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We’ve had 26 Conference of the Parties meetings, for heaven’s sake. More scientific reports, another set of charts.

“I mean, seriously, what difference is that going to make?”

Climate Scientists Strike!

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These Climate Scientists Are Fed Up and Ready to Go on Strike

Evidence on global warming is piling up. Nations aren’t acting. Some researchers are asking what difference more reports will make.

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[jackoshadows]

Energy demand reduction options for meeting national zero-emission targets in the United Kingdom

Millionaire spending incompatible with 1.5 °C ambitions

The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty initiative

[hope-for-the-planet]

I’m terrified of climate change but I don’t know what to do...

Here are two simple things you can do right now to capitalize on the momentum generated by the IPCC report:

1. Call your representatives and tell them you want them to take aggressive action on climate change.

Better yet, show up in person at a public forum where you can voice your opinion. Other forms of communication are definitely still good (I totally understand that cold calls are anxiety-inducing for many of us), but letters and especially emails are not nearly as impactful as phone calls.

Right now is an especially good time to do this. The IPCC report has freaked a lot of people out, which means more people contacting their representatives, and there is power in numbers. Get your friends and family in on the action too.

2. Tell other people in your life that you are afraid of climate change. No really.

One of the major obstacles towards climate action is that many people feel uncomfortable bringing up upsetting topics. This creates a situation where everyone thinks they are totally alone and no one else cares.

Humans are social creatures. We are more likely to ignore dangerous issues (literally there have been studies where people will ignore a room filling with smoke if everyone else in the room ignores it) if it seems like those around us aren’t worried.

Don’t talk about how hopeless it is and that we are all going to die. Be honest about your rational fear for the future and emphasize concrete ways that people can help be part of the solution (voting, calling their representatives, divesting, working on making your community more sustainable, etc).

Taking action is one of the best ways to counter environmental despair and climate anxiety. Don’t let anyone tell you that you are powerless or that you might as well give up; think about who benefits from prematurely giving up this fight.

I understand that not everyone is in a place to take these actions and that’s ok. Please take care of your mental health in this scary time and avoid doomscrolling; focus on things you can actually impact and don’t dwell on issues outside of your control. Take care of yourself; we need you!

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New IPCC Report just dropped. We’re fucked.

See the red line? That’s where we are now.

See the blue line? That’s the absolute bare minimum of where we should be.

If you haven’t heard of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, it’s a report that is produced once every every seven years by scientists from around the world who work on a series of reports culminating in one final “synthesis report.” The report released this week was the sixth such report produced since 1990.

The report updates and compiles findings from all the reports in the IPCC’s latest assessment cycle, which covered the latest climate science, the threats we’re already facing today from climate change, and what we can do to limit further temperature rises and the dangers that poses for the whole planet.

The latest report is very clear about the urgency of the climate crisis.

This is what we mean when we say the planet will become unlivable.

Crops will fail, entire cities will wash away, global supply chains will collapse and billions will die. The death toll from extreme weather events, starvation, illness and other impacts of climate change will be unlike anything we’ve seen in centuries, possibly ever. Some scientists are predicting that the human species will be extinct by the end of the century if we continue on our current track.

Here’s an idea of what you might be facing in your lifetime.

Amidst all of this, Biden just signed off on one of the largest oil projects to ever be established on U.S soil. The Willow Project will produce an estimated 260 million metric tons of heat-trapping gases over 30 years. We don’t have 30 years.

The Willow Project Has Been Approved. Now What?

The system that greenlights oil-drilling on public lands is broken. Here's how to fix it and avoid more carbon bombs.

We have to cut global emissions in half by 2030 in order to avoid 2C of global warming.

You can read the IPCC synthesis report here.

Keep in mind when you read the synthesis report that non scientists had input on what was included and omitted from the report and that input resulted in things such as the Saudi Arabian delegate having any mention of fossil fuels being identified as the root cause of climate change removed from the report.

How Meat and Fossil Fuel Producers Watered Down the Latest IPCC Report

Scientist authors recommended more plant-based diets and phasing out all fossil fuels. But those recommendations didn't make it into the fin

Read the full report here:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

There is hope. All is not lost.

Policy makers just need to get off their asses and out of the pockets of the fossil fuel industry.

There are so many stories like this. Hold your politicians accountable. Do not accept inaction.

The untapped potential of education in the battle against climate change

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known a

Educate yourself and the people in your life, vote green, advocate for climate policies and take direct action toward climate goals and do not let yourself fall for doomerism.

It is not too late, we can still avoid the worst of what’s to come and save billions of lives if we start demanding action and stop accepting inaction from our leaders.

[aemelia]

Constantly and increasingly fucking disappointed with the failure of world leaders to listen to experts and plan ahead 😌

[alicemccombs]

Immediate action is needed to ensure ‘a livable future for all,’ UN report says

World needs a “quantum leap” in climate ambition to stave off devastating consequences, according to the latest IPCC report.

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Brian McFadden.

[ecocriticism-daily]

"Glantz and Jamieson (2000) and Tobin (1999) discuss that if resilience involves a return to pre-disaster conditions, then it is simply a return to the conditions, including vulnerability, which led to a disaster in the first place. Vulnerability is the chronic, ‘normal’ condition related to poor development practices (Hewitt 1983; Lewis 1999). If an aim is return to that ‘normal’ of the vulnerability process, then the next disaster is created—and would look similar to the disaster which just happened. ‘Return to normal’ or ‘back to normal’ should perhaps not be part of addressing vulnerability and resilience" (S137).

I. Kelman, J. C. Gaillard, James Lewis, Jessica Mercer: "Learning from the history of disaster vulnerability and resilience research and practice for climate change" (2016)