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14 Aug, 4 tweets, 2 min read
March 2020 🤝 August 2021 map from USA today showing covid-19 cases growing in 48 of 5map from USA today showing people leaving their homes less i
only difference is we're locking ourselves down this time
good thing our kids will be able to get the vaccine in only six more months!
We've fucked up.

Data from USA Today and IHME: usatoday.com/storytelling/c…
covid19.healthdata.org/united-states-… data showing the coming covid peak to be worse than the peak

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10 Aug
We're all thinking about the climate emergency this week. We're learning and relearning that everything is connected. Our liberation, our planet, our cities, our futures — it matters what we do next.

So I'm gonna take this moment to... explicitly fundraise.
Here's why:
I want to prove that independent climate media — the kind rooted in community, justice, and transformational change — can the narrative away from doom and gloom & towards a better future for everyone.

I'm asking you to become a @currently founding member:
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Our goal at @currently is to become a weather service for the world, one that's built for the climate emergency, one that can bring the world closer together, one that can create change.

I'm asking you to join us:
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9 Aug
The era of rapid climate change has begun.

Both a rapid escalation of consequences, and a rapid escalation of solutions.

Time has run out for anything but radical change.

Here's my 🧵 summary of the new @IPCC_CH report:
thephoenix.substack.com/p/the-era-of-r…
Below, I'll pull out what struck me as the most important points of the new report.

The most important thing is what we do.

If you'd like to read the report yourself, the summary is short (42 pages) and understandable (the graphics are great, honestly) :
Every single sentence of the summary report has been unanimously approved by representatives from every country on Earth.
That makes this report a political document, one of the most important in history.
It’s meant to inform negotiations about how to solve the climate emergency.
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9 Aug
This is going to be a difficult week. We’ll learn new truths about the climate emergency that will be terrifying in a way we haven’t yet felt.

But like my favorite climate essayist @MaryHeglar wrote, Home is Always Worth It.

medium.com/@maryheglar/ho…
You get to cry.
You get to grieve.
You get to be angry.
You get to take all the time you need to do these things.
You get to ask for help.
But you don’t get to give up.
We are learning from each other about how to struggle for systemic change on an impossible-but-necessary scale every day.
People have been doing this same thing for hundreds of years, all over the world, in every country.
What we’re doing now isn’t new.
We know how to do this.
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2 Aug
✨ A major update on @Currently ✨

Starting today, we're launching Founding Memberships.

We can't do this without you. We are in a climate emergency. And we were born at exactly the right time to change everything.

Become a Founding Member today, here:
buy.stripe.com/eVa4jy7qiaNpa1…
Founding Members will get a subscription to @Currently and everything we offer, plus a gift basket of founders-only merch. Founding members will also advise Currently, and help plot our direction forward — helping us to build a weather service that can truly change the world.
We'll only ever have 500 founding members. As a founding member, you'll literally make @Currently possible.

Currently members are our only source of funding. We are completely independent, ad-free, and member-funded. And our primary goal is to advance weather & climate justice.
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28 Jul
A 2.3 billion year old hunk of granite from the side of the road in Wyoming. Older than life on Earth.
*multicellular life
This one is also Precambrian, 3 billion years old
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21 Jul
Today’s air quality in New York City was the worst in more than 14 years. The concentration of fine particulate matter was seven times the @WHO's healthy limit.

The cause? A plume of smoke spanning the entire continent.

We are in a climate emergency.

getrevue.co/profile/curren… a smoky NYC skyline
And it wasn't just NYC.

The worst of the smoke stretched from western Canada to Minnesota to New England. Nearly every major city in the Northeast had dangerously unhealthy levels of air quality.

airnow.gov/national-maps/ air quality map from airnow.gov
Air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills more than 8 million people worldwide every year. That's more than the entire COVID-19 pandemic.

The fossil fuel industry is literally killing us, now. This is not a future issue. This is a climate emergency.

cnn.com/2021/02/09/wor….
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