Did you know that the rate of mean sea-level rise has roughly doubled since the 80s and 90s? Currently at about 4 mm per year. That may not sound like much, but it's 4 mm of inexorable ocean rise, every year, and it's accelerating rapidly.
Sea-level rise isn't even what keeps me up at night, though. That would be the coming extreme heat waves, crop failures, ecosystem death, and geopolitical instability! #EmergencyMode#EndFossilFuels
I don't see any way to sugar coat this, or that sugar coating it is in any way useful. But, here are some general guiding ideas on climate activism that may be helpful. Ultimately though, how you create change is up to you. It's a grand, joyful experiment.
I want to add: activism *can* be joyful, and I often experience this. It can also be a grind, exhausting at times. Overall it's extraordinarily meaningful to be the voice of a planet and all known life in the universe. And it's a deeply creative, and community, thing.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
All ads from fossil fuel corporations should now be illegal. Period.
Fossil fuel ads routinely misinform to promote neocide and the destruction of our planet for profit. The fact that they are not yet illegal, even as climate breaks down all around us, is evidence of how the industry has captured our legislative process and our media.
I wanted to clarify where we're at with global heating. You may see 1.1°C sometimes, and 1.2°C other times. 1.1°C is for the 2011-2020 (decadal) mean, and 1.2°C is about where we are right now.
Every 5 years this goes up about another 0.1°C.
Humanity emits more than 1,000 metric tons of CO2 each second, or over 40 billion tons per year, mainly from burning fossil fuels. The richest 1% emit more than twice what the bottom 50% of humans emit.
(part of why we can't keep supporting this ultra-rich ruling class anymore)
The IPCC estimates there are about 200 billion tons left to emit and still have a two-thirds chance to stay below 1.5°C. So that's 5 years from now. Just like the Bowie song. That's why this year is so incredibly important.
This was a staged event, by and for the fossil fuel industry - which was the biggest and most powerful delegation present
The fossil fuel barons are certainly laughing at how easily - and cheaply - they captured our politicians, our media, and our academia. Little do they know that ultimately they are just as fucked as anyone. Fools. Absolute fools.
Oil spills are bad but the true devastation is when everything works as designed, the oil is burned, the planet heats up, and irreversible climate and ecological breakdown moves up another ratchet.
Immediacy bias in risk assessment. Helps explain climate inaction.
I think it is the same mechanism that allows people to feel burning fossil fuel is still OK, e.g. plane flights. They don't see the devastation - there are no oil-covered birds, the damage is indirect, the linkages are abstract - so they do not think of it or are bothered by it.
Normalize calling it neocide - “the deliberate killing of young people and future generations”
The climate and ecological emergency is so obvious now, to everyone, and the projected impacts are so severe (and this is also well known), that this sustained lying and inaction from corporate and government leaders is a form of neocide theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Genocide is "the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group." Climate and ecological breakdown is directed toward young people and future generations. I personally feel this is distinct and that a more precise word might be helpful.
Here's my article about the coming epidemic of deadly climate depression among the world's youth, and why getting past #blahblahblah is the only way out. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
The Greek word neo means “young, new”. We can thus coin a word, neocide, meaning “the deliberate killing of young people and future generations”.
It is psychologically devastating to feel climate and ecological catastrophe closing in every day while watching those in power not only failing to act, but actively making things worse by expanding the fossil fuel industry.