"One study found that 40% of UK food experts think that civil unrest from food supply issues is possible within the next decade."
#food #ClimateCollapse
https://theconversation.com/by-changing-our-diets-now-we-can-avoid-the-food-chaos-that-climate-change-is-bringing-256828
For the fifth day in a row, we're starting the day with the official air quality measurement (AQHI) for my area of Toronto saying "5 or Moderate Risk"
According to Environment and Climate Change Canada, moderate risk means:
"No need to modify your usual outdoor activities unless you experience symptoms such as coughing and throat irritation."
But according to my personal air quality device, particulate matter levels are dangerously high.
"Air is Polluted. Air quality is poor, and you may experience symptoms such as coughing and throat irritation. The pollution may cause breathing discomfort on prolonged exposure, and discomfort to people with heart disease or asthma. Try not to stay in the environment for a long period of time."
"Try not to stay in the environment for a long period of time.." Vs. "No need to modify your usual outdoor activities..."
I guess what they *really* mean is: "no need to disrupt your contribution to capitalism" while we slowly choke the life out of you.
Climate Change is real and is wrecking the planet NOW.
#ClimateCollapse
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Extreme heat and extreme rainfall are now becoming "a new normal" in South Korea.
"At Muan International Airport in South Jeolla, an automatic weather station recorded 142.1 millimeters (5.6 inches) of rain in a single hour — equivalent to 11 percent of the region’s average annual rainfall — through the night."
One thing about the air constantly being filled with wildfire smoke is that a hazy sunset is kind of pretty. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #ThisSucks #ClimateCollapse
The air quality is awful today. Warnings from Environment Canada issued since yesterday.
It's visibly bad out there.
I see from my window an elderly neighbor with a PSW out for a walk. This man has had some serious health issues in the past two years.
A jogger passes them.
It's like living in The Twilight Zone.
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Two have died and 19000 people have been evacuated in Baoding near Beijing where 447mm of rain fell in 24 hours.
I just learned that @gerrymcgovern has a website with lots of great essays about the dangers of the “green revolution”. Check it out:
https://gerrymcgovern.com/new-thinking/
When he asked Tom Murphy about the fossil fuels versus ‘renewable’ energy debate, his response was simple: “In a sense, to me, the question is similar to: which is worse—death by decapitation or bullet through the head? What we do with the energy in either form is leading to a sixth mass extinction.”
Learn this lesson!
A story about fascist aligned businesses and government cuts, coming soon to you too.
My wife is a scientist with a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Physics. She works in the insurance industry in Florida (U.S.A.) and is the director of risk management at a major insurer in Florida (a small insurer for the U.S.A., but major in Florida). She is a Black woman working in the white bro-sphere, and she has survived for a long time despite a constant current against her.
*edited to add hashtags - feel free to boost
#ClimateChange
#capitalism
#GovernmentCuts
#CorporateWelfare
#misogyny
#racism
#intersectionality
#WhiteSupremacy
#ClimateCollapse
Heavy rain has caused floods and landslides in South Korea leading to the death of at least 18 people.
Catastrophic floods have occurred in Western Himachal Pradesh, with 14 known to have died at 28 people still missing. Many houses, businesses and roads have also been damaged or destroyed.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cloudbursts-flash-floods-in-himachal-rescue-operations-on-to-find-missing-iaf-airlifts-relief-material-10112342/
This. They knew very well what #climatecollapse will bring, when there will be no immediate actions of prevention. And they are willing to sacrifice their own citizens - even the children of their own (radical christian) kind. Their sick mindset goes with "it's the will of god" (the survival of the richest and the plebs dying in masses).
Similar here in Germany. But our god is only capitalism. And it's accepting no other god beside it. And I don't know what's worse...
..—it is #ecocidal. #BAE profits from destruction that fuels #ClimateCollapse, yet the #OU claims to value sustainability.
why is the ou engaging in this criminal behaviour for years now, whilst teaching me about so called crime?
the university has a #moral imperative to defend freedom and justice across the world, including the human rights of its academic colleagues in the #Palestinian territories..
The tragic death of 32 people in flash floods in Texas was due to rainfall probably magnified by the effects of the climate crisis.
The disaster was made all the more likely by the gutting of weather service and other government agencies built up over decades to keep the population safe.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
Two people have died with thousands warned to stay indoors as fires fuelled by extreme temperatures hit Catalonia.
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment
Amidst everything else, it’s hard to process all the recent research that #ClimateCollapse is happening *faster* than previously expected. But it very much looks like it.
Re: "Now will people start taking Climate Change seriously?"
No. Probably not until it's on their own doorsteps.
Then they'll blame us.
"You cannot wake a person who is pretending to be asleep."
- Navajo Proverb
So many high temperature records set or broken - and still just the beginning of summer… 
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCollapse
We've fucked it up pretty badly and things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
But we can still affect *how* bad it gets. Every 0.1C of heating avoided saves lives and saves species from extinction.
The longer we avoid fighting back, the harder it will be...
