Honestly, this historic heat dome across the West is really hard to put into words for me. Temperatures over 110°F (43°C) in March, shattering all-time monthly records on multiple consecutive days, and not just by a little.
➡️ I can confirm this is human-caused climate change.
Graphic by https://polarwx.com/models/.
I'm pretty depressed about the summer.
I really wish our the wealthy in our world weren't choosing mass death
@cutesobri @alienghic @ZLabe Most people, of any class, don't really think that much about the future.
But many of the wealthiest are well aware of possible cataclysms, and are devoting energy to gathering power (even via fossil fuels) and preparing for collapse. Sometimes without even pretending to join in efforts to, y'know, actually head off the worst.
(Rushkoff turned this into a whole book:) https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/sep/04/super-rich-prepper-bunkers-apocalypse-survival-richest-rushkoff
@cutesobri @alienghic @ZLabe They are making a ton of choices, and some of them make different choices. Like MacKenzie Scott.
I think I get what you're saying though, maybe? There's all kinds of systemic pressures on anyone who has gathered power, that make it less likely that they will make wise choices. So, often, it's less about convincing them to change, or replacing them with wiser people, than it is about shifting systems, for example such that there are no such concentrations of power?
@cutesobri @alienghic @ZLabe And instead live a system bringing together everything we know (and keep learning) about interdependence - our dependencies on, and support of, not only each other but the rest of life!
Collective celebration & mourning. In-person and distributed collaboration, connection, rhythms, flow, the power of weak links, rough consensus & running code, appropriate technology, clarity & honesty, empathy, subsidiarity, transparency & accountability, sortiition & mini-publics…
Yeah I've read both the article and the book.
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