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You want to know who is beautiful? Read the first word again. Blog Birthday; 20/2/12

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reminder: you can be both soft and strong at the same time.

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im thirsty af for

a healthy relationship with a significant other in which we both love and support each other and genuinely enjoy being in each others company

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there is no ‘right time’ there is just time and what you choose to do with it 

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“God is still the owner of tomorrow.”

— Good News | The Holy Bible (via theprocast)

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it’s crazy that im alive to witness major effects of climate change. like it always seemed super vague and it was always ‘the polar bears won’t have anywhere to live’ but this shit is going to fuck everything up bigtime.

[chocolatecoffeething]

Most people don’t realize how serious it is. We’ve only got 50 years worth of resources left, if we keep going the way we are, and honestly, that’s optimistic. Aside from that, we’ve already gone over the calculated “point of no return”, so even if we immediately start sucking gasses out of the atmosphere and stop all transport and agriculture, we’re going to see oceans rise, sea life die, we’re going to be crammed into smaller land areas, places like Melbourne will be underwater, and the fallout will probably send us into an ice age anyway (long story, but basically the ice melts, cold water sinks, the ocean flow responsible for thermoregulation of the planet is interrupted, cue ice age).

I can already see it now. Forget the hurricanes for a moment:

-Hay isn’t growing at the right time. Last year, no one got good hay where I live, because the weather (which has been in the same pattern during hay season for as long as I’ve been alive) was whacked out.

-None of my animals grew coats correctly, because the weather is just all wrong, and they don’t know what season they’re in.

-We’re getting new temperature records globally; basically, all weather is starting to change already

-Where I live, there are always two weeks where we see echidnas everywhere, and then we don’t see them the rest of the year. that is, until last year, when we barely saw them, spaced throughout several months. 

-Let me reiterate, the animals cannot tell what season it is because climate change is altering weather patterns that have been here for as long as anyone can remember

-We also have more acidic rain due to all the gasses, which is why we’ve got so many statues and whatnot corroding even though they haven’t changed for thousands of years

-We had a tornado start to form in Melbourne. That’s unheard of.

We have the technology to slow down climate change. If we want to survive for more than 50 years, we need to act now. NOW. We need to put in place all the technologies we have, and pour money into more scientific research.

And why haven’t we? Because politicians earn money from oil companies and don’t care about the future of the planet, because they’re not going to be here in 50 years anyway.

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https://www.skepticalscience.com/ is a great website that debunks common myths about climate change! check it out! it has a wealth of information that’s super easy to understand and even comes in different levels in terms of learning. 

i just recently sat in a climate change presentation and the physicist who gave the presentation talked about how if in the next 30 years we (not just Americans, but humans all over the world) do not cut down on carbon emissions (and this honestly boils down to policy changes that MUST be made amongst industrialists in “developed countries” but that’s a whole other conversation) climate change will ultimately become irreversible. 

30 years y’all. that’s within all of our life times. and these effects are going to be pretty much the end of human civilization as we know it. 

[msaprildaniels]

It’s time for people who will not live to see the consequences of their actions to give way to those of us who will. It’s time for those of us born in the shadow of climate change to stand up and start demanding our stake in the future be recognized as larger and more important than the greedy old men who don’t expect to be around that long.

[scottishwobbly]

the whole “30 years” thing is hella out of date, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has given us 12, and that was last year.

Recycling etc. and cutting down your carbon print is great, but it’s not going to help. Just 100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global CO2 emissions.

Similarly, looking to your elected representatives to grant change from above will be too little, too late.

Get involved in grassroots community organising, before it’s too late to build the sort of world we could be proud of, nobody else is going to do it for you. And by you I literally mean anybody reading this. Here are some helpful groups:

Extinction Rebellion

Earth Strike

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Lawns

Demand Utopia

[averruncusho]

Even 12 years is optimistic already. This is our defining challenge as a generation and as a race, foisted upon us by greedy politicians and billionaires. If you don’t want to die of food shortage, you better get moving, because I cannot emphasise enough the importance of dedicating everything to this singular goal. This isn’t the time for wishy-washy deliberation; that passed a 100 years ago. Action needs to be immediate. Action needs to be now.

[pangur-and-grim]

There are two climate change scenarios I was taught– this first is if we collectively get our shit together, the second is if we don’t.

Scenario 1: moderate

CO2 emissions peak in 2050, and fade out altogether by 2200 AD

Ocean gradually absorb excess, becomes carbonic acid in solution

Thermal maximum in 2200-2300 AD, 2-4 C higher than today

In 12,000 AD, temps still 1.1 C higher than today

Scenario 2: super-greenhouse

CO2 emissions peak in 2100 – 2150

Ocean gradually absorb excess, becomes carbonic acid in solution

Thermal maximum in 2500-3500 AD, 5-9 C higher than today

Full recovery takes 400-500k years

tl;dr we’re past the point of no return, and how we act now will determine the magnitude. Will the world start recovering in 12,000 years, OR will the world be dramatically altered for the next 400-500,000 years?

EDIT: I’m seeing people reblogging this with “I’m so depressed, what’s even the point, etc”………like okay, super not useful. How about instead we get very, VERY angry at what’s being done to our future? I’m talking TEETH-GRINDING furious? That would be more translatable into action.

[dunmertitty]

the people reblogging this post with “this makes me sad, why post this?” are missing the whole goddamn point. you SHOULD be sad about this. you should be MAD about this.

you should take this knowledge you know and do some change with it. vote for candidates that will have policies to hold companies responsible for their actions.

there are already people being affected by this, so to say “this post is sad :( this is a mean post to put on my dash” is a dumbass and privileged position to have.

there are people in developing nations who are having their farms flooded and losing a huge percent of their crops because of climate change. people are losing their food and their livelihoods because companies care more about money than their fellow humans.

the people who are affected first by climate change are the people who can do NOTHING about it. we need to advocate WITH them to help them and ALL OF US survive. reducing your own carbon footprint will help, but only a SMALL SMALL SMALL fraction.

what we need to do is VOTE for people who will do something to change this, ADVOCATE for us and everyone who can’t, EDUCATE people on climate change by showing them organizations that they trust for other things (such as medicines, vaccines, etc.) and showing them their studies on climate change, PROTEST! participate or consider DONATING to the March for Science and other similar marches/programs that seek to spread scientific information and awareness, and stop ignoring issues because “this makes me sad :(” yeah, so will the earth dying

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