On this special day, let’s celebrate the USA! 🇺🇸 Land of the Free! 🇺🇸 Where voters are given freedom to choose between the far right-wing party and the extremely far right-wing party.
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There is one good thing to come out of these terrible and destructive wildfires in Los Angeles. Landlords are getting richer!! 🙄
➡️ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14283559/LA-landlords-rent-accused-price-gouging-fires.html
[#]Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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The important thing is: billionaires are getting richer. And that’s all that matters, right?
Climate whiplash is a rapid swing between extremely wet and dry conditions. Whiplash events have been linked to disastrous floods in east Africa, Pakistan, and Australia, to worsening heatwaves in Europe and China, and to catastrophic fires in Los Angeles.
Research has found that almost everywhere on the planet experienced between 31% and 66% more whiplash events since the mid-20th century as emissions from fossil fuel burning heated the atmosphere. Scientists say whiplash events will rise exponentially as heating continues, more than doubling if the world heats to 3C.
FULL STORY -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/15/climate-whiplash-events-increasing-exponentially-around-world
[#]Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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💵 💵 Business As Usual 💵 💵
When the bottom line means more than the poverty line, when stock and bond futures are more important than our futures, when the investment climate counts for more than the actual climate, this is what you get…
➡️ https://www.dw.com/en/billionaire-wealth-growing-faster-than-ever-says-oxfam-report/a-71345320
[#]Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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Headline from the BBC: “Planet-warming gas levels rose more than ever in 2024”
➡️ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30dn5dn53jo
Yes, of course they did. What did you expect? Business As Usual has never stopped.
[#]Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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🎶 "Keep driving, keep flying, keep shopping, keep buying!
We've got this, everything's fine." 🎶
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[#]Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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[#]SilentSunday
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If irrational is the opposite of rational...
If irreverent is the opposite of reverent...
If irresistible is the opposite of resistible...
Then WHY does irregardless mean the same thing as regardless?
🤔 English is weird.
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I'm shocked — shocked! — to find that Big Oil has engaged in lobbying to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. 🙄
➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/15/polluter-pay-bill-climate-disasters
[#]Politics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual
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Yesterday, as we were discussing the environmental costs of a meat-based diet and the alarming projection of global meat consumption to double by 2050, one of my commenters made an excellent point — that it is not reasonable to expect present trends to continue for decades, because those very trends are leading us toward massive disruptions on a global scale.
See ➡️ https://kolektiva.social/@TobiWanKenobi/113832882872801526
To amplify that point, here is a sobering article about a new actuarial report warning about the terrible losses we face in the years ahead, not just economically, but in human lives...
The global economy could face 50% loss in gross domestic product between 2070 and 2090 from the catastrophic shocks of climate change unless immediate action by political leaders is taken to decarbonise and restore nature, according to a new report.
The stark warning from risk management experts hugely increases the estimate of risk to global economic well-being from climate change impacts such as fires, flooding, droughts, temperature rises, and nature breakdown.
Without urgent action to accelerate decarbonisation, remove carbon from the atmosphere and repair nature, the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090, the report said.
At 3C or more of heating by 2050, there could be more than 4 billion deaths, significant sociopolitical fragmentation worldwide, failure of states (with resulting rapid, enduring, and significant loss of capital), and extinction events.
In my opinion, if we do reach 3C of heating by 2050 and see more than 4 billion deaths, there is no way society as we know it will continue. And by the time 2070 arrives, there will be no global economy left to suffer that projected drop in GDP.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries
[#]Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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It’s Friday again, and if you’re looking for great accounts to follow, here are some more of my favorites! 👏
@AnnieBuddy
@climatebrad
@DrTCombs
@gdeihl
@clarablackink
[#]FollowFriday
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Many of my followers here are seniors, like me (I’m almost 71), or are at least middle-aged. Most of us are angry and probably grief-stricken about what capitalist industry is doing to the biosphere.
But what must it feel like to be a young person in your teens or in your twenties and be looking at a future of near-certain disaster, the collapse of society, the destruction of everything you hold dear? I can't imagine the pain.
Here’s an article that highlights the problem while also suggesting solutions:
➡️ https://grist.org/health/climate-change-threatens-the-mental-well-being-of-youths-heres-how-to-help-them-cope/
Of course, the best solution of ALL would be for the world to turn away from capitalism, eliminate billionaires, and pivot decisively toward degrowth and climate justice.
[#]Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Degrowth
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Excellent advice from climate scientist Peter Kalmus (@ClimateHuman). But will enough people take it to make a difference?
To solve the climate crisis, the healthcare crisis, and all the other symptoms of billionairism – to transition to a system designed for the well-being of all – power must flow away from the billionaire class. And as Earth rapidly overheats, the rest of us can’t wait for them to cede power voluntarily.
Due in part to the lies intentionally spread by fossil fuel executives, most people still have no clue what grave danger they’re in. The wealthy are stealing the planet out from under them.
To resist, then, start by orienting against the real enemy: wealthy people invested in the status quo. For climate specifically, orient against the oil, gas and coal executives who spread disinformation to continue profiting from our planet’s destruction.
Taking away their power won’t be easy. They use their influence on the media to keep the rest of us divided and ignorant, delaying the sort of coherent public outrage that would be their downfall. But people are waking up. Those of us fighting for a livable planet must build our own power, join together in mutual support, and use the truth to fan the flames of this justified rage in every way we can.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/10/climate-crisis-billionaire-class
[#]Politics #History #Economics #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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🌅 Good morning*, #Mastodon! ☕
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I love how all the reply guys, as soon as you mention the environmental costs of a meat-based diet, are so full of "Well, actually" responses.
Instead of discussing the issue, they try to derail the conversation with technical quibbles. Fucking assholes.
Meanwhile, the Earth gets hotter, our ecosystem breaks down, and species continue dying. 🤬
[#]Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Vegan
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I keep hearing that we’re supposed to Make America Great Again… but isn’t America pretty great already?
Look at all these ways the USA is #1!
🇺🇸 Most billionaires
🇺🇸 Most prisoners
🇺🇸 Highest medical costs
🇺🇸 Highest military spending
🇺🇸 Most mass shootings
LEARN MORE -- https://archive.ph/x68Gz
ALTERNATE LINK -- https://aninjusticemag.com/6-ways-america-is-1-926215ca91c7
[#]USA #Politics #Capitalism
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The world is running out of fresh water. A major cause of that is factory farming. But if we shifted to a plant-based diet...
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Here's another resource describing the positive values of a plant-based diet. This is a short, easy read, still very informative but a bit less academic in style than the article from my previous post.
➡️ https://cruelty.farm/environmental-impact-of-diets-meat-vs-plant-based/
They illustrate the radical difference in land use between one kind of diet and the other with this graphic...
[#]Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Vegan
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If we are to have any chance of avoiding apocalyptic climate change and environmental devastation, we must not only stop burning fossil fuels as rapidly as possible, but ALSO stop chopping down rainforests that absorb and store excess carbon.
However, there's a problem with that.
Unless the mass of humanity radically changes what we eat — the way we produce and consume food — we will NEVER achieve any of those other goals.
If you need convincing, read this…
The Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has estimated that world meat production is expected to double by 2050. Given our current trajectory, this would require that we convert approximately 80% of existing forests and shrubland into land devoted to raising animals to produce meat, dairy, and eggs — a conversion that would be unsustainable and would have a devastating impact on the Earth’s climate. An additional 35 million km2 of land would be required to meet the growing demand for animal products, equating to roughly the combined area of Australia and Africa.
Although 83% of the world’s farmland is occupied by animal agriculture, this provides just 18% of the calories and 37% of the protein humans consume, and the majority of cereals and soy produced today are fed to farm animals. More people could be fed with fewer resources if the use of animals for food is reduced or eliminated. Furthermore, meat consumption contributes four times as much to global greenhouse gas emissions as a plant-based diet.
The immediate adoption of a plant-based diet on a global scale would have the potential to reduce demand for land by up to 76%, GHG emissions from food by 49%, and a reduction in freshwater withdrawals by 19%. Having more plant food available for humans can reduce world hunger and food insecurities, while preserving biodiversity and vital ecosystems. Further, a global shift to a fundamentally plant-based diet will reduce the rapidly rising economic burden of medicine and healthcare.
These are just a few brief excerpts from a long and persuasive journal article. Important reading!
LEARN MORE ➡️ https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/5/1/kgae024/7942019?login=false
[#]Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Vegan
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