How Climate Change Could Upend the American Dream
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Americans have long accumulated wealth by owning their homes, but a new study predicts that spiking insurance rates and climate disasters now herald an era of widespread losses.
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Yes, we're entering the time when feedback from climate makes fascism worse which leads to policies that make climate worse, rinse, repeat.
America just dramatically failed to keep #fascism at bay and this will have dire #climate consequences.
But we have a choice, every day into the future: keep rushing off the cliff, keep feeding the doom loop, or wake up to the disaster and do something about it.
!["This summer is too hot"
me: Have you ever planted trees?
"No"
[Matthew McConaughey, Dazed and Confused meme]
Be a lot cooler if you did.](/proxy/post_attachment/25623/1b1d23fa0e.png "\"This summer is too hot\"
me: Have you ever planted trees?
\"No\"
[Matthew McConaughey, Dazed and Confused meme]
Be a lot cooler if you did.")
I went to the free admission day at the High Museum of Art down in the city today. Among other things I saw this really interesting display of this Climate Crisis Font created by Helsingin Sanomat, a Nordic newspaper, to visually the decline in arctic sea ice since 1979 and forecast out to 2050.
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Hurricane Helene is one of the strongest storms ever to make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region, and has devastated areas of Georgia and the Carolinas too. Garden & Gun has created this list of local and regional organizations that are providing help, with details on how to donate.
#HurricaneHelene #Florida #Georgia #NorthCarolina #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
#Climate #Environment #Wildfires #Data #ClimateChange #Research
This Storm-Battered Town Voted for Trump. He Has Vowed to Overturn the Law That Could Fix Its Homes.
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Donald Trump has said he will overturn a law that helps communities better weather the effects of climate change. If he follows through, he’ll be reversing an initiative that has disproportionately benefited areas that make up his base.
Looking for some #positivity to end the week? I have recapped 46 notable #positive #environmental and #ClimateChange articles from past month including: repairable kettles, 90% of cars sales in #Norway #ElectricVehicles and the #Bee killing pesticide in the #UK has been banned.
https://primonatura.co.uk/positive-environmental-stories-010/
#Newspeak IS our #UbiquitousLanguage for #DDD of Society in 2025. Almost!
Next time when #Orwell and #Huxley come up in #discourse remember:
We live in #dystopia NOW!
Unseen by our #DistractionEconomy blindfolds.
We're the frogs for years, taking a nice warm bath to unsee #RootCause of #ClimateChange temperature rise:
Vice has free reign as #truth is destroyed.
We MUST be #Plainspeaking
We MUST use #CommonSense
We MUST restore #Reality
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wants to read No tempo das catástrofes: resistir à barbárie que se aproxima
#Livros #ColecaoExit #MudancasClimaticas #ClimateChange
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Hey #solarpunk people from outside of the Global North!
@SolarpunkConference would like to hear your voices on why they should allow you to watch their online #conference without having a credit card compatible with the US payment system!
Do we have anyone from #Ukraine or anywhere in #Africa ? #Brazil ? #India ? #southAmerica ? #southEastAsia ?
https://mastodon.world/@SolarpunkConference/113957600020215218
#globalSouth #socialJustice #climate #climateChange #event #futurism #hope #hopepunk #anarchism
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