Climate scientists have got to stop flying and start leading by example
Does anyone else feel like we're in this weird calm before the storm?
Last few years of climate have been relatively stable but next few may well see rapid acceleration.
We know the shit is going to hit the fan due to Strait of Hormuz being closed.
Why aren't we doing something?
In 1936, Phil Piratin helped stop Mosley's fascists marching through London's East End.
The real work was done in years of rent strikes and eviction fights. Two fascists he'd helped tore up their BUF cards.
At the Battle of Cable Street, Labour told people to stay home - but the left showed up.
When Queen Elizabeth II spoke to Congress just after the Gulf War, this is what she said:
Brendon Grimshaw was the real life Robinson Crusoe.
In the 60s, he bought an uninhabited island in the Seychelles for $13,000 and never left.
Over 40 years, he planted 16,000 trees by hand. Brought in 120 giant tortoises. Watched 2,000 birds return. Now it's a national park. 💚
In 2022 we were warned by meteorologist Laura Tobin that UK summer temperatures could hit 40°C by 2042.
It happened two months later.
In my opinion this should be the main message of the Green Party right now @zackpolanski.bsky.social
🛒 Teenagers shoplifting for fun.
🚗 Middle-aged men in sports cars.
💰 Politicians who can't see past the next election.
One condition explains all three: a culture that has forgotten initiation - and so forgotten how to serve.
We are a society of permanent adolescents. 🧵
I wrote about my latest and least successful attempt to get elected and wake people up
Why don't you know about Porto Alegre, Brazil? For ≈30 years, it wasn't run by politicians but by its people. Neighbourhood assemblies decided how money was spent. The poor got paved streets and clean water. Corruption fell.
They buried the story; don't let them bury the idea.