Bread and CircusesMar 14, 2024

Woo-hoo, this is it! 🎉 Let’s celebrate! 🥳 If you live in the USA, today is Earth Overshoot Day for 2024!!

That means we’ve used our entire carbon budget in this country for the full year. We have exceeded our Ecological Footprint.

So, as of today, no one will be driving ICE cars or flying on airplanes. All our fossil fuel power plants are shutting down until next January. No more single-use plastics for the rest of the year. Everything is getting delivered by bicycle or on foot, and —

— wait, what? It doesn’t mean that?

It means nothing changes at all? You mean we’ll still be polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases and poisoning our bodies with microplastics?

Nothing changes? Nothing??!!

Shit.

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

Show threaddraeath

@breadandcircuses this really isn't your problem, but if anyone happens to know why this post is getting matched by this filter configuration, I'll owe you a solid thank you. I have no clue how this could be matching, and I almost missed this post because of it.

(the filter's title no longer entirely matches its content, some of the items are there to help manage my mental health)

Mar 14, 2024 at 3:18pmWeb
Show threadMarcelMar 14, 2024
@draeath @breadandcircuses Hi draeath, your filter matches the alt text in the image, as 'Israel' is in your filter as well as the list of countries in the alt text.
Show threaddraeathMar 14, 2024
@kritischelezer @breadandcircuses Thank you! Good spot, I don't think I would have figured that out, nor did it even occur to me that it might apply to what I would consider metadata.