#climate crisis

[kittyit]

How many native plants will you plant this year?

At least 1!

I am planning to plant at least 1 next year!

I’m not ready yet… but I’m starting to feel something inside

Remaining time: 6 days 23 hours

Search “your area + native nursery”

One plant can be $1-$5!

Dig an appropriate sized hole for the plant

Fill the hole with water

Let the water drain

Add a scoop of compost if you have it (a big bag of really nice organic compost can be $5-10)

Gently wiggle the plant from its pot and put it in the hole

Put back dirt

Water a little more

Water every other day for a week

Switch to watering three times a week for a few months or up to a year (feel it out)

Watch the plant hopefully go crazy in its native environment where it evolved to be!

homegrown national park

[laurainthelibrary]

Hearing about so many fires in the UK today, many not that far away.

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[femsolid]

You should really visit France in the summer. We have everything.

Burning beaches, burning mountains, burning forests, firefighters going on a strike and an amazing death toll. Meanwhile our president is on a jet ski.

Lovely.

Maybe when they start losing tourism money they'll care about ecology. Maybe.

[hydeingpurples]

I'm gonna start writing letters about my fear and anxiety fueled concerns about climate change Shawshank Redemption style to the government/Downing Street/my MPs.

[anthr--apology]

Not addressing climate change costs the economy more. When will we finally get this?

Recent analysis found that global GDP per capita would be more than 25 per cent higher today had no warming occurred

“The costs of climate change are enormous, and are readily visible in this summer of extreme heat, wildfires, cyclones, tornadoes and floods. Within the past three weeks, well over two million people have been evacuated due to climate-related emergencies – 400,000 in North America and Europe because of wildfires and 1.9 million in China due to typhoons.


Nevertheless, action to mitigate climate change is often framed as being in opposition to our economic interests. Prime Minister Mark Carney stated recently that the climate action plan of the previous Liberal government would have been too expensive for Canadians; that we can’t afford to restrain the growth of oil and gas; and that his government’s actions will raise Canadian emissions. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has described net-zero emissions as a radical idea that implies net-zero growth, jobs and paycheques. The reality is quite the contrary. The evidence is now irrefutable that taking swift climate action will be far cheaper than delaying it.”

[harritoons]

How it feels knowing another heatwave is happening right now and however much you hope and pray there’ll probably be another one and another one and maybe it’ll never rain again actually and it’ll be Christmas and still 35 degrees Celsius and maybe you’ll just be in a never ending flare up for the rest of your life and maybe all the animals will die and the whole world will be on fire

[solidarity-post]

Only 20 Climate Officials in a Country on Fire

The British state has assigned just 20 officials to climate adaptation inside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. That’s

The British state has assigned just 20 officials to climate adaptation inside the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. That’s 20 out of 6,613 staff — only 0.3 percent of the department responsible for protecting the environment and maintaining food security.

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The climate change adaptation committee has warned that the government is far behind in preparing for the new climate created by global heating. Summer heatwaves are becoming more severe, while heavier winter rainfall makes flooding more likely. Britain faces the combined threat of drought and flood.