BREAKING: A US court in Montana today delivered a major victory for the planet, ruling in favor of children who claimed their right to a clean environment is being systematically violated by the fossil fuel industry.
Huge breakthrough for the law. Huge blow to Big Oil.👊🔥🙏
Take that in. Then try wrapping your head around the fact that we’re only seeing the beginning of a destabilising planet, while remembering that GHG emissions are still rising and the companies largely causing this are making record profits.
A bit concerning, don’t you think?
Make no mistake: these floods, heat domes, fires, and smoke events are still just the barest beginning of Earth breakdown, and the damage is effectively irreversible. You have fossil fuel executives to thank; they chose this. In my opinion, billions of human lives are at risk.
PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES ARE INCREASING MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE HOUSING CRISIS AND VARIOUS POLICIES FORCING UNHOUSED PEOPLE TO CAMP IN PEDESTRIAN-UNFRIENDLY PLACES BUT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT AND I DON'T KNOW WHY?
Worker: I can't live on $7.25/hr
GOP: So go to college
W: I can't afford $100K tuition
GOP: Take out loans
W: I can't afford to pay these at 8% interest
GOP: No one forced you to go to college
W: But you just said—
Billionaire: I NEED MORE MONEY!
GOP: Here's a $2T Tax Cut
FORGIVING STUDENT LOANS IS GOOD, ESPECIALLY THE FIRST $5000 TO $10,000, SINCE THAT COVERS 100% OF THE DEBT OF MOST OF THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT END UP GETTING DEGREES WHO ARE THE ONES THE SYSTEM MOST FAILED.