Thank you for writing a short concise essay that articulates my fears about the planet's current state.
Holding warming to 2° C is not an achievement to crow about -- we're at 1.2° C at present and take a good look! One PR problem is while temperature measures warming, the temperature readings by themselves fail to convey the massive increases in atmospheric energy necessary to raise that reading. Many species along with our old and young are not going to survive the coming normal.
In line with problems that our wealthy overlords do not want their revenue streams interdicted by is the jaw dropping non response of public health to the COVID pandemic. Studies show COVID to have lasting effects on one's vascular, neurological, and immune systems respectively. Look for cancer deaths to start occurring earlier than once expected. Accidents, forgetfulness, and a constant feeling of malaise are certain to become a routine feature of many people's lives due to the mismanagement of this pandemic.
Good times are most definitely not in the pipeline for the vast bulk of us. I don't expect what is left to will be adequate compensation for the oligarch's selfish investments in their survival. It's going to be bleak.
In Europe, there have been protests. XR and Just Stop Oil have been trying and largely get negative reviews. Roger Hallum spent months in Wadsworth prison for attempting to stop traffic around London. In the US, we saw what happened to Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, shot 50 times in his tent for peacefully protesting Cop City in Atlanta. That bit of information came out after I wrote this article. The article also points out in many states, misdemeanors are being turned into felonies to intimidate our ability to assemble and protest. We should have been in the streets a long time ago. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-real-eco-terrorists
Also classism and xenophobia, as an African living in Africa we were a joke to many cause “Africa is so hot (insert racist xenophobia here), lol”.
And to be clear it’s bad for us now because we’re drastically cooling more snow days in places that never snowed, more landslides and acute flooding.
And the bad faith actors seem so incomprehensibly lecherous to me, how does it make sense that making money is better than a better climate and environment?! 💔
You’re right on the resistance, we only have ourselves.
⭐⭐⭐⭐. You've written the truth of where we are at very clearly and concisely. I've followed all of this for many years and it's horrifying, but not surprising. Thank you for this article ! ❤❤
.. not to worry ! In Canada eh our ‘Vast Ethical Oil Reserves’ are actually bitumen, 98% anyway. The ‘Ethical Oil’ is just a phony Grift dreamed up by ‘conservative’ purveyors of High Viscosity Grifts. This ain’t exactly Jed & The Beverly Hillbillies ‘Black Gold’ & most of our Methane will undergo Liquefaction on our West Coast for shipping to Asia. Same as our west coast lumber is pelletized to warm British houses, via tiny wood pellets. The list of extracted substances seems endless as does the dreadful ‘dumping of toxic wastewaters into ponds visible from outer space. Very much like Tennessee & Kentucky etc after coal mining & mountaintop removal
Thank you for writing a short concise essay that articulates my fears about the planet's current state.
Holding warming to 2° C is not an achievement to crow about -- we're at 1.2° C at present and take a good look! One PR problem is while temperature measures warming, the temperature readings by themselves fail to convey the massive increases in atmospheric energy necessary to raise that reading. Many species along with our old and young are not going to survive the coming normal.
In line with problems that our wealthy overlords do not want their revenue streams interdicted by is the jaw dropping non response of public health to the COVID pandemic. Studies show COVID to have lasting effects on one's vascular, neurological, and immune systems respectively. Look for cancer deaths to start occurring earlier than once expected. Accidents, forgetfulness, and a constant feeling of malaise are certain to become a routine feature of many people's lives due to the mismanagement of this pandemic.
Good times are most definitely not in the pipeline for the vast bulk of us. I don't expect what is left to will be adequate compensation for the oligarch's selfish investments in their survival. It's going to be bleak.
In Europe, there have been protests. XR and Just Stop Oil have been trying and largely get negative reviews. Roger Hallum spent months in Wadsworth prison for attempting to stop traffic around London. In the US, we saw what happened to Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, shot 50 times in his tent for peacefully protesting Cop City in Atlanta. That bit of information came out after I wrote this article. The article also points out in many states, misdemeanors are being turned into felonies to intimidate our ability to assemble and protest. We should have been in the streets a long time ago. https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-real-eco-terrorists
Also classism and xenophobia, as an African living in Africa we were a joke to many cause “Africa is so hot (insert racist xenophobia here), lol”.
And to be clear it’s bad for us now because we’re drastically cooling more snow days in places that never snowed, more landslides and acute flooding.
And the bad faith actors seem so incomprehensibly lecherous to me, how does it make sense that making money is better than a better climate and environment?! 💔
You’re right on the resistance, we only have ourselves.
⭐⭐⭐⭐. You've written the truth of where we are at very clearly and concisely. I've followed all of this for many years and it's horrifying, but not surprising. Thank you for this article ! ❤❤
Thank you too
.. not to worry ! In Canada eh our ‘Vast Ethical Oil Reserves’ are actually bitumen, 98% anyway. The ‘Ethical Oil’ is just a phony Grift dreamed up by ‘conservative’ purveyors of High Viscosity Grifts. This ain’t exactly Jed & The Beverly Hillbillies ‘Black Gold’ & most of our Methane will undergo Liquefaction on our West Coast for shipping to Asia. Same as our west coast lumber is pelletized to warm British houses, via tiny wood pellets. The list of extracted substances seems endless as does the dreadful ‘dumping of toxic wastewaters into ponds visible from outer space. Very much like Tennessee & Kentucky etc after coal mining & mountaintop removal
It’s terrifying.