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BellingenNSW

Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks

"This paper studies how the relations between nature and society are constructed in disaster governance frameworks. Dominant disaster governance frameworks present nature and society as separate realms, and the organisation of society is increasingly seen as the key cause of hazards and disasters. Disaster impacts are similarly framed around adverse societal consequences, while other-than-human nature is merely the background across which disasters unfold, as property lost, or a means of disaster governance. Although the centrality of human impacts is troubled when biodiversity or a disaster flagship species is threatened, neither situation challenges the nature–society dualism embedded in dominant disaster governance frameworks. The attention and resources of disaster governance target the societal side of nature–society dualism. This study finds, though, that in peripheries characterised by remoteness from centres of power, a sparse human population, and large spaces of other-than-human nature, the vulnerabilities facing humans and other-than-human nature risk being ungoverned."
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Meriläinen, E. (2025). Nature–society relations in disaster governance frameworks. Disasters, 49(2), e12678. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/fu
#disasters #NaturalDisasters #governance #property #tourism #NSW #remoteness #FossilFuels #ClimateBreakdown #acceleration #climate #Bushfires #floods #cyclone #FirstResponders #trauma #nature #biodiversity #forests #NSWLogging #roads #koalas #deforestation #OtherThanHumanNature #NatureSocietyDualism #peripheries #vulnerability

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BellingenNSW

Intentional road crashes
In Australia, fatal road crashes are climbing again.

"Suicide or accident? The hidden complexities of intentional road crashes in Australia
International research suggests driver suicides may account for up to 8–9% of all fatal road crashes. But studies indicate up to half of these cases may go unreported."

"Between 2001 and 2017, the rate of suicide involving a road vehicle collision in Australia nearly doubled from 0.125 per 100,000 people to 0.25 per 100,000. "

"Unlike most other suicide methods, road vehicle collisions pose a significant risk to others.Intentional crashes can involve unsuspecting drivers, passengers and pedestrians, turning a personal act of self-harm into a broader public safety issue."
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theconversation.com/suicide-or
#cars #drivers #crashes #males #violence #accident #pedestrians #harm #risks #mentalhealth #rage #roads #mobilitydesign #speed #FossilFuel #acceleration

The ConversationSuicide or accident? The hidden complexities of intentional road crashes in AustraliaDriver suicides account for about 9% of all fatal road crashes but many go unreported. Why are they so difficult to identify and what patterns exist?
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BellingenNSW

The impacts of climate disruption

The Lismore floods, the Spanish floods and Hurricane Katrina show in a climate breakdown
you're on your own..

People "are fundamentally rescuing themselves...I think that's something that we see again and again, unfortunately, in the absence of effective government response....Professor Mossop says the Black Summer Fires in 2019 to 2020 also saw people being "rescued by their neighbours and not by emergency services".
Australia is expected to experience worsening disasters as climate change accelerates.
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abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/how

“Out of all the focus group respondents, 62% said their governments or policy makers had made no assessment of the impact of climate change on emergency services, 9% said they didn’t know, 55% said nothing had been done to prepare for the impact of climate change, and 10% didn’t know.">>
scimex.org/newsfeed/australasi
#ClimateBreakdown #FossilFuels #acceleration #climate #floods #bushfires #trauma #disasters #governance #EmergencyServices #state #SocialVulnerability #society #citizens #abandonment #volunteers #BlackSummer #ClimateJustice #GovernmentAbsence

ABC News · What Australia can learn from Spain's recent deadly floodsBy Jesmine Cheong
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BellingenNSW

"Our biggest killer is speed."
Lower default speed limits would save lives, road safety researchers say.

"In Australia, we have one of the highest default local speed limits in the world...We seem to think in Australia that to get people to slow down, we need to change the way our streets are structured. There are some motorists who think it is their right to drive in a way that puts themselves and innocent road users at greater risk of being killed or seriously injured."

Bellingen main (shopping) thoughfare is hostile to people. The mobility design of so called 'upgraded' roads (such as Gleniffer Rd., North bank Rd. and Roses Rd.) around the town is enticing motorists in cars and trucks to recklessly race from A to B, degrading the in between landscape.

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abc.net.au/news/2024-08-26/low
#roads #speed #speeding #motorists #MobilityDesign #crashes #risks #trauma #sacrifice #trucks #Bellingen #NSW #GlenifferRoad #30km #pollution #LandUse #ClimateEmergency #slow #traffic #acceleration

Bellingen main drag: Seamless road trains rushing through Hyde St., dwarfing and polluting the main business district.
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Kent Pitman

Some notes on the haiku above...

I have seen it various places observed that exponential growth is such that if you have population that doubles every 20 years, then 20 years before you reach any point of "too much", the world will be only half full. We struggle with that because it's taken all of human history fill half the world, so we may feel we have plenty of room. But exponential growth sneaks up, and if it's doubling every 20 years, half full is almost full.

The same, then, with exponential rise in any quantity, such as temperature. We may look back at previous rises in temperature and think "no big deal", but that intuition, that desire to use experiential knowledge, is not going to serve us well. We invented, or learned to describe, mathematics so that we could reason better than our primitive intuitions lead us to do. Our brains like to presume linearity, but the effects we see are not linear. What we know from math tells is that we must take nonlinear effects seriously, lest we get surprised in a possibly swift, surprising and fatal way.

We're in denial that this is happening, but the science says something truly horrible is about to happen. We're not doing well with conventional planning. We look around and, in spite of dire warnings, things look normal. But maybe notmal is what things look like just before it all collapses.

We perhaps need to fast forward to what's going to happen and say, "what will it have looked like just before?" If the answer is "just like any other day", then we need to find something else to look to in order to know we're about to fail. Something we cannot so easily deny.

From time to time, we see mass death events in other species. Rivers or lakes full of dead fish, cooked, metaphorically, though almost also literally, by the heat. One day that will be us.

I heard a news story recently about a large number of heat deaths in India. The problem is already horrible. Every life matters. And yet that number is dwarfed by what's coming. Millions, even billions. A few hundred will seem quaint.

But also like we should have heeded the warnings better. Or allowed ourselves to see them at all.

Rather than shrug off warnings, figure out what warning you're not going to ignore. Draw a line in the sand. Say it out loud, to friends, family, the world. Ask them to hold you to account, to make you finally care. Ask them what THEIR line is.

What is your line?

When do we stop and make this our global focus? If not now, when?

#climate#denal#ClimateDenial
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CelloMom On Cars

Factcheck: Why the recent ‘acceleration’ in global warming is what scientists expect

"There is increasing evidence of an #acceleration in the rate of warming over the past 15 years.

This acceleration is broadly in line with projections from the latest generation of #ClimateModels.

The speed up in warming projected in the latest climate models (known as CMIP6) is similar to the acceleration estimated by prominent climate scientist Dr James Hansen and colleagues."

carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-

Average global temperature as measured (dots) compared to several projections: Top left: linear extrapolation; Top right: IPCC assessment SSP2-4.5 Bottom left: CMIP6 climate model SSP2-4.5 Bottom right: Projection by Jim Hansen et al. (2023 paper)
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Boiling Steam

PyTorch Library for Running LLM on Intel CPU and GPU: github.com/intel-analytics/ipe #linux #update #release #intel #cpu #gpu #pytorch #acceleration

GitHubGitHub - intel-analytics/ipex-llm: Accelerate local LLM inference and finetuning (LLaMA, Mistral, ChatGLM, Qwen, Baichuan, Mixtral, Gemma, etc.) on Intel CPU and GPU (e.g., local PC with iGPU, discrete GPU such as Arc, Flex and Max). A PyTorch LLM library that seamlessly integrates with llama.cpp, HuggingFace, LangChain, LlamaIndex, DeepSpeed, vLLM, FastChat, ModelScope, etc.Accelerate local LLM inference and finetuning (LLaMA, Mistral, ChatGLM, Qwen, Baichuan, Mixtral, Gemma, etc.) on Intel CPU and GPU (e.g., local PC with iGPU, discrete GPU such as Arc, Flex and Max)...
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Estelle Platini

"It is not only its use, but #technology itself that already constitutes domination (over nature and over people), a domination that is methodical, scientific, calculated and calculating. It is not only after the fact, and from outside, that certain ends and interests specific to domination are imposed on technology - these ends and interests are already part of the constitution of the technical apparatus itself. From the outset, technology is an entire socio-historical project."

#Quote from Herbert Marcuse, taken from his #book Industrialisation and Capitalism, 1964

#technique#tech#progress
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Estelle Platini

« Ce n’est pas seulement son utilisation, c’est bien la #technique elle-même qui est déjà domination (sur la nature et sur les hommes), une domination méthodique, scientifique, calculée et calculante. Ce n’est pas après coup seulement, et de l’extérieur, que sont imposés à la technique certaines finalités et certains intérêts appartenant en propre à la domination - ces finalités et ces intérêts entrent déjà dans la constitution de l’appareil technique lui-même. La technique, c’est d’emblée tout un projet socio-historique ».

Herbert #Marcuse, dans son livre #Industrialisation et #Capitalisme, 1964

#progrès#gouvernance#technocritique
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