The media, who continue to focus on the price of net zero, rather than the cost of climate change, bear a huge amount of responsibility for what is happening to this planet.
25,000 evacuated near Madrid today. It could be your city tomorrow.
Climate hazards know no boundaries, no visas, no wealth filters.
We need:
Early warning systems
Forest management & controlled burns
Radical emissions cuts
Climate adaptation funding NOW
#MadridFires #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #ClimateAction #SpainFires
A simple(ton's) guide to understanding climate change and wildfires:
Yes, the Biscarrosse wildfire was started by a van that caught fire. The flames spread to roadside vegetation before moving into the forest. That is a fact.
What isn't true is the claim that this means climate change had nothing to do with it.
Climate change didn't set the van on fire. It helped create the conditions that allowed a single vehicle fire to become a major wildfire.
France is suffocating under intense, recurring heatwave conditions. The Landes de Gascogne forest has been turned into a tinderbox, where a single ignition source was all it took for disaster to unfold. The flames spread rapidly, burning thousands of hectares and forcing thousands of people to flee.
The van was the spark. The heat and dry conditions were the fuel. Hotter, drier landscapes mean fires spread faster, burn harder and become far more destructive.
Stop staring at the match and start looking at why it was able to become such a disaster.
THIS IS A MAJOR LIE: no communities are "begging" for loud, water-polluting data centers.
In fact, data centers are SO widely despised, it is one of the FEW issues both MAGA and Democrats agree upon.
Elon will, of course, suppress this tweet.
"Current policies are taking the world to a 2.8 degree temperature rise...that spells catastrophe, yet the collective response remains pitiful." – @antonioguterres
There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate#climate#energy#renewables
Yup.
Sadly people felt the rules that were there to protect them, were the bad guys, and the guys poisoning people who the rules were for, are the good guys.
Ten years later, sweaty and slurring, he's still promising a health care plan he's never delivered on.
Instead, Americans got the highest health care costs ever and hospitals laying off staff or shutting down entirely.
All thanks to Trump's health care sabotage & Medicaid cuts.
"The only minority destroying America is billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%.” James Talarico Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas.
Trump: “I’d like to be the next president.”
He keeps repeating that he’s not planning to leave office so don’t act surprised when he starts cancelling elections. He doesn’t care about the law or the constitution. He will do everything he can to stay in power even if that means burning the world down.
The biggest lie in our textbooks?
That the economy and the environment are separate chapters. One lives inside the other. When the planet fails, the economy fails. No exceptions.
James Talarico: “You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Your boss at work, he cares about politics. Your landlord, he cares about politics. Your insurance company cares about politics. Until you care about politics, they’re gonna keep using the political system to screw you over”
Not ONE voter, Democrat or Republican, across North Carolina’s 9th District, has ever said to me:
“I’ll vote for you if you put a data center in my neighborhood.”
Not one.
WHOA, shit is getting real:
More Americans say they would vote for a Democratic Socialist than for a MAGA candidate.
Because child care, Healthcare, and housing solutions matter more than conspiracy theories.