❤️ Umair @umairh Twitter profile

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7 months

If someone told you HALF of our global economies would be destroyed due to climate change, would you believe them? Well, the research doesn’t lie. We're on a collision course, and this is a data-driven reality check. 1/7

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4 years

Congrats to Joe Biden for winning the Presidency for the fourth time this week

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4 years

My partner, the doctor, rolling her eyes: tell them I don’t want their claps and cheers during a pandemic, I want them to stop voting like dummies for sociopaths who don’t want them to have decent healthcare systems at all in the first place

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Especially white Americans don’t like to hear it, but we got to the “coup” stage of fascism because we didn’t impeach at the concentration camps, cages, family separations, beatings, gassing, disappearances. Fascism’s a pattern of escalation and nobody tried to really break it

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4 years

Guys. Every single person who’s survived authoritarianism will tell you that when they start abducting people off the streets, you are in deep, deep trouble as a society.

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2 years

I have no idea why Brits are ok with living in a society where you can’t get an ambulance so maybe your baby or parent or partner dies. It is really mind boggling to me to see how easy it is to break a society’s spirit in this total way.

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You guys should be pretty worried that people who basically study doom for a living like me are like wait this shit is off the charts of even our worst predictions

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@umairh

9 months

Hawaii in flames, 100 dead and counting. Thousands evacuated in Spain. Thousands of hectares of Portugal, on fire. The blazes in Canada? So far, they’ve destroyed an area the size of… Greece. Oh, and Greece? It’s on fire, too. We're surrounded by megafailure. 1/7

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@umairh

10 months

Suddenly, this summer, the planet seems to be on fire. Marine heatwaves, wildfires, heat domes, and none as dramatic as what’s unfolding in Greece. Welcome to the Pyrocene, the first era of the Age of Extinction. It’s the age of fire and it’s undeniably here. 1/6

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@umairh

10 months

The killing heat has arrived. People are literally being burned alive, collapsing on sun-scorched surfaces and dying from extreme burns because surfaces are just that hot. Yes, really. This isn't dystopian fiction, it's our reality. And it's only going to get worse. 1/6

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@umairh

9 months

Remember when Covid hit, and “we were all in it together"? Now? Covid isn't gone. But if you do take precautions, people will insult, mock, even harass you. We learned something grim from the pandemic: People won't change a thing about their lives, even for their own good. 1/6

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@umairh

1 year

This “town hall” should live in infamy. It should be taught in journalism school and media programs as one of the lowest points there ever was. Trump is just on a rampage of lies and Kaitlin Collins is getting utterly trampled by them

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@umairh

10 months

The world's on fire--literally. Look at Sicily. Greece. Canada. Oceans are boiling. Emissions are rising. I'm not homesick or lovesick--I’m planetsick. Furious at what we've done. Our planet is dying and we're to blame. Distinctions don’t matter. We did it. Homo sapiens. 1/6

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10 months

This is the summer climate change got real, got scary, and it happened... unbelievably fast. Canada burning, heat domes scorching, floods roaring. Marine heatwaves with ocean temperatures off the charts, impacting everything from marine life to global heat storage. 1/8

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@umairh

10 months

We need to talk about wet bulb temperature. We're moving from the era of global warming to "the era of global boiling." In the not so distant future, we won't check just the temperature before we head outdoors — we’ll check the “heat index,” or the wet bulb temperature. 1/6

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@umairh

5 years

@FrankLuntz @ImperialVienna This is why the entire world thinks Americans are morons, and in your case they may have a point

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@umairh

2 years

No joke guys. I’ve lived it and I can tell you you are in a hardcore social collapse now. This is the real thing. That stunned sense of disbelief is what they want. Don’t let them have it. Organize and fight.

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@umairh

4 years

guys as a survivor of authoritarianism I think you are in way deeper shit than you know, this bizarre RNC family business cult of hate is exactly how it happens. I mean *exactly*

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@umairh

10 months

There’s a single statistic everyone in the world should know this summer: fossil fuel subsidies are ten times greater than climate finance.

Can Our Broken Politics Solve a Problem Like Climate Change?

What We’ve Learned So Far From the First Extinction Summer

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@umairh

2 years

Musk wants to “authenticate” everyone which means Twitter has your personal info, Trump gets reinstated…you can see where this goes.

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@umairh

2 years

A party that wanted to fight for democracy would lead a general strike. It’d impeach and remove justices for lying under oath. It’d pack the court and more. This is not a game anymore guys. This is a moment that needs serious leadership not this horseshit from the Dems

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@umairh

10 months

It’s a little bit weird that the planet’s burning and we’re not doing much of anything about it

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@umairh

10 months

Is this our first Extinction Summer? They're calling it a global heatwave. Temperature records are shattered. Floods roar globally, and so do wildfires. There are 3 things everyone should understand right now about our civilization, its climate, and where we go from here. 1/6

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@umairh

10 months

Call it the Great Gaslighting of the 2020s. "Climate change obsession's a mental disorder"? Meanwhile, the real world’s on fire. People are dying, and we're being told we care too much. The norm? Indifference. The message? "Learn to live with it." 1/6

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@umairh

4 years

Alright. We need to talk about fascism and America. Finally, finally, finally, white pundits are starting to call this fascism, shocked and appalled, as if minorities and women haven’t been saying this for years.

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@umairh

5 years

@thehill “Lunch debt”, what is even wrong with this country

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@umairh

2 years

It’s beyond guys. Next level. I predicted all the chaos but the way people embrace it, love death, hurting others, just for the sake of it...that takes even me by surprise. It’s really shocking to see this level of insanity and yes it is insane

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@umairh

10 months

Red alerts across Italy. The Acropolis, closed — because of the heat. America's coast-to-coast heat dome. Canada — still on fire. This is the summer climate change arrived, with a vengeance. Welcome to the coming age of climate regret. 1/6

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@umairh

2 years

I’ve had covid what? Maybe three times at this point? And I am fucked up. I am way less healthy than when the pandemic began. I suspect the same is true for most of us. And the more we get it the more damage it will do. We are playing with fire at this point.

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@umairh

2 years

Guys is it just me or there’s this weird confrontational energy out there? Like some weird ripple of anger pulsing through things. People seem really mad and on edge even more so than usual

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@umairh

4 years

I just published We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.

We Don’t Know How to Warn You Any Harder. America is Dying.

We Survivors of Authoritarianism Have a Message America Needs to Hear: This is Exactly How it Happens, and It’s Happening Here.

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@umairh

9 months

Imagine a decade ago I told you, "Everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Climate change will accelerate, fascism will rise again. The economy will stagnate. A pandemic is coming. Oh and—have you heard of wet bulb temperature?" You'd have laughed at me. But here we are. 1/6

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@umairh

4 years

If we were watching this in any other country, a head of state declaring pre emptive victory, and calling for the vote to be stopped, the word would be “coup.”

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@umairh

4 years

So if Jewish is now a nationality according to the fascists what exactly are American Jews? This kind of stuff should make us all shudder. It is the path to literal and textbook fascist atrocity

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@umairh

11 months

Remember when I'd say things like "our civilization is at breaking point" and "we're headed for collapse"? Yesterday I woke up to the headline that — LOL — Britain’s water system has, uh, literally collapsed. So here we we are. Knee deep in the Age of Collapse. 1/

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@umairh

11 months

The main question they will ask about our era is just exactly how did everything get so fucking stupid so fast

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@umairh

10 months

I don’t know what it’ll take. Ecocide? Wet bulb events? Agricultural and water system breakdown? It’s hard to say. Our grandkids are never going to forgive us, we haven’t lifted a finger yet as a civilization to stop any of it.

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@umairh

5 years

Seriously guys countries get leaders of a caliber like Warren, who have the smarts, the fight, the drive, the right intentions, maybe once in a generation...if they’re lucky. Don’t fuck this up guys.

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@umairh

11 months

When I got to Canada I was so messed up, so brutalized, by growing up in America—I was 16—I didn’t come out of my dorm room for like a month, maybe more. I was like Canadians can’t be this nice, there’s something really wrong here. LOL. But they were and then life was livable

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@umairh

3 years

It’s going to be really bad, because a lot of law enforcement in America is on the side of the fascists. Relying on it to police a wave of fascist terror is not going to work. It’s going to be ugly in ways Americans have never really lived through.

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@umairh

2 years

Alarming and important piece by @jennycohn1

2016: The attack on America’s election infrastructure

https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/02/14/trump-hillary-clinton-2016-durham-probe-heats-up/

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@umairh

10 months

Not really sure what happens when the oceans start boiling and our politicians are like “I hate tree huggerss!!” and the biggest thing in the average person’s mind are movies about toys, lol if this is the end, it’s so much stupider than anyone imagined

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@umairh

9 months

See that chart? That's the US suicide rate--and it's on a steep, steep rise. Suicides in the U.S. are more common now than at any time since World War II. The growing despair of American life. Stressors are hitting from every angle, and we're only beginning to understand it. 1/6

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10 months

Everyone, meet 2023’s latest villain: the doomer. You see their pessimism ridiculed from the Guardian to the Washington Post. But are they really wrong about the climate crisis, or are we just unwilling to face the magnitude of the problem? 1/6

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@umairh

2 years

Believe me when I tell you that for those of us who’ve studied and lived through actual fascist collapses, the situation in america is even worse than you think. It is as bad as it could possibly be. Don’t minimize or deny. This is a living nightmare and it now gonna get worse

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@umairh

9 months

"We learned something from the pandemic. And it isn’t a good something. We learned that people appear totally incapable of changing the smallest aspect of their lives for either their own good, or the common good. And worse, if you point any of that out, you’re the bad guy."

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@umairh

9 months

I just published The Age of the Breaking of the Human Spirit

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10 months

My god

European heatwave - latest updates as record temperatures continue

Authorities warn of heightened risk of fires from today

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@umairh

2 years

I don’t know guys. I have this feeling lately. Creepy, deep, scary. Of *wrongness**. Something is not right with people anymore. I don’t know if you’ve felt it too. They’re not the same anymore. Something in them broke not so long ago. They don’t care about anything anymore.

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@umairh

11 months

You've probably seen the chart below by now. It's the IMF confirming that greedflation, something I wrote about a year ago, is very, very real. And that’s…a Very Big Deal. Because what’s rising in the world today is what I’ve come to call Idiotnomics. (1/9)

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@umairh

4 years

This is from my dr wife again: “No really I don’t want your claps; I want you to stop voting in xenophobic, racist assholes who defund the healthcare system to the point of collapse!!!”

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@umairh

5 years

I’ve seen what three, four societies collapse into fascism firsthand. THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS. Not just the violence of the bad guys. But the silence of the majority about what the bad guys really are. DON’T BE SILENT. Call this EXACTLY what it is.

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@umairh

3 years

You will not get another chance at this, trust me. You are lucky to have this one. You take on the fascists now, you assume your responsibilities culturally, socially, economically, remove them from normal life. Or they go on terrorizing you in escalating violence and impunity.

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1 year

"The biggest insurance company in the country can’t absorb the risks of climate change. And we’ve barely even begun to experience it. It’s just 2023. That is how dire shape we’re in. Our systems already can’t cope."

This Is the Extinction Economy — Some of Us Just Don’t Know It Yet

California Just Became Uninsurable. Are We Getting the Message Yet?

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This is the line, guys. You take responsibility for your society or the fascists take it over. It’s very simple. They are literally killing kids in camps.

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2 years

We are seriously, severely underestimating the risk of extinction, how catastrophic “climate change” is and will be. The hard truth is we’re a civilization running out of the basics, water food air and energy now. No plan for tomorrow. Trying desperately to ignore it all.

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@umairh

8 months

Here's a startling fact: the first "global stocktake" on climate change just happened, and its conclusions are chilling. Our planet? Off track. We're headed for a temperature rise of up to 2.6°C. A century's progress? Reversing. The age we're entering? Unimaginable to many. 1/7

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@umairh

3 years

The privatization of covid vaccines is a crime against humanity which is going to cause death on the scale of a world war

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3 years

The right to compulsory licensing of intellectual property to protect public health was already agreed in 2001 and extended to exports in 2005, notes @JeffDSachs . Given #COVID19 , the case for #IP waivers is even stronger today.

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@umairh

10 months

Consider this. Climate diplomacy is about to get very real, and that’ll lead to conflict. The next stage of the Pyrocene, where things get really ugly, is yet to come. Are we ready? 6/6

The Summer the Planet Started Burning

This Is the Age of Extinction. Welcome to Its First Era, the Pyrocene

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@umairh

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Wet bulb events are knocking on our door - a condition where the human body can't cool itself anymore. Just go outside, stay there for a couple of hours, and you…die. A prediction set for 2050, but we’re on the cusp this summer. Why aren't we talking about this more? 2/6

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We learned something from the pandemic. And it isn’t a good something. We learned that people appear incapable of changing, even a tiny bit, for the common good. That they appear truculently indifferent, selfish, and worse, if you point any of that out, you’re the bad guy. 3/6

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What's happening is just the beginning at 1.2 degrees of warming. Orange skies over America, unbreathable air, continent-wide megafires. But our minds struggle to connect "a burning planet" with "1.2 degrees warmer on average." Nonlinearities are hard to unpick. 4/6

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On Greek islands, megafires are breaking out and tens of thousands rush to beaches for evacuation. The images are haunting. Embers flying, air turning unbreathable, masses of confused and panicked people with nowhere left to go. This is a portrait of climate emergency. 2/6

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@umairh

5 years

The Dems need to put American collapse in a global frame and point out hard right economics led America to become a poor country. But they don’t do that. They buy into the idea they have to justify things to the right, not that the right has to justify things to reality

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@umairh

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How insanely narcissistic do you have to be to compare yourself to the holocaust for being mocked on twitter when (wait for it) *there are uhhhh actual fascists putting kids in camps where they don’t get medicine or soap*

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4 years

I understand all this is new and frightening and bewildering to Americans. Please take it from us survivors, a head of state giving public orders to fascist paramilitaries is literally as bad a situation as a democracy can be in.

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Look at Florida, a perfect example of this madness. Climate change is wreaking havoc on it, but it's turning…fascist. In less than 4 years, they’ve gone from banning the word gay to teaching that slavery... wasn’t so bad. This is where we are. 6/6

A Brief History of the Age of the Idiot

Killing Heat. Fascism. Boiling Point. How Did We Get Here, and Where Are We Headed?

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@umairh

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@CNNSotu @jaketapper You’re invoking...Mr Rogers...to ask us to have sympathy for dudes who put...kids in cages? And you don’t see the horrific and mind-bending irony?

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@umairh

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Yesterday, I opened Twitter to glance at the world. Apocalypse greeted me. Huge clouds of smoke & ash. Flames ripping through towns. Lahaina left to nothing, 36 dead. This is our reality. We are in a civilizational emergency. But we’re still in denial about it. 1/8

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@umairh

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When Trump basically tells you he wants a hard coup if the soft one fails, which is what “please kill my opponents ha ha” means, you should listen closely and understand just how much peril american democracy is really in. This is its absolute last chance.

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I've been saying lately that everything the far right touches dies. Well, this chart is proof. Britain, once vaunted and admired, is now collapsing. Its economy’s in tatters, society’s fractured, and pessimism reigns. Let me explain. 1/6

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@umairh

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It's not just the Greek islands. It's only the start of Europe’s fire season. And in America? People are falling on burning hot pavement and dying of burns. Add Canada’s coast-to-coast fires and mega-heat around the globe, you see a civilization truly entering the Pyrocene. 3/6

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I don’t know when the average person is gonna figure out the reason the planet’s boiling is that we’ve done literally nothing at a serious level economically judicially politically to stop emissions, which is ludicrous and horrifying with you think about it

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Americans need to understand just how how crucial this moment really is. If appeasement and complicity are chosen now, nothing can undo it. The fascists will have won, and whatever remains of democracy will be little but theatre, a joke, an excuse.

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The impact? Insurance systems already failing. Banking systems next. Water systems barely coping. Healthcare systems stretched. Crop failures. The destruction of arable land. As one Greek professor said, "I don’t think they'll be able to operate this year..." 5/6

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It was (is?) an apocalyptic summer, and the news isn't getting better. Startling new research concludes that up to a billion people could be lost to climate change. That's bigger than... any war, any plague. 1/7

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4 years

Trump never should have awakened the gay disco gods by playing YMCA for fascism and thus inviting their wrath. That’s another major lesson here

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It took us millennia to discover scientific miracles like vaccines, masks, and sanitizers. Now we’re not using a single one. Meanwhile, Covid rages on — yet another wave’s arriving. The elderly, ill, frail, immunocompromised are... sacrificed to it. 2/6

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Literally the entire American media and thinking class will talk today—half of it *seriously*—about buying Greenland. Not a single one will learn a single lesson of Scandinavian social democracy. That my friends is why America is the dumbest country in the world

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Now think about climate change. If people can't wash their hands and wear masks for a deadly virus, what chance is there they're going to do anything about... a boiling planet? 4/6

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It’s a mistake to see this as some kind of last desperate gasp. It’s the opposite. Fascists storming the capitol tells you how committed they are to violence, and how little they think of democracy. This isn’t an end. It’s the new beginning Trump wanted all along.

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When I read about bleached corals and animals burned alive in mega fires and beached whale pods I just feel bereft. I think all these creatures deserve to live.

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Everywhere I look, I see examples of languishing. Bright young professionals stuck in underemployment, middle-aged individuals in careers that once promised ascendancy now feeling trapped, and the elderly facing retirement in insecurity and isolation. 1/

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What I can tell you is that when a head of state speaks this way, this openly, this hatefully, against the rudiments of democracy and for violence and brutality, you must understand it is not remotely normal. It’s rare even in failing states. It is a prelude to fascism.

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I don’t know if Americans really understand that mass death and secret polices are clear signs of hardcore social collapse. But they should.

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I have the feeling that from here things destabilize very very fast. I can’t shake that feeling and it’s a realllllly unsettling one.

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Climate change is a civilizational emergency. Non-binding pledges and agreements, a media that won’t connect climate change to disasters, societies ignoring the realities – it's not enough. We need to wake up and transform. And we need to do it now. 6/6

Why Climate Change Is a Civilizational Emergency

We’re Entering a New Phase of Climate Change — And What We’re Doing Isn’t Enough

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We're in the Age of the Idiot. Those with power have made a fools’ bargain with lunacy in the name of “fairness.” But...who is that fair to? The truth? Democracy? Reason? Or the Centrists, who gain power by appeasing the far right?

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@umairh

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Meanwhile, we're all trying to make ends meet while cartoon villain level billionaires sweep up the gains in the economy. We used to live in an age of breakdown; now we live in an age of meltdown. And our faith in humanity has been shaken to the core.

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@umairh

10 months

Anyone who dared to bring up this reality last year was dismissed, scorned, even mocked. "Alarmist," they said. "Lunatic," they laughed. But as we hit the limits of human livability, these dismissed voices are gaining validity. It's about time. 3/6

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@umairh

3 years

Like I said, it’s just a feeling in my gut. But I can’t shake it. This is so not how a nation should behave after narrowly escaping a full blown fascist collapse.

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@umairh

5 years

Does anyone wanna tell me why the Dems are cool with people uh “ignoring” subpoenas

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@umairh

2 years

I just published It’s Not That I’m an Alarmist… It’s That You Might Be an Idiot

It’s Not That I’m an Alarmist… It’s That You Might Be an Idiot

Why We’re Trapped in a Vicious Cycle of Idiocy Fuelling Self-Destruction

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@umairh

10 months

Let’s ask a few questions that just the last few months raise. How does Canada…stop burning? Some say that its only the arrival of the winter snows that’ll put the flames out. But does that mean that giant smoke plumes over America are now…part of what summer is? (1/7)

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@umairh

9 months

Wildfires are wreaking havoc through Hawaii. Billowing clouds of smoke and ash. People yelling "go, go, we can't do anything for her!" Others left for dead. People, jumping into the ocean to survive. Climate change is a civilizational emergency. 1/8

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@umairh

4 years

I don't think I've heard a single American pundit express the slightest bit of remorse or humility for minimising the dangers of Trumpism, much less attacking those of us who warned of them. It's a kind of profound statement that they could give a shit about anything themselves

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@umairh

10 months

While these messengers of truth were dismissed, who was seizing power? The Fanatics, aided by... the Centrists. Those who consider their job mediating between two sides, crafting comfortable compromises for themselves with lunatics, leaving the rest of us on a burning planet. 4/6

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@umairh

5 years

I’m so old I remember when Hillary warned us about trump and all the very same white dude pundits who are now hysterical about trump attacked her and mocked her for it

Reproductive Freedom for All

@reproforall

5 years

Secretary @HillaryClinton : "The occupant of the White House poses a clear and present danger to our future. We have known who Donald Trump is for a long time now. We are at a crossroads right now, and that's especially true for reproductive freedom." #NARAL50

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@umairh

11 months

Why don’t the 1% care about Extinction — aka the mega-scale impacts of climate change? There are two answers to that, the simple one, and the deep one. The simple one — and it’s a good enough answer, too — goes like this. Money and power.

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@umairh

5 years

I don’t wanna focus on it today since I write about it all the time but today alone you see American collapse full scale. How failed institutions multiply one another. Press glorifying bona fide authoritarians who...abuse the press. A democracy can’t survive this way.

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@umairh

1 year

There’s not a lot else to say at this point. This is social collapse. You’re living it. But the majority is also strangely accepting of it. That paradox is really what dooms some societies never to be able to recover

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