#climatechange South America is living one of the extreme events the world has ever seen Unbelievable temperatures up to 38.9C in the Chilean Andine areas in mid winter ! Much more than what Southern Europe just had in mid summer at the same elevation: This event is rewriting all climatic books
Billionaires should not exist. ______________________________
It is impossible to *earn* a billion dollars. Take any exorbitant salary you like — let’s say $500,000 per year — and calculate how many years you would have to work, spending nothing, to earn your first billion. At $500k/year, it would take 2,000 years. Or, if you simply steal $3 from every single American, you can make a billion in a single year.
Billionaires’ wealth comes only from wage theft from workers. It is never earned. It is estimated that ~5% of deaths in the US are attributable to poverty, making every billionaire a de-facto mass murderer. No one becomes a billionaire because they are intelligent or talented; people become billionaires because they are able to rob millions of other people into poverty, destitution, and early death — and still sleep soundly at night.
These are the people determining our future. They are brain-damaged by power. [See https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/07/power-causes-brain-damage/528711/] Billionaires are, by definition, psychopaths. They believe they are chosen by the universe to live as gods. If you are counting on billionaires to save the planet because “it’s in their best interest,” you misunderstand their interests. ______________________________
That's an excerpt from a long and very informative piece by Sam Hall (@SamYourEyes).
Objetivo:reunir grupos de interés, identificar el alto potencial de las nuevas #politicas y tendencias que generen reducciones de #emisiones y apoyar la transición hacia una #economia más baja en carbono.
Hace unos días rociamos pintura utilizando extintores contra el mega-yate de 300 millones de euros de Nancy Walton, heredera de Walmart y una de las mujeres más ricas del mundo con una fortuna de 8.700 millones de dólares 🧯
La acción pone el broche final a la campaña “Jets and Yachts, the party is over”, convocada por Extinction Rebellion Ibiza, quienes demandan la prohibición de los jets privados y el fin de las emisiones de lujo 🤑
Regarding "climate change": Every day, while various concerned individuals write, Toot, Tweet, Post, and demonstrate "against" #ClimateChange and "for" #ClimateAction, global fossil fuel production, transportation, refinement, and burning all increase. They go up. Every day. More emissions. Every day. No matter how much we increase fossil fuel use we will never reach zero that way. Rather than established talking points, we need to observe actual use and directly limit those actions. Or not.
Oof. #climatechange Text edited to add citation from Paulo Ceppi, a climate scientist at London’s Grantham Institute via WaPo: "Instrument-based global temperature records go back to the mid-19th century, but for temperatures before that, scientists are dependent on proxy data captured through evidence left in tree rings and ice cores. “These data tell us that it hasn’t been this warm since at least 125,000 years ago, which was the previous interglacial,” Ceppi said, referring to a period of unusual warmth between two ice ages." https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/07/05/hottest-day-ever-recorded/
Is there any concept as weird as "carbon budget" or "methane budget"? I mean, budget? We're overdrawn already. We draw this line: "We can fuck it up this much more and no more," and we "budget" up to that line. Makes my head ache. It's fucked up enough already. The time to cut back is now. #ClimateChange#energy#slowdown
For those who haven’t seen it before, here is my review of The Climate Book, by Greta Thunberg… ____________________________
I've read dozens of books about climate change, and this one is easily the best. It's packed with information, written to be accessible for anyone from high school (or a bright middle school student) on up, and most importantly it does NOT shy away from the true severity of our situation and the imperative need not only for individual action but for system change.
It's stunning to me that a young woman who just turned twenty years old was able to pull together such a massive project — coordinating the submissions of more than a hundred scientists, activists, and educators — while also writing a large part of the content herself. A truly amazing accomplishment.
This essential work should be in every school library and in every home. It will remain relevant for years to come, I believe, because although there certainly is plenty of data, mostly it's about *ideas* which will never age. ____________________________
Rebecca Solnit (@RebeccaSolnit) suggests we need a large-scale change in perspective... ___________________________
"What if climate change meant not doom — but abundance?"
Much of the reluctance to do what climate change requires comes from the assumption that it means trading abundance for austerity, and trading all our stuff and conveniences for less stuff, less convenience.
But what if it meant giving up things that we are well rid of, from deadly emissions to nagging feelings of doom, and complicity in destruction? What if the austerity is how we live NOW — and the abundance could be what is to come?
Look closely, and you can see that by measures other than goods and money, we are impoverished. Even the affluent live in a world where confidence in the future, and in the society and institutions around us, is fading — and where a sense of security, social connectedness, mental and physical health, and other measures of well-being are often dismal.
This is the world we live in *with* fossil fuels — the burning of which makes us poorer in many ways. We know that the fossil fuel industry corrodes our politics. We know that worldwide, breathing air contaminated by fossil fuel kills more than 8 million people a year and damages many more, particularly babies and children. And we know that as fossil fuel fills the upper atmosphere with carbon dioxide that destabilizes temperature and weather, it increases despair and anxiety.
What if we imagined “wealth” consisting not of the money we stuff into banks or the fossil-fuel-derived goods we pile up, but of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to good food produced without abuse of labor? What if we were to think of wealth as security in our environments and societies, and as confidence in a viable future? ___________________________
👊 Mientras la clase política se dedique a polarizar a la población para abusar de sus preocupaciones y utilizarla con fines electoralistas, no pensamos callarnos.
¡Amor y Furia! ❤️🔥
Cancionaza de Lova Lois - Grita Shout Vídeo de Miguel Ángel Bauset
The world is burning. At this point, should not be an abstract concept anywhere, anymore. 🙁 Time to act to mitigate/reduce global warming/climate change = now... Really, it was several decades ago. 😡