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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I'm grateful we tried. Man, oh, man, did we try.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Shouldn't over 1,000 scientists risking arrest to save the planet be a bigger news story than Elon Musk trying to buy Twitter?

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Again for the people in the back

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I wish everyone on Earth knew how genuinely "off the charts" key planetary trends are right now, and how abnormal and critical it is. Things like atmospheric CO2 fraction, heat extremes on land and ocean, biodiversity loss and extinction rates. All alarms should be going off

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

It’s incredibly difficult being a climate scientist in this society, at an emotional level. We can see the future, it is terrifying, and we are being ignored

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

I don’t think we’re nearly angry enough about rich people burning down our planet irreversibly so they can get a little richer

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I cannot even begin to express how frustrating and devastating and terrifying it is to be a climate scientist in a society run by climate deniers

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Earth on track to be unlivable. Story, page 3. You can’t make this up

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

umm nope

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

9 months

End private jets. Just fucking end them. And declare climate emergency already. Stop fucking around with irreversible Earth breakdown. Let's end this heat nightmare and dismantle the fossil fuel industry that is causing it.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

The mainstream media barely covered climate scientists getting arrested all over the world in a desperate bid to save the Earth, it is actually even worse than Don't Look Up

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

It's incredible to me how many people aren't yet terrified by the climate emergency

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I'm terrified by what we're seeing this summer, and by knowing how fast it's getting worse, and by how there's not really a ceiling on how bad it can get, and by how almost everyone still pretends business as usual can go on. Those who are not terrified don't have a clue.

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

A few personal notes: I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know

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Peter Kalmus

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2 years

Three key things EVERYONE needs to know: 1. This is still just merest beginnings of climate breakdown 2. It's irreversible, best we can do is halt it at whatever level it gets to 3. It's caused by the fossil fuel industry, which has been lying and blocking action for decades

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Fucking declare a climate emergency already

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

BREAKING: Biden announces plans to expand oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska the day after the devastating supreme court decision on climate, and despite clear warnings from the world's climate scientists that fossil fuel expansion must end immediately.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Tell me you don't get the climate emergency without telling me you don't get the climate emergency

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

This was too accurate

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

the richest man in the world owns this paper

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

It's not about "the environment." Stop using this phrase. It's about whether life on Earth collapses into a shadow of its former magnificence. It's about whether humankind thrives and evolves, or descends into a long and brutal dark age on a less habitable planet.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Maybe stop ignoring climate scientists.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Most people STILL have absolutely no idea what's already here, and what's coming very soon, with climate breakdown. A small number of people have been trying so hard to let everyone know and we are mainly ignored and ridiculed.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

This is one of the saddest pairs of images I have ever seen.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

4 years

I'm sorry, I have to say it: evangelical Christian culture is contributing mightily to the irreversible destruction of the Earth

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Without a livable planet, nothing else matters.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

We don’t need Earth Day we need global Earth Rebellion

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Tell everyone you know, everyone you see: We are in a genuine climate emergency, it's caused by burning fossil fuels, we risk losing everything, the way out is ending the fossil fuel industry, and the sooner we do this the less we lose

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

It's time to ban private jets.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I don't know how to make this more clear. The sooner we end fossil fuels, the more we save. The longer we wait, the more we lose. And everything is at risk.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

When your nation isn't anti-science you can have nice things.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Bolsonaro is out! Fantastic news for the planet.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Rooting for Brazil to oust Bolsonaro. For the sake of Earth and all of us.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

The fossil fuel industry is in the process of inconveniencing you about a billion times more than any climate activist

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

It's depressing to see people worshipping billionaires.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

10 months

Most people STILL don’t know what peril they are in. This will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life, and that shouldn’t be just a meme - it should be actually terrifying. The ONLY path out of this heat nightmare is to end fossil fuels ASAP

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

The LAPD showed up with at least 100 riot police. They pushed press and supporters out of camera range before the arrest. Handcuffed in the police van, we passed about 50 squad cars and 2 fire trucks. All for 3 nonviolent scientists and 1 engineer pleading for a livable Earth

Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

the scary scary scientists.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

1 year

Today I was arrested for the second time trying to increase public urgency about Earth breakdown along with about 80 other scientists and many others. I was released and I’m fine, but tired. We worked very hard for weeks.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

This is the biggest story in all of human history, yet it makes less of a dent in the news cycle than Will Smith

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

1 year

It's quite something that the world's top scientists put out a synthesis report that essentially says civilization as we know it will end unless the world comes together to stop rapidly expanding the fossil fuel industry but to instead rapidly end it, and almost no one cares

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

As a climate scientist, I live in #DontLookUp every fucking day

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Yesterday I was accused of being "too emotional" about irreversible Earth breakdown. I think most people aren't being nearly emotional enough.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

OK, hear me out, this was actually a visionary and inspired action.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

$2.3 billion for climate breakdown, $800 billion for the military.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

As a climate scientist I hate to break it to you, but greedy capitalists are not going to save us from ANYTHING.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Dear mainstream media: irreversible climate and ecological breakdown is a bigger story than Djokovic

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

You are not a scientist, and you are wrong.

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@JuliaHB1

2 years

Ha ha ha. Then you haven't been paying enough attention. It's not a crisis, it isn't catastrophic, the world isn't going to end, we're not all going to die/drown/burn. The hyperbole is not backed up by the actual data. Computer models are no substitute for real world facts.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Rich people flying private jets to UN talks sponsored by Coca Cola that give the fossil fuel industry a huge seat at the table while criminalizing climate activists is NOT the way to stop irreversible catastrophic fossil-fueled global heating. #COP27

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

As a climate scientist who risked arrest last week to save our planet, I am trying to get the word out into the mainstream as quickly as possible. Would you help me get to 200K followers to help amplify the scientist rebellion? We need all the help we can get!

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

This horrific climate flooding in Pakistan yesterday wasn't even mentioned in the New York Times. It is caused by burning fossil fuels. The fossil fuel industry systematically lies and blocks action. Climate damage is irreversible. The media is failing humanity and the Earth

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Pakistan 🇵🇰 flood disaster National emergency declared. Some officials are comparing monsoonal rains this year to 2010 - the worst flood year on record where nearly 20% of the country became submerged. This is impacting over 30,000,000 people right now.

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Peter Kalmus

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Just unbelievable the media's lack of concern about ongoing, intensifying climate and Earth breakdown. It's all around us now. A few years ago I thought for sure, by this point, these levels of flooding and heat, the media would be sounding the alarm loudly, clearly, skillfully.

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

I could not agree more

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Can't say it too often: fossil fuel executives have colluded for decades to prevent climate action WITH FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE CONSEQUENCES

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

20 days

Earth Day messaging is still stuck at the "recycle harder" level, when what we need is the "sue & disrupt the fossil fuel industry out of existence and put the executives who've spread lies in prison, as billions of lives and life on Earth is at risk" level

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Peter Kalmus

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2 years

No viable path left to 1.5C. From today’s White House briefing: “Under President Biden, oil and natural gas production has increased, and we are on track to hit the highest production in our country’s history next year.” Utterly tragic for the Earth and our future. Words fail.

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

If we ended industrial animal agriculture, there'd suddenly be more than enough food for everyone, we'd essentially end animal cruelty, no one would die, and we'd take a huge bite out of the climate and ecological emergency. We could do this basically overnight.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

My latest piece is currently "Most viewed" on the Guardian. "The movie #DontLookUp is satire. But speaking as a climate scientist, it’s also the most accurate film about society’s terrifying non-response to climate breakdown I’ve seen."

I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day | Peter Kalmus

A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Seriously please stop listening to the climate deniers and the minimizers and listen instead to the actual qualified climate scientists. Because we are freaking the fuck out, in our own nerdy way, and we are unfortunately correct. #EmergencyMode

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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If you think about it, every problem in society, including Earth breakdown, comes down to the ultra rich controlling everything and making self-dealing decisions

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Most people still don't know how bad global heat and Earth breakdown could get. And powerful people lie and gaslight and downplay to prevent change. And the media is still largely silent. It's maddening. We could lose everything. Time is not on our side and yet we dither

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

Sorry if I can't get excited by billionaires going to space. Today is forecast to have the hottest temperature ever reliably recorded on planet Earth.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

How can I make it any more obvious to people that the whole world is breaking down because the planet is getting rapidly hotter due to the fossil fuel industry and the corrupt politicians who take their legalized bribes?

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

1 year

So far, 27 years of COP meetings have been a complete failure; you can't argue with physics. Anyone saying otherwise has fossil fuels or books to sell. #EmergencyMode

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

My god, how loudly will Earth need to scream before y'all wake up and take global heating seriously? We could stop this FAST if it were only a fucking priority

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

4 years

There's a huge gap between what climate scientists are willing to say privately and what we're willing to say publicly, in terms of how dire a situation we're in. Colleagues, integrity demands we close this gap.

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Peter Kalmus

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2 years

Please, please share this piece widely. It has the potential to reach deep into the mainstream and raise public urgency on climate breakdown. It is already "most shared" across the Guardian. Push this moment

I’m a climate scientist. Don’t Look Up captures the madness I see every day | Peter Kalmus

A film about a comet hurtling towards Earth and no one is doing anything about it? Sounds exactly like the climate crisis

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

4 years

As a climate scientist, I take absolutely zero pleasure in being right. My heart is breaking.

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Peter Kalmus

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9 months

It’s heartbreaking being a climate scientist.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

You don't need to be a leading climate scientist to be horrified that the Supreme Court wants the fossil fuel industry to burn our future and our children's future for their short-term profit

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Peter Kalmus

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2 years

Everyone, I am begging you: Every time you learn of a new climate-related disaster, please recognize that it will get worse, and worse, and worse, every year, without end **UNTIL WE END THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY**

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Peter Kalmus

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2 years

I think very few people have so far accepted the real stakes of the climate emergency: that we risk losing everything and that the damage is irreversible. This includes most journalists.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

We are beyond unprepared for climate breakdown. We basically haven't even begun to prepare, and world leaders are still actively making it worse by continuing to expand fossil fuels. My friends, it's going to be an insane decade. Not to mention what comes after this decade.

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

It is the scientific consensus that hundreds of millions if not billions of people will be forced to migrate due to climate change within the next few decades. A lot of those people will end up dying. The geopolitics of a billion climate migrants. Let that fucking sink in.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Planting trees can’t save us. Only ending the fossil fuel industry, the animal agriculture industry, and extractive capitalism can do that.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

To those sitting in their armchairs criticizing climate activists, if you can do better, show us. I'm being completely serious. We desperately need you to pitch in and demonstrate how to do it. Bring your brilliant ideas out into the world before we all lose it

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Know that climate disasters this summer are only the beginning and they will get catastrophically worse until we end the fossil fuel industry. Everything humanity does depends on a livable climate. End fossil fuels rapidly and equitably. Switch into emergency mode

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Someday most people will realize what a fatal mistake it is to allow corporations and the rich to control everything. All they see is through the limited lens of quarterly profit reports, including your life, including Earth’s very habitability. I hope it happens soon.

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Peter Kalmus

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There are so many things I find devastating about how Earth breakdown is playing out. All the people, animals, trees, and places that are simply dying. But also, how so many people don't care. Yes, you care, and thank you for that, but far too many don't. I thought more would.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Yes or no to prove a point. When 1,000+ scientists take action and risk arrest to save our climate, shouldn't the world listen?

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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No, you cannot have meaningful climate action and fossil fuel expansion at the same time. The two are diametrically opposed

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Every journalist who ever platformed a climate denier to present "both sides" over the last twenty years should be completely ashamed, embarrassed, and apologetic

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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This planet is more important than my career, your career, or anyone's career. I wish there were at least a few politicians willing to risk their careers to stop irreversible global heating and keep Earth habitable.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

The media should be reporting greenhouse gas emissions numbers with at least as much frequency as stock indices

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I had to call AT&T and I was speaking to a woman in the Philippines. She recognized my name and said she supported the scientist rebellion and that people in the Philippines are talking about it. Despite lack of media coverage, the action is having a worldwide impact.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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Dear UK friends, protect your amazing NHS at all costs. The US health system, enclosed by capitalism, is brutal and inhumane. It bankrupts people and leaves those who can’t pay to die.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

When there is not enough food, when all your money means nothing, you will wish you had listened to the climate activists

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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I can think of few things as irresponsible or immoral as the sentiment "the children will solve the climate emergency." Nope. Right here, right now people.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

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If you care about a livable Earth stop flying, stop eating meat, start doing climate civil disobedience

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Peter Kalmus

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I still have trouble understanding how we can be so close to collapse scenarios with such a large fraction of the public blissfully unaware. This of course is why politicians don't feel any real pressure to act on climate. If I seem hard on the news media industry, this is why

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

3 years

Not sure who needs to hear this, but billionaires aren't going to solve climate and ecological breakdown.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

I still can't get over how stopping irreversible climate and ecological breakdown isn't humanity's #1 priority and I'm running out of ways to say it

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

The fossil fuel industry and its CEOs are not partners in stopping irreversible Earth breakdown, they are the primary cause.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

9 months

The sooner we tax billionaires out of existence the sooner we stop global heating and the better off everyone will be.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

10 months

Make no mistake: these floods, heat domes, fires, and smoke events are still just the barest beginning of Earth breakdown, and the damage is effectively irreversible. You have fossil fuel executives to thank; they chose this. In my opinion, billions of human lives are at risk.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

4 years

Are you wearing a mask when you go out? Please say yes. I need something to help restore my faith in society's ability to follow BASIC advice from scientists.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

These climate activists are heroes and solidly on the right side of history

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BREAKING: Just Stop Oil activists have glued themselves to Leonardo de Vinci's The Last Supper at the Royal Academy. More follows...

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Peter Kalmus

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I'd rather just be a dad and quietly do science than put myself out there in the media, get arrested, spend all my free time organizing, and all of it. It's exhausting and invasive. But it's the least I can do, for my kids and for this Earth. We need a billion climate activists.

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Blame the heat on the fossil fuel fuel industry. Also know that heat waves will get steadily hotter until we end the fossil fuel industry, and however hot we let them make it is how hot it will stay for the rest of your life

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Peter Kalmus

@ClimateHuman

2 years

Most people still have no idea how bad this will get in coming years. We've seen nothing yet. We desperately need to switch into climate #EmergencyMode as a society and end fossil fuels on a brisk and strict timeline

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Peter Kalmus

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1 year

A sickening photo. We know not what we do

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