Now Joe Scarborough condemns universities for "allowing hate on their campus." Zeke Emanuel blames universities for what students believe. They both advocate orthodoxy as test. That is not enlightened education. Eddie Glaude pleads teaching context; that is.
@jeffjarvis The myth of growth is 20th century thinking, before the #climatecollapse was widely accepted in the public opinion... But I totally agree that colleges and universities are totally underrated. It's one aspect of modern, social media-driven societies that scientific proof is not accepted anymore as it used to be.
Oct 6 EWE: #ClimateJustice — In northern Kenya, women-led climate justice is taking shape. “Most people did not know that there was a link between climate change and sexual reproductive health, and this project has enabled us to educate the community on this link. With the help of Ipas, we have been able to start real change on environmental sustainability. We are looking for more ways to establish more innovative programs to address climate change.” https://www.ipas.org/news/in-northern-kenya-women-led-climate-justice-is-taking-shape/. #ClimateCollapse
In conversation w a friend, she was surprised when I said we won't have electricity after social collapse. She asked "why? What happens to electricity?"
I had to then explain that infrastructure needs people to maintain and if things fall apart, nobody will keep the generators going or the wires in check. She seemed surprised by this.
Is this why people don't seem worried about what's coming? They have no idea???
I was trying to hide my shock that I had to explain this to someone who isn't a child. I think I take too much for granted and assume too much of people's ability to be logical.
Now her obsession with social issues at the expense of #ClimateCrisis makes sense. I was always wondering how someone on the left would not care about collapse. I have tried to explain before that as much as I share her concerns about the many dire issues that do need dealing with, none of it matters if climate change causes collapse. Then we won't have social housing, or equity, or any of the other things she cares about. (she was even part of a group that protested demanding "affordable gas")
Her look of shock finally helped me realize that she has absolutely no idea what #ClimateCollapse means. No idea. I've been arguing with her all these years and she's had no idea.
I don't even know what to say.
There's no way she's the only one. Lots of well intentioned people say "yes climate is important but....".
I am here to tell you that none of those other issues will even exist in the face of climate and social collapse.
I don't know if the average person can even imagine the number of deaths that we are facing when the society we built loses electricity.
It’s really quite simple to understand: conservatives hate renewables because they can’t be manipulated like oil and gas to generate obscene profits while impoverishing non rich people.
Sunak knows he’s lying to the country when he says delaying the switch away from child killing, planet wrecking filthy fossil fuels will save consumers money.
It won’t. The Saudi and Russian donors to the Tory Party get to gouge us for another 5 years.
"As the #ClimateCrisis worsens, and as the international efforts to mitigate its effects continue to fall short, activists like #CameronFord have become more daring. Over the past year and a half, the 32-year-old British carpenter has blocked highways by gluing himself to roads and chained himself to an oil tanker.
"Like most #environmental campaigners, Ford never wanted to do anything that could land him in jail. 'I was hoping to emigrate to Canada one day,' he says from his home in Cambridge. But Ford changed his mind about the need for bolder activism after attending a talk hosted by the climate group #InsulateBritain last summer. 'It made sense to make that stand earlier, whilst there was still a chance that we could actually mitigate the worst of it, rather than once it’s too late,' he says.
"Ford is hardly alone in that view. Other British protesters like him have gone so far as to tunnel under major infrastructure projects, throw soup at famous works of art, and scale a 190-food bridge—all in a desperate bid to draw the public’s attention to the looming climate catastrophe.
"But their democratic right to protest is now at risk as the British government declares war on tactics that it regards as disruptive and, ideally, illegal. Draft legislation that the House of Commons approved in October [2022] would pose unprecedented restrictions on the right to #protest in #England and #Wales.
"'When [#ClimateCollapse] is what we face, I believe the only thing that would curtail us is the death penalty,' says Ford, 'because the alternative to us not standing up is death.'"
“Liz Truss, Boris Johnson and Theresa May are among the Conservative MPs who have accepted more than £275,000 in donations-in-kind from airport operators, while Conservative Party HQ has also taken more than £13,500 in donations from airport operators.
It comes as the government signals its backing for airport expansions, in contrast with advice from its own climate advisers”
So... next election i will (again) only vote for a party who has #climatechange front and centre stage bc any party that doesn't take #climatecollapse seriously is an absolute joke
I have the sneaking suspicion we'll soon be saying this about all manner of entertainment travel...
"I spent Burning Man 2022 in a gas-guzzling, air-conditioned RV. It was my sixth year at the Burn, and I was having a crisis of conscience over my participation, which was exacerbated by sitting in a 12-hour traffic jam to get out that was so big you could see it from space.
Frankly, being a Burner no longer felt like a good thing."
one of the first #climate#collapse books I ever read, maybe ten years ago, proposed #Yellowknife as North America’s safest haven and outlined a multi-generational plan to relocate there
@becha
Yes. My husband experienced something like a economic collapse in his motherland #Albania during the civil unrest in the nineties (one of the reasons he was fleeing from the country at the age of 20). And even if it wasn't nearly as half as bad as the Yugoslavian war, it maybe shows how a society can fall apart quickly (and yes, of course it would be even worse with #Climatecollapse...). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Albanian_civil_unrest