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Brand new letter! What hardiness zones, future climate maps, and breadfruit predictions tell us about the nature of ecological discontinuity.

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5 years

“The largest demonstration in Australian history...” #ClimateStrike

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Retweet if you have family members who served in WW II to end the evil of Nazism.

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OMFG. This photo. A local firefighter and a koala watch their forest burn in a climate disaster.

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Rage-filled Greta is actually my favorite Greta. Because, know what? She’s right. She’s abso-fucking-lutely right. Some of us have been feeling this for decades—through her moral courage, we’re finally hearing someone speaking for our own younger selves. That’s so badass.

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Greta Thunberg to world leaders at the U.N. climate summit: “You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words”

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"Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them." —Taliesin Namkai-Meche's last words.

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When we say the West is burning, this is what we mean: Scores of huge fires ripping through tinder-dry forests, blanketing the US in smoke.

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Wow. "We will not let you get away with it." Watch this, please. This may be @GretaThunberg 's most powerful speech yet. Honored to be quoted in it.

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'We will not let you get away with it', Greta Thunberg slams politicians for ignoring climate crisis

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7 years

Fake news is propaganda. The powerful demanding apologies from artists is censorship. Business dealings while in office are corruption.

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2 years

Climate diplomacy and the orderly transition: a progress report.

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7 years

Every writer, editor, producer and announcer in the nation is going to have serious choices to make in the next few days. Make brave ones.

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7 years

I hope America's free press understands how absolutely vital to the future of this country journalistic courage and clarity are right now.

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How it started. How it's going. Mount Shasta without snow for the first time in history. This is what climate/ecological discontinuity looks like on the ground.

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7 years

Just your occasional reminder that a baby born today is likely to live to see 2100. In 2017, planning for 2100 is not hubris, it's common intergenerational decency.

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2 years

"We found that the overall upfront cost to replace all energy in the 145 countries which emit 99.7% of world CO2 is about $62 trillion. "However, due to $11 trillion annual energy cost savings, the payback time for the new system is less than 6 years."

No miracle tech needed: How to switch to renewables now and lower costs doing it

A new system could result in a 63 percent lower annual energy cost worldwide.

thehill.com

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Alex Steffen

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7 years

Refresher course:

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Millions in Puerto Rico lack electricity, clean water; 10,000s lost homes... and there's now a record heat wave.

NWS San Juan

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San Juan has tied the Max. Temp record of 94 deg F (2004)! ¡San Juan ha igualado el récord de Temperatura Máx. de 94 grados F (2004)! #prwx

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7 years

Since this GOP candidate attacked the reporter who wrote this story, let's all help make sure millions see it:

GOP candidate Greg Gianforte has financial ties to US-sanctioned Russian companies

Greg Gianforte of Montana owns $250,000 shares in Russian index funds with holdings in companies such as Gazprom and Rosneft

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

As someone who has spent essentially my entire adult life on what one friend calls "the apocalypse beat" (I'm a climate futurist) I wanted to share a couple concepts and practices that have helped me through some bad times. 1/

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7 years

My fellow Democrats, if we won't fight over a stolen supreme court nomination being filled by a man hostile to democracy, the Party is dead.

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5 years

We don't talk about this enough: Humanity emitted more than half of all CO2 in roughly the last 30 years. Decisions made in the 80s, 90s +00s kept emissions growing. Other paths were realistic and available. The climate emergency is not an ancient curse, it's a recent choice.

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Wow. Seville, Spain eliminated 5,000 on-street parking spaces and built a "lightning" 80-kilometer protected bike grid, for just €32 million, in just 18 months. 70,000 trips a day, now. Rapid urbanism works.

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2 years

As someone who does the work of researching planetary trends, anticipating large-scale changes and assessing their risks to civilization, I can tell you, this is bullshit.

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Population collapse due to low birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming

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Faced with the knowledge they were triggering the greatest catastrophe in history, fossil fuel companies decided to respond by launching one of the largest disinformation campaigns the world has ever seen. It’s still running...

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Less than a decade after World War II, the fossil fuel industry was studying CO2 pollution. Within a few years, it knew its products threatened global warming. Its response? To turn around & orchestrate an anti-science, anti-policy denial campaign dwarfing even Big Tobacco's. 1/n

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6 years

That we don't spend a significant part of every public discussion, every day, debating what to do about our planetary crisis is a moral failure for which future generations are unlikely to forgive us.

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I'm sorry to be impolitic, but, if — in 2021, as the biosphere unravels before our eyes — your call to action is for more dialogue between those seeking to prevent planetary catastrophe and those profiting from it, then YOU are part of the problem that needs to be fixed.

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This, for every person who accepted a job in this administration: "Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie."

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6 years

Just because a city gets overrun with cars doesn't mean it's citizens can't choose to once again reclaim their streets. Amsterdam is the 1970s, Amsterdam now:

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5 years

"It would be an abrogation of our responsibility to society if we remained quiet in the face of such a grave threat." Great @MichaelEMann Op-Ed on why society need scientists to get political in this time of planetary crisis.

Opinion | If You See Something, Say Something (Published 2014)

Climate scientists can no longer stay on the sidelines of the global warming debate.

www.nytimes.com

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I'm a climate futurist. My work explores how natural & human systems are changing each other, and what those changes mean for us. Every few years I share some key trends I see emerging—ones big enough to alter our lives & fast enough to matter now. So, what's next? (thread)

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This is, I believe, the most important thing you can know about the planetary crisis: It is not too late. The biggest fights are all still ahead of us—and the distance between the best futures still available and the worst catastrophes our inaction could bring on is truly vast.

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A question-assertion I often hear: "Isn't it too late?" "Too late," here, meaning a state of affairs where our destabilization of the planet and limited human progress have doomed us inevitably to the most catastrophic of outcomes. The simple answer is "No. It's not too late."

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Arctic sea ice collapse. We are—right now—in a rapidly worsening planetary crisis, one unparalleled in human history, yet largely ignored.

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How to talk to conservatives about climate change: Defeat their candidates. Enact bold climate policies. Save the world despite them.

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Jane Goodall and @GretaThunberg . Just fantastic.

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Pruitt is literally going to force California to make its air quality worse. No hyperbole: kids will sicken, folks will die because of this.

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The next decade may decide humanity's fate: "[S]elf-reinforcing feedbacks could push the Earth toward a planetary threshold that, if crossed, could prevent stabilization of the climate & cause continued warming on a Hothouse Earth pathway even as human emissions are reduced"

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A decent case could be made that Jacinda Ardern is the first person with a genuinely 21st century perspective on society to lead an Anglophone country.

The Female Lead

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"Economic growth accompanied by worsening social outcomes is not success, it is failure" Jacinda Ardern

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A stunning document: 34 central banks sound the alarm about the serious risk that the recognition of the need to act to avoid "catastrophic effects of climate change" may lead to "a sudden collapse in asset prices." IOW, the Carbon Bubble could pop.

Open letter on climate-related financial risks

Open letter from the Governor of Bank of England Mark Carney, Governor of Banque de France François Villeroy de Galhau and Chair of the Network for Greening the Financial Services Frank Elderson.

www.bankofengland.co.uk

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Yes, you should watch #DontLookUp . Yes, 3/4 of the critic's responses seem like hot takes written by jaded culture workers from an alternate universe in which the planet Earth was not in the early days of its most catastrophic upheaval in 100,000s or even millions of years.

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Marie Kondo but for fossil fuels.

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6 years

Reminder that climate defeatism—arguing that we are already so screwed that there's no real point in acting to limit climate emissions or ecological damage—is absolutely a form of denialism, and one that directly aids those profiting off continued destruction.

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The apocalyptic is itself a form of denialism.

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Thru decades of climate denial, obstruction & delay, the fossil fuel industries have killed the Great Barrier Reef.

Great Barrier Reef at 'terminal stage': scientists despair at latest coral bleaching data

‘Last year was bad enough, this is a disaster,’ says one expert as Australia Research Council finds fresh damage across 8,000km

www.theguardian.com

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Unwanted, wasteful, scandal-rocked F-35 has now cost more than everything humanity has spent on climate science + clean energy put together.

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4 years

When we are.

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The climate emergency is not an issue, it's an era. It's when we live. #ClimateChange #ClimateStrike

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I don't think the political world has any idea how powerful the youth climate movement is becoming. School strikes may sound cute, but around the world, children and young people are using the tools they have at hand to put themselves on the front lines of the climate fight.

School Strike 4 Climate Australia

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Melbourne #ClimateStrike is off the hook! What out pollies, these kids have had it with your climate inaction: "The oceans are rising and so are we! " #Auspol

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Why did a bunch of young artists live in an unsafe building? Because the Bay Area has a crisis-level housing shortage. Rents are insane.

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Climate triangulation: *Set bold targets in the distant future. *Announce incremental actions. *Provide justifications/ rhetoric framing small steps as "in line" with bold action. The world is being cooked alive by companies and institutions that claim climate leadership.

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The new @ActOnClimate100 Benchmark scores show pretty widespread failure across the board for climate action by corporate polluters, but the fact that not a single company analyzed meets the mark on capital allocation alignment is perhaps the most damning

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Catastrophic warming in the Arctic. "The temperatures occurring in the High Arctic during the past 15 years were not predicted to occur for another 70 years." Few of us take the climate emergency seriously enough. It's not an issue, it's an era.

Rapid Arctic meltdown in Siberia alarms scientists

It was 100 degrees in Siberia, hotter than Dallas or Houston.

www.washingtonpost.com

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I hope America's free press understands how absolutely vital to the future of this country journalistic courage and clarity are right now.

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Letting rich old people who're massively invested in the status quo define the range of acceptable futures for us is probably a bad idea.

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A question-assertion I often hear: "Isn't it too late?" "Too late," here, meaning a state of affairs where our destabilization of the planet and limited human progress have doomed us inevitably to the most catastrophic of outcomes. The simple answer is "No. It's not too late."

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Letting a handful of rich old men who are massively invested in the status quo define for us the range of futures we can have is probably a bad idea.

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Appalled at the tone of some of the #OaklandFire reporting. Being artists is not a goddamn crime.

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Our carbon offset forests burning in our climate chaos megafires is so very 2021.

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Welp, one of the biggest carbon offset projects is burning. The Colville IFM project represents over 14M tons of carbon offsets, or ~6% of all credits in the CA compliance market. So... how about those buffer pools?

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More than 100 years later, the president-elect proposes putting a science denialist in charge of the nation's climate policy.

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Russian official who makes $75,000/year somehow bought $8,000,000 in Trump Palace condos. There's a pattern of this.

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Mental hygiene has two steps: avoiding consuming too much apocalyptic news, and actively seeking out information that empowers you to better understand the deeper trends around you: long-form, thoughtful, explanatory, solutions-focused work that teaches rather than triggers. 7/

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"Everyone should see how complicated, how deeply troubled and yet at the same time beautiful and awesome the world can be. "Everyone should experience—even as the clouds gather—what's at stake, what could be lost, what's still here, and never let that hope go." #Bourdain

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Truly stunning. Building and then running new wind and solar energy is now cheaper than continuing to run existing coal and nuclear power plants, study says. Beyond grid parity price, to disruption price. If it holds true, fantastic for humanity.

New study reaches a stunning conclusion about the cost of solar and wind energy

Building new renewables is now cheaper than just running old coal and nuclear plants.

thinkprogress.org

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The entire high-carbon industrial complex knew—oil and coal, cars and sprawl, feedlots and fertilizers, petrochemicals and plastics—and they did it anyway. The climate emergency is not some ancient curse. It's a set of decisions made largely over the last 40 years.

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By the way, let's round-file this fascist crap, first thing. @NASA —science-led, peaceful and demilitarized, public-interest space exploration—is one of the best ideas America's ever had. Space Force is flatly un-American.

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A decade ago, I got cautioned repeatedly to be very careful about making "career-limiting" statements on the need for bold climate action. The things people warned me not to keep saying then are the realities folks are freaking out about now. Kids, speak your truth. Yell it.

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Cities mandating that stores charge shoppers 25¢ for each bag but not a penny for parking is an interesting climate action priority.

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Meteorologist: This is a killer heatwave. People will die. Talking head: "John, I want us to be *happy* about the weather... something's happened to meteorologists to make you all a little bit fatalistic, harbingers of doom." @hammondweather shows remarkable restraint here.

Media Tell The Truth XR

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Meteorologist John Hammond stars in the latest UK remake of #DontLookUp : the #heatwave edition.

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Our parks are rebelling by stating scientific facts without presidential permission. Let's make this the most retweeted thing on Twitter.

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This is Dublin:

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Young climate warriors: This Friday, you may be launching the largest coordinated protests of young people and children in history. The future you're fighting for? That's what I've spent my life working to see. I'd like to share some truths, from an old warrior to younger ones.

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Lithium-ion battery costs fell 35% to $187 MWh since the first half of 2018. "staggering improvements in the cost-competitiveness of low-carbon options, thanks to technology innovation, economies of scale, stiff competition and manufacturing experience."

Battery Power's Latest Plunge in Costs Threatens Coal, Gas | BloombergNEF

Lithium-ion batteries and offshore wind both see dramatic gains in competitiveness during the last year compared to longer-established energy options.

about.bnef.com

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Deep sympathy and love for every parent in the world who is looking at the worsening planetary crisis, and hugging their kids tighter, trying not to lose it as they worry about how to protect these beautiful babies from what is now, without question, coming.

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The Trump gang is trying to bury this big national climate report by releasing it mid-afternoon on black Friday. If you'd prefer to not let them get away with that crap, please retweet. #ClimateFriday #EndClimateSilence I'll thread good coverage below.

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What if–crazy, I know, but hear me out–what if the problem is levels of concentrated wealth that enable corrupt men to avoid accountability?

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In my line of work, I watch more climate change documentaries than I can count. David Attenborough’s "Climate Change: The Facts" is certainly one of the best. Watch this.

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This is what a staggeringly successful misinformation campaign looks like of the ground.

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Not everything is grim.

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Predatory delay is the blocking or slowing of needed change, in order to make money off unsustainable, unjust systems in the meantime.

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"In a mere two years we’ve gone from a futuristic vision of electric skates zooming around a variety of vehicles in a network of underground tunnels to—and I cannot stress this enough—a very small, paved tunnel that can fit one (1) car..."

Elon Musk Says ‘Hyperloop’ Tunnel Is Now Just a Normal Car Tunnel Because ‘This Is Simple and Just...

Back in 2017, Elon Musk had grand visions for the test track built by The Boring Company, his tunneling firm, in Los Angeles. The Boring Company’s tunneling work was closely linked to Musk’s Hyperl...

jalopnik.com

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If you’re a progressive leader considering a longshot campaign for political office in a usually red district, tonight 2018 sent you a message: Now’s your chance. Do it. Run.

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Very few Americans have ever experienced anything like Irma. It's easy to not quite understand how powerful a storm this is. Please share

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This. The climate emergency is not an issue, it's an era, and we're only at the beginning of it.

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This can no longer be news among other news, an "important topic" among other topics, a "political issue" among other political issues or a crisis among other crises. This is not party politics or opinions. This is an existential emergency. And we must start treating it as such.

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This is a fantastic time for U.S. billionaires to come together to announce they're sending $1,000 per child as a gift to every American family, to help with food and education. The richest 100 American men could do that and likely still all remain the richest 100 American men.

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Best line of the day: "When it comes to climate change, Norway’s like a vegan with a beef farm." —Neal Freyman

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I am often disturbed by the number of smart people who seem not to grasp that America is now a profoundly different country than it was in 2016, and 2020 is going to be dangerous like no election has been in living memory. @sarahkendzior is essential on all this.

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The professional insurrection has begun. More than 1,000 Australian engineers (+95 engineering firms) declare a climate emergency, commit to evaluating their participation in new projects "against the environmental necessity to mitigate climate change.”

Engineers Declare

Help make a difference!

engineersdeclare.org.au

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When we are. This should probably be painted on the side of every executive mansion and parliamentary hall in the world.

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I respectfully submit that when a US president shows up at a climate summit with the boldest climate action package in the nation's history, American activists denouncing him for not promising climate reparations he has 0% chance of delivering is neither principled nor effective.

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Damn. Wildfires burn their way to the coast in Victoria, Australia. The deep truth of this picture is that those forests will likely never be the same, and those beaches will be swallowed by rising seas before the end of the century. Img: Australian Maritime Safety Authority

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This piece is a must-read. Cars are a main cause of the climate and ecological crisis—the greatest intergenerational injustice, ever—and drivers kill more American kids each year than any other threat. "When we put cars first, we put children last."

Let’s bust the myth: a car-friendly neighborhood isn’t a child-friendly neighborhood

DC is in many ways a pro-child city. But one area where the District and many other cities could perform better is designing public spaces that prioritize children over cars.

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Our job is not to decide the future; our job is to leave the future as many options as possible. The most sustainable society is the one which passes forward the best possibilities to future generations.

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We don't talk *enough* about what treating a fear-mongering right-wing propaganda organ as a valid news organization has done to America.

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These artists built a light installation that activates at high tide, showing future sea levels and demonstrating the climate brittleness of the art center that commissioned it, currently sited in a building near the shore.

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There is an endless supply of bad news, shocking events, and apocalyptic warnings right now, and people are happy to offer up as much as you can take and then some. You will run out of mental health long before the world runs out of traumatizing stories. 6/

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Solar power is now the "cheapest electricity in history." Let that sink in.

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What Houston shows us, yet again, is that we live in a world of predatory delay.

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I was already a work environment reporter in 1992, so I was there when it went down, and yet even now — even after having heard and read (and written the story myself) so many times since — I still find myself shocked by the enormity of this crime.

The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change

Thirty years ago, a bold plan was hatched to persuade people that climate change was not a problem.

www.bbc.com

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One of our biggest assumptions is that the climate emergency is an issue. It's not, it's an era Climate is redefining every aspect of society, already—and we're only at the beginning. The extent this surprises us is a measurement of how little we yet grasp what's happening. 4/

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It was 100º F, 70 miles north of the Arctic Circle today. We live now on a far different planet than we did 50 years ago. And we're never going back again.

Richard Heatwave Berler

@HeatwaveKGNS

4 years

Saturday 10:24 am: Hottest on record in Siberia...Verhojansk, which has an average high of the day of 68F during June, had their first 100F reading on record today!

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Alex Steffen

@AlexSteffen

7 years

Really important: this is Republicans making your data other people's property, letting them sell it. 100% GOP's fault. Remember this 2018.

Josh Harkinson

@joshharkinson

7 years

Your ISP sees almost everything you do online, and now it can sell that info, thanks to the GOP:

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Alex Steffen

@AlexSteffen

6 years

Given actual proven reality, this is a genuinely evil statement for the president* of the United States to make, in 2017—as in immoral and willfully harmful. I refuse to let this crap be considered normal.

Donald J. Trump

@realDonaldTrump

6 years

In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!

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Alex Steffen

@AlexSteffen

7 years

Threatening protestors + petitioners is authoritarianism. Declaring a minority an internal enemy + calling for militarized unity is fascism

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Alex Steffen

@AlexSteffen

7 years

Every year we delay climate action, the speed of action needed becomes more rapid. Curves grow steeper—what I mean by "steepening problems"

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Alex Steffen

@AlexSteffen

4 years

A potential for a 20 foot storm surge is insane. Even a few feet of storm surge has incredible destructive force. #climatechange #brittleness

National Weather Service

@NWS

4 years

Unsurvivable storm surge with large, destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, TX, to Intracoastal City, LA. Surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland. If you need to evacuate, do so NOW. Surge will begin today, well ahead of the strongest winds

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