unsustainability

ramblings about corporate sustainability, political ecology, development, and lots of other stuff. lecturer at the university of york.

[wehadfacesthen]

Jane Fonda in Paris, 1963, photo by Willy Rizzo

[despazito]

Sooner or later leftists will have to deal with the issue that capitalism has made many people used to wanton excess and sooner or later we'll have to legit tell everyone we can't have plastic treats and luxury produce or cruises instantly available year round and it's gonna make so many people mad and call you a big meanie worse than stalin over it. It will not be popular at all but someone's gotta hold a firm no or the planet will never stop collapsing. We can't save the planet by living exactly how we do now just with a communist banner over it we have to take a loss sorry, shein product cycles shouldn't have been normalized to begin with.

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

jiuzhaigou九寨沟, sichuan province in china

[probablyasocialecologist]

As chatbots advance, California burns. As a computer beats a human at chess, millions suffer the strange symptoms of zoonotic disease. Unable to grasp its historical agency and force a better world, humanity faces a future where smart taxis silently drift under a night of perpetual storm. As freak weather events and pandemics turn ever more of humanity into refugees, prisoners and economic exiles, this burden of life – unable to find purchase in the economy proper – presents itself to Silicon Valley as software code, to be used and rejected as it sees fit.

Phil Jones, Work Without the Worker: Labour in the Age of Platform Capitalism

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

pingbaying坪坝营, enshi恩施, hubei province in china

[nobrashfestivity]

Dominique Issermann, Japan, 1985

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

purple sky in fuzhou, fujian province by 活该咪_

[neverlvnd]

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[urgetocreate]

Anastasia Trusova (Russian b. 1989), Boatman, 2024, Acrylic on canvas

[iamjapanese]

ISHIMURA Masayuki（石村 雅幸 Japanese, b.1965）

精魄    Japanese painting   via

[tenebrobscuro]

The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

[str-ngeloop]

the romance of hand-plotting. this guy looked at the numbers and drew each of those dots manually, and the image emerged. we can only imagine how he felt

[probablyasocialecologist]

First ever image of a black hole: a CNRS researcher had simulated it as early as 1979

Published in 1979 in Astronomy and Astrophysics2 , it had a worldwide impact, especially since this type of object was still highly theoreti

[universeofchaos]

[unsubconscious]

Friedrich Kunath, “Storms Never Last”, 2023

[detailedart]

Rise and collapse of a wave. Details of paintings by Michael Zeno Diemer (1867-1939)

[matthewarcher]

paintings!?

[eptoday]

Activist opposed to Rio Tinto lithium mine receives anonymous death threats

Serbian green campaigner who co-drafted declaration against lithium exploitation now fears for his safety

[324732]

[nobrashfestivity]

Leonardo da Vinci, ‘A Copse of Trees’, 1508.

[fairuzfan]

the world kinda just sucks but also i saw a poster in support of Palestine from Hiroshima protestors and idk it made me smile.

[fairuzfan]

here's the poster