 "The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived. The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable. Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action." β United Nations Secretary-General AntΓ³nio Guterres 48 comments
@lightsong @luckytran Well, our simple actions against climate change can't change anything that much if the big corporations that digging us into the hole of despair won't stop. I feel hopeless too even if I'm a environment activist and vegan... Elections and money drive democracies. That's how the change happens.  @joaocosta @lightsong @luckytran In the United States voting green at the federal level os utterly pointless but in primaries and local elections sure @lightsong @luckytran either help the reliable politicians you do have or become a reliable politician yourself. Join a progressive, climate focused political party or pressure group and get involved. @lightsong @luckytran buy local and eat in season; Sometimes it's not about learning. Not everyone has a yard to grow their own food. And not everyone has enough time to cook. Also if they don't have money, they'll be subsidized by the government until everyone tires and gets back to the convenience they provide. If need be, it will be illegal to grow your own food or fix your own stuff. It'll also take more time than we have on our hands before it's too late. That's why I don't believe this is a viable solution. @superlime @lightsong @luckytran @lightsong @luckytran The unfortunate thing about humans is the tenaciousness with which they adhere to a given paradigm or belief system. People become so invested in their belief framework, that they will deny contrary evidence, even when it becomes overwhelming. Psychologists refer to this as cognitive immunization, a mental block that we put in place to deny anything that contradicts our world view, despite conflicting evidence. We, the people, can start by taking responsibility. We can stop eating meat, which contributes more than transportation to global warming. Many of us, from the people, can consider remote work as a criteria when choosing our jobs, mostly because the dirtiest of all SUVs emits nothing when parked in the garage. BTW, we the people managed perfectly well to get around with much smaller cars before we "had" to start buying guzzling SUVs in droves. We can vote and we can vote with our wallets.
@lightsong @luckytran look to indigenous wisdom. There's a reason that 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity is protected by indigenous nations, and it's not because they're too stupid to industrialize. They may not have been technologically advanced, but so many of their cultural values have sustainability baked in because they watched and learned the patterns of nature and passed down that knowledge to avoid precisely this kind of apocalypse. There's a lot we can learn from them @mazzeri @luckytran Make 100+ countries stop using fossil fuels? It is literally impossible, even with translators @luckytran  @luckytran problem is that the #UN and thus #Guterres are designed to be incapable to do anything - on purpose!  @luckytran humanity my --s. A few greedy capitalists get to speak over all humanity now. Also UN is absolutely useless, lots of words with no meaningful effect @luckytran This Era will be referred to as the Late Anthropocene by the unfortunate few who survived it. @luckytran we've passed the tipping point and will require drastic actions to terraform earth back to being liveable for the human population @luckytran Yeah yeah yeahβ¦. Yawnβ¦. . Brave words. But thatβs all they are - words. The UN was founded by and exists to perpetuate the very system which has brought our planet to where it is now. You bore me, Mr Guterres. We see you and we see your puppet masters #DoYouActuallySeeYourOwnHypocrisy @FreedomEnslaves @luckytran that's a cynical take. The UN was set up to perpetuate and institutionalise peace. His words may be toothless, but he can't dictate behaviour without the buy in of the major military powers @TomBrighton @luckytran βThe UN was set up to perpetuate and institutionalise peaceβ π€£π€£ππ. Okβ¦..  @luckytran hopefully soon the parasite will be shaken off. However my sympathy is will all the other lifeforms harmed by the parasitic humans @luckytran good talk... it's just such a pity that he has actually no power outside of it's speechs, he looks like a good guy @luckytran Wow.The northern Hemisphere is feeling the effects of it's lifestyle and suddenly it's all hands on deck for mitigating global warming. The south has been burning every summer for years. Many forested areas have become uninhabitable because the fire season went for a couple months during late summer to all year long.. so welcome to our world. You won't get used to it. @luckytran @luckytran And yet, this record for the "highest temperature every recorded" still stands, more than 100 years later. And we should believe you why?https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-recorded-temperature @luckytran no need of the UN to know that. we know that for decades. they just don't care. and the audience is mostly empty.   @luckytran shouldn't the point of the united nations be to say to the fossil fuel industry, 'listen, motherfuckers...'? @luckytran Awesome speech.....I just hope it doesn't fall on death ears. As so many other moving speeches have. @luckytran and it wonβt matter ..not until.. The $$$$$ family vacation is a total loss The $100,000 party boat is stuck in a now dysfunctional very dry dock. This was from 2 years ago- Lake Powell, like every other reservoir, was dust. Whether itβs recovered or not isnβt the issue- Itβs that we are dealing with massive climate change & unpredictable conditions. Didnβt even touch on crops!  Humanity has unleashed destruction. really ? mmm I miss something ! @luckytran If you feel inspired to take a stand, there are encampments of land and water protectors led by local indigenous groups in many of the remaining undeveloped areas that could use more bodies and support. Colonial governments have made these encampments illegal, but I argue that making passive action against further fossil fuel extraction illegal makes those governments complicit in the murder of our biosphere. We're being led off a cliff, will you follow or find a new path?  |
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What can we, people, do?
Most of us don't have reliable politicians who care enough to do something about it.
We can only do so much with recycling, using better mode of transportation.
Its mostly corporations, and they're too powerful and they don't care.
I feel so hopeless.