Solarpunk Collective

“Miss Wightwitch?” As always, the guard asked the question through the locked door. He didn’t slide back the viewing port or use the intercom. “Last I checked.” “Please answer yes or no.” “Yes.” “You have an interview in 2 minutes.” The female prisoner got up from the stiff cot, walked over to the radiator and picked up her prison jacket. It was a coarse synthetic garment which would probably last longer than she would. It was also itchy and uncomfortable. When she was alone in the cell she didn’t wear it. But you couldn’t attend an interview in your underwear. The walk took longer than usual. The single guard led her down several dusty hallways before going through a double locked door in to a nicer part of the prison. There were carpets here and the paint on the walls looked like it had been applied sometime in the current century. This was visitor country. In 16 months of incarceration, Ness had yet to see anyone who wasn’t a guard or an investigating agent. This meant...

There's a very important graphic for understanding climate change which you need to see in order to have a chance of understanding what a solution might look like. On the left are the sources of Green House Gas emissions, sorted by sector. Energy is the biggest category, but land use change and agriculture is still very important. On the right are different kinds of gasses produced. It may seem that CO2 is the biggest worry, but don't forget that Methane is as much as 30 times more potent at trapping heat than CO2. Overall, GHG emissions are around 4 times higher than they were in the middle of last century. Rises haven't been universal though. Some regions have seen bigger increases than others. And some sectors have risen while others have fallen. When we think of GHGs, we imagine most of it to come from our cars and from power stations generating energy for our homes. We've been told that we are the problem, and if we'd just drive less and turn of...