Thread by @ClimateDepot

Disturbing profile of NASA's Kalmus - One of taxpayer-funded scientists warning of a climate emergency

Meet Peter Kalmus, the ‘dumpster diving’ NASA climate scientist who warns it’s ‘end of life on Earth as we know it’ & it’s ‘freaking out in my brain’ climatedepot.com/2021/01/29/mee…

Jet Propulsion Lab climate scientist Kalmus: "A climate scientist spent years trying to get people to pay attention to disaster ahead. His wife is exhausted. His older son thinks there’s no future. & nobody but him will use outdoor toilet he built to shrink his carbon footprint."

Peter Kalmus had been pleading, begging for people to pay attention to the global emergency. “Is this my personal hell?” he tweeted this past fall. “That I have to spend my entire life desperately trying to convince everyone NOT TO DESTROY THE FUCKING EARTH?”

“We’re talking about the end of life on Earth as we know it.” ... Peter walked around Manhattan, “freaking out in my brain,” he said, like “one of those end-is-near people with the sandwich boards.”

Next came dumpster diving (which eventually — and thankfully — morphed into an arrangement with Trader Joe’s to pick up their unsellable food every other Sunday night). Peter’s haul — “seven or eight boxes,”

They stopped using the gas dryer. They stopped shitting in the flush toilet and started practicing “humanure,” composting their own crap. Sharon...liked the local, organic anti-capitalist politics of it. “Marx writes about this in ‘Capital, Volume 1’...

They used eucalyptus leaves to try to cover up the smell, but then little bits of leaves got all over the bathroom, too. After a while Peter moved the composting toilet outdoors.

Flashback 2020: NASA climate scientist Peter Kalmus: ‘Race justice & climate justice are one & the same: Oppressive extractive plutocracies that colonize & kill black bodies & colonize & kill our planet are one & the same’ climatedepot.com/2020/05/31/nas…