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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought several second copies of
- How the Mind Changed: A Human History of our Evolving Brain
- Kate Raworth's Doughnut #Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. We had hoped to get this signed when she recently spoke in London, but, alas, failed.
- An ex-library copy of an older classic on #Buffon: From Natural History to the History of Nature: Readings from Buffon and His Critics, of which I made a note after reviewing Every Living Thing some time back.

#Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Neurobiology #Degrowth #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, standing up, How the Mind Changed, showing two pictures of a human brain on a black background. At the top, part of a connectome picture, showing a high-resolution brain scan of neuronal connections in green, red, and purple; at the bottom, part of the surface of the brain, using the same green, red, and purple colour scheme

In the middle, Doughtnut Economics, showing a close-up picture of a blackboard with a drawing in white chalk of two concentric circles, one inside the other. Two pieces of white chalk lie next to the outer circle.

On the right, From Natural History to the History of Nature, showing a plain hardcover book bound in navy blue cloth with gold lettering. This is an ex-library copy bound in transparent protective foil that gives it a slightly shiny look.

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1y

Remember when the politicians kept telling us that Climate Change was too expensive to fight?

They said that Oil Executives buying mega yachts was more important than the rest of us having food, or viable living conditions.

This is the second "once in a century" flood in the Toronto area this summer

#FossilFuels
#Degrowth
#ClimateChange

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/08/18/weather-rainfall-warning-issued-for-toronto-mississauga-brampton-ontario/

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358d

#Degrowth is shutting down the data center that stores the recordings your air fryer made of you.

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274d

Trump is a disaster. No question about that. But our troubles did not begin with him.

Corporate Democrats are just as eager to sell us out and destroy everything for the sake of Business As Usual, Wall Street, and Big Oil.

Listen to the clip below from an interview Barack Obama gave last year.

He says climate change might be a problem, but we can handle it. Although there's no way now to keep global warming below 2°C, that shouldn’t be so bad. And if we work hard, we might be able to stay at around 3°C … but the important thing is, stop worrying! Don't complain about the system. Everything is under control.

This is absolutely criminal. That much extra heat will destroy modern civilization. Billions of people will die, along with millions of species of plants and animals going extinct. The world as we know it will end.

There still *could* be a way to prevent all that. But it requires system change. The end of capitalism. It requires #Degrowth.

And no one in a position of power wants to hear that.

▶️ https://youtu.be/jAYVKZSWXhY?t=929

#USA #Trump #Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual