Yesterday the IPCC 6th Assessment published its Synthesis Report (SYR) which included this graphic (SYR.1c) which has been a popular way to discuss future warming in the context of different generations.
What were the inspirations for this graphic?
A thread... 🧵
chris pine disassociating at a press conference, florence pugh showing up 15 mins late with an aperol spritz, tom cruise clinging to a plane and saying "see you at the movies!", brendan fraser getting a six minute ovation...maybe cinema really is back
For everyone arguing we can’t immediately & safely move away from fossil fuels…
STOP DOING THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY’S WORK FOR THEM!!!
They are projected to make $834,000,000,000 in profits THIS YEAR! The money exists to build whatever world we want IF there is political will!
This is not “the new normal”. The climate crisis will continue to escalate and get worse as long as we stick our heads in the sand and prioritise profit and greed over people and planet. We are still sleepwalking towards the edge.
These stories out of Highland Park about kids knowing exactly what to do when the shooting began, and guiding parents based on their active shooting drills, embody the burden of violence this next generation of kids endure because of the inaction of their elders
The administrative state has 56 minutes to go. Go buy some USDA inspected beef. Have some FDA approved drugs. Go get cash from your FDIC insured bank account. Bask in the warmth of a legal structure that is disappearing.
I'm deeply disturbed by the lack of outrage from Western journalists & the US government re: Israel's killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.
It reinforces what we as Palestinians have long felt: that there is little regard for our humanity.
BREAKING: outrage at media blackout of UN Secretary General's statement that the world's biggest carbon emitters must drastically cut emissions starting this year to avert climate catastrophe 🧵
2000+ years of western dualist thinking has conditioned us to see ourselves as separate from our environment. To see nature as something inferior, something to be investigated, but then ultimately exploited.
We need to snap out of this mindset pretty fucking quickly.