Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Currently reading Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. His writing has been eerily spot on to current topics in his other books (Stephenson invented the metaverse in the 90s!) and this one begins around eco warriors in Boston.
Very curious now how it’ll go on.
"My immediate reaction was to say, ‘I don't talk with the FBI,’” Neill said. The man said, “OK,” and Neill shut the door. Two other activists described similar visits in interviews with WBUR.
This guy is my hero. :)
I swear, we have got to be the dumbest goddamn species in existence. We have a beautiful thriving planet, and are actively trying to silence the people trying to save it, all the while cheering on fake increasingly volatile paper money schemes, and we call it the economy. We have one fucking planet, no plan B, and they think they're cool intimidating people for not wanting to be boiled alive.
Ironically it's the typical rich countries you'd see statistics of doing most environment damage
A new wave of government censorship is sweeping across the globe as countries are increasing their crackdowns on climate activism.
From The Cool Down, AUKUS being the usual ones (i'm not going to mention the obvious ones like Saudi Arabia because it's not news they crackdown on protests in general). There's an interesting article "COP29: repression epidemic regarding climate activists and human rights defenders" from last year by Climate Network worthy a read regarding that.
I'd not be surprised multiple scrutiny attempts aimed (including from bot farms) at climate activists on social media to be financed by those said countries and oil companies at this point
Meanwhile, whales are smart enough to take out yachts. We are this planet's true plague.
Given that it's almost exclusively the wealthy that own yachts, I'll take some unexpected nautical allies.
The motivations are clear as day, this is a threat and it is a purposefully poorly concealed one.
j edgar hoover would be proud to know his dreams of a fully fascist usa were realized
Not enough men in skirts
It's as if the powers that be think the only path to a fossil fuel free future is terrorism. So they treat climate activists as terrorists.
I don't like CEO's and board members being called "the powers that be", because they're the ones demanding this.
And they treat them that way,b ecause they know they're right. They don't want to spend money to make more money by diversifying or investing in new technology. They just want more money right now at the cost of the earth and human lives.
I do not see the point, just do not talk to them.