I'm finding it a little hard to work today with this in my head.
Antarctic ice extent is now 6.4 standard deviations below the mean. That is, I'm reliably told, a one in 13 billion year event.
We're about to see a lot of shit hit a lot of fans. And we are far from ready.
Business as usual is over. Politics as usual is over. We need to be putting our effort into building systems that can help us survive what greed and power and wilful blindness have wrought.
@timhollo I'm sure this will be the subject of this week's therapy session.
I don't know how we've come to this. I was at a science conference (#SciFoo) last week where a climate scientist was painting a slightly optimistic picture in terms of "We're no longer completely fucked, but we're not unfucked." - It felt reassuring to hear that but the cognitive dissonance was strong in the face of graphs like these.
I was a Greenpeace activist in the 90s. We knew. It achieved nothing. 😢
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