Bread and CircusesMay 18, 2023

An unfurled thread from NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman)
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I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know.

When I am at these scientific meetings, where basically every talk and poster is about precisely how Earth is rapidly breaking down, I just want to scream.

It makes me incredibly angry and frustrated and sad that Biden keeps expanding fossil fuel production and infrastructure, in direct opposition to the clearest science. What are climate scientists supposed to do? We are losing Earth, folks. We must force our leaders to stop.

Always, always keep in mind that to halt this, we must end the fossil fuel industry. Nothing else will substitute for that. Don't let them distract you with carbon offsets, carbon capture, fusion, or recycling.
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Climate scientists are scared and are furious about what's happening. We ALL should be frightened, angry, and demanding action!

As Peter says: "We must end the fossil fuel industry. Nothing else will substitute for that."

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #FossilFuels #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

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@breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman The existential question:
How does one regulate, control and eliminate the fossil fuel industry when they posess significant control not only in how our representatives vote but also how they are elected?
The beast will not shut itself down but will destroy us all instead for profit.

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Show threadRolfOMay 18, 2023
@bouriquet @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman I keep asking myself and others variations of the same question. We need systemic changes. Actors include politicians, media, populations, bank/finance, big corporate, etc. Where to "attack" for most effect? Fast. And how?
Show threadbouriquetMay 18, 2023
@rolfo @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman Change usually doesn’t happen in an orderly means.
Often it needs a catalyst: pandemics, drought, industrial accidents.
The 70s oil crisis almost changed things. Then Republicans took over, oil got less costly, SUVs became popular, then got larger. Reagan tore the solar water heater off the White House roof that Jimmy Carter put there. The nail in the coffin was the election of Bush instead of Al Gore.
Show threadClimate Emergency EverywhereMay 18, 2023
@bouriquet @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman We have to keep building the resistance structure brick by brick, person by person. I know it is taking too long, that it is way behind where it should be, but slowly, slowly the world is waking up. We should not give up in the face of apparent impossibility. Let’s all keep working at every level, micro to macro, to educate youth, to persuade deniers, to elect the “wokest,” to lead by example, and to temper our rage with love.