@tuxom

> fails to agree timeline for seventh assessment report

The timeline they're failing on for all of these global climate meetings is that of the meeting itself. If it takes 2 or 3 weeks, take the time, but do not leave until there is agreenent. What is there waiting that is more important?

Reality cannot be scheduled. It must be taken on the timeline it offers. If that doesn't align with budget cycles, tough.

Is it too much civil disobedience to ask that these folks just sit still and run overtime as needed to get their job done? What's the worst that could happen? Well, funny you should ask, because that's the exact topic of these very meanings...

The arguments made, and the article upthread is super helpful for laying them out (so I recommend reading it), amount to some people (i.e., national.representatives) with no apparent sense of the urgency arguing that "perfect is a friend of the good", it "just" requires more time--as if there's any to be had.

I'm sorry, even without their all-important report, it's obvious what the problem is: a lack of sense of the incredibly high risk of delay.

Stay until everyone sees it.

Bar the doors if need be.

There is no extra time, no time to plan comfortably, no time to get every detail right.

There is only now, and the too real possibility of no tomorrow.

#JustSayNow

#climate #ClimateDenial #ClimateDelay #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #collapse #extinction

@climatebrad

> If only that had given us enough time to act.

Indeed.

I worry about the same kind of thing when people talk about Climate things with numbers like 2050 or 2100 next to them. Might as well not say them at all because I think people immediately think "oh, just a curiosity, nothing to act on, no relevance now" as if it's better to wait until there is an urgency. Clearly not.

Borrowing on the Nancy Reagan "Just Say No" slogan for drugs, climate issues need a "Just Say Now" campaign.

#climate #JustSayNow
#ClimateDenial #procrastination