the-1-5c-goal/
(DIR) Post #B2cskfnaeyuEpz7Frs by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T15:22:35Z
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That study was made in 2021 and given that we've not seen drastic degrowth in the last four years, we've made a significant overspending of our budget, leaving less for the coming years. That means the number would likely be adjusted down. But how much - who has a more recent calculation?
(DIR) Post #B2csknMaXG3oIYXntI by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T15:43:51Z
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You might ask "Which kind of lifestyle choices could this help us change our minds on?" I think a good example to start with is flying. Consider that a long trip like flying from Europe to Thailand burns between 1,2 to 3,4 tonnes CO2 per passenger, depending on airplane type etc.
(DIR) Post #B2cskv2K0UbQ617jPc by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T15:47:07Z
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Best case scenario, you're burning more than half of your annual emissions budget on that trip, leaving very little room to heat your house, buy socks and food and transport yourself. Worst case, you're burning up more than a whole persons annual budget in that trip, leaving less energy for other people in the world to live and thrive.
(DIR) Post #B2csl31uHv1Yt2zVsO by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:16:43Z
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In the over-individualized world, some people might be unable to imagine how to use this kind of thinking for anything else than individual action. There's a certain type of apathetic radical that gets easily triggered into that assumption. I get a bit annoyed with this lack of imagination, but 50 years of neoliberal assault on the imagination also makes it understandable.
(DIR) Post #B2cslBGjefdgRLzT6G by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:21:42Z
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Just consider this idea: Imagine we had the power to set limits to our common energy use together. Just skip the part of how we would get there (having that kind of power) and imagine what we would do then. Imagine we had made capitalism come to a grinding halt, toppled the global oligarchy and had some good-enough global structures for making wise decisions for the health of planet and people. How much energy could we spend per person and still live within the planetary boundaries?
(DIR) Post #B2cslJUr43gdxSerDc by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:35:34Z
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I'm actually a bit surprised how most people reacting to my post are not responding to the question, but letting their mind wander off to other places and taking me with them.
(DIR) Post #B2cslSMg5pUfShtxDs by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:42:38Z
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Where I come from we often call these kind of misattunements "flight behaviors", ie. their implicit goal is often to avoid the explicit goal of the context. In this context, the most immediate goal was to find an answer to the question above. So flight behaviors typically do something else than that. As a climate-focused psychologist I've spent lots of time observing how we evade all kinds of things related to climate change. Sometimes, like today, I'm surprised how common it is.
(DIR) Post #B2ct8ka4X4CucPH2Zs by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:32:28Z
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@jones You're missing my point and not responding to my question. Imagine we managed to abolish the most extreme inequality (which causes the emissions you're referring to and of which I'm very much aware of) and now lived in a much more equal world. How many emissions would there be for each person to use if we wanted to live within the boundary of 1,5C?
(DIR) Post #B2ct8q0UMHJDRmfhwm by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-07T16:03:31Z
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@Basic_barbie We disagree somewhat on this point. My analysis of neoliberalism is that it has been a decades long war on the imagination. So much so that not even the most radical people can imagine how we would live without capitalist inequality. @jones
(DIR) Post #B2ct8uJmKV7EoljAZM by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-08T08:56:30Z
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@jones The same point has been made by one of the movements that have made Bookchins thought real, the experiment in Kurdistan. Dilar Dirik called her anthology on that topic "Dare to imagine" for that reason. @Basic_barbie
(DIR) Post #B2ct8v73NIWzHamWNE by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-08T10:34:39Z
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@jones One of the most scathing critiques I've heard from kurds in the movement when sharing their perspective of radicals in my part of the world is - you don't even know what freedom is and your overly individualized society has made you forget to imagine a free life
(DIR) Post #B2cu21BmU82Y3TGX0C by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T21:15:05Z
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@mbletmathe Sure, even if I suspect you're not really interested in the answer. One of the primary cycles of matter on the planet is the carbon cycle. As part of that cycle, carbon gets sequestered in soils and living plants. That means it is possible to get to a point where the planet is sequestering more carbon than we are emitting, a threshold called drawdown. It would take drastic reductions in our energy use and my question is basically to ask how much. https://drawdown.org/
(DIR) Post #B2cu238JG0S45Hemrw by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-07T15:58:47Z
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@mbletmathe I think I know that kind of hope, the kind that dulls the senses and feelings and leads to inaction, like opiates. I would call that a "positive prediction". Hope for me entails some unpredictability, which means there's still room for action. And to have reasons for both optimism and pessimism.
(DIR) Post #B2ewUxWrTcjEdwWGbA by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:33:35Z
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@fideldonson Yes, the more we're overspending next years' budgets, the less there is left!
(DIR) Post #B2exFfyeYFiBolnLyy by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T16:57:59Z
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@jones Thanks, sometimes all it takes to be responsive is to admit you don't know the answer.
(DIR) Post #B2exFhRP6qIuMEFpR2 by malte@radikal.social
2026-01-06T21:24:49Z
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@rhelune Yes, this could be another example of how to have the (difficult) conversation with yourself and your partner whether to have children. And I agree with you that's not a conversation most want to have. Having children is like a sphere of its own - different from our other lifestyle choices. The good thing is the birthrate is going down all on its own where women are economically independent, have access to contraceptives, abortions and other family planning services.