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11 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I am calling for a rapid end to the fossil fuel industry. This is the 1st key piece for most people getting out of this alive. The 2nd key piece is reorganizing economics: degrowth.

There IS a path, those in power aren't walking on it... yet.
Lots of other important stuff, too, like ending animal agriculture, policies to stabilize population (especially empowering women), preserving wild places (Half-Earth), extending legal rights to nonhumans and places, policies to reduce inequality within & across borders...
The key thing - the thing our "theories of change" had better lead to - is getting those in power walking on this path, quickly. Whether that means pushing current / similar leadership to do this, or replacing them / gaining power ourselves somehow
This is why I keep saying "we need a billion climate activists." Or more, I'd be fine with more.

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11 Aug
I guess I'll just say I am furious at anti-vaxxers, leave it at that, and keep trying to move the needle on climate and ecological breakdown
I should probably explain the source of feeling, e.g. it's clear to me that the risk of getting vaccinated is less than the risk of not; and that choosing to not get vaccinated puts others at risk including kids; and that it leads to greater risk overall e.g. via new variants.
Also it spectacularly reveals the deep irrationality and groupthink in our society that stands as a major barrier to dealing with the even greater problem of climate and ecological breakdown
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11 Aug
One thing that's challenging is that I've been saying the same things for a couple decades, and of course I'm glad people are now starting to listen, but it has a dark tinge because it took things getting this bad. My goal was to get people to see ahead. Anyone else feeling this?
Also, I regret not figuring out how to build a platform sooner. But it has been a very long journey, stumbling in the dark, involving multiple major career changes and a lot of intestinal fortitude. And far from over.
There is just something uniquely, grindingly frustrating about going up against deep apathy for so long, on something you KNOW with scientific certainty is extremely important. Hitting the same dumb misunderstandings over and over. It might be a new emotion that needs a new word.
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4 Jul
A thread on the op-ed I just published in the @latimes. The Times considered it important enough to also publish a separate editorial today echoing my message. And they are right. This will be a civilization-defining topic for humanity in the years ahead.
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
We all know you can't fool physics, but nowhere is that more true than in the basic, brutal thermodynamics of global heating. All the excess energy pouring into our planet due to CO2 buildup has to go somewhere. It goes into hotter temperatures, which means - worsening heatwaves.
Hundreds perished in the PNW heatwave (which we should call Heatwave ExxonMobil) and it could have been far more. When I think about the "Big One" I'm thinking of a deadly fossil-fueled heat storm, not an earthquake. It is coming - THEY are coming. We just don't know when & where
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1 May
Normalize ridiculing carbon offsets and "net-zero"
There are very good reasons why carbon offsets are, indeed, bullshit.
1. Permanence. the carbon offset would need to sequester the carbon forever.
2. Additionality. you'd need to know it wouldn't have otherwise been done.
features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-…
3. Verifiability. you'd need to know for sure it really happened.
4. Quantifiability. you'd need to know the same amount of carbon was really sequestered.
features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-…
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14 Feb
I would like to give some context for this article and to correct the record.
propublica.org/article/the-cl…
To start. One of the great paradoxes of living on an overheating planet: I'm terrified, angry, and frustrated by climate inaction, but I still enjoy life and smile and laugh a lot. I'm not depressed at all. The photographers told us not to smile. We smiled in many of the pictures
Climate emotions are complex and personal. I know climate depression is real but I don't think we "should" or "shouldn't" be depressed over climate. It's just a fact that I am not. I was depressed while in college and I am vigilant not to slip back into that. It paralyzed me.
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5 Feb
I just read the ProPublica article (I got back yesterday after 10 days of being disconnected). Overall, I think it's good but one-sided. I'm not remotely depressed, there's a lot of joy in our household, and we don't really look this emo!
propublica.org/article/the-cl…
I think climate emotions run the gamut. In my case, as opposed to being depressed, I'm afraid, frustrated, and furious - with brief intense spikes of grief thrown in every month or so for good measure.
Also, yeah, low-energy living comes with tough lessons, but it's also fun. I LOVE gardening and growing fruit trees! And you do need lots of compost to do that well... I was actually a decent chicken-keeper, back when I did it. And dumpster diving is better than you think
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