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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 18

To the conspiracy theorists saying the Soup Van Gogh action was "funded by an oil heiress to make climate activists look bad," you DO realize that the action cost all of the price of a can of tomato soup, don't you?

Also I've known the director of the Climate Emergency Fund for years, and there's no one more dedicated, down to her bones, to stopping Earth breakdown. Unlike almost every politician, CEF would never take money from the fossil fuel industry.

On the other hand, someone who was born into fossil fuel money and feels bad about it and wants to do some good - I have empathy for that. It's completely different than "the fossil fuel industry." And climate activists are up against perhaps the richest industry on Earth.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 17

Say what you will about the Soup Van Gogh action, I cannot think of a more efficient way of revealing people's priorities and whether they feel climate breakdown and mass extinction is genuinely an emergency. Like an x-ray into people's minds.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

Some of us prioritize stopping Earth breakdown over even priceless works of art. People who don't think Earth breakdown is an emergency would find us silly or abhorrent.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 16

Every day of continued climate inaction increases the odds that we are all truly fucked.

The key to stopping the immediate damage is ending the fossil fuel and animal ag industries. The key over the longer term will be transitioning to a new sort of economy that doesn't worship profit and tech above all else and doesn't hand power to a small number of rich sociopaths

Especially the fossil fuel industry though, it's very roughly an 80/20 thing, but I suspect we could end animal ag more quickly if we were to treat this planetary emergency like the actual planetary emergency it is. And note that the global rich are massively driving the damage.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 15

OK, hear me out, this was actually a visionary and inspired action.

First, the key context: We are in the mid-stages of fossil-fueled, irreversible Earth breakdown that will cause the collapse of civilization and untold death and suffering if ignored. And what is society doing about it? Basically ignoring it. Worse, even: accelerating it.

How tragic is it that we're heading deeper into the destruction of life on this beautiful planet, the only place in the universe known to have life, and yet we are barely talking about it? Do not go gentle into that good night 💀💀
theguardian.com/environment/20…

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 4

Wondering which of Exxon or Shell or Chevron is going to sponsor COP27

The fossil fuel industry should have no part in planning the climate response due to DECADES OF LYING AND BLOCKING ACTION. They are 100% the enemy to all life on Earth, and it was due to THEIR OWN CHOICE to be more evil than the worst Bond supervillain imagined

It's easy to imagine an alternative fossil fuel industry on a better timeline that when they fully realized that their products were the biggest threat to all life on Earth, told the public this and worked with decision makers to transition. Imagine if THAT had happened in 1970!!

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

Oct 3

I think very few people have so far accepted the real stakes of the climate emergency: that we risk losing everything and that the damage is irreversible. This includes most journalists.

I think this is the reason why most articles on climate change do not present the topic from the perspective that we risk losing nearly everything and that the damage is irreversible. If you haven't not accepted this real possibility, you can't write from that perspective.

And this in turn is why it's still possible to read most climate articles and have a psychological "out" that it's "just another issue" that we can solve with more EVs and other non-life-changing "solutions." In this way the collective denial is self-sustaining.

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