RenéeAug 6, 2023
Global Boiling: "Without social movements, inaction dominates. Wealthy societies aren’t protected, but they are complacent. The deranged idea—as Amitav Ghosh describes it—that we are safe, that things are under control, that bad things only happen to people who are far away, persists. Anticipating future ruin, we fail to act in the here and now."
https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/
Global Boiling | The Polycrisis

Stocks and flows, action and inaction in the planetary impasse

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Show threadDavid J. AtkinsonAug 6, 2023

@reneestephen Brilliant article on #climatecrisis.

“…there remains a risk of discounting the extraordinary threat of the already accumulated carbon in the atmosphere. This comes down to a distinction between the flow and stock of carbon. The planet does not care about the annual rate of emissions (the flow), what matters is the accumulated stock of carbon in the atmosphere—that’s what governs the degree of warming. “

https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/

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Show threadDavid J. Atkinson
@reneestephen We don’t have much time left to act decisively. We need to go to zero carbon energy as fast as possible. If fossil fuel interests get in the way, shut them down. #climatechange #carbonZero
Aug 6, 2023 at 9:09amWeb
Show threadRenéeAug 6, 2023
@meltedcheese vehemently agree, and I love the bathtub analogy the author uses. I think it's both apt and powerfully explanatory in a way that's intuitively graspable.