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A Planetary Crisis Awaits the Next President
(www.nytimes.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.
Next election is pretty much a choice between outright war, cullings, purges, genocides and ... not that. Literally the only way DJT could ever come close to delivering on half his promises, or survive the aftermath, is by eliminating enough friend and foe alike that the remainder are either die-hards or distracted by pillaging the dead and basking in their own "good fortune".
Do I trust Biden~~Blinken~~ to do any better? More like I trust him to at least pretend to give me enough plausible deniabity that I can maybe sleep at night, but mass starvations and refugees getting turned away from those safe/sustainable places that should welcome them are all but unavoidable, and already on-going, if he doesn't pull his head out of his ass(and Gaza is arguably experiencing everything I listed up-front). I would prefer a quick death vs starvation and disease, but I'm not about making that choice for others, nor allowing it to be made for me.
Edit: I keep forgetting that Blinken is actually the Secretary of State, not just a prejorative we use for Biden's refusal to see the obvious regarding genocide, student loans, and, until recently, climate change.