Climate
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
If protests are going to be punished like this, folks might as well go full-blown eco-terrorist.
What an embarrassing way to go extinct.
Sometimes I tell myself this must be one of those "great filters," then I just can't believe that it's common for a species capable of terraforming their world would be dumb enough to do it in reverse eyes wide open, like crawling towards a cliff shouting "nooooooooo!"
I can't picture the future dolphin people doing it.
This is disgusting. Greenpeace fights for all of humanity while the real criminals sit in luxury yachts.
Citations Needed: Episode 90: How Western Media's False Binary Between "Science" and Indigenous Rights is Used to Erase Native People
Episode webpage: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationsneeded/CN90_20191016_science_Estes.mp3
The episode includes an interview with one of the leaders if the pipeline protests.
I became a supporter recently (again). They wrote about the threat of the lawsuit in their leaflets. I'm speechless.
I'm looking forward to Greenpeace telling the judge to ~~go fuck themselves~~ be more respectful and not pay squat. Any day now.
I wonder if any judge/jury is going to find the large oil conglomerates liable for trillions in damages.
Liable for destroying our world (and for what?)