ok but can’t you see me with one of those big ol landlines like with the cord and the receiver dock, just lounging around my home and receiving calls from pals, no texting, no instagram, only chatting allowed !!
Say what you will about the Soup Van Gogh action, I cannot think of a more efficient way of revealing people's priorities and whether they feel climate breakdown and mass extinction is genuinely an emergency. Like an x-ray into people's minds.
Someone said, “What are we supposed to do…recycle the same outfit for years?”
And that’s the truly the fundamental disconnect because I’m like, “Yes! You should wear stuff for years!”
ONLY 1% OF BABY TURTLES MAKE IT TO BREEDING AGE, SO WITH THESE ODDS IT CAN TAKE YEARS OR EVEN DECADES FOR A TURTLE TO REPLACE ITSELF. IN OTTAWA-GATINEAU TURTLES CAN START HATCHING IN MID-TO-LATE AUGUST SO WE HAVE TO WATCH OUT FOR THESE LITTLE GUYS ON ROADS AND PAT-
shein was found to have over 18x the allotted amount of lead in their clothing. lead exposure can lead to mood disorders, reduced sperm count/abnormal sperm activity, & even miscarriage/stillbirth in pregnant women
"the interaction between politics, economics and power relationships is central to explaining why broad commitments do not always translate to urgent action" 15/
"vulnerability... differs substantially among and within regions, driven by patterns of intersecting socioeconomic development, unsustainable ocean and land use, inequity, marginalization, historical and ongoing patterns of inequity such as colonialism, and governance" 14/
"extreme sea level events that occurred once per century in the recent past are projected to occur at least annually at more than half of all tide gauge locations by 2100" (!) 8/
"any further delay in concerted anticipatory global action on adaptation and mitigation will miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all" 4/
here is a quick thread for anybody who didn't read the 3 ipcc reports published in the last year (hello, politics, business and news editors) summarizing what hundreds of the world's top scientists concluded in their mega-review of the academic literature on climate change 1/