Laura Dobusch

The Torment Nexus is like an "AI company telling us that the only path to solving the climate crisis is to use what’s left of Earth’s resources to power its AI in the hope that it will come up with a solution to the climate crisis."

Are you part of the Torment Nexus?

So erklärt Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ihren Kandidatur-Verzicht SPD-Kandidatin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf hat ihre Kandidatur als Richterin des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zurückgezogen. Ihre Erklärung dokumentiert LTO im Wortlaut.

Wenn Ihr die komplette Erklärung von Prof. Dr. Brosius-Gersdorf lesen möchtet, hier ist die:
Ich kann Euch das nur empfehlen. Sie ist aufschlussreich, auch dazu, wer alles sich bei ihr gemeldet hat & wer halt nicht.
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Forget carbon neutral, Northwestern develops carbon NEGATIVE concrete The quest for carbon-neutral concrete has become a billion-dollar endeavor – but a team of scientists from Northwestern gas gone one better.

Concrete is responsible for between 5 and 10% of global carbon emissions.
Now Northwestern University have made a game changing break through and created carbon negative concrete

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Waldforschung: "Das Klimasystem beginnt zusammenzubrechen" Wälder verlieren an Kapazität, CO₂ aus der Luft zu ziehen. Das hat Folgen für die Klimaziele, wie Fachleute des Forschungszentrums der Europäischen Kommission zeigen

“Das Klimasystem beginnt zusammenzubrechen”
Nix einfach Bäume pflanzen. Wer das noch immer glaubt ist wirklich naiv.
Wälder werden immer häufiger zu CO2-Quellen, EU-Länder tun so als seien es Senken. Unrealistische Annahmen.
#Klimakrise

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Klimaklagen: UNO-Gericht mit wegweisendem Gutachten Wenn Staaten Klimaschutzverpflichtungen aus internationalen Abkommen verletzen, könnten sie dem Internationalen Gerichtshof (IGH) in Den Haag zufolge unter Umständen rechtlich belangt werden. Länder, ...

❗Wichtiges Gutachten des Internationalen Gerichtshofs❗

"Länder, die keine oder unzureichende Klimaschutzmaßnahmen ergreifen, verstoßen gegen das Völkerrecht, erklärte das höchste UNO-Gericht."
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#Klima #Gerechtigkeit #Klimagerechtigkeit #Zukunft

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

My key points:

1) It's pointless to talk about "sustainable" meat&dairy without talking about much, much less meat&dairy
2) Livestock integrated into regenerative farming & crop rotations (or off nature reserves) yields very little meat. It's not a sustainable food strategy if we all starve!

Climate necropolitics I have been thinking of politics and death recently. In fact it’s all I can think about. I think you should too.

Climate necropolitics: thoughts from the middle of the heatwave.
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What an excellent @egosnet.bsky.social #EGOS2025. Our Standing Working Group "Pushing the Boundaries of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Theorizing Transformative Change in Organizations" - @loradob.bsky.social, Alexander Fleischmann, Inge Bleijenbergh & Zeynep Gülru Göker & me - ...

LLMs ermöglichen die Eröffnung individualisierter, semantischer Räume. Quasi kleine semantische Mikro-Sezessionen, nur zwischen dir und der LLM, wo dir niemand blöd kommt, wo niemand wirklich "nein" sagt und "das ist Bullshit" und wo du dich in den unendlichen Pfadgelegenheiten des Latent Space verlieren kannst. Dabei kann sich dann, wie René schreibt, ein "reinforcing loop of semiotic self-radicalization" vollziehen, in dem dich die eigenen Begierden, Ängste, Phantasien und heimlich gehegten Verschwörungstheorien in die weirdesten Ecken der Trainingsdaten führen können, die zufällig auch das Geschreibsel aller Psychopathen der Menschheitsgeschichte enthalten. What could possibly go wrong?, fragt ihr euch jetzt. Während sich andere fragen: Wie kann man das weaponizen?

in krasse links no 58 denke ich über die vielen berichte über llm induzierte psychosen nach. mspr0.de/krasse-links...

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years. Article in @theconversation.com by Thorsten Mauritsen @stockholm-uni.bsky.social Steven Sherwood UNSW Sydney & Benoit Meyssignac Université de Toulouse #Climate
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YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert EXTENDED INTERVIEW: Colbert Talks NYC Mayoral Race With Candidates Zohran Mamdani & Brad Lander

If you are looking for a reasonable (even heartwarming) coversation between US politicians 👇 #missingNYC
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Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out

„Scientists say we have reached an ‘irreversible tipping point’ that will see fossil fuels phased out“

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‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

"We’re at a new point in human history,” Wagner says. Up until the last decade, “the major drivers of biodiversity losses around the planet were really land degradation and land loss, habitat loss. But I think now that climate change is by far exceeding that"

If your business cannot comply with the legal requirements you simply have no business.

It's impossible to discuss the energy transition without acknowledging the fragile state of our democracy.

And it's impossible to acknowledge the fragile state of our democracy without seeing how fossil-fuel interests are undermining it to stop the energy transition.

Could this be the biggest climate story of the year?

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand

Full analysis + outlook by Lauri Myllyvirta:

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"Wir leben jetzt in den Ausläufern des Fossilimperiums, das um sein Leben kämpft." Das als Brennglas auf die politischen Entwicklungen unserer Zeit, als Erklärung für die Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit, die noch lange nicht am Höhepunkt ist. Abonniert den Newsletter von @mspr0.de
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Absolute spot on analysis by @naomiaklein.bsky.social of whats going on in the US and beyond and why human made climate change is a crucial explantory for the radicalism of Musk, Thiel & Co's war against sciene and any institution that has regulatory power.

So while the average headlines and stock images try to evoke the idea that the personal decisions and frivolous behavior the world's ultra-rich are dooming the planet, the reality is more nuanced than that.

“Vulnerable Research” in a Time of Climate Change and Coloniality By Charlotte Weatherill It must be by its death The role of the academy in empire and colonial violence is the main theme of Babel: An Arcane History, a book by R. F. Kuang. Having wrestled with hi…

"From this perspective, research reproduces forms of harm that it purports to study. Our research questions are insufficient, our funding and ethical approval systems are not fit for purpose, and our research practices are actively harmful."

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We are in a moment in which this crisis will either succeed in separating us and stagnating our ability to think together, or force us into new kinds of not just scholarly but political solidarity

Conceptualizing transformative climate action: insights from sufficiency research

🔓 : What makes climate actions transformative? @rbaernthaler.bsky.social @ernestaigner.bsky.social et al. @envleeds.bsky.social propose 6 characteristics & show how they could reshape #climatepolicy:

1️⃣ Whole-of-government approach
2️⃣ Prioritizing sufficiency
3️⃣ Empowering collective agency
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I couldnt agree more!

Gestern hatten wir eine Sitzung zur Entwicklung unseres Standorts. Es ging um Perspektiven für Professuren, Forschungsthemen, Neubauten usw. für 2030, 2035, 2040. Ich hielt mich zurück. Wollte erst sagen, dass dann 450 ppm sind und uns -ganz- andere Probleme blühen. Aber das würde niemand verstehen.

One of the biggest errors of my political/working life was that I thought we could address intersecting inequalities first and nature exploitation later.

... building codes that are a half-century behind best practices, pension funds that are heavily invested in looting our kids’ futures, big labor groups demanding slower change in the supposed name of equity, boundary policing in the professions... the list goes on and on."

"Predatory delay isn’t just a Big Oil strategy. It isn’t just a “Trump thing.” Predatory delay is needled into the fabric of our society showing up as urban NIMBYs, outdated university disciplines, triangulatory institutional climate strategies, ...