I don’t think any warning will be dire enough to stop it from happening at this point. Greed and selfishness won. Those that could have stopped it- put it on those that had no chance to, and now it’s too late.
It’s on us to force action, not some mysterious power broker to do it
That’s fucking hilarious. We’ve been doing shit for decades. We’re not the ones pumping chemicals into the air. Last I checked, I’ve never seen smokestacks billowing toxic bullshit coming from every house on my street. Additionally, I’ve never seen any private residential backyard fracking systems in place either.
We’ve tried for decades to “force action.” Those that can limit factories and oil companies are too rich to listen.
It’s over. We lost.
Fuck that.
The fight is not over, there is a lot that needs to be done, but this situation is far from hopeless.
We gotta organize, not to push governments into dealing with the disasters they caused, but to solve them ourselves. Neighbors, coworkers, friends, if you have any of these you can do something. Unions, of workers and tenants both, are gaining ground. We can win when we work together, and increasingly we are.
To save Earth we need to stop using fossil fuels, rapidly work to rebuild local ecosystems, and engage in intensive regenerative agriculture to feed everyone. It will be necessary to draw down hundreds of billions of tons of carbon, that is possible to do but it will take our whole species working to make it happen. That includes you, who are reading this now. You have a part to play in this, no matter how hopeless you might now feel.
To start, look towards those currently resisting. Find a way to join them, or learn from what they are doing and make it happen where you live. Maybe this means a tenant’s union, or Food not Bombs, perhaps there are local gardeners near you, or the seeds of a library economy (tool, toy, or other libraries). Try to do something, even if it feels small. Do it with other people, and don’t get discouraged.
The problem is vast in scope, but there are a lot of us, don’t give up before it’s over.
There are coal, oil, and gas deposits yet unburned. There are forests still standing. Every tenth of a degree matters. We didn’t prevent all damage, but the fight is far from over.
I’m going to do every bit I can
What did you try to force action? Vote and appeal to their conscience? It’s time for resistance.
Long, informative, definitely worth a read - and depressing.
If natural climate fails to deliver water, and neigbours claw away what they can while it’s upstream - this means either desalination, condensing water out of air (I would prefer if this technology was needed on Mars)… or just retreating from a place where nothing worthwhile can be done.
Those fields used to be known as Twitter.
If only it was as inconsequential as Twitter
Both desalination and condensation tend to be incredibly energy-intensive, which limits their use. It’s going to take solar getting a bunch cheaper before we see them used at scale for irrigation