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2 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I strongly suspect world leaders are busy at COP26 embracing the absolute techno-bullshit that is CCS when they should be making detailed plans on how to end the fossil fuel industry within ten years. This would be disastrous. Here are my thoughts
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
A few more thoughts on how inadequate and impossible CCS will be to scale up in time to make any difference at all
I am not generally hopeless, but so long as world leaders chase CCS vaporware instead of the real work of ramping down the fossil fuel industry, there is essentially no hope. This is the key thing. We will know we're on the path to safety only when they stop chasing distractions
Here are some other ways to tell when we are finally collectively on the path to safety, and coming out of this climate and ecological nightmare.

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Peter Kalmus Profile picture
28 Oct
There is still a LOT of confusion about Climate Income, where you put a fee on fossil fuel and give it right back out to people in an equal monthly check. So, a thread.

First, it's not regressive for one simple reason: rich people spend vastly more on energy than poor people.
Suppose you have 10 people. 5 people put $1 in the pot (representing the working class) and 5 people put in $10 (representing the rich, who buy a lot more energy). Everyone then gets $5.50 back. $5.50 > $1.

More expensive fossil fuel then accelerates changing everything.
Second, it's not a tax. If the government kept the fee and spent in on stuff, it would be a tax. But they don't, they give it back to everyone in an equal monthly check. So it's not a tax. It's a universal Climate Income. So don't call it a tax. Because it isn't.
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25 Oct
I think governments should seize fossil fuel assets at this point. It may sound radical but there has never been another point in history when human actions were on the verge of destroying the habitability of our planet. It would allow for equitable emergency control of supply.
So long as fossil fuel barons and investors are allowed to maintain enclosure, there is no way to ramp down on a schedule while controlling price and allowing equitable access for all. Despite causing this planetary crisis they'd profit grotesquely while most others were cut off
They lied routinely for decades, thus ensuring this unbelievably horrific crisis for all life on Earth for their own petty, selfish, gain. They deserve prison, not obscene profits.
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20 Oct
I need to tell you all about the five day hike we took in the Sierra Nevada in June, on the John Muir Trail. I haven't been able to do it yet because there were so many dead trees, it broke my heart, and I realize it's still broken.
We were there three years earlier (we took a 20 day hike then, with both kids) in August and things looked fine. This summer, in June, everything was bone dry. No snow to speak of, not even on passes. Many dried streams that we'd seen running strongly in the earlier August trip.
With this stuff it's like your heart bends and never springs back how it was. I love the Sierra so much. Now I don't know if I can still go into that beautiful backcountry. I used to go to escape and feel my soul soar, now I'm constantly reminded of climate breakdown and I grieve
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14 Oct
It's discouraging when climate activists defend frequent flying. Flying represents fossil-fueled privilege and the continuation of business-as-usual. In other words, the opposite of emergency mode.
Flying is an activity engaged in by the global rich, and frequent flying even more so. Defending flying sends a signal, in the incredibly strong language of social norms, that we're not really in an emergency. But we absolutely are.
Yes, there are sectors with bigger emissions. But if flying were a country, it would be the 5th or 6th largest emitter.
China
US
India
Russia
(Japan maybe)
Flying
...
And crucially, flying is not strictly necessary. Not like eating.
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7 Oct
BREAKING: 338 US scientists demand that President Biden treat climate breakdown like the emergency it is.

Biden keeps saying he "listens to the scientists." Well here's what we're saying: START ENDING THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY NOW.
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-r…
So far Biden has EXPANDED the fossil fuel industry at nearly every opportunity. My outrage led me to help organize this letter.

I feel existential terror about climate breakdown and the inaction of our leaders. Not just for my life but for the whole Earth
In our letter, which was delivered to Biden's team today, we make three key demands:
1. AN IMMEDIATE MORATORIUM on all new federal fossil fuel projects
2. DECLARE CLIMATE EMERGENCY to unlock federal resources and powers
3. ABANDON INDUSTRY DELAY TACTICS such as carbon offsetting
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5 Oct
Sorry, I think we'd be better off without Facebook anyway. Wish it were still down. Honestly I feel we'd be better off without twitter as well, or any social media.
I think there are lots of great things about twitter, but on balance, I am not sure social media is worth the division it causes overall. And obviously, with a corporate-captured mainstream media we do need something. I dream of a non-captured, honest media though.
One of my fears - and I've said this before - is the synergistic threat to democracy that is the combination of deep fake videos and social media. I don't see any way to pull the plug on deep fake videos whatsoever, they are coming, which means...
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