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#ClimateJustice

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Bread and Circuses

The Council on Foreign Relations is a neoliberal think tank beloved by centrists from both US political parties. CFR is an extremely powerful group in Washington. When they speak, almost everyone listens.

And what do they have to say about our rapidly escalating climate crisis?

Well, they’ve just issued a new statement promoting a strategy they call “Climate Realism.”

First, they acknowledge that the 1.5C target is dead. In fact, they say we now should expect global warming to reach at least 3° by the end of this century, if not sooner.

Second, they argue for the rapid development of geoengineering strategies, such as solar radiation management, to combat accelerating climate change.

Third, they say *nothing* about moving away from the destructive growth-at-any-cost outlook and making a pivot toward degrowth and climate justice. Nothing at all.

That is unfortunate, but totally predictable — because CFR and their members are fully invested in capitalism, neoliberalism, and American imperialism. No crisis could possibly shake them free from that poisonous mindset.

So this is where we’re headed. Rather than change course, they’ll take us straight to hell.

LEARN MORE ➡️ cfr.org/article/we-need-fresh-

Meme of a single firefighter versus a burning forest. In the lower right corner is a modified Shell Oil logo overwritten with the word Hell. The title says: “At least billionaires are getting richer.”
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#Environment#Climate#ClimateChange
Jules

Shipping companies to pay for carbon emissions for the first time.

"The regulations agreed on Friday fall far short of the levy on CO2 that poor countries were hoping for, which would have funded their efforts to combat the climate crisis..."

theguardian.com/environment/20?

The Guardian · Shipping companies to pay for carbon dioxide produced by vesselsBy Fiona Harvey
#ShippingEmissions#TransportEmissions#ClimateJustice
Fernando Racimo

How did the @ScientistRebellion movement emerge and spread so quickly around the world? My new book, Science in Resistance (out in October with UC Press) documents the evolution of the Scienitist Rebellion movement over the past 5 years. Combining personal stories, interviews with scientist-activists, and insights from research on direct action and academia, I explore the challenges scientists face when taking a stand for climate and ecological justice.

Half of the proceeds will go to SR and allied climate justice groups.

ucpress.edu/books/science-in-r

Cover of book "Science in Resistance" including author Fernando Racimo and an image of scientists engaging in civil disobedience at the steps of the Spanish parliament.
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#ClimateJustice#ClimateChange#Activism
Bread and Circuses

If large-scale action is going to take place quickly enough to stave off the worst damages of ecosystem breakdown, it will have to start at the top. We need total system change!

End capitalism. End colonialism. End imperialism. Break up the large nation-states. Commence degrowth.

Barring all that, which admittedly seems unlikely to happen, then it will be up to individuals and communities to make collective grassroots changes that might allow most of them to survive.

Either way, it's time to act.

Meme with a raised fist. Text says: "System change, not climate change."
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#Environment#Climate#ClimateChange
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