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I was jailed for four years for a non-violent climate protest – this is my prison diary
(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.
The way these protesters is a disgrace for our democracies. Why are there no riots? Why are we so numb towards these injustices?
Because most of the outrage is downplayed as whackjobs and is downranked by social media companies so exposure is always low.
Why do you think the government either controls the social media networks or have internet bot farms (50 Cent Army, Hasbara, Indian IT cell, )?
US Air force was the most active city in reddit in 2013. I'm sure they were doing nothing nefarious at all, but reddit had to scrap the city reveal after that. hmm…
They shape the narrative they like, anything else is shoved into the dark corner.
I think you'll find, in 2025, it's social media that controls the government.
¿Porque no los dos? It’s an ouroboros of propaganda and corruption.
Because we don't have the kind organizing that sparks riots. We have a bunch of nonviolent civil disobedience instead.
Oh we do. You just have to say a brown asylum seeker murdered the girls in Southport and you get weeks of it.