Hell of a legacy we're leaving the next generations: "If the disasters we’re seeing this month aren’t enough to shake us out of that torpor, then the chances of our persevering for another hundred and twenty-five thousand years seem remote." #ClimateChange #BillMcKibben #NewYorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/big-heat-and-big-oil

#BillMcKibben wrote, "...it seems almost certain that this is the hottest weather on our planet in 125,000 years; Jim Hansen made a quite reasonable case Friday that it is already or soon will be hotter than it’s been for a million years, which is to say before the evolution of homo sapiens.
People get savage burns when they walk a few barefoot steps across a patio, or let a seatbelt buckle touch bare skin. They scald themselves with water that’s been sitting in a garden hose soaking up the sun.

On Wednesday, firefighters encountered a man sprawled in the street in north Phoenix…When firefighters arrived, the man was unconscious. There were burns all over his body. His skin was coming off and his internal temperature was 107 degrees, they said. They delivered him to the emergency room. “Basically, his brain was fried." https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/i-told-you-so

Tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness. In a world with real and pressing problems, tolerance is merely a precondition for politics -- it is not itself a meaningful politics.
-- Bill McKibben

⬆ #Quotes #BillMcKibben #Tolerance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida

#BillMcKibben #OnSubstack
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/we-can-see-clearly-now?publication_id=438146&post_id=126676686&isFreemail=true

The Week’s Climate News Trumps Indictment Story
Just before that indictment took over the headlines, a study warned that "melting ice around Antarctica will cause a rapid slowdown of a major global deep ocean current by 2050 that could alter the world's climate for centuries."
https://verdantsquare.net/blog/2023/04/02/the-weeks-climate-news-trumps-indictment-story/495069/
#Commentary #Featured #billmckibben #climate #climatechange

@Anthronet SO Horrible! But I fear events like this will become the norm. I’ve been reading on the possibilities of consequences of #GCL global climate change since it began being covered in #RollingStoneMagazine in the 80s then (VP)? Gore-thru #BillMckibben. I expect in your field one learns that cycles like these are natural- but I’m a believer that man has hastened this one 🥺

My latest Walking Thoughts blog post, "What's the Best Way to Shrink Your Carbon Footprint?" https://hpaulsantmire.net/whats-the-best-way-to-shrink-your-carbon-footprint/

#ClimateCrisis #CarbonFootprint #ClimateEmergency #BillMckibben #ThirdAct #NewYorkTimes #LutheransRestoringCreation #EcoActivistTestament

#BillMcKibben: A Big Bank Actually Does Something Good
and in the process puts serious pressure on America's rogue financiers
"#HSBC Bank...announced today they would no longer provide #financing for new #oil and #gas fields. HSBC is not a particularly virtuous enterprise—it began...in 1865...in the opium trade; earlier this year it was censured for lying about its #ClimateChange efforts in its ads; in between there’s been every flavor of scandal..." https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/a-big-bank-actually-does-something?r=3c5fs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

PS: Mastodon has a bot problem. None of these is #BillMcKibben

PPS: I've since blocked every one of these servers, and everyone should do the same.

G’day. 👋 A Mastodon #introduction : I’m Jarrod, living on Wadjuk Noongar land 🖤💛❤️ (on most maps as Perth, Australia). A decade ago, in the context of interviewing #BillMcKibben about our #climateemergency, he something to me that haunts me still. Bill said we have a responsibility to enjoy what future generations won’t experience in the same way.

*let that sink in*

So I’ll start with practices for me shaped by this conversation and Dostoyevsky’s words, “Love all God’s creation, both the whole and every grain of sand.” I love talking to the #birds 🦜 and teaching my boys their Noongar names (like Uncle [ ] Garlett taught me). I love #surfing 🏄🏼‍♂️ #hiking ⛰ #snorking 🪸 #spearfishing 🐠🐬🐟#surfskating (I ride a Holy Toledo #Smoothstar 🛹🏄🏼‍♂️). Kathleen is my beloved. 🥰 The outdoors is literally a religious experience for me. Oh, talking God-bothering, that’s kinda my neurodiverse hyper-fixation: the transfiguring-nonviolent-liberating-love revealed in Jesus.

That’s lead to some award winning nonviolent trouble-making, a popular podcast with Dr Drew Hart (https://www.patreon.com/InVerse), and other stuff you can checkout here: https://jarrodmckenna.com

#theology: A very Jesus-y #ecojustice cocktail of #Hesychasm #Anabaptism #CatholicWorker #IndigenousTheology non-Marxist #ChristianSocialism #Quakerism #BlackChurch and charismania expressed in #Contemplative prayer, creative
#nonviolence and #solidarity.

So let’s collaborate in what John Lewis called, “good trouble”. 😊

Bill McKibben from COP 27 starts out his #fighting newsletter, Activists are the Engine: "The great Canadian environmentalist Elizabeth May, many years ago, hugged me from behind at one of these gatherings and said “it’s just like a family reunion—aboard the Titanic.”" https://open.substack.com/pub/billmckibben/p/activists-are-the-engine?r=3c5fs&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email #climate #cop27 #billMcKibben

Don't get stuck with 350.org or #BillMcKibben or #GretaThunberg... the media keep pushing Greta because they want to keep people at the "discovery" phase of the climate movement, and they push all three of them (and more) because the media would like to prevent the climate movement from merging with folks pushing for communism in all its stripes, from Indigenous movements, from anti-colonial movements, etc. 1/

TIME: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021

Friederike Otto and Geert Jan van Oldenborgh https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6095982/friederike-otto-geert-jan-van-oldenborgh/

The scientists are recognized for their work on event attribution, i.e., quantifying how much an extreme event is related to climate change.

The tribute is written by climate activist #BillMcKibben.

I guess that is the first time I know people on the TIME 100 list.

Is that getting old? 🤡

#EventAttribution #WxRisk #ExtremeEvents #DailyClimateData