Thread by @homemadeguitars

In the first place, climate change is a values decision.
It is a scientific fact that we know all the things we do which cause it. We know that, on this entire burning planet, about a quarter to at the most a third of the people who live here do the things that cause climate heat

2. and the other two thirds, the ones who aren't causing it, they're all getting along OK.
But we look down our noses at them, and burn their fields, and flood their gardens and their homes, with out energy and its outputs.
We literally do all this on purpose. Now that we know.

3. There is no question whether or not humankind could survive without pouring all this energy into the ecosystem.
Two thirds of us are today.
We're just too fucking proud.

4. All I ever hear is "People Won't Do That."
Two thirds of us are right fucking now.
We need to go ask them how they do it, because obviously climate change is a total value choice.
We only do it for fun and to feel extra good.
We're special.
That's it.

5. In America we got Black people who are, themselves, too special to move the speed of life, bitching because white people are even *more* fucking special, and I'm like, y'all, this whole fucking system is a mess.
Let's build a new one fairer. Coz this one's going down.

6. The things we need to survive after the machine stops will work right now today to reduce the rate of degradation.
Last year the Savanna Institute held a symposium on agro-forestry, looking for ways to scale it up to sequester carbon. Asked for submissions. New things.

7. I submitted a dead serious paper on the efficiency of doing it with 100% zero carbon energy sources and they didn't give me the courtesy of a no thank you.
I'm not asking for unwilling people to be forced to do something.
I'm ready to let them go. They're not my responsibility

8. Fuck the rest of them. If you're young, get donkeys before you ever get your first tractor. Buy half as much land as you were going to, reduce your cash needs.
Live in the tiniest house you can make peace with. The more you marry it to Earth the less it'll cost to heat.

9. Find local work in the nearest town. Fuck a career, work at the Sonic, show up on time every day, ride a bicycle 7 miles from the farm to do it.
Don't buy a fucking car.
Make provision for water. Learn to grow staples. Sweet potatoes are good, grow in hot ground, live on them

10. if you had to.
Plant trees that make food. If you live in hazelnut country, plant hazelnuts. They're quick and prolific.
Elderberry. Mulberry. Dandelions.
Plan on living on this forever.
Fuck the rest of them. They're doomed. Don't be one.

11. The sad thing, of course, is that if everyone did that, climate change would go away. It's all the things we do every day, it's how we solve all our needs. It's optional.

12. That machine y'all bitch about all the time. Those Corporations. Those Fossil Fuel Corporations.
I'm the most radical person you know. We can blow that motherfucker up without ever firing a shot.
It lives on our money. American money, German money - we buy their shit, live

13. The way they tell us to live, live in debt, car payments, insurance payments, new tires, oil changes - if there were enough of us we could create our own local economies, like the Amish have, but even all by yourself -

14. You could never make any money this way, but if you get to where you don't need much, that's OK. Nothing wrong with some little job for cash.
I'm 74 years old. I'm beat within an inch of my life. This is not onerous labor. The work is long, pleasant, and not too heavy. Life.

15. That's the wrong answer, I know. People my age want to know what to do now. I can't tell you. The years get heavy. I'd get out of a city, somewhere green and humid where grass and trees grow. A house in a one horse town. With a well. Water. Shelter. Food. All else after those

16. Earth could, I believe, support a whole lot of humans, even so many as now, if we accepted our evolutionary responsibility as a keystone species and do the things we know how to do to enhance her health and productivity. Every new thing she grew she'd make out of CO2.

17. We're too fucking proud, unfortunately.
If America's millennials started getting out on the fringes and getting donkey powered, they could quite literally break the machine that demands fossil fuels.
Prove it possible. Because it is. Two thirds of the people on Earth do it.

18. And it's *way* fun.