Veel mensen vinden filosofie interessant, maar het heeft ook een serieus en zwaar imago. In de online lezingen in de serie ‘filosofie voor het dagelijks leven’ verkennen we hoe filosofen ons kunnen helpen het leven beter te begrijpen. www.volksuniversiteitamsterdam.nl/cultuur-maat...

In @trouw.nl this week: 10 years after the Paris Agreement, we know that the climate crisis is a disinformation crisis. Read @marioveen.bsky.social's take on how to counter this dangerous driver of our continued lack of action on the climate crisis!

Mijn opiniestuk in Trouw (The climate crisis is a disinformation crisis)

The summer is over - and for about 16,600 people across 854 European cities that doesn't mean autumn comes, but death. People who would still be alive if it wasn't for our burning of fossil fuels. - New study with @lshtm.bsky.social www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

Heh yes. Pretty much this. www.technosphere.earth/new-report-c...

EXACTLY If everyone loves fossil fuels and doesn't care about their kids, then why all the propaganda?

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Heat & very dry air that used to be rare, now very common in Spain & Portugal, putting huge strain on EU firefighting resources - at 1.3C global warming. Every additional ton of fossil fuels burnt will make European summers even more deadly & dangerous www.worldweatherattribution.org/extreme-fire...

I cannot tell you how many capitalist climate people came after me when I warned against assuming we could reverse overshoot of 1.5C w carbon removal. Well. It turns out that the maximum possible temperature reversal might be as little as 0.7C. End fossil fuels now.

My first comment piece in @theguardian.com is on a topic very close to my heart; the threat that the #ClimateCrisis poses to my local community in South Wales. Here's a thread with a few extra thoughts from me 🧵

Great video, in which Dave Borlace uses @doctorvive.bsky.social's excellent book on the language of #climate politics to debunk the Trump administration's talking points... youtu.be/EU8zYS43TRg

Last online lecture in this (dutch) series is this Thursday, on Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Ambiguity. Als je dit kunt lezen ben je welkom!

Happy to hear that @marioveen.bsky.social's and my article "Earth-bound in times of climate crisis: How Michel Serres’s The Natural Contract connects bodies and law" has been accepted for publication in 'Environmental Philosophy'

I hope you'll enjoyed this conversation with Mieke Bal about interdisciplinarity and her new book Moments of Meaning-Making youtube.com/watch?v=9Yka...

Heavy, deadly monsoon rainfall in Pakistan has become more intense with climate change - about 15%, but it could be as high as 40 - 80%: www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...

RIP Eddie Palmieri! open.spotify.com/track/4j0CkY...

The vibe of tomorrow's online Heidegger lecture

Read Climate Injustice together with The Language of Climate Politics this Summer and you're all up to speed with what's going on!

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

This is the "Oil Rig Graveyard" at Cromarty Firth in Scotland. Fossil fuel firms want my picture hidden as it shows the mess they leave behind that none of them want to pay to clean up, not to mention their damaging impact on your climate.

Read this book, if you can. It's so important!

Just as fossil fuel companies fund nominal amounts of research into climate-friendly tech in order to greenwash their apocalyptic behavior, so is Israel allowing nominal amounts of food into Gaza to legal-wash their starvation of the people they're systematically slaughtering.

"Extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, droughts and heatwaves, are becoming more frequent and intense..." Present tense; attribution is recognized with this statement.

What caused deadly landslides in Colombia? Finding out, should be easier. Tropical climates are complex, but if data are held by companies & organisations hiding them behind walls of bureaucracy it becomes impossible. @wwattribution.bsky.social study: www.worldweatherattribution.org/growing-expo...

De Zomerfilosofen! Ik geef vijf donderdagavonden een online lezing over een filosoof. Geef je hier op: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I'm offering lectures on philosophers! Why? Because writing takes time. Allow me to explain... substack.com/inbox/post/1...

About 1500 of the approx. 2300 people that will have lost their lives across 12 European cities last week would still live, if it wasn't for our burning of oil, coal and gas. If we care about the right to life, we need to stop burning fossil fuels. www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/pub...

The heat above 32°C in southeast England tomorrow will be 100 times more likely due to fossil fuel-driven warming 🌡️📈 Our super rapid study was published this morning. It is just the second time we’ve studied an event in real-time, using forecast data. It's been hot work. 🧵

Review of the Dutch translation of my biography of Bergson by @marioveen.bsky.social pasuit.nl/boodschapper...

I started a substack for my Dutch language publications. Dus als je dit kunt lezen, abonneer je dan op Klimaatgekte: klimaatgekte.substack.com/p/we-leven-i... And if you cannot read the sentence above, you can follow this substack for my English publications: marioveen.substack.com/p/bergsons-r...

Klimaatdesinformatie zijn berichten die opzettelijk twijfel zaaien over de oorzaken, ernst of oplossingen van klimaatverandering. Van cherry picking tot valse dilemmas. Via @marioveen.bsky.social #klimaatcommunicatie www.change.inc/advies-en-di...

Van realiteitsontkenning naar klimaatrealisme Gastblog van Mario Veen Als filosoof ben ik geïnteresseerd in realiteitsontkenning en wetenschapsontkenning in relatie tot de steeds pregnantere manier waarop de klimaatcrisis ons dagelijks leven binnenkomt. Het wetenschappelijke nieuws over…

Om ons land klimaatbestendig te maken, moeten we nú handelen. Desinformatie ondermijnt die noodzaak en bemoeilijkt gesprekken, vooral in onderwijs en zorg. Dr. Mario Veen, hoofddocent en onderzoeker aan Hogeschool Utrecht, onderzoekt hoe klimaatgesprekken beter kunnen. publinova.nl/article/het-...

Reading Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won, recommended by a colleague, and it is giving me so much hope today.

I hope Canada's new prime minister will break the tragedy of the horizon! youtu.be/V5c-eqNxeSQ?...

"Join young presenter Jaz as she sets out to discover why these conspiracy theories are so popular, whether any of them actually hold a grain of truth - or whether they are threatening our ability to deal with the greatest challenge humans have ever faced" #Climate www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrFo...

Join me May 4th at Radius for a deep dive into timefulness. We'll discuss @emilyherring.bsky.social's Herald of a Restless World and Ginie Servant-Miklos' Pedagogies of Collapse: www.radius-cca.org/en/agenda/ch...

Nog maar een column geschreven

"Fossil fuels lose just under 70% of energy as waste heat in the process of converting to electricity. Electrification removes this loss, meaning that renewable systems can enable a colossal global reduction in final energy demand of up to around 40."

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

De klimaatcrisis is de grootste bedreiging voor de volksgezondheid én we hebben alle oplossingen voorhanden om de volgende generaties een leefbare toekomst te bieden.

Understanding the impacts of #climatechange that increase with global temperature rise Major impacts include sea level rise, extreme weather events, food and water shortages and spread of infectious diseases Denial is not an option - this shit is real www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Klimaatobstructie speelt een grote rol in het klimaatdebat. Desinformatie ondermijnt ons klimaatbeleid en onze democratie. Vandaag diende ik een motie voor een Europese en nationale strategie voor het tegengaan van desinformatie:

One more day & my book can be found in bookstores in the UK. If you can't wait, you can read a big part of the first chapter here: www.theguardian.com/environment/... you miss out though why I chose to talk about the colonial-fossil narrative, instead of say the neo-liberal-patriarchial.

Researchers who have had grants terminated--tell your story! The #DefendResearch team is collecting testimonials about this impact of #censorship on research that we will use as part of a toolkit for contacting elected officials. #NSF, #NEH, #NIH www.defendresearch.org/testimonials

In dit interview voor @publinova.bsky.social roep ik op tot meer onderwijs en onderzoek naar klimaatadaptatie op hogescholen publinova.nl/article/het-...

I'm really happy to have been a part of this, with @marydwillis.bsky.social @naomioreskes.bsky.social and a whole bunch of other people that aren't on here yet (sorry if you are and I can't find you!) academic.oup.com/oocc/article...

Een sociobioloog zou hem kunnen uitleggen dat deze borstklopperige topdown apenattitude in de natuur nauwelijks geaccepteerd wordt. Leiderschap wordt bij apen alleen getolereerd wanneer de leider coalities smeedt en omziet naar het welzijn van de groep. #diergedrag #wetenschap

Who will join me 6th April.for this reading group? radius-cca.org/en/agenda/ch...