American Healthcare: "you got hurt?"
me: "yes, bad :("
AH: "do you want an ambulance?"
me: "please!”
AH: “right away! That will be $2,000"
me: "to the emergency room?!"
AH: “oh that’s just the ride, the ER is another $5K"
me: "but, i have insurance"
AH: "not at this hospital :/"
me: “what about my insurance??
AH: “remember your $3,000 deductible?"
me: “what?! and once I paid all this? my meds are free right?”
AH: “uhhh..”
me: “what if I don’t pay”
AH: “we’ll literally stalk you until you do :)”
Dead 54,431kg sperm whale 17m long washed ashore in Hawaii with stomach full of plastic waste
Plastic is 99% oil and it's now in our blood, our food chain, our water and the air we breathe. Its manufacturers pay 0 for its impact on health and environment
https://t.co/VSlegxupvY
💧 For the first time in history, the US has entered a WATER war and the media refuses to cover the true cause: cows. A must-read on the water crisis. 🧵👇🏼
Portugal is currently getting 97% of its electricity from renewables, and it's exporting a lot of excess capacity to Spain.
Wind is currently supplying 64% of Portugal's power. As a result, power prices are just €4/MWh at the moment.
Fossil fuel companies need violence to keep extracting coal.
Here @GretaThunberg and @Luisamneubauer being brutaly pushed during the legal and registered protest.
Alexander Darwall - a hedge fund manager who owns thousands of acres of Dartmoor - is trying to force a ban on people camping on the moor. If you have that much money why on earth would you use it to deny poorer people access to our wild places? https://t.co/wdpR9b0554
Jonas Salk, inventor of polio vaccine: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?"
Frederick Banting, inventor of insulin: "Insulin does not belong to me. It belongs to the world."
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel: 400% price hike on COVID vaccine is "consistent with the value."
Appalling. As fossil fuels destroy our planet, @Chevron and @Exxonmobil are reporting $100 billion in profits in 2022 after receiving huge public subsidies.
Biden: a windfall profits tax on the industry is critical. England did it – the US can too. 👊❤️👇https://t.co/HQTVgp5vlP
“It’s a piece of cake…you get three meals a day and don’t have to do shit…wake up, eat get high, wake up eat get high” repeat. A homeless woman shared with me why it’s so easy to be homeless. She was brutally honest because she hates the enablement “They are loving us to death”
The worst people in politics from both parties have teamed up to demand Congress rubber-stamp a 4,155-page blank check—many times the length of the Bible.
A check for $1,700,000,000,000 of your money.
And they want it stamped before anyone can actually read it.
Sounds legit.
REMEMBER THIS DAY. NUCLEAR FUSION BREAKTHROUGH. We have harnessed the power to create nuclear fusion with lasers eliminating the need for fossil fuels, and without any radioactive waste. This breakthrough creates unlimited clean renewable energy. It eliminates the need for oil.
The NYU student who took over my lease has owed me $100 for weeks, and when I asked him to pay me, he said he felt bullied and then sent me a Psychology Today article about gaslighting.
No viable path left to 1.5C.
From today’s White House briefing: “Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.”
Utterly tragic for the Earth and our future. Words fail.