Erik Van Kelst

All things OpenSource - Full Stack dev - Security enthusiast - Life lover

[Erik Van Kelst @4levels]

Handy PHP oneliner..

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[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

Industrial meat production is a monster that is destroying the rainforest. Share this video and demand companies and governments protect our forests.

Take action >>> https://t.co/vOGbpAzHDz

#ActForAmazon #BrazilOnFire

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The rate of climate change is now 10 times faster than at any time in the last 65 million years which means extreme weather will obliterate crops all over the world within a few years but this isn't front page news because there are more important things to focus on right now ok?

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Don't take your eye off the ball:

COVIDー19 is part of a staggering global Ecological Catastrophe encompassing habitat destruction, climate breakdown and chemical & plastic pollution, threatening billions of lives and all driven by the insane death cult of capitalism.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

When I suggested that the 2020s would shake us I didn't think it would start immediately, but there you go.

The threats we face mean we need to entirely change our economic, political & social systems.

Degrowth is what we need to investigate now.

Changes are certainly coming.

[Erik Van Kelst @4levels]

Hi @TwitterSupport, I can't seem to send any DM's to you, I need some assitance

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

The Australien Government has made an ad about this summer’s fires and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 🇦🇺🔥

👉 Don't get used to it: https://t.co/nMolsRxQXD

#HonestGovernmentAd

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

greenhouse gas emissions are now so out of control that if we don't stop them in the next 500 weeks the Earth's climate will turn back into what it was 3 million years ago and most species won't be able to cope with such a sudden change, apart from that I'm fine how are you?

[Erik Van Kelst @4levels]

Thx @ClimateBen for keeping this up front 👍!
So sad, so true..

We've been warned enough, we have it coming I'd say.. 😱

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The planet we think we're living on no longer exists.

[Erik Van Kelst @4levels]

@HenryTheGerenuk @ClimateBen @LevHollinger It's not the water displacement, but the heat reflection that matters here: ice reflects 90%, while water absorbs 90%. Ocean currents will be affected seriously when all ice is gone, and nobody knows what that will bring.

Most definitely something will happen if it melts.

[Erik Van Kelst @4levels]

Thanks xkcd for this spot on cartoon!
https://t.co/xnmZnFcxNO
https://t.co/x3K4tr896O

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Remember:

1. Soil depletion
2. Arctic ice melt
3. Coral elimination
4. Ocean destruction
5. Food & water crises
6. Permafrost collapse
7. Rainforest fragmentation
8. Ecosystem breakdown
9. Biodiversity annihilation
10. Pollinator extinctions

Media downplay these. How dare they?

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Glaciers have shrunk to the lowest levels ever recorded and are now melting faster than ever, with catastrophic consequences for all life on the planet.

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[Ben See @ClimateBen]

In September:

1000 elephants will be slaughtered;

50,000 kids will die from toxic air;

1 million tons of plastic will enter the Ocean;

4 million flights will pollute the skies;

3 billion tons of CO₂ will be emitted.

Will the Ecological Crisis be front page news every day?

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

In 2017, scientists found that tropical rainforests were only several years’ worth of deforestation away from the critical point beyond which they'll shift from human-caused destruction to unstoppable self-collapse. ⚠️

https://t.co/2AsINeZKB1

https://t.co/FlrlzHj4fv
👇

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Show me lists of the top 100 companies that:

kill forests
run factory farms
make pesticides
build unsustainably
overfish oceans
mine lithium/cobalt
make arms
make plastic
make luxury goods
encourage waste
promote hunting
influence climate silent media

The system is responsible.

[Dr. Vandana Shiva @drvandanashiva]

Women hold the future for a transition from greed & concentration of power to caring & sharing

Women's #SeedSovereignty & #foodsovereignty #MahilaAnnaSwaraj is @NavdanyaBija philosophy for addressing climate crisis , agrarian crisis, food & malnutrition crisis, health crisis .

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

Ok, listen the fuck up everyone.

Scientists know that it's too late to avoid catastrophic 2°C of global warming which will then lead to 3°C hell due to feedbacks which have the potential to run out of humanity’s control.

We have ZERO months left to act.

https://t.co/VJdJ50PJlr

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

⚠️ Why don't our newspapers

📰 endorse Green political parties?

📰 endorse genuinely socialist politicians with a green stance on economic policy?

📰 reject right-wing myths of green growth & billionaire philanthropy?

📰 value agroecology?

📰 analyse the Antarctic each week?

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

⚠️ Why don't our newspapers

📰 focus on system change as a response to the Ecological Emergency?

📰 make clear the urgent nature of this unprecedented existential crisis?

📰 value postgrowth economics?

📰 put Ecological Collapse as top story?

📰 analyse the Arctic each week?