> it’s not just #PhoenixArizona, with those 31 straight days of 110 degrees Fahrenheit..., or even #Chile, which recently passed 100 degrees Fahrenheit in what’s still known as… “winter” there. #Temperatures.. breaking records in an extreme fashion across the planet... should be, daunting, and yet, according to the latest polls, barely half of Americans (... 23% of #Republicans) consider the climate emergency a major threat
https://tomdispatch.com/collapse-2-0/
#TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt
/HT @Brendanjones

> ... neither nuking the planet, nor overheating it beyond compare gets anything like the attention it deserves.
> Ending the world as we’ve known it, whether in a matter of weeks or in slow motion over countless decades should, it seems to me, evoke the screaming headlines of our times.
https://tomdispatch.com/old-news-in-a-new-year/
#TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt #NYT #SubStack #ClimateChaos #NoNukes #ClimateChange

> ... neither nuking the planet, nor overheating it beyond compare gets anything like the attention it deserves.
> Ending the world as we’ve known it, whether in a matter of weeks or in slow motion over countless decades should, it seems to me, evoke the screaming headlines of our times.
https://tomdispatch.com/old-news-in-a-new-year/
#TomDispatch #TomEngelhardt #NYT #SubStack #ClimateChaos #NoNukes

#DavidVine's book Base Nation looks really good. I lapsed from reading #TomDispatch for a few years but #TomEngelhardt's work with #ChalmersJohnson makes it easier to appreciate the maps in #BaseNation. #InformationDesign techniques can be used for worthy causes, like learning #Geography it prevent wars before they happen. God won't have to use wars to teach us anymore, we can be proactive. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
https://www.basenation.us/maps.html

I'm looking around #TomDispatch for #TomEngelhardt's on #Rumsfeld's admission that reality wasn't an issue in the #IraqInvasion. Maybe it was #Petraeus that was confident they could create the desired #FactsOnTheGround . Either #HannahArendt or #SimoneWeil writes of the totalitarian's constant stream of facts and how contradictions don't matter just keep giving followers something to get excited about.
https://tomdispatch.com/whose-future-is-this-anyway/
#FictionBasedReality
#BetweenPastAndFuture #Arendt