As Trump and Musk gleefully smash the institutions of government, they simultaneously rush us towards the Earth systems horizon.
You think this is a dangerous moment? It is. But add escalating climate breakdown to your calculations and multiply by ten.
You think this is a dangerous moment? It is. But add escalating climate breakdown to your calculations and multiply by ten.
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Very soon now, I expect that climate scientists will being releasing papers or studies, that identify specific tipping points that have been breached, and list a cascade of irreversible feedback loops have been triggered.
https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2024/02/dangerous-climate-tipping-points-will-affect-australia-risks-are-real-cannot-be-ignored
Jan 2025 is due to Obama? There were more emissions under Biden than under Trump. Liberals who drive, eat meat and fly on holiday are the main reason why nothing changes, to quote MLK. As is, fascism is better than democracy for nature.
4 degrees by the end of the Century is my guess.
But it won't stop there.
Time to buy a boat.
Mobility...
You don't build a wall on the southern border when there's a million climate refugees on it, you do it 20 years in advance.
You don't take over Greenland and Canada when the southern half of the US is uninhabitable you do it 20 years in advance
Do not let Reform import Musk destruction to the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9YdnzOf4NQ
The US spent US$ 257 billion in today’s money to put 12 men on the moon for a few days.
Musk plans to take one million for a sustainable colony. Tens of thousands of these. ⬇️
Musk’s own AI bot speculates killing net zero is to divert resources to Mars and give an existential need to go.
I think there were many spin-off developments from that as well?
Trumpists are civilization vandals
However in my conversations it's almost impossible to get anyone not already wanting change to talk about the problems, solutions and change.
So in the sense of "have to" you I think used, I think I agree.