#climate change impacts

[bourbontrend]

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[lifewithchronicpain]

Climate change has made many natural disasters worse than they were before, especially hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, and flooding. So I am curious:

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In the Tags: you answer + general area you live in. No need to be too specific.

[ecoamerica]

Watch the 2024 American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C-bb9PoRLc

@ecoamerica was excited to announce the ACLA24 High School Student winner, Adah Crandall! Early high school graduate Adah is a climate justice organizer who focuses on the intersection of climate and transportation. Watch the student finalists, Aishah-Nyeta Brown, Jerome Foster II, and more in the ACLA24 for High School Students Broadcast Recording!

[general-knowledge-quiz]

(via Climate Change and its Impact on the Global Economy)

[balkanradfem]

I've been reading 'The Climate Book' from Greta Thunberg, and I have to talk about it. I've never seen a book written so brilliantly and desperately, pleading for awareness, for action, for survival. I thought I was aware of the climate change, but there was a vast amount of information I did not know. I'll start from the ones I did.

I knew that the climate has already changed, and will continue to change until a lot of animal species will go extinct, and a big amount of human beings will suffer, end up impoverish, misplaced, in starvation, or dead. I knew the culprits were the companies that refused to stop taking down forests, burning fossil fuels, promoting lifestyles of consumerism, over-consumption, generated the amount of waste that the planet could not safely consume or store. I also knew that one of the biggest pollutants were big oil, animal and plant agriculture, fast fashion industry, travel industry, and the capitalistic system that enabled 1% of humanity to own and over-consume 90% of the resources available to us. Knowing this made me feel powerless, because even as I boycott all of it, I can't do much else, and I'm not enough to stop what is going on. I am merely a drop in the ocean - which is what Greta points out as well. But, Greta doesn't think we're powerless.

This book is incredible in the sense that it goes over and beyond to think practically. It doesn't despair, it doesn't panic, it doesn't think any other way but how to practically and effectively bring change, what are the options and possibilities, what is true and what is propaganda, how to avoid millions of deaths and extinctions that are sure to come, if we do nothing. Greta has analyzed all action that is 'being done', and found out most of it was fraud, cheating, lying. All of the governments and companies who were bragging about reduced emissions, or offsetting emissions, have simply found ways to outsource them and to emit them in another, poorer country. The amount of emissions has actually increased.

She has also interviewed the world leaders, and people responsible and suffering from climate change - and these are the results: Nobody feels responsible, nobody feels as if it's their turn to change, to reduce, to do anything to help it. Even interviewing people whose livelihood was taken away from them due to climate change, who have lost their living environments already, their trees and animals and fields and fertility and soil, when asked if they would be willing to work ecologically from now on, with reduced or low emissions, their answer was 'Why should we? It's not fair, they took from us and enjoyed, while we suffered. We won't stop until we have what they have. We deserve it.'

With this information, Greta has found a truth of how humans influence each other - we imitate. If we see someone else doing something, or having something we find desirable, we also want it. We look at ourselves in relation to other people that surround us, we take responsibility according to what others around do, and we hold ourselves accountable only as much as others do. And this is why we have a power that goes beyond individual action, beyond simply lowering our own emissions and boycotting companies that are responsible for pollution - we are able to influence others. We're able to influence the media, which forms public opinions, and using the media, force into action those who benefit from polluting the planet.

What I didn't know, and this book taught me, was that from the times humans started to hunt, they didn't only have a great effect on the environment, they were the absolute leading agent on it. Soon after hunting the megafauna into extinction, the environment started to change not just because we affected it, but because we directed it to. We caused the extinction of many species throughout the past, by hunting, taking wild spaces for our own use, polluting water sources, changing the climate, spreading predatory species,  like cats and rats, and we didn't stop there. We changed the landscapes of forests and fields, into human-used agricultural land that was effectively deadened for the purpose of wildlife. We domesticated, and then farmed animals, to such extreme degree, that right now what is left of the wildlife, is mere 12-15% of all animals out there. More than 80% of current animals by weight living on earth, are put there by animal agriculture, meant for human consumption. That is absolutely insane. We did the same with the wildlife environment as well – there is now only 3% of the forests on earth, that are still considered intact. We changed the landscape, not only slightly, but by erasing most of it, making it unusable to animals, insects or wild plants, appropriated only for agriculture, grazing, and human-only environments. And, we dug up and released so much carbon into the air, it is coming close to the amount that we had on the earth, at the time of dinosaur extinction, which wiped out a third of the planet's species. And we keep doing it, even knowing what will happen, knowing that every single time this happened in the past, it created mass extinction.

I wasn't aware how serious and extreme the changes we made were. Knowing what is going out, makes it very clear why we have a crisis, it would be crazy to expect not to have one. These changes were not reported, nobody was asked to approve of them, there were no regulations or limits, no environmental studies on consequences, and it keeps going. We keep increasing the demand for agriculture and animal products, increasing our consumption even though we are running out of the natural resources used to create the products. And it is not our fault. Most of the food and meat created by destroying this land, will go to waste, for the profit of the corporations. The world will keep living in starvation, despite so much of natural life getting destroyed for food, despite the climate crisis being caused, partly by our food production.

This doesn't mean we can't sustainably feed ourselves anymore, it just means we can't do it the way we're used to. It just tells us we need to use more resilient and less land and water consuming food. Plant based diets demand less soil and emit less carbon, gardening reduces the amount of agricultural space needed to feed us, supporting and protecting wildlife wherever it's still thriving, will save both soil, animal species, and biodiversity that is very quickly fading from the planet.

I've also learned that even as we're close to the tipping point, but haven't reached it yet. Whatever we do right now that stops us from reaching it, will mean the difference between life and death to the future generations of people, animals, and plants. If we manage to make changes now, to stop the ice from melting past the tipping point, we can save millions of lives, that would end in certain death otherwise. If we can create policies that are not volountary but binding, we have a chance to save livable land, animal and plant species, biodiversity, and human quality of life. It's not too late to act, in fact, this is the vital time to act, and we're the only ones who can do it.

And the way you can act is not just by reducing waste, reducing the amount of energy you consume, reducing animal-products in your food and refusing to waste and throw away usable goods, but by being public about it. By making it clear it's a positive improvement on your life, on your quality of life, that it's both moral and enjoyable, both inspiring and encouraging others to do the same. Some of us have bigger impact on others than we might know, and if we start doing it and visibly enjoying it, there are others who will follow.

This book has taught me immense amount of science behind the climate crisis, and gave me incentive to do more than just live and feel helpless, I need to do more. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more, and wanting to act more. I will be from now on, writing more about ecology and preserving the planet, and how to do it. If we're the directors of where this planet is going, we have to be so intentionally, with knowledge, wisdom and awareness of what we are doing. We can do good, and humans have been doing good, any time there's been wisdom, awareness and intention in how we're shaping the environment. And if anyone wants the book in the audio form, send me a message and I will give it to you.

[historyforfuture]

After the American students revealed the truth about the Jews and the terrorist Zionist occupation in occupied Palestine, they went out in demonstrations since the first day in all American universities and in some cities, and the terrorist Zionist lobby began to incite against them, and throw false accusations at them. All of this is happening so that the terrorist Zionist lobby can harm the new generation of young people in America who knew the truth about what is called "terrorist Israel" which was created in the Middle East after stealing the money of the American people, and today again incitement is being carried out against these free young people who have irrevocably decided to continue their movement against the terrorist Zionist occupation, affirming the right of the Palestinian people to resist and defend themselves and their land, and in solidarity with Gaza.

[salvadorbonaparte]

"People argue the anthropocene started in the Industrial Revolution but I am super brave and argue it started in 1492" hey I don't work here but has anyone considered that perhaps humans have first become a major force in changing the planet when we invented agriculture because we like completely changed the way plants and animals look, work and where they are distributed and like totally killed off several species before we even figured out writing. I'm pretty sure that already had a pretty big impact on the ecosystem. Ask the mammoth about it. Or brussel sprouts.

[mdzs-owns-my-ass-i-guess]

I have many thoughts re: the fall of Xianle from the pov of the impact of a natural catastrophe on socio-political balance and how great natural disasters often herald the fall of civilizations via civil war and internal strife

And how there are no viable solutions to a situation like that because the forces at play cannot be reconciled even if the root cause could be ammended (which is usually impossible anyway)

And how the tensions between the people of Xianle and the people of Yong'an follow precisely the theories of human displacement and conflict stemming from resource competition crisis

And how, regardless of whatever Xie Lian might have been able to do, it would not have turned out differently for him and his kingdom, even without Human Face Disease at play

Maybe i should dust off my knowledge and write an essay

[bodycatcher]

How to disappear completely

[the-frog-blog]

Company put me in charge of developing a proposal for a pretty complex project we’re pursuing and said I would be project manager if we get it o.0

[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWiW4Rp8vF0

@ecoamerica was excited to announce the ACLA24 winner, Climate Resolve! Climate Resolve connects communities, organizations, and policymakers to address the global climate problem with local action. Watch the top ten finalists, Katharine Hayhoe, Vanessa Hauc, Bill McKibben, and more in the ACLA24 Broadcast Recording!

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Prince of Wales Attends Events During London Climate Action Week

Prince William with US Philanthropist Michael Bloomberg, panelists Hannah Waddinham, Hannah Jones, and Earthshot Prize Chief Executive, Tokunboh Ishmael, as he speaks at the Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp on 27 June 2024 in London, England.

The inaugural Earthshot Prize Innovation Camp celebrates the impact of Earthshot Prize Finalists and global climate innovators during London Climate Action Week on 27 June 2024 in London, England.

📸: Kin Cheung - WPA Pool / Getty Images

[transboysokka]

hey curious about the temperature where yall live bc I don’t have the concept of like. Mild spring in the past few years? First of all it went between 15c and 30c randomly here all winter but I mean there’s a point maybe late march where it just decides to be 30 every day (as opposed to summer when it’s 35 every day) and so to me it’s just Hot Weather Time but I guess it’s only may so uhhh what’s it been like where yall are at

[historyforfuture]

The occupation forces assault and beat Sheikh Noah Alharoub broke the windows of the houses and cut electricity wires of the Masjid khelet Taha _Dura_al khalil

[yuritual]

i’m trying really hard to get over my habit of only looking at/thinking about negatives it’s just so hard 😭 how can i be an optimist someone teach me