"#Climate breakdown has begun."
– Antonio Guterres

The UN is again raising the alarm that the #ParisAccords will be missed unless #fossilfuels phase-out starts now. No carbon offset. No technical tinkering. Leave it in the ground! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/08/un-report-calls-for-phasing-out-of-fossil-fuels-as-paris-climate-goals-being-missed

Unfortunately many governments depend on fossil industries to stay afloat in a globalized capitalist competition. Real change will only come from the people, through just, international and anti-capitalist transition.

So let's start by joining the global #ClimateStrike on September 15 – and get organized for system change!

Christiana Figueres Says Now Is D-Day For Fossil Fuels

https://cleantechnica.com/2023/07/18/christiana-figueres-says-now-is-d-day-for-fossil-fuels/

Christiana Figueres, the principle architect of the 2015 Paris Climate Accords, is fed up with fossil fuel companies and their lies.

#climate #earthvsoil #parisaccords #fossilfuel #pigs #bloodmoney #climatemigration

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/14/big-oil-climate-crisis-fossil-fuel-public

#Petroganda: In just the three years following the #Parisaccords, five of the largest #fossilfuel companies spent over $1bn on communications and #lobbying.
But the effort goes back decades, centred on selling one #commodity above all: #doubt. Like the #tobacco industry before it, #oilandgas has sought to persuade the global public that they can’t be sure the #climatecrisis is real or human-made or that serious.
#keepitintheground #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence #stoppolluters #MakePollutersPay

Seven years after I recorded it, the lyrics to “When Mom Was Young” have never been truer. Despite all additional information humankind has gathered over that time, humans produce *more* CO₂, not less; buy *more* SUVs, not fewer; travel *more*, not less; and criminalise those who protest and demand the 2016 Paris Climate Accords be fulfilled (like the courageous young people from the “Last Generation”) rather than those in power who refuse to fulfill the Paris Climate Accords because they are in the pockets of Big Oil.

For those who don’t find it obvious, the “Mom” the song refers to is our mother Earth. The basis for the rap part is a mash-up of Edvard Grieg’s “Åses død” (“The Death of Åse”) from “Peer Gynt” and the lead melody of the song. Here’s the rap lyrics:

Little do we notice, little do we see
Patient’s in a coma, we still can’t agree
To get her tired body to the ICU
Still we don’t act on the simple truth

Our mom is dying of our carelessness
We beat her, choke her, cause her airlessness
We still exploit her though we do know better
We act like seven billion mad hatters

Full song is on Bandcamp: https://babumenos.bandcamp.com/track/when-mom-was-young

Video footage: Wildfire in a forest by Arnav Kainthola via https://www.pexels.com/video/wildfire-in-a-forest-7448357

#ParisAccords #ParisClimateAccords #ClimateChange #ClimateCatastrophe #BigOil #SaveThePlanet #NoPlanetB #LimitsToGrowth #Change #StopCapitalism #EndCapitalism #StopFlying #StopDrivingCars #RenewableEnergies

If I had to write my #Intro all over again, it might read like this:

· I am a musician (but most people don’t really care).
· I am a COVID-cautious, COVID-conscious person (but most people don’t really care).
· I am scared what climate catastrophe will do to this planet (but most people don’t really care).

So yeah, that makes me pretty lonely.

Theoretically, I am glad that on social media, at least *some* people *do* care.

But social media is so fleeting, and being found and read is such a game of chance that is doesn’t really amount to much. Also, social media is driven by too much input and mostly way too superficial to really have a lasting impact.

I am still grateful for the four to seven people who react, reply, and support what I am doing. But seeing that it’s four to seven out of seven hundred isn’t all too encouraging.

🙏 to the four to seven, anyway.

#Music #Musician #Singer #MultiInstrumentalist #Composer #Lyricist #IndiePop #AltPop #Acoustic #NoAI #NoAutoTune
#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVIDIsNotOver #LongCOVID #PostCOVID19Syndrome #PASC #ChronicCOVIDSyndrome #CSS #WearAMask #KeepYourDistance #CleanAir
#ClimateCatastrophe #AgeOfExtinction #ParisAccords #FridaysForFuture #LastGeneration

Daily Mail, “Return of the mask”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12024167/Expert-urges-public-wear-masks-public-transport-amid-Arcturus-Covid-fears.html
Umair Haque, “The Acceleration of the Age of Extinction”: https://eand.co/the-acceleration-of-the-age-of-extinction-3c387a49f601
The Guardian, “Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’”: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis