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The Pentagon Has Decided Climate Change Security Risks Are ‘Woke’
(www.splinter.com)
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.
bingo. to those accustomed to a lifetime of privilege, equality feels like oppression.
I wonder if it feels like violence to them, to risk losing access to their private jet.
What an unimaginable point of view. I can only try to understand it in terms of my own privilege, like if someone said I couldn't use the internet or loan books anymore...
Is it possible to fix these people? Like, can they be shown that life is actually better if they give up a little?