#re: climate change

[batmansymbol]

Panicking about climate change? Consider subscribing to a carbon removal or offset service.

What with the heatwaves, the fires, and the billionaires on their private jets, I've been seeing more climate doomism on here than usual. I get it. Everything feels terrible. And it can be so frustrating to see stuff about personal carbon impact when you're already washing your laundry on cold cycles, biking to work, eating less meat, etc., and meanwhile the US Senate is killing energy initiatives.

But if you have climate anxiety, I HIGHLY recommend subscribing to a carbon-negative project. My carbon subscriptions help me sleep at night. They have been my antidote to feeling helpless.

Some quick math. In the US, there are 74.5 million Netflix subscribers. And in 2020, the US had CO2 emission averages of 14.2 tonnes annually per capita.

So, if every US American with a Netflix subscription took out a subscription that offset their emissions, that'd be 1.06 billion tonnes annually: over 3% of total global emissions (34b tonnes). And that's just if a subsection of the US population did this.

Obviously this is an oversimplification. Carbon offsets are admittedly more expensive than Netflix. Also, offsetting usually works by funding projects elsewhere to reduce global emissions, so it's overall less efficient than, I don't know, the US getting its shit together and funding public transit, which would cut emissions at the source.

But the point remains: collectivism does exist, and we CAN do something about the emissions that we're unavoidably responsible for.

Enter these services, all of which do carbon offsets that are effective, additional, verifiable, and permanent.

WREN. I subscribe to Wren. You pick a dollar amount per month, and they funnel it toward carbon offset projects worldwide. They offer a carbon calculator, personal suggestions for how to reduce your footprint, and are generally awesome. An example of their projects: in the last six months, they enabled 12 Indigenous communities in the Amazon to reduce local deforestation by a staggering 84%, preserving 180,000 acres.

CLIMEWORKS. Climeworks is more expensive per kg removed, but I subscribe to this one too and LOVE this project. It's direct capture, meaning their factories suck CO2 out of the air and sequester it in rock. I want this to scale SO, SO badly. Climeworks doesn't just prevent or reduce emissions—it's carbon NEGATIVE, which is massive. And it's fully permanent: once the Climeworks facilities sequester the carbon in rock, it's there forever (unlike, say, tree-planting, which relies on the lifespan and health of the tree). Climeworks, like Wren, is a no-minimum subscription. You could do a dollar a month.

ECOLOGI. Pretty similar to Wren, but with high emphasis on tree-planting! Ecologi is big on reforestation, and other recent projects include access to clean cookstoves and providing renewable fuel to farmers. They do tree-planting gifts that would be an awesome option around holiday time.

NORI. A carbon-removal marketplace that connects its users to farmers, who submit plans for carbon removal and storage! This one has more of a businessy bent to it, but you can outright buy a tonne of CO2 storage in a transactional way.

To finish off with some good news: the US has joined China and Europe in hitting the 5% tipping point for electric car adoption, the costs of renewable energy have cratered, and China is set to hit its emissions peak earlier than anticipated (huge for the world's largest emitter).

Hang in there.

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#climate change #environmentalism #environment #climate crisis #long post #i will be reblogging this multiple times btw #me? not shutting up about climeworks? it's more likely than you think #seriously EVERYBODY I KNOW cares about the climate and is freaking out about climate change and yet #i don't know if ANY of my friends do this stuff which is so accessible and also REALLY screws your head on straight #re: climate change #it is good to feel partially (not totally!!) responsible - it encourages feelings of community and connectivity!!!! #it encourages action!!!! #i do not have a lot of money but every month this stuff feels like the best thing on my credit card statement.

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[ecoamerica]

Watch the American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 now: https://youtu.be/bWiW4Rp8vF0?feature=shared

The American Climate Leadership Awards 2024 broadcast recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by active climate leaders. Watch to find out which finalist received the $50,000 grand prize! Hosted by Vanessa Hauc and featuring Bill McKibben and Katharine Hayhoe!

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[dendrochronologies]

Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence

If you're poor, the only way you're likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car. But if you're tremendously wealthy, you can practice industrial-scale violence without any manual labor on your own part. You can, say, build a sweatshop factory that will collapse in Bangladesh and kill more people than any hands-on mass murderer ever did, or you can calculate risk and benefit about putting poisons or unsafe machines into the world, as manufacturers do every day. If you're the leader of a country, you can declare war and kill by the hundreds of thousands or millions. And the nuclear superpowers – the US and Russia – still hold the option of destroying quite a lot of life on Earth. So do the carbon barons. But when we talk about violence, we almost always talk about violence from below, not above.

one of my favourite, life-changing articles just turned 10 years old!! happy birthday to this piece by rebecca solnit, originally published on april 7th, 2014. [part 2] [part 3]

#rebecca solnit #climate change #re-reading it for Reasons and like. it wasn't perfect but it sure fucking was GOOD. genuinely life-changing back then!!!!! #cc

[inkmaze]

had climate anxiety for so long. finally starting to go to more rallies/protests/etc[related and unrelated] etc. feeling both better to be doing something[anything], but also worse bc how are politicians/etc just ignoring everything around this n it's current [AND FUTURE!!!] impact on the world and actual life itself bc the 'economy' n other related shit. like uh the economy n whatnot won't be worth 2c if no one is able to be alive for it. so.

#txt #not 2 be doom n gloom #both re palestine and climate change n actually a bunch of other stuff too. land back and indigenous rights and. and. and. fucking hell #palestine immediate issue but also climate change being immediate but future as well. u know what i mean #hhhh. #anyway lots of diff rallys happening in my city the next week and im going to what i can 👍 #pls attend what u can as u can. give numbers n voices n crowds to these things.

[yentl-anshel]

it's late, so I'm not going to articulate this right, but I find it so fascinating (and telling) when people separate environmental issues from social issues... as though being concerned for the environment is a wealthy white abled thing to do. as though we don't all live in the environment. as though Indigenous people don't protect 80% of the world's biodiversity. as though poor communities and communities that are predominantly not white and disabled people are not bearing the brunt of environmental issues right now.

like, I'm not saying that there isn't a sector of people out there who are single-issue on the environment. however, nature suffering is, in fact, a social issue, and social issues are not going to be adequately addressed without discussing the environment/climate crisis/environmental racism.

#idk perhaps a smidge of thinking critically might help us out here #re the post that claims that caring about public transit as an environmental issue is worse? somehow?? than caring about it as a social one #that's just a baffling take to me #newsflash #people can care about more than one thing! #and in fact better public transit gets us MULTIPLE benefits! #environmentalism #climate #climate change #public transit

[fairweathermyth]

Wildfires in western Canada has it looking, feeling, and smelling positively apocalyptic here in the northeast USA and I’m just trying to mentally prepare myself for this becoming a norm in years to come since fuckall is being done about climate change by the people in charge 🙃

#i’m envisioning an entire planet covered in ashy air and the sun looking Like That for eternity 😵‍💫 #having just finished another book by lily brooks-dalton about end times on planet earth it’s feeling especially pronounced lol #if you want to reinforce existential dread re: climate change in a fictitious imagining of things to come #read the light pirate #it stressed me out… but in a necessary way? #not necessarily completely hopeless but like.. #whew #ramblings

[ecoamerica]

Watch the 2024 American Climate Leadership Awards for High School Students now: https://youtu.be/5C-bb9PoRLc

The recording is now available on ecoAmerica's YouTube channel for viewers to be inspired by student climate leaders! Join Aishah-Nyeta Brown & Jerome Foster II and be inspired by student climate leaders as we recognize the High School Student finalists. Watch now to find out which student received the $25,000 grand prize and top recognition!

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[binch-i-might-be]

okay are flowers actually blooming in antarctica or is this another weird meme

#i don't want to look it up because i don't think i am in the right mental state to learn flowers are blooming in the coldest place on earth #like if that's what's happening i can just kill myself because the world will merrily roast away and we're all gonna die anyway #why even try to have some kind of successful life if it won't matter in ten twenty thirty years #re-experiencing the incredible and constant dread that followed me when i was eight years old #little ray was paralysed with fear about climate change and she was right tbh #rayrambles

[invertedspoon]

god i hate everything about global warming but the thing that grinds my gears is that during the pandemic, the ENTIRE WORLD banded together and were able to (mostly) get rid of a disease that would have killed billions within 2 years.

but as soon as something isn't a immediate threat, people turn a blind eye. if we're not all going to die in a year, then i guess it doesn't matter.

but people are dying. wildfires are rampaging and wiping out towns and islands. there is going to be a HURRICANE on the WEST COAST. a global heat wave is harder to control than a global disease. in the pandemic, the average community had control over spreading a disease, no matter what politicians and the rich would say about it.

but now, the common people cannot control what the rich are pumping into our oceans and atmosphere. you can cut down on your personal carbon footprint. you can convince others around you to cut down. but nothing will make a dent in our carbon emissions unless everyone in the world does it.

the time to try and stop things is now. soon enough, it'll be far, far too late to go back. there's no way to reverse the damage that'll be done in a few years.

we cannot save our own PLANET and that is terrifying.

#i hate it here #i dont want to die in a decade because of other people's actions that could have been avoided #but oh no; you- random multi-billionaire- couldn't scrape enough money together to fund projects that will save our literal planet #when we're gone your money won't fucking matter anymore #same thing especially goes to rich old billionaires who'll die before everyone else does #*cough* certain current POTUS who's gonna get the willow project in motion if he gets re-elected *cough* #and yes i know covid is still a real thing but we've got it under control to the point where it's not an emergency #“gee i wonder why everything is burning lol i guess that's just summer for you!!” #in short can rich people get their heads out of their asses and do something #climate change #climate crisis #global warming #climate emergency #endangered species #important #end of the world #tired posting #i want to live to be 80 and tell stories to my grand neices and nephews #not burn up

[fiercerthanyou]

“Resilience: Living in a Pandemic since 1492” (2021),

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[idsb]

me: gotta save some money cause I really wanna go back to Aus for a WHV at the end of 2023 some indescribable force is summoning me there and it's just Time

me: I will buy a coffee each and every time I feel the impulse to and also I will spend up to $1k on Taylor tickets in the US even though part of my plan involves seeing her IN Aus and also I will galavant around New Mexico the entire month of February and also I will never stop using door dash or taking Ubers and also I'm going to be unemployed for all of January and also-

#it's called willpower luv and I have none of it! #I am kind of like a republican on climate change re: spending money #it is not in the immediate future aka tomorrow therefore it's not real I cannot see the effects I will not acknowledge it #thank u!

[archiephd]

climate change deniers can be so stupid they'll be like the earth has always had such fluctuating weather patterns! what about the ice age! like okay. fine. the ice age. you mean the ice age that lasted maybe 10 million years and rendered at least 60 different species extinct. that ice age

#i am sadly not very educated on the specifics of climate change re carbon emissions bc my mom's a denier #but this doesn't even require! anything! to put together! #like are you saying you want another one. are you saying you would like another ice age #are you saying that if the ice age happened again because it's normal everything would be fine and good and you love it. hello #j.txt

[xlntwtch2]

#CA lawsuit against several big oil companies re climate change

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[bumblebeeappletree]

Xiye Bastida, the co-founder of the Re-Earth initiative, spoke with the Nature+ Newsroom at COP27 on November 9 about the importance of not allowing corporations to dictate what activists can and cannot talk about.

Bastida said a supporting foundation of the Children and Youth Pavilion told attendees not to allow anyone to brand their organizations. She mentioned that one of COP26’s issues was that it looked like an ad campaign, thanks to the corporate sponsors, and that COP27, which is sponsored by Coca-Cola, is exactly the same.

‘We cannot let ourselves, we, be bought and put a logo on them, because then there are certain narratives and discourses that are perpetuated, and we have to break out of that,’ Bastida said.

This video was created in collaboration with Nature's Newsroom.

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[asshole-rebel-psycho]

It's not global Warming

God is just Re-branding

#god #climate change #global warming #environmental #nature #the bible #armageddon #re branding

[tricerasox]

Getting petroleum political propaganda in the ads before my beloved cowboy was introduced in today’s Re:Dracula episode sure was odd. Didn’t love that!

#re: dracula #anybody else get the weird ad condemning the extremely necessary epa guidelines that are already too weak to fend off climate change #big petrol wasting their ad dollars on little ole me