You know what's wrong with #ClimateAction ?
Because - the climate disaster is caused by action. What we need is #ClimateLessAction. #ClimateSlowDown. #ClimateDoLess. #ClimateLocalize
Because - the climate disaster is caused by action. What we need is #ClimateLessAction. #ClimateSlowDown. #ClimateDoLess. #ClimateLocalize
A long time Twitter friend sent me this today, and it's truer than anything else.
We are dying of flash floods in low places nationwide and we ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to adapt to a landscape with beavers. Farmers hate them, road districts hate them, most yard owners hate them - we need
We are dying of flash floods in low places nationwide and we ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to adapt to a landscape with beavers. Farmers hate them, road districts hate them, most yard owners hate them - we need
3. beavers *desperately*.
All the bugs are going extinct. #ClimateOutlawInsecticides.
There is absolutely no industrial activity underway on Planet Earth that is not degrading the ecosystem.
The ecosystem created us, not the other way around. We weren't inevitable, we just fit.
All the bugs are going extinct. #ClimateOutlawInsecticides.
There is absolutely no industrial activity underway on Planet Earth that is not degrading the ecosystem.
The ecosystem created us, not the other way around. We weren't inevitable, we just fit.
4. It is rampant bullshit that humans "need" the industrial agriculture system we have.
The farmers of middle America are *desperately* trying to get Congress to require more corn likker in your gas tank. They can't sell the shit.
If we didn't have refrigerated ocean shipping,
The farmers of middle America are *desperately* trying to get Congress to require more corn likker in your gas tank. They can't sell the shit.
If we didn't have refrigerated ocean shipping,
5. they wouldn't be bulldozing the Amazon to graze cattle.
We know every single thing we do which degrades the ecosystem. If science has done one thing, it has shown us in excruciating detail how, when, and where we are destroying the ecosystem which makes us possible.
We know every single thing we do which degrades the ecosystem. If science has done one thing, it has shown us in excruciating detail how, when, and where we are destroying the ecosystem which makes us possible.
6. We should never build another mile of highway.
We should slow the speed limit to where the highways we have can handle the traffic.
There is no time in world history where a new highway hasn't resulted in increasing traffic flow, increasing vehicle/miles.
We don't need more.
We should slow the speed limit to where the highways we have can handle the traffic.
There is no time in world history where a new highway hasn't resulted in increasing traffic flow, increasing vehicle/miles.
We don't need more.
7. I understand that we are entirely too spoiled and selfish to live with any less of anything, but -
We don't have to build more.
No.
The more we build, the faster the climate changes, the faster the ecosystem fails.
Everyone has to quit looking at pieces, stand up, and look.
We don't have to build more.
No.
The more we build, the faster the climate changes, the faster the ecosystem fails.
Everyone has to quit looking at pieces, stand up, and look.
8. Look far. See. Everything, every part of the entire global ecosystem, is undergoing rapid, extreme, degradation. Eastern Canada just blew away.
C'mon, people.
We don't need the government, we don't need the corporations. We have to build a local economy everywhere we are.
C'mon, people.
We don't need the government, we don't need the corporations. We have to build a local economy everywhere we are.
9. The near-universal acceptance that the solution is to build a bunch of crap is absolutely false. I just saw a triumphalist picture of Texas grassland covered with a gazillion solar panels and it was AIN'T THIS GREAT, WE WON'T LOSE OUR ELECTRICITY!!!
Figure out a way to get by.
Figure out a way to get by.
10. Let me bring this tweet back.
Break up the concrete.
We could build every building we need for the next thousand years by quarrying our interstate highway system. We don't need skyscrapers, we need hobbit houses.
From Poplar Bluff, MO, to the Gulf of Mexico, used to be swamp
Break up the concrete.
We could build every building we need for the next thousand years by quarrying our interstate highway system. We don't need skyscrapers, we need hobbit houses.
From Poplar Bluff, MO, to the Gulf of Mexico, used to be swamp
11. And that swamp generated way more fish and fowl, more seeds and greens, than all the people who lived there could eat, year in and year out.
So we drained it to grow cotton and soybeans. For money. Cool. We need the swamp, it's made out of atmospheric carbon.
So we drained it to grow cotton and soybeans. For money. Cool. We need the swamp, it's made out of atmospheric carbon.
12. The Missouri River was this living thing that swept back and forth across, in places, twenty miles of bottom, bluff to bluff, water that breathed from five miles wide to one, every year, and made 300 pound catfish and untold millions of beavers, birds, and fish, and we
13. Dug a rock lined ditch and said, "There, Great River, die in this fucking ditch and know that we are Civilized Man," and - every three or four year the River says, Yeah, fuck you, and washes away a few towns, and we wring our hands and weep for our stupid greedy selves.
14. And since we're to dim to get the message, and we keep pouring (hundreds and thousands) of (quadrillion-BTU) expressions of energy, mostly as heat and motion, into the dying ecosystem.
If Earth were a human, we've already cut off one leg, one arm, and
If Earth were a human, we've already cut off one leg, one arm, and
15. We're cashing in toes and fingers off the stumps we have left, thinking it will be fine, we'll have autonomous cars and won't need hands and feet anyway - y'all, it ain't working.
16. What we have to do is figure out how to live comfortably enough, at peace with the natural systems which made us possible in the first place.
I hear all this, "Hey, not everyone wants to be a farmer," and I'm thinking, how many really want to spend their lives walking
I hear all this, "Hey, not everyone wants to be a farmer," and I'm thinking, how many really want to spend their lives walking
17. up and down the aisles of Home Depot? Of Walmart?
I lived in Kansas City during the post tractor years as the farms and country towns of Missouri died and everyone moved to the city.
Most of them weren't that thrilled. I was there. I knew them.
Only the Amish stayed out 🐴🐴
I lived in Kansas City during the post tractor years as the farms and country towns of Missouri died and everyone moved to the city.
Most of them weren't that thrilled. I was there. I knew them.
Only the Amish stayed out 🐴🐴
18. The whole idea of #ClimateAction is backwards. Every time I see it I know this person believes that we can emit gigatons of carbon this year and next, and because we don't think we'll have to in 2030 (less than halfway there, by the most optimistic predictions) the carbon now
19. magically will have been For The Climate.
Easter Canada just blew away. In a tropical storm.
Y'all.
#ClimateDontBuildThat
Easter Canada just blew away. In a tropical storm.
Y'all.
#ClimateDontBuildThat
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