Max Whitman

PhD candidate in Environmental Communication

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The climate crisis reveals that our civilization has never really been organized around science, contrary to the usual Enlightenment narrative. It is organized around capital. Science is embraced when it serves the interests of capital, and is often ignored when it does not.

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

If you translate life into industry you end up with industry... Not life.

#aphanipoiesis
#WarmData

[ClimateActionTracker @catclimate.bsky.social @climateactiontr]

CAT global update: Glasgow has a credibility gap between talk and action. If all govts met their 2030 targets, we would have 2.4˚C of warming in 2100. But right now, current policies put us at 2.7˚C. https://t.co/dkX4jAbo2f
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[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The emissions of the richest 10% *alone* are on track to gobble up the remaining carbon budget for 1.5 degrees, totally irrespective of what the rest of the world does. The rich are literally devouring the planet. https://t.co/AYapsYC29F

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Most people don't realize this, but the majority of high-income nations have already significantly exceeded their fair share of the carbon budget for 2 degrees. Their "zero by 2050" targets are therefore wildly inadequate. Here are the biggest overshooters:

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Only when we look at the deep history of capitalism do we see it for what it really is: a fire front, raging across the planet, ignited by people who operate offshore.
My column.
https://t.co/H7MtUGM6J5

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

On this day in 1967, the United States collaborated in a coup that deposed Sukarno, the first leader of independent Indonesia, and replaced him with a right-wing dictatorship. US officials conspired with the dictatorship to massacre 500,000 left-wing peasants and workers.

[Mistra Environmental Communication @MistraEC]

On September 28, one of our Ph.D. Researcher @MaxWhitman14 will have the online seminar “Researching across contexts – Exploring the Why and the How” @SWEDESD_UU
#transdisciplinary #research #sustainability #education #globalhealth #TRUST

https://t.co/gSEranWvXE

[Carl Schlyter @CarlSchlyter]

Jag blir bekymrad och allvarligt oroad av Cementa-affären, ett bolag gör en felaktig ansökan sedan är Riksdagen helt enig i att köra över grundlagen, i tre (sic!) olika kapitel!

Samtidigt som underlagen felaktigt talar om EU-cementbrist, när exporten fördubblats sedan 2009?

[SWEDESD @SWEDESD_UU]

TRUST Seminar:“Researching across contexts – Exploring the Why and the How" Max Whitman, Ph.D. @SWEDESD 28 Sept 14:15-15:15. Join us online https://t.co/hm36z5UoBn @UU_University @ec_slu #transdisciplinary #research #sustainability #education #globalhealth #TRUST

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

Stay alert!
The ways in which the industrial era have shaped epistemological perceptions of everything from education to farming, to competition, psychology & evolution. It sneaks into applying measurement,decontextualizing labels, linear processs & efficiency to living systems.

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Beware of the Net Zero pledges businesses of all kinds are now making. Their interest is in the net, not the zero.
In other words, everyone's trying to shift their emissions reduction to someone else.
Who is this magical someone else, who can suck up all their greenhouse gases?

[Joe Norman @normonics]

Typically when you get into arguments and fights about this -ism vs that -ism you've already bought into UNIVERSALISM that implies the SAME APPROACH must be adopted EVERYWHERE

We must make room for a LARGE VARIETY of ways of life rather than trying to coerce sameness. #Localism

[BrunoLatour @BrunoLatourAIME]

To witness rich boys using space travel for touristic amusement shows how much the modernist project of limitless expansion has come to a clownish end. Time to land. Don’t repeat history by farce; dream again, but interesting dreams.

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

What to do when words are so drenched in existing cultural tangles that they cannot actually convey anything but buzz? Important words have been lost to New Age & management programs. Words like: Share, care, collaborate, interconnected, trauma-got hollowed & sold by pop culture.

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

”A leaked document showed more than 124,000 items marked as 'destroy' in just a week.”

This is just ONE warehouse.
If you have a system where this possible - and even profitable - that’s a clear sign that something is fundamentally wrong.

[Max Whitman @MaxWhitman14]

Thanks @SLUUrbanFutures for allowing our small grassroot organization to share our thoughts and visions on urban futures and sustainability transformations. https://t.co/fyUwd9NGCJ

#regenerativeagriculture #urbanfarming #permaculture

[Max Whitman @MaxWhitman14]

High energy societies and sustainability are incompatible. A low energy world is a requirement for thriving. https://t.co/X0qmlfDFtE

[nora bateson @NoraBateson]

De-industrialize.
Re-animate.

#WarmData

[Mistra Environmental Communication @MistraEC]

First findings from Mistra Environmental Communication! Have a look at nine speedtalks (six minutes) on first results from the programme!

#enivonmentalcommunication #environment #communication #Sustainability
https://t.co/BCTVxKsxHq