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Perhaps climate change is a more appropriate description for our lived experience, I'm open to a well reasoned argument. We don't have to go far to see practical examples of the effect of greenhouse gases, with Venus at 500C average surface temperature due to CO2 atmosphere or consider xkcd's temperature timeline with the insanely vertiginous ascent during the last two hundo years. My proposals:
Forgot what we were talking about. Department of war. Listening to Sarah Paine on YT, clearly there have been and still are many Americans trying to do the right thing but that isn't what grabs the headlines. The political landscape in general is getting ugly. Far right populists are emerging in Europe and these incels have been emboldened by the facist turn in America. Convenient for the billionaire class and their stooges.
Sorry I’m late to reply but I agree 100%. It would be reductive to say that no Americans are making or have made an effort to do the right thing - I know plenty personally who act as excellent countervailing evidence, and that’s in fucking Utah - and my primary issue with the American political climate isn’t even the rise of the far right, as you’re spot on that far right populism is on the rise globally; people are suffering under late capitalism and they want a change, any change, and we aren’t unique there. My main gripe is more at the lack of will in the American public (outside of the far right) to actually do anything about it. The 2024 election could not have been more clearly a Rubicon-type moment going into it; Republicans had already given us their entire playbook with Project 2025 and they did not mask the language there. Still, somehow, even a Republican-endorsed book that is essentially “US Authoritarian takeover for Dummies” wasn’t enough to galvanize the American people into actually showing up, so now we find ourselves here. We’ve taken “it’s the economy, stupid” and turned it into “stupidly, it’s the economy” and if we won’t even change our voting priorities for something like the continued existence of our democratic structures, that tells me that we need a fundamental cultural shift about what your civic duties are as a citizen in a democracy. Shame did the trick for Germany (sort of, that’s also kind of reductive but it serves a point), so maybe if we’re lucky we can do the same and find some semblance of a silver lining there.
Also, Gucci Sweats Planet is a banger. Five stars. If we want a sci-fi edge we could always go with “High Octane Terraforming”. Sounds cool, covers the unprecedentedly rapid change in temperature, contains a reference to gasoline, is future proofed for our inbound nuclear winter(s), and has an apt acronym.