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rbreich , 29 days ago to random

It's your turn to be a political strategist.

If Trump is found guilty, should Biden emphasize the guilty verdict or focus on abortion and democracy instead?

breadandcircuses , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Anyone taking an honest look at the situation can easily see that Big Oil has committed homicide, ecocide, and other crimes.

⬛️ They sell a deadly, climate-destroying product and incessantly lie about its impacts.
⬛️ They wantonly rape the environment, condemning untold numbers of plant and animal species to extinction.
⬛️ They bribe government officials and regulators so they can remain free to bring in huge profits by selling their poison.

💀 Annual human deaths from climate change already are in the tens of thousands. See -- https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/04/climate-change-likely-killed-tens-of-thousands-of-people-in-2023/

💀 The World Health Organization projects that within a decade, the number of deaths caused by fossil-fueled climate change could be at least 250,000. See -- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-and-health

💀 The numbers above are conservative estimates. Actual deaths almost certainly are much higher than that now, and likely will be in the millions by 2050, if not billions.

In any sane world, those murderers would be put on trial, the companies nationalized, all assets of their executives and major investors confiscated.

LEARN MORE -- https://grist.org/accountability/big-oil-court-climate-homicide-lawsuits/

#Pollution #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

rbreich , 3 months ago to random

Who do you trust more with TikTok — China, or American billionaires? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/who-do-you-trust-more-with-tiktok?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

I think you might enjoy this angry and sometimes funny rant from Geoffrey Deihl (aka Sane Thinker, @gdeihl).

Here is how it concludes...

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As we race forward in panic with 'renewable' energy whose creation depends on copious amounts of fossil fuels and trillions of gallons of water use in an increasingly drought-stricken world, why aren’t we addressing the fundamentals?

Why do we need thousands of server farms AND to drive to the office?

Why isn’t planned obsolescence outlawed? Why aren’t manufacturers required to take back and refurbish their worn-out products?

Why don’t we go back to a six-day business week? That was standard when I was a kid. Everything closed. Almost everyone took the day off. We went to church, had picnics, and hung out together. It was good for us and good for the planet. High technology not needed.

Apparently, we can’t see the forest for those monoculture trees.

We met our basic needs long ago. Food, water, heat, shelter. We may not remember that now, but we will soon. We’re heading for a world with less energy available, not more, and renewables mean further destruction to the environment and species loss akin to what oil has done, just differently.

We must acknowledge the planet is finite and change our values and expectations. We can either do that with a realistic plan, or the planet has a plan for us.

The more appealing plan is called Degrowth.

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FULL ESSAY -- https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/its-not-a-nice-day

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Degrowth

breadandcircuses , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

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ElleGray , 8 months ago to random

the eight spiders I ate in my sleep last year have woven together the microplastics in my bloodstream to create a tiny uss enterprise that may in fact be hurtling towards my brain even as we