One thing I wished more people understood about climate change is that we have not yet experienced any where near the full consequences of the warming we've already caused.

Here's a 🧵 explaining why...

Physics doesn’t give a fuck if you believe in it or not.

Thanks to decades of lies, corruption, distraction & complacency it’s on course to take away your job, your home, your community, your access to food, water, medicine & a functioning society.

We’re being told by climate scientists that our civilization is doomed, that billions will die as we face unimaginable horrors.

Yet we’ve been brainwashed into consumerist zombies, conditioned to meet this news with a sigh & a shrug, then go about consuming some more.

2% of Gaza’s population have been exterminated, in just 7 months.

The equivalent of killing 1.3 million UK citizens or 6.5 million Americans.

But no, definitely not a Genocide.

Most of the UK's land was originally taken by the King who gave nothing for it.

It was then sold or bequeathed to Lords, and more than 80% is still in the hands of these same people.

Who have never paid anything for the millions or billions of pounds worth that they own.

The horn of Africa is grieving because their
-Farms are no longer yielding
-The Advancement of desert is alarming
-Our major rivers are drying
-Proliferation of pest and pathogens
-Development of tropical diseases.
-Our crop are dieing out.
Climate change is a reality.

U.S. Media & the professional class love to “turn the page.”

Ever since they did it with a million dead in Iraq they’ve gotten more and more rotten.

Get ready for lots and lots of page turning after God willing, this US backed horror in Gaza ends.

Cognitive dissonance on this scale can only lead to widespread mental health collapse.

We face up to the truth now, or watch our world crumble later.

I think there will be mass mental breakdown when clearly unprecedented extreme weather makes people realise what is happening. Blame the media’s failure.

Another ‘freedom’ advocate (deliberately?) wrong about the cost of renewables compared to ff and mistaking grotesque over consumption - only possible via the exploitation of millions & the decimation of the systems we need to survive on this planet - as ‘freedom’.

Church elders showing some needed leadership, by generating press.

Imagine devising a plan to smash the case around the Magna Carter to encourage the BBC to tell the truth about the collapse of our civilisation.

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

1.5C is dead.

That’s no longer up for discussion.

Nor is the idea that every western government not implementing urgent systemic changes, worldwide adaptation & paying just climate reparations, will be directly accountable for the deaths of millions, if not billions, of people.

Judy Bruce and Reverend Dr Sue Parfitt were released from police custody last night after breaking the glass casing of the Magna Carta yesterday 🔥

Damian Carrington Christiana Figueres I…despair when I read intelligent influential people such as Christiana Figueres telling us that staying below 1.5 is still possible if we just BELIEVE hard enough - even as we pass 1.5 in real time!
#TheLandOfMakeBelieve

A year of record floods, fires & extreme heat. Blighted crops, rising fascism & genocide carried out in plain sight.

And on this path, we’re never again going to have it so good.

“This really is the beginning of the end of everything.” Prof. Eliot Jacobson

It may be too much to take in all at once, but h/t to leon simons for pointing me to NOAA ERSST V5 SST monthly data beginning 1854, current through March, 2024.

I included the 50 year average for 1900-1949 for good measure.

This really is the beginning of the end of everything.

Insecure, psychotic fuck negotiates deal to ensure the blood of every child alive today is on his tiny orange hands.

What $7,000,000,000,000 a year in fossil fuel subsidies is buying us.

With annotations this time…

How our lives, our planet and our mental health got trashed by something we scarcely understand: a doctrine that changed everything. Neoliberalism.
This week's column.
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