An alternative approach to stopping the extraction of fossil fuels could be the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. It is certainly a way to get governments to engage actively about leaving pre-sequestered carbon in the ground.

https://fossilfueltreaty.org/
#fossilfuels #climatecrisis #co2pollution #ClimatePollution #climatechange

@RGBes always these short term disaster scenarios. First, fossils generate more waste than solar panels by clear orders of magnitude. Second, science is always evolving techniques to solve problems so the recycling of solar panels will be solved so there is no need to do a chicken little and declare the sky is falling. No, wait! The global heating and CO2 pollution is literally causing the upper atmosphere to fall! Maybe we should focus on that.
#ClimatePollution #co2pollution #greenhousegas #fossilfuels #climatecrisis

@gmoke @Sheril the urgency to take action in the midst of the #climatecrisis doesn’t really cut through to the policymakers. A concerted campaign of ads and media snippets similar to conservative election messaging might help. The goal is to make it acceptable to cut subsidies to fossil fuel companies and for industry to transition. It needs to be urgent and it needs to be simple to cut through. Without getting the public to understand that something needs to be done now, policymakers will just cruise on.
#co2pollution #ClimatePollution #fossilfuels #FossilFuelSubsidies

@RichForrest2 subsidies should go too. #co2pollution #ClimatePollution #fossilfuels #climatecrisis

@mark_ohe everyone is getting to experience this horrible situation. Australia, the worst coast of North America, Europe, probably Siberia (though who would know?) and soon most probably everywhere. But still we subsidise fossil fuel companies.
#fossilfuels #co2pollution #ClimatePollution #wildfires

@the5thColumnist @CelloMomOnCars the argument seems to be that people don’t get a sense of urgency as the term has been debased by the conservatives and the fossil lobby. As they say, it’s about the messaging not the accuracy of the message so that it cuts through. Hence Schwarzenegger’s call is to change the narrative to something that the public already knows is bad, pollution hence #CO2Pollution was born. Short, sharp and everyone knows that CO2 pollution kills.

We tend to want to explain too much and as Winston Churchill said, never buttress a strong argument with a weak one or they focus on the weaker argument to pull down the strong one.

@ApaulD let’s stop investing in fossil fuels overseas! Wait, maybe we should stop investing in them in Australia too!
#fossilfuels #co2pollution

@bryanhansel sounds good and we should give #CO2Pollution a try. The conservative side of politics has always been good with messaging and strive hard to control the narrative. Few words but they cut through mostly with negatives while the other tend to be wordy. CO2 pollution, it’s killing us.

@dilettante @dmoser EXACTLY! We’re composting, buying the most fuel efficient cars, reducing, reusing, recycling. THEY are doing 45 minute hops that would be a couple/few hours by car and dropping tons of CO2! Some of the entertainers are Kenny Chesney, Jay Z, Kim Kardashian. Blavatnik’s plane is in constant motion. Moscow, London, Tuscany, Africa, New York, Florida. This is a HUGE source of pollution that is not discussed. #pollution #CO2Pollution #CO2 #EPA