When Nations Drown/Burn
An Existential Extinction Event in Your Backyard
Global heat waves, droughts, massive flooding, out of control wildfires all unprecedented and all happening now. Just as predicted upon passing 2C degrees and 350ppm CO2. We are at 600ppm equivalent. It’s 154f in Iran!
Burning Earth art by Seymore Kanowitch
Vermont sunset, hazy from Canadian forest fires. Photo by Pauline.
“-scientists from around the world published an analysis last month concluding that such an intense global heat wave would be “virtually impossible” without human-driven climate change. The scientists also warned that such extreme heat could become the norm for the month of July going forward.”
But please tell me about your conspiracy theories that this is weaponized weather manipulation.
I want to know how every nation collaborated to weaponize Earth’s weather systems that are now destroying everyone’s ability to live a safe and fruitful life? Or maybe it was just a handful of goons from the Heartland Institute who chose greed over a healthy ecosystem and promulgated the “weaponization” story? They’re behind most other evil schemes, why not this? Either way, we’re doomed. Thanks boys.
A third typhoon for the poor beleaguered people of China is coming. Hundreds of thousands have already been evacuated for the previous two typhoons. Who could have predicted this? Well. Scientists did.
No one listened to our scientists’ warnings for 40+ years and this is the result, global catastrophe. Imagine if Carl Sagan’s and James Hansen’s warnings had been heeded and measures had been taken to mitigate the global warming that was already baked into the system then? We might have had hope for our grandchildren rather than more 100-year storms every year.
The bottom line was always more important to capitalists. However, nations cannot grow grains at scale to feed 8 billion people with unpredictable, damaging weather events like this happening perennially. How is feeding billions of humans not a bottom line?
What to do?
Birth control, sterilization, and abortion should be free and readily available globally. Yes, even in Texas.
ALL Nations should decommission nuclear power plants immediately. They cannot be operated safely in a normal climate, even less so in a smouldering climate.
All militaries and their weapons of mass destruction should be immediately repurposed and decommissioned as well. Same reason as for nuke plants above.
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The IPCC scientists should be publicly horsewhipped for minimizing the climate crisis since Reagan (Ronnie Raygun). Even though that was the purpose of their creation-to minimize the crisis, & defuse any positive climate activism. Thank you Heartland Institute for helping to murder the planet. Kevin Hester explains that in detail. https://kevinhester.live/2021/09/06/its-time-to-acknowledge-the-spectacular-success-of-the-ipcc/.
Any and all pseudo “Green” and “sustainable” energies should be called out for their lies and misinformation. Electric cars, solar and wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, are all NOT green, nor sustainable. They all require MASSIVE amounts of fossil fuels, mining, transportation, and a secure grid-tied infrastructure. Few nations have that, and the US especially lacks a secure infrastructure of any kind. Thanks Heartland Institute for helping to ruin our infrastructure with your greed-based, inhumane policies.
Finally, as we (most of us) recognize the existential crisis we are facing, billionaires should be banned from speaking, or having any public presence, or holding public office. There should be no billionaires to begin with, that is an obscenity of capitalism and has led to the destruction of our only home. They are welcome to leave and go to Mars. Today is good.
Societal changes:
All humans must be treated with dignity and compassion as we begin to exit this existence. This is simple. Basic needs met for all: housing, food, medical care, safety. We MUST end the houseless/homeless crisis in the US. We MUST provide universal healthcare for all. We MUST ensure our poorest have a basic living income. We MUST have sane gun control in the US (like other nations do) to ensure safe neighborhoods, schools, parks, and shopping areas.
This is basic, common sense.
Finally, we need to establish a global panel of ACTUALLY ethical scientists who have not been lying to us for 40+ years. Sorry Michael Mann, that means you’re out.
They would include: James Hansen, Wieslaw Maslowski, Jennifer MacKinnon, Andrew Glikson, Hiram Levy II, Larry W. Horowitz, Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich, Rodolfo Dirzo, Giovanni Strona, Corey Bradshaw, Natalia Shakhova, Ye Tao, and, of course, Prof. Guy McPherson who cannot lie.
These people would guide us on the best way to mitigate the disaster and plan a gentler exit for us all, a Planetary Hospice. Because extinction is the rule for all species including humans. How we exit determines what kind of humans we choose to be. Maybe with their guidance we can ensure some form of life continues on this beautiful planet.
And may the gods, if there are any, have mercy on us.
I agree.
Humanity seems determined to go out with a bang. War is always insane, and it is now over food and will soon be over water.