Peter JohnsonMay 30, 2023
Bread and Circuses

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

May 18, 2023 at 1:30pmWeb
Show threadbouriquetMay 18, 2023

@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.

https://media.tenor.com/Iv6oKRuAhVEAAAAd/hal9000-im-sorry-dave.gif

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.
Show threadAnne OminousMay 18, 2023

@breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman definitely. the Amazon thing isnt really a secret, but what is really sad is how few people know or care.
while i do lay the blame at the foot of corporations, those corps are made up of ppl, and they sell to ppl. all of those people need to wake TF up.

"Over the past 20 years, the Brazilian Amazon has lost 350,000 square kilometers and has emitted 13% more carbon than it has absorbed. The trend shows little sign of reversing soon"

https://www.economist.com/interactive/graphic-detail/2022/05/21/the-brazilian-amazon-has-been-a-net-carbon-emitter-since-2016

The Brazilian Amazon has been a net carbon emitter since 2016

Rapid deforestation outweighs carbon capture by remaining trees

The Economist
Show threadhramrachMay 20, 2023

@rustoleumlove @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman Those corporations are made of people - employees who are accountable to the leadership and fired when they do not perform.

The leadership in turn are also employees, accountable to the market, the shareholders. I they perform less than competition they are fired or the corp goes under.

Everything must be efficient down to a cent, accommodating for environmental or moral concerns is a cost, it always degrades into a Potemkin village eventually.

Show threadhramrachMay 20, 2023

@rustoleumlove @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman And the corporations sell to people mainly by controlling the market, there is no way to buy something that is not on offer.

There is also the other side that they control the labor market to underpay and overwork the employees to cut costs and make it impossible to afford anything that is on offer but is not the barest cheapest necessity.

Show threadLZVolkMay 30, 2023
@rustoleumlove @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman That’s the power point ➡️ “what is really sad is how few people know or care. …those corps are made up of ppl, and they sell to ppl. all of those people need to wake TF up.” ⬅️
People, at the top & all the way to the bottom, don’t care enough to make changes. It’s easier to blame others. That relieves them of any responsibility, inconvenience and change.
The most profound pop culture comment is here: https://www.insightsonindia.com/2013/07/12/agent-smith-human-beings-are-a-disease-a-cancer-of-this-planet-youre-a-plague-and-we-are-the-cure-matrix/
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Show threadHelenaMay 30, 2023
@rustoleumlove @breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman they only care about the here and now
Show threadempiricismMay 19, 2023

@breadandcircuses

"What are climate scientists supposed to do?"

The same as any group that is disenfranchised by a corrupt system.

Rebellion https://rebellion.global/

Simply waving more papers at the corrupt politicians & industry leaders hasn't & won't change a plutocracy.

Scientists should use methods so the public hear that the governments are bullshitting people by saying their dealing with climate change.

Their tactic is to say it will be fine in the future.

@ClimateHuman @Itchy

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Show threadLZVolkMay 30, 2023
@breadandcircuses @ClimateHuman As in most climate change conversations the fingers always point to governments & corporations. Yet the People, including many pointing the fingers, don’t examine their own contributions & make meaningful changes. The responsibilities & blame span all sectors of society. Change won’t happen at the top without (lots of) changes at the bottom. Perhaps Agent Smith is right, “Humans are a virus….You’re a plague.” #Matrix