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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

May 2

Climate petitions, letters, and even marches are a waste of time. They amount to asking those in power to do something, whilst we have decades of precedent they will ignore such polite requests. If we want a livable planet we must use civil disobedience and other impolite tactics

I've been thinking about this and I want to add some nuance. There are two kinds of actions, polite (non-disruptive) and impolite (disruptive). The core strategic error of the climate movement (writ large) has been assuming that the polite actions alone can transform society.

We have decades of empirical evidence that polite climate actions have failed to create the radical social change we need to power a just transition away from fossil fuels and colonizing-extractive capitalism. This doesn't on its own mean marches are a waste of time.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Apr 30

This documentary has nothing to do with "woke culture." It has EVERYTHING to do with having a planet capable of supporting civilization and life as we know it.

Please watch it. Please talk about it.

Some remarkable moments to watch for in this documentary:

Obama bragging about how hard he worked to expand the fossil fuel industry, in direct contradiction to his rhetoric on climate action

Fossil fuel industry climate denying lawyers drilling kids on climate science

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Every president has been awful on climate. Even Jimmy Carter pushed to expand coal production.

In my opinion Reagan may have done more to threaten our planet than anyone in existence

Jim Hansen's scientific testimony in 1989 was actually changed by the Reagan Whitehouse.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Apr 28

I address the question "what can I do?" all the time! Join the movement! Support and/or engage in civil disobedience! Commit, energize, create, mobilize! Somehow it doesn't get through.

@EarthHeroOrg

There are hundreds of other things you can do - they are certainly not secrets, download the @EarthHeroOrg app for example - but none are more important in my opinion than joining the movement and taking some risks

@EarthHeroOrg

Basically, you need to show up and find out how you can best help given your skills, interests, resources, etc. That's it. We're working on functionality in @EarthHeroOrg to make it easier to connect to the right people in your area, but ultimately it will always be up to you

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Apr 28

Those countries that sprint and scale up renewables today will be the happiest and most secure tomorrow

The US is making a historic mistake by doubling down on fossil fuels instead of moving to renewables with a massive concerted push

honestly Obama made an epic mistake by not starting during his 2nd term. but now it’s way easier because renewables are so much cheaper.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Apr 23

This is one of the saddest things in the world - the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. We should be preserving genetic diversity in our food plants through joyful biodiverse cultivation, instead we have a grim and vulnerable system of corporate monocultures

Also, as someone who does a little food cultivation himself, I can tell you that homegrown food tastes far better than anything you can buy. So much of the food available to us from these monocultures in grocery stores is like a faded version of what is possible

Photo was taken from this excellent reporting
theguardian.com/food/ng-intera…

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Apr 22

Maskless flying is a huge story. An even bigger story should be whether we keep flying at all as irreversible Earth breakdown continues to intensify.

Did you know that the richest 1% of humans account for 50% of aviation emissions? Or that if flying were a country it would account for more emissions than every nation of the world except China, the US, India, Russia, and maybe Japan?

I'm not telling you to reduce your individual flights, although personally I think this is a good thing to do. What I AM saying is that so long as we have a growing commercial aviation industry, it is a 100% sure sign that society is not treating Earth breakdown as an emergency.

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