It’s hard to know what to call the climate crisis now that it’s far, far from a political meme and deep into the late-stage life-or-death phenomenon that anyone who wasn’t too stupid or greedy to notice has always feared it would be. nytimes.com/2021/06/27/us/…
Humans around the world — and right now our friends in the beautiful PNW — are being physically tortured in conditions that can’t be withstood by human flesh.
Call your friends there. 115 is unsurvivable.
Heatstroke and organ failure set in when the core body temp reaches 104.
Also habit change turns out to be a drop in the bucket. During the pandemic when buildings used no HVAC, commutes were reduced or eliminated & flights were grounded, carbon emissions dropped a few percentage points. Oil companies must be put out of business. Full stop
To paraphrase Bill McKibben, we have to stop gouging shit out of the earth and burning it.
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