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I’ve studied geopolitics all my life: climate breakdown is a bigger threat than China and Russia
(www.theguardian.com)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Affluenza.
Once you have so much it's obscene, you don't have any peers.
Without peers, you don't have true accountability. Without accountability man becomes monster
It should be in the DSM, seriously. Then we can argue we're legislating a maximum annual income limit for their own good, to protect their mental health - and we wouldn't be lying in the least.
Ever met a wealthy child?
Monsters. All of em. #eattherich
The truly sad part too, is real connection to the past, to humanity, that wave of empathy and seeing your place in the chain, happens when we are doing the same mundane things that those chucklefucks think their too good for. First time it happened to me I was meading the dough for some daily bread. And it was like the history of my ancestors and I all merged into one, all around this one activity.
People without people aren't people.