"What has to happen to us before we get scared enough to prioritize our own futures?"
Mark Sumner:
"Because this is the climate crisis. It’s not something that
will happen at some unspecified time in the future. It’s not something that will happen to unfortunate people somewhere far away. The climate crisis is here and now. It’s driving tornadoes through American towns. Drowning American farms under floods. Battering American coasts with storms. And destroying the homes, businesses, and lives of Americans across the country.www.dailykos.com/...
We cannot give up-
Failure is not an option:
BREAKING :
"Climate catastrophe is now looking inevitable"
"Climate crisis is upon us. No region will be spared. It is only getting worse since our oil-drunk administration is elevating love of fossil fuels to love of country.
What can one person do? What can you do?
David Wallace-Wells writes that the time is past when becoming a vegan composter would make a meaningful difference. He writes that only large political policy changes can now save us.
This election decides the fate of humanity. Under the despicable Republicans, our nation has abdicated America’s role as the Leader of the Free World. We have stepped back from our responsibility to rally humanity to do the Right Thing. Now we have a brutish thug who glories in doing the Wrong Thing.
We must have a President who understands that the climate catastrophe and resultant major loss of wildlife and human life is the overarching reality of our anthropogenic age. Climate catastrophe is not a single issue, yet it negatively affects all other issues and is intrinsically bound to economic justice, social justice, environmental justice, and racial justice.
When the next President takes office the world will have nine years left to stop the worst impacts of climate catastrophe."
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The news has become dire:
"By 2050, total ecological collapse would give way to massive social consequences ranging from “increased religious fervour to outright chaos”.
The report suggests the catastrophic chain of environmental disasters will climax with widespread pandemics, forced migration from inhabitable locations and a likely nuclear war due to skirmishing for limited resources.
“Planetary and human systems (reach) a ‘point of no return’ by mid-century in which the prospect of a largely uninhabitable Earth leads to the breakdown of nations and the international order,” the report predicts."www.news.com.au/...
"Report predicts end of human civilisation"
As the UN sits down for its annual climate conference this week, many experts believe we have passed the point of no return
by Robin McKie
" As recent reports have made clear, the world may no longer be hovering at the edge of destruction but has probably staggered beyond a crucial point of no return. Climate catastrophe is now looking inevitable. We have simply left it too late to hold rising global temperatures to under 1.5C and so prevent a future of drowned coasts, ruined coral reefs, spreading deserts and melted glaciers."
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The climate crisis is here and now.
"Point of no return"
The planet is getting warmer in catastrophic ways. And fear may be the only thing that saves us
nytimes.com/...
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We must save ourselves.
"This is the most important story that there's ever been"
If we don't deal with this emergency,
nothing else will matter.
This isn't about someone else-
This is about you.