Thread by @homemadeguitars

Before the death watch became, I was a semi-obscure Twitter climate extremist with about 15k readers, what Twitter calls "followers".
If you haven't, I invite you to read my pinned tweet thread and the two attached, related threads.
The short version is, I'm the ultimate Luddite.

2. I wasn't always. I made my entire livelihood all my working years on cutting edge communication technology, with a small bit of medical technology thrown in.
The knife is sharp. The body of reality gives. The cutting edge slices a deeper and deeper cut. Earth is screaming.

3. As recently as four years ago I was writing essays on renewable energy conversion actions which I recommended - which were, even then, wildly out of the mainstream.
I'm too lazy to go find a link. The old essays are still out there I think.
But then I started thinking serious.

4. Pretend it wasn't the government's job. Pretend it's yours.
It is your job to organize the materials, sourcing, manufacturing, transporting, installing, and maintaining, of a global zero carbon energy machine.
That's what the plan is.
Has to be global. We offshored everything

5. It used to be my job. Look at an empty concrete shell. When I walk away that shell has to contain a complete voice and data telecommunications infrastructure. I am responsible for all the wire, all the screws, all the drill bits, all the telephone sets and all the wall mounts,

6. Jacks and fire caulk and card access systems.
Find all the parts, design them into a user-friendly whole, buy it, haul it there, physically install it, train all the users, and provide warranty service.
Either by myself, with one other man (often Greg Wallingford, deceased),

7. Or with Gloria, my dying wife.
We did all this together. She made sure all the bills got paid, and I made sure all the machines worked.
I wrote, in MS Access, the app we ran the whole company on, from 1st call to bill paid, POs, tied it all together.
So, I'm responsible.

8. It's my job. Build the global renewable machine without exploding all that remains of the biosphere and ecosystem.
It's not possible. Period.
Prove me wrong.
And if you can't build all of it, there's no excuse to build any of it.
Look at the energy flows. Look at real energy.

9. In the real world.

10. So I've become increasingly snarky at the conventional climate industry, as being greenwash hogwash and accelerating our demise, but I tried (mostly) to be good natured about it. We're all on the same team.
Until the infrastructure bill.
That just lit me up.
I'm sorry.

11. There is no possible justification for ever building one more high speed highways.
There is almost no thing we could possibly do to more rapidly and intensively increase our overall emissions of greenhouse gases.
There is no way we could more quickly destroy critical habitat.

12. I've been out here writing articles specifying how much CO2 comes out of a ton of cement, and it hit my like, well, a ton of cement:
They know all this. They don't give a fuck.
The entire mainstream climate conversation, literally every voice not raised in anguish about 🛣️

13. Those people do not care. They are not the most remotely interested in reducing the rate of damage, let alone halting it.
I see all this horseshit about eating meat.
STOP DOING THIS THING YOU HAVE DONE ALL YOUR LIFE and -
We can't even *not start* a whole nationwide concrete

14. Don't tell me to stop what I'm doing if you're not even willing to refrain from starting a whole new thing.
And all that crap about for the climate.
Look! We're going to cover your town with coal mine slag and then WE'RE GOING TO PLANT A ROSE ON IT ISN'T THAT GREAT ‼️

15. Let me count the ways I say fuck you.

16. Now, every time I see some Friends Of The Earth or somebody tweet some scream about BIDEN LIED HES GOING TO DRILL MORE and I'm just...
Fuck you. Just fuck you.
You didn't say a word, you all ran around in circles and cheered when they signed the bill to burn all this coal oil

17. And natural methane that leaks out at the seams and we can all scream COW FARTS and -

18. Y'all know my wife is dying. And it's like, boy, is that going to hit you, and -
I live in a real world of cause and effect.
The punch in the gut was, "I have bad news. I'm dying."
I couldn't eat for four days. I'd have thrown it up.

19. I will cry when her spirit departs, but I am here in reality where people live and die.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework is possibly the greatest crime against humanity in world history. On this day, in this moment, to build that monstrosity...

20. I am anything but a Holocaust denier. I have known Holocaust families all my life, since grade school.
Basically almost every Jewish person I knew growing up was a Holocaust family member. The details differed, but... Holocaust families.
This is worse.

21. I see the horror of 1619 and four hundred years, I see the horror since emancipation, I see the horror of racism today.
This is worse.
This is all races, all peoples, everywhere, worldwide. Not one, two, three races on a continent or two.
All people.
Now, today,
Highways.

22. The biggest single thing the world could do in 2022 to offset climate change would be pay off the United States to NOT BUILD THESE FUCKING HIGHWAYS.
If you're ok with the highways then seriously, just shut the fuck up about the climate, OK? You got nothing.

23. All these people out here tweeting newspaper articles about glaciers and species and fire and new oil wells and LOOK LOOK LOOK!
Nah. Fuck ya.
Lemme tell you how you fix something.
You go in the office and you talk to the sane people there. Phone guys know who's sane. Ask them

24. You get about four or five good solid reports of what's going wrong, what it's doing, and that's all you need. You tie those facts together with how the system works, and the trouble points at the solution, and you take action.
Far's I'm concerned they could close IPCC. Done.

25. What we have here is, "I see your facts. I don't wanna. Waah!"
OK. I got that.
So shut up and burn. Not my problem.
It's a damn shame you gotta take everything with you.