Tonight, I’d like #Biden to ask, “do you want the next generation to use the dollar as currency or do you want them bartering for #water? Because that’s what will happen under #Trump’s & #Project2025’s total disregard for the #ClimateCrisis. The world will be on #fire, & everyone will be desperate for clean drinking water.”
@rahmstorf This article almost did it. It actually chose an appropriate headline and managed to mention “climate change” ONE single time in the whole text. But then it utterly FAILED with the chosen picture of two children playing with a sprinkler.
If you ask the average person on the street, are you worried about the climate crisis, most will say they are.
If you ask should their governments be doing more, nearly all will say they should.
And a strong majority worldwide are in favor of a quick transition away from fossil fuels.
In the biggest ever public opinion survey on climate change, the Peoples’ Climate Vote 2024, four out of five people globally — 80% — want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the climate crisis.
Over 73,000 people speaking 87 different languages across 77 countries were asked 15 questions on climate change for a survey conducted by the UN Development Program. The 77 countries polled represent 87% of the global population.
Aside from a broad call for bolder climate action, the survey shows support by a global majority of 72% in favor of a quick transition away from fossil fuels. This is true for countries among the top 10 biggest producers of oil, coal, or gas. This includes majorities ranging from 89% in Nigeria to 54% of people in the United States.
The people of the world want action. So why isn't it happening? Because the people are not in charge. Our system is controlled by a tiny minority of plutocrats who profit enormously from continued economic growth, from the cancer of capitalism.
About ten years ago a friend told me #ClimateCrisis activists were going about it all wrong. Stop talking about saving the environment, the environment will be just fine after we are dead and gone. What we are trying to save are humans. Human survival. Nobody cares about the environment. Asking people to draw that conclusion themselves is too much.
There has been a shift to talk about human survival lately but it keeps focusing on how poor people are disproportionately affected by #ClimateBreakdown as if the existence of capitalism itself isn't proof enough that the rich don't care how many poor people die.
We need to focus on the rich nations dying. The news sort of ignores it though. China getting flooded didn't really get in my radar much... But then it's those people, not real people... Just like how we thought covid affected those people up into Italy got hit.
Every instance of rich countries getting hit by #ClimateChange needs to be amplified out the wazoo on every social media platform we can. Then we need to talk to every RW crazy uncle, aunt, grandpa and if we can't convince them to vote for a good guy, discourage them from voting at all. Just shit talk about how everyone is bad and they should stay home. Do whatever you need to do. All is fair in love and war and this is a war on all our lives.
We need different strategies and we need to be all in this together. Let's stop attacking each other over minor differences while the oligarchs kill us.
#SCOTUS is expected to hand down more rulings Wednesday. There are 10 more cases to be decided this term, including some of the court’s most politically salient ones. Those cases address topics such as whether #Trump is immune from prosecution for all acts during his presidency, whether the #Biden admin violated the #FirstAmendment in asking #SocialMedia companies to take down posts, & whether a federal #law means ER doctors can perform #abortions in states where they are restricted or banned.
Ohio v. EPA, Kinder Morgan Inc. v. #EPA, American Forest & Paper Assn. v. EPA, US Steel Corp. v. EPA — The court is reviewing the #Biden admin’s plan to limit #smog-forming #pollutants from #PowerPlants & other industrial facilities that cause problems for their downwind neighbors in other states.
It is nice to be able to cuddle a koala. Meanwhile, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek just approved Gina Rhinehart's Senex ATLAS Coal Seam Gas #fracking project which will clear endangered koala habitat on the western Darling Downs. #FossilGas#CSG#FossilFuels#Australia#Koala#ClimateCrisis
#GOESU, which will be renamed #GOES19 once it reaches orbit, will capture these same critical #weather observations as its predecessors, eventually replacing an existing weather #satellite overseeing the #AtlanticOcean, Central, South & North #America.
🚨 The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea level rise have not taken into account, suggesting current projections could be significantly underestimating the problem, according to a new study. #ClimateCrisis
This is now a recurring theme: "The situation is worse than we thought!"
Case in point:
"Our results point towards a stronger sensitivity of ice-sheet melting, and thus higher sea-level-rise contribution in a warming climate, than has been previously understood."
Around 50 years ago, our rulers chose to begin a massive project, essentially conducting a unique scientific experiment, one with potentially foreseen but possibly unpredictable outcomes.
They decided to go all out in (1) extracting fuels buried deep in the Earth, energy from the sun stored via photosynthesis and animal metabolism over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas, and then (2) burning all of this they could find in the brief period of a few decades.
Our rulers were warned by scientists that their project involved serious risk, but they figured the power they could gain and the money they could make was worth any cost. They didn't care about the negative consequences, and/or foolishly believed that future technologies (still a fantasy in the year 2024) would somehow be able to fix whatever problems their actions caused.
And now, guess what — we're seeing signs that this experiment might be out of control. Feedback loops are kicking in, causing "natural" emissions which could trigger cascading effects, breaking down the ecosystem. It also appears that Earth's climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than first believed. Yet our rulers still continue to recklessly burn fossil fuels, always drilling and fracking for more, hungry for power and compelled by greed.
#Flooding that spread across parts of #Iowa, #SouthDakota & #Minnesota this past weekend is forecast to worsen Mon & Tues as rivers continue to rise. Meteorologists warn that any additional #rain from possible #thunderstorms could extend or heighten the risks.
The #floods are the product of torrential #rain across parts of the upper Mississippi River basin since Thurs, dumping totals of 10”–18” of rain…. Soils were already saturated from months of wetter-than-avg conditions before #storms fueled by intense Gulf of Mexico moisture lingered over the region Thurs–Sat.
That sent runoff into #streams & #rivers & overwhelming #levees…. Rivers are expected to crest Tues or Wed at moderate to record #flood stages.
The frequency & magnitude of extreme #wildfires has DOUBLED in the last 20 yrs due to #ClimateChange, acc/to a study released Mon.
The analysis focused on massive blazes that release vast amts of energy from the organic matter burned. Researchers pointed to the #Australia#fires of 2019 & 2020 as blazes that were “unprecedented in their scale & intensity.”
Here's a reminder of where we are now compared to where we need to be.
As mentioned in my previous post (https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112671714655278802), fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions are at record highs. Yet scientists have repeatedly warned that we must rapidly reduce emissions or face climate breakdown and ecosystem collapse.
Look at the second graph below. We should have taken action years ago. By 2030, our emissions need to be 48% lower than in 2019. But instead, they keep going up, year after year. We're already halfway to 2030 and have made zero progress.
Nige Farage: "Brilliant Putin is the leader I most admire". This Putin apologist should be in prison, not out electioneering. We cannot have a traitor in the UK Parliament. The #Conservatives were far too close to the Russians. Now we face the prospect of a mini-Duma sitting in the UK Parliament under the the #reformuk banner.
That is a disingenious argument - one might apply the same logic to declare #toriesOut support is understated - or that for any other party
If your natural supporters (assuming that term has meaning) drift off to vote elsewhere - or just turn over in bed & never turn up - then that is on your party and a failure of that party
#green will do very well this time - but then it ought to - the #climateCrisis is the most important issue of our times - and can only get worse