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@luckytran@med-mastodon.com"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.
The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.
Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."
— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres
What can we, people, do?
Most of us don't have reliable politicians who care enough to do something about it.
We can only do so much with recycling, using better mode of transportation.
Its mostly corporations, and they're too powerful and they don't care.
I feel so hopeless.
@lightsong @luckytran Well, our simple actions against climate change can't change anything that much if the big corporations that digging us into the hole of despair won't stop. I feel hopeless too even if I'm a environment activist and vegan...
@lightsong @luckytran either help the reliable politicians you do have or become a reliable politician yourself.
Join a progressive, climate focused political party or pressure group and get involved.
@lightsong @luckytran
you, we, us; shouldn't feel hopeless. corps may be the easiest to deal with. if we stop buying their products then they have no money and go away. I know that is easier said than done but we need to do it.
buy local and eat in season;
learn to fix stuff,
if it can't be fix, replace it with something that can be fixed.
learn to grow food.
learn to cook food.
help your neighbor and dont charge them, just help them.
We can do it, we have to.
#slowFood #eatLocal #fixIt
Sometimes it's not about learning. Not everyone has a yard to grow their own food. And not everyone has enough time to cook.
Also if they don't have money, they'll be subsidized by the government until everyone tires and gets back to the convenience they provide. If need be, it will be illegal to grow your own food or fix your own stuff.
It'll also take more time than we have on our hands before it's too late.
That's why I don't believe this is a viable solution.
@superlime @lightsong @luckytran
not everyone has to work on solving the problem in the same way but those that have the room should grow food, those that have time to cook should.
Those that need money should get a subsidy from OUR government but that subsidy should be funded from a tax on the rich not by a public debt.
Note, its OUR government not THE government. We created a government to help US. Its the organization we use to get big things done but its been hijacked by a few and derailed
@lightsong @luckytran look to indigenous wisdom. There's a reason that 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity is protected by indigenous nations, and it's not because they're too stupid to industrialize. They may not have been technologically advanced, but so many of their cultural values have sustainability baked in because they watched and learned the patterns of nature and passed down that knowledge to avoid precisely this kind of apocalypse. There's a lot we can learn from them
@luckytran
“Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."
*Humanity* is one way to say it, but it’s really a small percentage of humans who decide to keep the current course. Are we going to leave again the economy decide on this one?
@luckytran problem is that the #UN and thus #Guterres are designed to be incapable to do anything - on purpose!
@luckytran humanity my --s. A few greedy capitalists get to speak over all humanity now. Also UN is absolutely useless, lots of words with no meaningful effect
@luckytran Humanity has always been in the hot seat.
@luckytran This Era will be referred to as the Late Anthropocene by the unfortunate few who survived it.
@opethminded @luckytran This must not inspire despair, but action.
@luckytran we've passed the tipping point and will require drastic actions to terraform earth back to being liveable for the human population
@luckytran Notice how few people are in his audience.
@luckytran unless they all arrived in private jets for the meeting, i don't trust them.
@luckytran hopefully soon the parasite will be shaken off. However my sympathy is will all the other lifeforms harmed by the parasitic humans
@luckytran good talk... it's just such a pity that he has actually no power outside of it's speechs, he looks like a good guy
@luckytran
we need to hear this more.
... Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."...
@luckytran everything is fine #climatechange
@luckytran Awesome speech.....I just hope it doesn't fall on death ears. As so many other moving speeches have.
@luckytran and it won’t matter ..not until..
The $$$$$ family vacation is a total loss
The family vacation home is burnt, flooded, unreachable..
The $100,000 party boat is stuck in a now dysfunctional very dry dock. This was from 2 years ago- Lake Powell, like every other reservoir, was dust. Whether it’s recovered or not isn’t the issue-
It’s that we are dealing with massive climate change & unpredictable conditions. Didn’t even touch on crops!
@luckytran
@iamdtms
HUGE lesson for humanity: common responsibility is not exist.
@luckytran If you feel inspired to take a stand, there are encampments of land and water protectors led by local indigenous groups in many of the remaining undeveloped areas that could use more bodies and support. Colonial governments have made these encampments illegal, but I argue that making passive action against further fossil fuel extraction illegal makes those governments complicit in the murder of our biosphere. We're being led off a cliff, will you follow or find a new path?
@luckytran @charles_ex good at it one percent better is hard