Education is so broken that people celebrate people ignoring 2024 being the hottest year ever recorded, carbon dioxide levels higher than in millions of years and scientists warning of new diseases, financial collapse as sea levels rise and a threat to our ability to feed ourselves
We aren't "destroying" the planet.
We are destroying the conditions that made it possible for us to exist.
Those perfect picture Christmas cards are from a climate long since gone.
The winters that Charles Dickens wrote about no longer exist. The UK is 1.7°C warmer today.
We are in a new climate era, one where stability is no longer a luxury we get to enjoy but instead, one where instability will cause food scarcity and mass migration.
Instead of coming together to deal with this as humans of past eras have done multiple times, we are fighting and arguing about taxes.
All the problems in the world today will be exacerbated by a rapidly warming and changing climate.
We can act and limit further warming, prevent further deaths, prevent further damage, stop us moving further and further away from the images Charles Dickens painted with words.
Earth’s energy imbalance has DOUBLED in two decades.
The planet is hotter than it’s been in 125,000 years.
By mid century our world is on track to be at its hottest in about 3 MILLION years.
Our kids’ futures are burning before our eyes.
I can’t help thinking about how when Palestinian journalists are murdered our media does everything it can to justify it . When a far right extremist was murdered the BBC ‘s instinct has been to minimise his extremism , emphasise his wife’s grief & canonise him .
The Guardian's writers still doing a fine job of hiding state-corporate crimes against nature and humanity by avoiding the key context: capitalism has triggered collapse and extinction.
https://t.co/Dyb8aswNAH
strawman:
"every protest and government change in global south is color revolution"
actual argument:
"protest and rebellion in global south may/may not be based on legitimate causes, but it is an objective fact that the US and its western allies has interest in co-opting them."
Wake the fuck up! This isn’t a distant issue—it’s happening right now. Israel is the biggest, most well-funded terrorist organisation on earth, and it is committing the greatest crime of our time. The world cannot stand by. It must be stopped.
“ExxonMobil made 51 heatwaves at least 10,000 times more likely than in an unheated world”
ExxonMobil knew they were cooking our world 50 years ago, & CHOSE to spend decades funding doubt & denial.
People made this choice.
People who will be responsible for billions of deaths.
15 doctors, from all over the world, showed how at least 114 Palestinian children were killed with a single gunshot wound to head/chest. THIS IS GENOCIDE.
“The world is sacred.
It cannot be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.”
2,500 years ago, & Lao Tzu could see where we’d end up.