Which one will be worse?

When the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck Earth 65 million years ago, an estimated 425 gigatons of COβ‚‚ were released.

But that’s less than HALF of what our growth-at-any-cost capitalist economy has pumped into the air within the last 30 years.

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

@breadandcircuses well we had mass extinctions due to organisms affecting the climate and atmosphere composition on this planet. In the other incident exponential growth caused the change. And this time we are actually do the same on purpose.

@breadandcircuses

Trump promises to do the next extinction at a wholesale price.

He's meeting with oil execs to extort $1 billion in campaign funding from them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/09/trump-oil-industry-campaign-money/

Oil execs know they can recoup the costs of this bribe easily by price gouging their captive consumers later.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/01/trump-visits-georgia-denies-climate-crisis-after-hurricane-helene

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-climate-action-trump-wins-election/

https://www.commondreams.org/news/walz-vance-big-oil

What Trump promised oil CEOs as he asked them to steer $1 billion to his campaign

Donald Trump has pledged to scrap President Biden’s policies on electric vehicles and wind energy, and other initiatives opposed by the fossil fuel industry.

The Washington Post
@breadandcircuses To paraphrase a Jim Jeffries sayin':
Does it matter? I'll be fucking extinct. πŸ˜’