#yes this is what sustains me

[seyaryminamoto]

It has been a day, and I just couldn't get anything else done while in the moodiest mood I could be.

Sooo... they're the best recipe I know to cure my heart from misery. I'd done this sketchdump a while ago, figured I'd spend my day working on this rather than everything else, and I'd say it helped if just a bit. Dropping it here even if it's not that great because, who knows, maybe someone else needs a dose of domestic Sokkla being happy dorks together in these trying times.

#sokkla #sokka #azula #rei #gladiator #any takes are valid I suppose #but #left-most is probably just them going to bed - their hair would be messier otherwise #top-most is a science discussion between the three cleverest people #though Azula is happy to sit back and watch the other two discuss science #makes her very happy #right-most is just my trolling need for Azula groping Sokka's arm muscles #he is so proud and thriving in the attention #pair of dorks I swear #bottom-most is hairdresser Sokka being his lovely self #while Azula tells him about whatever stuff she has to do that day #or so #yes this is what sustains me #when all else fails I come back to these two and they fuel me all over again #<3 <3 <3

[introspectivememories]

excerpts from my months old wip "think i'll miss you forever (like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky)"

#yes yes the title is unbearably long #but hear me out #also feedback? thoughts? are greatly appreciated #please tell me what you think #is it a break up fic? yes. #do they want to break up? no. #will they break up? yes. #it's mostly just me thinking about how far a civilian x hero relationship can go #bc there is love there. there will always be love. but it's not enough. #can you raise a family like this? can you have a sustainable relationship when one person is always leaving? #bear's a good guy yknow? and he loves tim. honestly truly deeply he loves tim #but i don't think he can stand to lose another person he loves to the violence of the city #and tim is sooo gone over this boy but the city needs him. and yeah he could quit. but will he? can he? #also just the nature if tim dipping all the time is bound to cause some issues in their day to day life #lord knows bear's friends think tim is a shitty bf cause he's always leaving. like there are real issues that come up #anyway #bernard dowd #tim drake #timber #timbern #dc

[lem-argentum]

THISSSS SELF-SACRIFICIAL FOOL. SHAKING YOU

#lem liveblogs #xivposting #*YOU* WERE WORRIED?? MEANWHILE YOU WERE ‘SEVERING YOUR FLOW OF LIFE-SUSTAINING AETHER’ YES???? #ahfmskfjkdhfkghd too tired for proper enthusiasm but this sequence of quests was really. aghdkfjkdn!!!/!!!!!!!! #rudy: i can’t believe he had the power to do that to you…. / th.ancred: ah; well; that may have been moreso my own doing. / rudy: ??? WHAT?? #he still has yet to wipe the blood from his face liek are yuo gonna. do you want me to do it. orHFKDZNFJ

[plutonicbees]

having this very me-specific issue where the narrator in my head is will patton bc I've been relistening to the trc audiobooks and as I'm writing little preston lindsay snippets until I fall asleep, I get will patton's adam parrish voice (particularly when his southern accent really comes out) in my head. matthew lynch doesn't speak often enough for his voice to be as ingrained into my mind but when I listen to his dialogue I now imagine bart allen.

#sustained by silly brain crossovers #also yes writing preston lindsay snippets until i fall asleep is a real ongoing thing for me lol #insomnia sucks but at least i can get in a good character study while im at it #never gonna finish anything though thats not how i work #was going to try to record some audiobook clips so ppl know what im talking abt but i think im actually insane and nobody would agree lmao

[yeleltaan]

I say it checks out. Made with love– Helena-mun <3

//...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! The love is felt, immensely so.

I gotta agree, this seems like it checks out. Do you?

#submission #derjaegermond #in this episode of 'Cat goes the extra mile and makes something super cool and nice that I could gush about for hours' #I ALREADY WENT CRAZY IN YOUR IMs BUT THIS STILL BLOWS MY MIND #the sheer amount of sustained and sweet attention you put into this... #this is so cute WHAT THE HECK #but it's also so genuinely cool to see bits and pieces of so many little things here- a loving compendium #genuinely solid introduction to him tbh #bless the cute GF meme and your chibis #AND LIKE... THE INKY SNAKE SHADOW IS SUCH A COOL EFFECT THO #love it everytime you draw him. So charming #charming reptile gentleman... strange but so very attentive #no matter what he'll be there to lead you. No matter how you change he'll be at your side #might disappear a few times but he'll be back soon #very soon #^ can be a good thing but also good luck if you don't want to see him again! #theater dates heck yes. Come with him. Enjoy a play then recite the lines together when it's done #the whispers and the little odd things too... question is: will you just catch the faint scent of burning #or will you get to see one of his bonfires? #'you're so good to me' really stands out to me as something he's said to a few people- so very tender #makes me think about how many friendships and bonds have started with a small act of charity towards him #who would have thought how things turn out after that #I could go on forever- thank you so much Cat :] #this is pure gold #friend art #art

[essektheylyss]

I AM attempting to read at least four books this weekend and that IS ridiculous but alas, here we are.

#no one look at my other fucking post I am NOT attempting proust okay #these are books of reasonable length. #here's my thing with proust. yeah yeah 'perfect novel' fuck you. that is not a novel. that is a series. #I don't care if it's one entity. so the fuck was lord of the rings and we have deemed that three books at this point. #just because a story is sustained does NOT make it a singular novel. I'll kill. #to be clear this is a joke. as mentioned I know literally nothing about proust and I have already forgotten the novel's title. #as per fucking usual. #honestly I'm gonna read it someday solely so maybe I understand what the fuck people are talking about. #anyway the books for the weekend are: authority (vandermeer). the gift of knowledge/ttnúwit átawish nch'inch'imani (beavert). #acceptance (also vandermeer). waterlog (deakin). #YES I once again saw robert macfarlane's name and blacked out and purchase a book. do not @ me. #(I did want to read waterlog after having read landmarks and then saw the new paperback edition on a stand at the bookstore so shhhh) #megs is reading #in my defense I'm going to be spending a lot of time waiting this weekend considering my spouse is in a race not designed for spectating #(it's a massive seven-part relay. and he's in a part where you can't even get in to spectate so.) #I'm mostly tagging along with my sister and her bf's friends so. books are necessary. #I've always been that dweeb with the book in social settings and I'm not about to stop now.

[danothan]

decided to watch tutorials for cleaning fresh produce after washing my brussel sprouts for an hour straight and thinking “wait… something’s not right about this.”

you’re telling me you can just let them soak in a bowl and come back to it later?? occam’s razor, you tricky son of a bitch.

#danbles #food #yes it was a whole hour BUT in my defense #i was cooking for my mom and i get rly critical when feeding someone else so i had to make sure every single leaf in between was dirt-free #if it was just for myself i would just peel the outer leaves and call it a day #didn’t matter tho bc they ended up just being okay #unlike me my mom doesn’t like her food burnt so i decided to go the steam-then-fry route #there’s a term for this but i am clearly no chef #it was whatever but she was nice abt it at least T__T #next time will be better (ground pork lettuce wraps will surely redeem me) #oh also! i saved the bones from my chicken for stock so i gotta think of what to do with that when i store up more veggie scraps #i’ve been adventurous with cooking before (eggplant gnocchi from scratch you will always be famous to me) #but it wasn’t exactly sustainable which is what i wanna aim for this time around #wish me luck guys i feel like i’m learning for real 👍

[unproduciblesmackdown]

Tayston =‘]

#been meaning to draw smthing like this for a minute #i.e. tayston kiss where maybe simultaneous laughing / [smiling As Good As a laugh] is getting in the way of that kiss but not a problem rly #didn't really want to have to choose between taylor smiling harder / laughing aloud Or Not so i didn't choose between them #winston billions #tayston #corned beef #why Not include affectionate touches but you can believe the hands are also included to emphasize the [heads together Heart Shape] too #yes winston's as undressed as taylor yes i included his glasses b/c i felt like it. might have put them back on after awhile w/o them; might #have only Just removed a tee w/enough room in the collar to not dislodge his glasses as he did so; or i can't stop anyone from imagining #that just out of frame on his shoulder we could see like a spaghetti strap to a tank top. god bless #i also went ''am i gonna be more like subtle/muted or w/e & Not include little sparkles / hearts'' then 5 min later was like lol as though #you Know i'm gonna do it (include the little sparkles and/or hearts) #oh my god lmfao again also with the bi palette. definitely separate pink purple blue in there. all Except the yellow highlights... #like not that that happens accidentally lol like ofc i'm selecting colors to my tastes & who doesn't love blue/pink/purple like what a team #but only after the fact do i recall the bonus lol....Could've ended up say; Not using one of those three colors....but here we are #have been working on this for....nights #me at 5am last night like haha i'm Almost done but better save it for later #and in this final stretch i have definitely been at it since uhh. well it's now two a.m. and i started in on this pre sunset est #not that it was Constant work w/o frequent breaks lol but the lack of sustained focus is itself kind of that constant factor l o l #so it goes. just glad to post it early enough for some other taystonheads to get to see it Now. happy pride

[pepprs]

cosmo wanda i fucking wish students understood that universities have limited reach and that public silence does not automatically mean no action is being taken internally and that the decisions of collectives / institutions do not reflect the decisions of all of the people within them (e.g. all faculty staff and administrators within an institution) etc etc. god DAMN it to hell. you people (not anyone reading this im saying this as if im talking to the student body at my school) look so fucking stupid @ing the social media accounts of distinct departments like that’s actually going to do anything. you think they ARENT doing anyrhing????? that’s probably ALL they’re focusing on rn and they’re spending days carefully gathering information so they can share it. and shit is hitting the fan in MULTIPLE areas rn if you haven’t noticed and also it’s winter fucking break so no one is even supposed to be working anyway. so what is wrong with you. why are you fucking making demands. getting a college to finally post an update about something is not the same as cancelling someone on twitter and the fact that so many of you think it is is indicative of how SICK our society has become. PLEASE calm down.

#purrs #literally about to start screaming. people have been so fucking stupid this year. that is all i am going to say. #and ik this bears a weight being a staff member here now but i was a student 6 months ago and years ago i used to do the same stupid shit an #and then i went to the retreat and learned that universities are communities made of people and that i can change the world by talking to #stakeholders and being strategic and patient and having civic courage and building relationships. and now i spend my life trying to teach #other ppl how to do that. so seeing students WHO I KNOW ARE AWARE THAT THIS ISNT THE WAY doing this makes me want to start SCREAMING. like #it was all for nothing. the HOURS of workshops you went through learning how to actually make change and ‘demand’ change and now you’re #engaging in this edgy bullshit. i want to curl up in a ball and/or jump out the window rn. sorry #delete later #work tag 2 #this is literally the 5th or 6th incident in 2022 and i know it’s more complicated than that and yes there are genuine wrongdoings the #school / depts and individuals within it have committed. but also the knee jerk reaction of students to instantly turn into a mob and start #saying u*** does nothing u*** doesn’t care about it’s students is like are you KIDDING MEEEEEEEEE. ARE YOU KIDDING ME. how about you talk to #x person who i know firsthand is trying to navigate this issue and suppprt students. how about you join x committee that just made progress #in this area. how about you get offline and go touch grass and realize your COMMUNITY isn’t out to get you!!!! #institutions are not inherently bad lol. institutions are communities. communities are POWER. if i could send one message to everyone on the #planet i think it would be that or at least include that bc i would also want to say stuff abt how we are real and human and alive together #etc etc. but that is like. something so many ppl do not see. being part of a university is POWER. being a student is POWER. so use it for #good!!!!! join committees! set up meetings with admin!!!!! join student gov!! this learned helplessness of @ing the school is NOT THE WAY #not when you have tools and relationships at your disposal to actually make a sustainable long term difference. what are you waiting for! th #the whole world is yours!! it’s at your fingertips! do you feel it? do you see it?

[transmechanicus]

Sometimes it’s very important to go to bed at 8pm

#my stuff #i know i’m very tired like i’ve been getting up at 6 for a week and having shit sleep and falling asleep at like 1am #so horrible to start #but finding out from the older grad students how little we’re making has destroyed me #i will be losing money for the next YEAR bc rent and car insurance is gonna take my whole monthly paycheck #no money for food without dipping into savings. i have enough and i’ll survive but FUCK #nothing for gifts for my family. nothing for doctor’s visits. nothing for HRT. nothing for a goddamn little treat once in a while #like yes i can pay for those things from savings but it’s not sustainable!!!! #this CANNOT CONTINUE #i want to CRY i was so excited to try and start HRT soon i can’t do that like this and i still owe my parents like 30k for undergrad and #and i’m tired #i’m tired of having to worry about money. i’m tired of getting paid so little #i’m tired of not being able to spend money on myself without feeling guilty at my balance going down #this really sucks i’m just gonna do a fuck it expense and blow $500 on looking cute for my birthday/halloween #cause what’s 1 more month of scraping by even worth in the grand scheme of things

[echoesofadream]

I feel the same as you about seventeen like.. theres not that much happiness in my life right now well all the happiness is something I work hard to grab like appreciating a cup of tea and the sunlight... and I feel like its ok that for now, svt is what makes me laugh.. its a bit silly but thats kinda their whole point, their job is to be entertainers that give people good energy and happiness and comfort and im really happy to have found them too .. eventually im sure ill be able to laugh w friends (the members of seventeen) and my partner (minghao) but as of now, ill laugh w them thru the screen<33 -misa

❤️❤️lets enjoy what makes us happy right now im sure so much more happiness will come to us

#true theres happiness you have to work hard for and then theres the happiness that just comes to you and the latter is like a gift from the #universe a priviliege and i just want to appeciate what was given to me💗 #sometimes life is just about sustaining yourself to live another day until a better time arrives #even in suffering times life protects itself ..tbh… #anyway yes they r very entertaining<3

[coldflasher]

you know what’s a scam? at the end of last year i just severely stopped giving a fuck at work and i was literally spending so much time doing fuck all, messing around on my phone for most of the day only to then edit like 30k in the space of 2-3 hours after lunch, and somehow i got away with it and my quality scores were fine. this year i was like okay this is not cool, i’m gonna make a determined effort to do this properly. so now i actually focus and don’t procrastinate, and yet i’m now consistently underperforming and i’m about to be put on performance review for the second quarter in a row which is... not great

i personally think our scoring system is stupid and needs an overhaul because in spot checks, they take off the same number of points for everything. so if i were to completely fail to edit a sentence and left it in a completely unreadable state, i would only lose one point, but then i also lose a point if i misplace a hyphen. so like. last year i somehow managed to fully miss this massive sentence that ended up making no sense whatsoever, and that was fine, apparently, because i didn’t lose points in other areas, but now i’m about to be put on performance review because i missed a few commas and accidentally used a mixture of single and double speech marks in a quote

the worst part is the way they do checks is so annoying because they just pull two random papers from the past 3 months and you can GUARANTEE they will pull a shit one. you can be on top form for ages and then have one bad day and somehow they always manage to pick the one paper you made mistakes on. i’m aware that they do this on purpose to put the fear of god into you because the idea is obviously that every paper should have no mistakes but let’s be real, that’s not realistic. human error is a thing. everyone makes mistakes. and somehow they have a sixth sense for finding the papers you made those mistakes on.

the problem is that last time i went on performance review, they monitored me for a bit and then did an extra spot check and the papers they pulled that time were basically perfect. one literally had no errors and the other had like. two. so i got a near-perfect score. which probably made me look great, like i’d worked really hard to fix the issue, which to be fair, i did. and they were really happy with that. except this quarter they pulled two more and i got the exact same bad score i got last time. so now it looks like i only started putting in effort when i was being monitored and then just immediately stopped trying again as soon as i wasn’t under review which ISN’T EVEN TRUE. i’m genuinely trying, here. but i’m very aware of how bad this looks and now i’m gonna have to do another one of those awful meetings where they bring up the fact that i’m Underperforming (*already shaking and crying at the mere prospect. once again i am about to get a bad grade in having a job*) and they literally have a senior manager who just. sits in the meeting in silence. watching. and nodding. while some other guy points out all the mistakes i’ve made. because that isn’t unnerving at all

i hate employment, i want to go live in a little hobbit hole and never have to receive another performance review again

#im genuinely just not cut out for this #because like here's the thing: i clearly am capable of getting those scores #but i have not yet figured out a way to do so that doesn't involve me being so stressed and burned out #that i want to put my head through a wall #like sure i can fix all your commas but also i have to spend an hour doing unpaid overtime every day to make up for the time i spent crying #and im not being funny but IT'S COMMAS. IS IT THAT DEEP #like yes ideally i would catch them all. im aware that it's my job to do so and i'm doing my best #but when you have to edit 40k a day every single day for 5 days a week. that's a LOT of work #im starting to realize why we have such a rapid staff turnover actually #i keep thinking that it's me and im the problem and maybe i just can't hack it... but actually #looking at how many people have quit in the year i've worked there #and the fact that someone recently applauded one of my coworkers for her long service and she's literally worked there for 3 years... #maybe. this isn't a sustainable pace for a normal person to keep up with #every now and then i think about trying to get a new job but i don't handle change well #when i made the transfer to this job from my supermarket job i literally had crying meltdowns every day for the whole training period #...are we sensing a theme here? #but i got away with it cos it was all remote so they didnt know that i was handling it so badly #but the thought of getting a new job and having to learn how to do something else is just. awful. genuinely hideous #i guess im just gonna have to deal with being extremely stressed for the entire rest of this year. no matter what i have to do #make sure my next two spot checks are all perfect and hope that i also don't end up succumbing to the urge to eat my laptop #oh yeah anon if you read this im afraid i do not care if i sound like a wanker #im allowed to be a little bit of a bitch about capitalism actually. as a treat #long post for ts

[ecoamerica]

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[bcneheaded]

"Hush, now. I've got you." (oh how the turn tables, old skellybones ;P)

𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐝 “𝐈’𝐯𝐞 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮” 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 (with @winterfollows !)

Long, bony fingers are plucked with the utmost care from within their blood-soaked gloves-- once a pristine white-- the material catching stubbornly. Coat long since discarded, the sleeves no doubt ruined-- he stands rather despondently by the guest-room's bathroom sink, Haleir at his side. Determined for some reason or another to help in ridding him of the ghastly crimson that spattered most of his arms and upper body. A creature. A mindless abomination roamed the streets, causing chaos among the area and striking fear into its inhabitants. It could not be allowed to live and infect the city. So he killed it. It was.. perhaps a tad more difficult than he'd anticipated, and as such, he may have gotten a little frustrated by it. But in all fairness... in all his time, he had never encountered one of these. He did not know they exploded upon death. He does now. Had he the key components of doing so, surely he'd have retched when the half-digested blood of the creature's victims sprung from it's swollen belly and spattered his attire. Hot and rancid in feel, even upon his tar. And now he was here. Had it been that the other had already been at the shop, wondering where Artemis had been-- only to be shocked at the sight of the poor, reeking sap walking through the door? Perhaps so. But now... He takes Artemis' bare hand in his and sponges clean the stickiness from the bones and tar as gently as one would for a Living. And for a long moment as he stares down at their hands, he finds himself... confused. Why was he so gentle with a creature such as he? Yellow eyes languidly wander up to meet Hal's gaze in the mirror before glancing back down at the mess upon his button-up shirt; red and black alike soaked through the material. Audibly, he tuts; silently admonishing himself for ruining so much of his tailor's fine work. And when Hal looks at him, for the first time in.. perhaps a little too long, he speaks again. "Truly," he tries one more time, not nearly as convincing as he'd been the first couple tries. "you needn't... I can clean myself." A long pause, and he sighs quietly, eyes falling back to Hal's hands, pale as porcelain compared to his own. "You'll... dirty yourself with tar--" he tries, pushing once more, voice barely but a croak. "It's... difficult to wash off."

#( asks ) #winterfollows #<:' ) hehe #yes hi hello please uuuuhhh please consider the fact my dear friend my beloved felspar-- #pls consider the fact that right here right then hes realizing that he has not been so much as touched in so very long by another person-- #not like this! not by someone he actually Likes on a level deeper than superficial or professionally !! he has not known a genuine kind #touch in. forever. if ever since he'd been out of hell tbqh ?? sure there had been humans but his mind was muddled with ulterior motives #and now that hes lucid and tired and self aware and in control and able to APPRECIATE and ENJOY it he finds himself so..... out of place #and out of sorts with it ? he doesn't know what to do with it at all. he doesnt understand why he wouldnt just leave it be and let him #clean his own self fkdkksfd cannot comprehend why he might want to offer some ?? form of comfort or idk ?? closeness? or w/e it is hes #offering (artie is ... unaware unfortunately to the reason actually) #if it had been anyone else at all he very well would have sighed and sent them on their way jgfjdgjdf hes not even that embarrassed to be s #seen like this by hal?? all dirty and gross and NOT proper whatsoever. ENTIRELY disheveled and practically naked without his coat and shirt #all buttoned up properly and his little cravat tie and stuff-- #soBBING THO HAL getting to see beyond the businessman persona is sustaining me rn ty for the food #also coming back here to point out that he definitely did just choose the phrasing ''dirty yourself with tar'' in relation to himself #and some sort of confused fear that he'll somehow see him that way too or SOMETHING IDK FFDSJ #im english teacher picking this apart rn im eating the tenderness right up #also x2 hi coming back again to just...... takes hal's hand. puts artemis' bare hand in his #this...... this hand is naked and u are the only person to see them ever jfdhjdfgdf

[fluidfox123]

There are many things wrong with me and having dreams about my obsession and pacing uncontrollably when I'm not able to consume content on said obsession is definitely one of them

#fox speaks #yes this post is about god of war #yes I am pacing while typing this #why am I pacing? #because my obsession fuels me and O currently cannot consume it and I cannot stop thinking about #what is going to happen next #how the fuck I'm going to sustain myself when I'm done watching GoW Ragnarok #I do not know how I'm going to live #I* #guess I'm going to have to either consume fan content or make my own and god knows it's going to #consume me whole either way

[nope-body]

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#walking fast in mid 70s weather while somewhat stressed should not make my heart rate skyrocket to 150 bpm!! #like yes it should go up but that’s when it should be at like 120 or something I think #not fucking 150!!! #my max heart rate is around 202 #the low intensity exercise heart rate zone for me would be #from around 100 to 120 #the temperate zone (middle one) for exercising for me is #from roughly 120 to 140 #the aerobic zone which is the highest and what you’re only supposed to sustain for short amounts of time for me is #from roughly 140 to 160 #I was solidly in that zone for at least 20 minutes?? #there’s no way any of this can be good for my heart or just me #it does explain why I felt like I was about to pass out the entire time though #because I probably was.

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

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