Thread by @homemadeguitars

I don't know if I do or not, Paul. It appears that our senses of dread differ from one another.

2. You say your greatest dread is that our original form of government might fall, but I consider that to be a past tense issue. If representative government in the US hasn't fallen, how could I tell by looking? What would be different?

3. Meanwhile, ecosystem catastrophe, commonly mis-identified / minimized as climate change, us upon us and raging, and virtually 100% of the public conversation about it is wildly fictional.
So I don't know if dread is even the right term.

6. Dread implies that the event dreaded might not come to pass. What we're looking at out there has and is, daily, coming to pass.
It's run out of everything else to kill and we're next.
As far as government, or war - Kyle Rittenhouse fired the Shot Ignored 'Round the US. 🤷

7. All these liars are still telling you about carbon free energy in twenty or thirty years, and that Biden's bill that Manchin killed had $555 billion dollars in it "for the climate."
Americans fundamentally do not comprehend how things get made.
This is an absolute.

8. Contrary to popular belief, all the crap around us was not made by Santa's Elves powered by AFM (Absolute Fucking Magic) on the North Pole.
It was made in factories. It was made by applying fossil fuel energy to matter in order to move it around and transform it into products.

9. Along the way, to make all this possible, people had to sign drilling permits and mine coal and ship it, and leak natural methane into the atmosphere, and burn all the hydrogen and release all the CO2 - I mean, all the climate world screams bloody murder about Biden leasing -

10. and at the same time do this:

https://twitter.com/TonyHussein4/status/1477011443329478666?t=m5U2kvagqhNJtuN_TykPHA&s=19

11. I don't know how to express this:
In the developed world in 2021 every added job is added energy demand, and that energy comes from fossil fuels.
Y'all seriously need to stop screaming about oil wells and coal mines and start screaming about the demand for them.
Electric cars

12. Every single electric car put on the road today is powered by an energy grid that is almost ⅓ coal, and is way over half fossil fuels.
Somebody tell the truth here. Please.

13. Electric cars take more energy to make.
Electric cars require massively expanding some of the most destructive mining ever invented. Copper. Lithium. Rare Earths.
We compartmentalize each little news report. We pretend that CO2 added to the atmosphere by this process,

14. Can be removed by not being required because of the thing we make in this *other* process, which also emits CO2, and all along people are bleating, "This is to reduce FOSSIL FUEL USE and for Chrissakes, fossil fuels power ALL OF IT and it gets bigger and faster -

15. J'all notice a couple-three towns in Colorado just burned down?
And we're going to build new highways?
Seriously?

16. Hell, when the Thwaites glacier goes it might solve the swamp in Washington by submerging it in salt water. Almost for sure it'll split Manhattan in two. New Yorkers 'll be commuting in kayaks. Three piece suits. Laptops. Kayaking.

17. All this is already a done deal. We're putting today's carbon out there but it hasn't had time to soak up a bunch of solar energy yet.
But it will. It can't, not.

18. There is nothing in the world stupider than arguing about "sacrifices."
It is not a sacrifice to continue living in a fashion in which you are warm, well fed, dressed, lodged, and safe.
The rest of that crap is just waste energy.
This isn't about sacrifice.
Look around.

19. The morning there's no gas in the gas stations, donkeys are going to look like magic. You can take all your crap with you when you walk everywhere you go for the rest of your life
Because that part is coming. For sure. This machine is falling apart.
That's what is out there.

20. Pandemic is climate change. Refugees are climate change. Millions of economically useless people on every continent are industrialism / capitalism, which causes climate change. From them are drawn the Taliban and the Evangelicals, the Nazis and white supremacists. Al Qaeda.

21. Industrial agriculture and dead oceans are climate change, and we haven't got enough space to waste to continue bullshit like this.
"Oh, look! We can make plastic with the industrial products of industrial death agriculture! We're For The Climate!
Yeah.
Got it.

22. ExxonMobil boasts on Twitter daily that they can fly jets on cropland!
Right below that is someone telling me we can't do anything about the climate because there's too many people.
Maybe if we didn't have to make plastic and fly jets we'd have more space for them.

23. 100% of everybody's jobs are powered by fossil fuels.
We need to fundamentally rethink this.
That's all I got.
Time to go feed the donks.