Thread by @JeffAndDonkeys

Just for inspiration I did a Twitter search, typed a # and then c l i m a and watched.
The #1 recommendation was #ClimateScam . Second was #ClimateEmergency , which was almost a clone of C.scam.
Wholly shit.
😳

2. The terms of the discussion leave me cold.
The words used. The claims, the counter claims, the thousands of scientists© who say that...
Most of the rulers of the developed world are so far removed from native Earth from which we sprang that they can't remember it.

3. If you have not covered some portion of Earth at the speed of a walking human recently, you have not seen it.
We can't see at 25 mph.
Here is the same road at 25 mph and at a walking pace. 25 is about minimum for mechanized travel, and few do it.

4. Most people's understanding of nature is what they see on TV.
Real nature is a lot more boring than TV nature. They take 100 hours of camera footage and show it in half an hour. TV is 100% fiction. My donkeys and I got on the edge of TV last year, and yes, that's us, but

5. Fictionalized. Real us is boring, people don't want nature, they could go outside. They want an experience delivered to them in their living rooms.
Those people run the country. They are arguing over what the TV shows them.
That's not the real world. I'm sorry. It's just not.

6. The real world is, the fucking wind never stops. I don't know how many hundred thousand atomic bombs it would take to heat up the entire ecosphere by a degree or so, but it's enough to blow a whole lot of wind.
People talk about "how fast things can evolve" like you can't

7. look and see.
Evolution is, things that have babies get another generation to work on it.
Every species on Earth is one generation from extinct. If they ones here now don't have babies, that's it.
Including us.
Johnsongrass is having babies. Poison ivy is having babies.

8. Forest eating vines are having babies. Kudzu.
If we have any favorites, we ought to be out giving them a helping hand. But - you can't do it from a tractor. You can't do it from a four wheeler. It's hand to hand combat. Help the plants you want be the ones that have children.

9. The bugs aren't splattered on your windshield.
If a year 2023 driver was magically plunged into August of 1974 at 60 mph in the dark, they'd think they were in a war zone. Bugsplatter combat.
That's what the birds ate.
We want to argue about tenths of a degree.

10. Then you come over here on the non-denier side, and - y'all, this really isn't about what we want. I don't know how to say this, but saying, "halt fossil fuels" isn't cutting it.
We do specific things with fossil fuels. The only way to reduce fossil fuel use is thing by thing

11. The whole conversation starts with, "all the things we do now we must do forever, so..."
We are, in every physical and scientific sense, parts of the global biome and ecosystem. Measurable degradation is occurring at an accelerating rate. The conversation is crazy.

12. The entire global conversation about the global ecosystem catastrophe is about what we can build to fix it.
We can't build anything to fix it. The more we build the more we break what's left out there.
The more we build the more fossil fuel we have to have.

13. I'm going to say that again: the more we build, the more fossil fuel we have to have.
To burn.
Now.
Today.
Then we all wildly clutch our pearls when The Climate President opens up Alaska to drilling.
Come on, y'all. We demanded he build the stuff.
This is how we do that. Fire

14. I say specifically:
To the extent a climate professional is not advocating for specific reductions in highway building worldwide, including a complete halt to US highway construction, that climate professional is not interested in seeing emissions reduction today.

15. That climate professional may be interested in emissions reduction someday, but not today.
Concrete is an ecological disaster. Earth moving for road construction is an ecological disaster. Interstate Highways are an ecological disaster. To the extent that "we" agree to build

16. them, "we" agree to ignore one of the biggest fossil fuel wastes in the world today.
I got called "unrealistic" again today.
I'll tell you what it unrealistic, y'all. Business as usual is unrealistic. And saying we can't talk about that because something or other, is wrong.

17. Step 1 is talking about it.
But there I go again.
The terms of the conversation. Terms of the discussion. Of COURSE, we have to have cars, because how else would we get to the big box stores?
You've got me there. No, we'd have to give up our Walmarts. 🙄

18. There is nothing going on except energy. The things we do are fire powered.
The more things, the more fire.
Getting hot.