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Jun 4 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The CO2 clock is ticking. Every day, global heating pushes a little harder on Earth and human systems. Every day they get a little closer to failure. Time to shift into #EmergencyMode and make ending the fossil fuel industry and stopping Earth breakdown our top priority.
Also, 36 billion tons was just energy-related CO2 emissions in 2021. The total human-caused CO2 emissions in 2019 was 45 billion tons (IPCC AR6 WG3). (Not sure what it was in 2021.)
Weird that the NYT would get this wrong
CO2-equivalent emissions from all greenhouse gases in 2019 was about 60 billion tons

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May 22
It's good that the Scientist Rebellion is finally getting mainstream coverage. IT has had an enormous impact worldwide. Not only has it "drawn media attention," I'd say it has started changing the paradigm on how the media covers climate.
washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…
I'm now seeing climate reporting that gives voice to what many of us have been saying and are continuing to say: allowing the fossil fuel industry and extractive colonial capitalism to continue driving an intensification of Earth breakdown risks everything. And I mean everything
Also in my theory of change, we need mass mobilization from the grassroots since political, corporate, and media leaders are captured by fossil fuel money. The Scientist Rebellion was a huge boost in communicating climate urgency to the public, and it was just the start.
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May 16
Even now, only 42% of Americans think Earth breakdown is a "very big problem." Our main job as climate activists is to wake people up. It would be wonderful if the mainstream media would help us, but we can't wait for them to do so. Image
I think the best way to interpret this is that a majority of Americans don't even realize their house is on fire yet. When you're scrolling through climate twitter it's easy to assume most people do - but how many people do you think scroll through climate twitter? Not many.
In this poll, there's no limit to how many things respondents can list as a "very big problem." It's not like they're being asked to rank issues. The climate scientists and activists who advocate for "not scaring people too much" have done great damage. Always just tell the truth
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May 12
Tomorrow, in what will be a defining moment for climate and civil rights activists everywhere, a judge will decide Jessica Reznicek's appeal against the “domestic terrorist enhancement” that doubled her prison time for defending the Earth.
abcnews.go.com/US/climate-act…
While Jessica harmed no person and was acting to protect all life on Earth, she is being treated as a terrorist at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. None of the January 6 insurrectionists have been thus treated, nor was neo-nazi Dylann Roof who murdered 9 people.
More info:
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May 12
The soil is absolutely amazing and I am in love with it, but the soil is not the answer. ending the fossil fuel industry and rampant extractive death-capitalism is the answer
There are some activists who downplay the importance of ending the fossil fuel industry and play up soil-based solutions; fossil fuel industry LOVES the slogan "the soil is the answer." But soil is incredibly important. Here's a part of my book about this.
peterkalmus.net/books/read-by-…
I've met activists who freak when they hear that 80% of global heating is due to fossil fuels. Some believe "the" solution is to end animal agriculture, some that it's soil and carbon farming. Both groups are in science denial and/or can't accept clear need to end fossil fuels.
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May 11
Breaking: 91% of the Great Barrier Reef bleached in 2022. Published about a week ago, a study I led found that from this point on, 91% of the world's reefs will experience severe bleaching conditions at least once per ten years. Link to the study: doi.org/10.1029/2021EF…
The exact matching of the 91% numbers is a minor coincidence, but the fact they are close is not a coincidence. Here are some key points from our study:
doi.org/10.1029/2021EF…
To me, this is emotionally devastating. I spent 3 years fighting for funding to do this work and 2+ more years doing it - on behalf of the corals. They are innocent, beautiful beings and they do not deserve this. I've cried several times during the course of this project.
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May 9
There's a deep and practical connection between the labor and climate movements. We can't have one without the other.
To avoid collapse, we would need to transition very rapidly away from fossil fuels, which affects every aspect of the economy. Transitioning from fossil fuels means the fuels themselves become scarce. If left in control of fossil fuel capitalists, prices will shoot up.
If prices of fuels shoot up, workers can no longer afford to get to work or heat their homes. They revolt. The policies are ended and authoritarian deniers who promise NOT to take climate action are installed. We saw a preview with the Yellow Jackets movement in France.
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