I know I've been saying this nonstop for over a decade, but it only gets truer every day: The fossil fuel industry threatens everything. By everything, I mean everything. The sooner we end it, the better the outcome for the long future of our species and life on Earth.
"So many issues, so little time, and scientists have been warning us about the climate crisis for so long that it has become like anxiety wallpaper — ever present, but in the background." https://t.co/mJ71Ul1j5l
I don’t understand why with all this knowledge, manpower and technology we can’t devote our entire species to stopping climate and ecological collapse before it’s too late.
Instead we seem to devote our existence to making ‘money’ for a few rich fools.
Neuralink, which aims to enable brains to connect and communicate with computers, acknowledges monkeys died as part of its testing procedures, but denies allegations of animal cruelty.
https://t.co/C0PgAGQ6Nm
Every day I meet intelligent, educated people, who have no idea we are sitting on the precipice of total climate breakdown and ecological collapse. They don’t realise that it is in years, not centuries that we will see disaster unfold.
The media have failed us catastrophically.
Now would be a very good time for newspapers to investigate whether massive agricultural failures look likely by 2027 - 2041 due to a combination of profoundly dangerous climate change including global warming of 1.5-2°C, soil destruction, water crises, and pollinator declines.
The 2020 Global Temperature Report is now out.
https://t.co/3MDnQ6j5nN
But if you don't want to read a long report, here is a 90 second video summary of climate change since 1850.