It’s not enough that global warming is causing wildfires to break out faster than ever, doing horrendous damage around the planet.
Now we also have “climate terrorists” deliberately burning rainforests in Brazil.
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Some 30.8 million hectares (119,000 square miles) of vegetation were burned in Brazil in 2024, a 79% increase from 2023, monitoring platform MapBiomas has reported.
Fires in the Amazon, a crucial carbon sink for the rest of the world as well as a global hotspot of biodiversity, accounted for 58% of the damage.
The 2024 figures represent the largest area burned since 2019.
Some 8.5 million hectares of forest burned in 2024, compared to 2.2 million in 2023, and in the Amazon, fires took out more forest than grassland for the first time, according to the data.
"This is a terrible indicator, because, once forests are burned, they become more susceptible to future fires," said Ane Alencar, of MapBiomas.
In Brazil, the main driver of the fires are ranchers and farmers who clear land for pasture and agriculture — a crime the government struggles to contain.
The figures are discouraging news for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who in November will host the UN COP30 climate conference in the Amazonian city of Belem.
Lula admitted in September that the country was not prepared to face a wave of forest fires that his government attributed to "climate terrorism."
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Brazil saw 79% jump in area burned by fires in 2024: monitor
Wildfires in Brazil last year consumed a total area larger than all of Italy, a monitor reported Wednesday, as the country continues to battle blazes often set by farmers and ranchers illegally expanding their territory.France 24 (FRANCE 24)
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Most of what you get from me each day is updates about climate change. But there’s a whole lot more going wrong simultaneously in the natural world.
Unfortunately, it's not only the climate crisis we have to worry about, but also ocean acidification, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, sea level rise, deforestation, and so on. (The more you learn, the worse it gets.)
It’s convenient, obviously, to use one well-known phrase — "climate change" — as shorthand, instead of listing all those separate problems every time even though each one of them is equally important and highly consequential.
So when you put it all together, what does it mean?
Looking at the situation realistically, we should expect global warming to reach 2.0° C above the baseline by 2040 if not sooner, and then as tipping points are surpassed, positive feedbacks multiply, and cascading effects pile one on top another, temperatures could continue to climb, with catastrophic consequences.
That means repeated crop failures, refugees, wars, and likely a complete breakdown of industrial civilization. It’s too late now for renewables, or “green” energy, or Net Zero to save us from all that.
We need to act in advance of what’s coming, working together communally, independent of national governments, to meet the most acute needs of those around us. Preparing for disaster, knowing it is all but inevitable, and doing our best to ameliorate the damage.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it is what it is.
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So humanity doesn't go extinct we need:
1. Replace GDP with better metric.
2. Less fragile technology.
3. Scenario planning on how population drops to a sustainable level.
4. Better strategic spatial planning to live in concordance with ecoregions.
5. More sustainable agriculture.
6. Attitudes and ongoing education that incorporate natural custodianship.
7. More grassroots organizing to establish green political leadership worldwide.
Lots of work to do for many groups.
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What we need now is quite the opposite of all the nationalism we see all over the planet. Nations aren't real, we invented them, and the only way we can make them real is by drawing their borders on the actual soil with human blood, again and again. When billions of people lose their homes (which is a thing that _will_ happen, no matter what we do, because the damage we have already caused will continue to eat its way through the Earth's systems ), they will need a new place to live. All these nations and their peoples that we see today will be remixed into new ones, there is nothing any nationalists or racists can do to stop that from happening, but those that are trying to stop it will murder billions if we don't stop them first. It doesn't matter if my nation doesn't exist anymore in 200 years, nations and cultures come and go as the millennia go by; it doesn't matter if there aren't any "white" people anymore in a few generations, what matters is that enough of our species survive to carry on evolving.
Don't worry about how to shrink our population, but fight for women's rights everywhere on this planet. As soon as women can decide whether they want children or not, many just don't have any. Since not every woman wants to be a mother and most mothers are fine with just one child, cutting human population in half with each generation would be quite feasible. Unfortunately, all kinds of catastrophes will very likely shrink our numbers much faster. If I could live to see it happen, I wouldn't be surprised if there were only 2-4 billion humans left by the end of the century, and less than a million by the year 3000, but that would still be more than enough to save our species, even if we might never have a complex civilisation again and would spend the next million years in tribal societies. Eventually, the Earth will heal, the climate will be stable enough (even if very much hotter), and if we don't go extinct, we'll evolve into the next hominid species after Homo sapiens, physically adapted to a much hotter planet, and possibly able to start another Neolithic Revolution. Probably no Bronze Age or Iron Age again because we depleted the ore deposits, those will take much longer times to replenish, the genus Homo will be long gone by then.
Eventually, our entire genus will go extinct, even if we Homo sapiens manage to survive the Sixth Extinction, which has only just begun and will probably go on for at least a few thousand years after the collapse of the Industrial Age. Everything dies eventually. If some strange posthominid creatures manage to survive long enough, they will die when our sun starts burning too my hydrogen, getting bigger and bigger; at some point a bit over a billion years in the future, the Earth will become too hot for anything but extremophile microbes, and a billion years or two later, everything will be sterile and dead.
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1/3 Yes of course in terms of galactic time scales, humans likely don't amount to much. Yet if you believe what either of these authors write, then galactic scale beings not only exist, but possibly are incorporating our DNA into chimeras.
Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity, by David M. Jacobs PhD
Imminent, by Luis Elizondo
So. I don't know, maybe, possibly. Doesn't it make sense to keep humans (and chimeras) alive in a sustainable fashion?
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2/3 In another era we may have other visitors, after all. Perhaps our love and our DNA matter even if our species transforms.
More mundanely to your first point anyhow, things are not monochoromatic across the board. For example, cities and counties in the US have combined annual budgets somewhere over $4 trillion. Federal spending (excluding Medicare and Soc Security) is around $5 trillion.
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3/3 States and municipalities have considerable flexibility regarding environmental expenditures and planning. Besides planning for climate catastrophes, they can mitigate local pollution, do strategic planning to avoid building in climate-risky manners, and spend money educating citizens on stewardship. All good stuff.
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4/3 BTW Sadly, I do agree with you however that the likely sustainable human population hovers at only around 3 billion people, and that famine, disease, death of climate migrants, and possibly even oxygen depletion will kill billions.
Unfortunately, we have spent all that time causing more and more damage to all kinds of systems, the Earth's long-term carrying capacity for humans is but a fraction of what it used to be. Industrial agricultural methods have diminished the fertility, and through erosion, even the thickness of the soil in which we grow our crops. The same insecticides which we use to kill the insects that want to eat our crops also kill those that should be pollinating them.
For a short while, our agroindustry could have fed 12 billion people, but even then, some people starved and many ate unbalanced, unhealthy diets, while most of the good food was simply thrown away for some weird market reasons. We can still feed some 9-10 billion with the food we produce today, but with the climate getting weird and chaotic all over the planet, that won't last much longer. The probability of multi-breadbasket failure (i.e., crop failures in several agricultural regions of global importance in the same year) grows every year.
Soon the poor will have nothing to eat but the rich. Good hunting.
#EatTheRich
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I'm not interested in hope. We need action.
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Selfish me says that with any luck I'll be dead and buried before this climate stuff properly comes home to roost. Then other me kicks in and just mentions my grandchildren, and the firestorm we are probably going to be leaving them with. I am better than selfish me.
Like Ms Thunberg, I want the big players to be afraid of what is to come.
Any impartial observer can easily see that we are in a planetary climate emergency. The only people who continue to deny it are capitalists, fascists, and those who support them.
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The surge in ocean temperatures to record-breaking levels in 2023 and 2024 is a sign that the pace of climate change has accelerated, say researchers.
Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight in 2023 and early 2024. Although some of the extra heat can be explained by an El Niño weather pattern emerging in the Pacific Ocean, about 44% of the record warmth is due to the world’s oceans absorbing heat from the sun at an accelerating rate, according to Chris Merchant at the University of Reading, UK.
Merchant and his colleagues used satellite data to analyse ocean warming over the past four decades, concluding that the rate of warming has more than quadrupled since 1985.
The team says this rapid acceleration is down to a sharp change in Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI), a measure of how much heat is being trapped in the atmosphere. EEI has roughly doubled since 2010, causing the oceans to soak up much more heat now than they used to.
Based on their analysis, Merchant and his team predict that the rate of ocean warming could continue to increase rapidly in the coming decades. “If the EEI trend extrapolates into the future, then we can expect as much warming in the next 20 years as we have had in the last 40 years, which is quite a marked acceleration,” says Merchant.
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Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is accelerating
The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggesting global warming in general has undergone a marked accelerationMadeleine Cuff (New Scientist)
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The only way you can get America to stop destroying the planet is to damage the American economy as much as you can.
CO2 levels keep on rising. Our planet is getting relentlessly hotter. Wildfires are growing out of control.
And it's not only the land that's warming, but the oceans too. Which means death for coral reefs.
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‘Catastrophic’: Great Barrier Reef hit by its most widespread coral bleaching, study finds
More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating diseaseGraham Readfearn (The Guardian)
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I'm not gonna lie, I think all the maudlin hand-wringing about political violence, injured murderpigs, and "eroding democracy" in a rigged oligarchy owned and operated by rich fascists regardless of which party they claim to support, is a bit much. Despite their borderline fanatical adherence to polite fictions however, the media *is* correct in pointing out that Trump's January 6th pardons are a very ominous sign; they just lack either the language, or the courage to properly explain why.
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'Rewarding Political Violence,' Felon Trump Pardons Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
"This move not only erases accountability for one of the darkest days in our nation's history but also emboldens far-right extremists and grants them free license to continue their ideological reign of terror."
"These are not patriots, these are traitors who will now be free to recruit others into what Trump views as his own personal militia," he asserted. "By granting clemency to these individuals, who sought to overturn the peaceful transfer of power, Trump is signaling that political violence and the rejection of democratic norms are acceptable tactics in service to his authoritarian agenda. This is a direct threat to the foundations of our democracy and the safety of our communities."
Although it's not properly taught in Pig Empire history class, the reality is that every single "successful" fascist movement in history has relied on the violence of "irregulars" or "Brownshirts" to maintain control and further a fascist political and social agenda that is invariably unpopular and would be resisted by the populace at large, without the threat of force to keep them in line. It's literally "how to install a fascist dictatorship 101." What Trump is doing here is making it 100% clear to fascists that the ruling party is totally fine with whatever violent crimes they commit as long as they serve the purposes of the larger American fascist movement. And he's not the only one; racialized fascist violence has already received strong support and similar pardons in places like Texas, New York, and even at one point California (although that was ultimately unsuccessful and cost a judge his position on the bench.)
If you want Brownshirts, this is how you create them; and for all the whining about a democracy that isn't real and murderpigs who side with the nazis the vast majority of the time, that's the real danger here. Letting 1,500 fascist rioters go for their part in a coup attempt isn't about the rule of law - it's an open signal that Trump WANTS these freaks to commit violence on his behalf, and will prevent the American police state from doing anything about that if necessary. This doesn't end here.
'Rewarding Political Violence,' Felon Trump Pardons Jan. 6 Insurrectionists
"This move not only erases accountability for one of the darkest days in our nation's history but also emboldens far-right extremists and grants them free license to continue their ideological reign of terror," said one critic.jessica-corbett (Common Dreams)
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Much love for Supertanskiii, who pretty much *always* starts out with "Dystopia warning, obviously...", yet of course that's just how it is nowadays.
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Political commentator and Satirist. I’m essentially just a girl, standing in front of Westminster, wishing it would burn down. I started making content in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic.YouTube
@GNUmatic Yeah, agree wholeheartedly. The entire media and political establishment clearly DIDN'T actually believe Trump was a fascist, their actions since demonstrate that much. The problem is as much as they were using the term fascist as "just politics," the reality is that he IS a fascist and his administration IS fascist.
I been bitching about this forever. It's not just that the liberal establishment is useless for fighting fascism, but that their nonsense is an ACTIVE IMPEDIMENT to fighting fascism because they clearly DO NOT take it seriously and that encourages everyday people to not take it seriously either.
I mean look at this shit:
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The #Resistance Is Dead. Welcome to the #Surrender.
Democrats of all stripes—including Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—are pledging to find common ground with Trump and the Republicans, in the mistaken belief that voters will reward them for it.The New Republic
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@GNUmatic Didn't believe or didn't care? Didn't care is worse, I think, maybe?
Maybe "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Effectively, "have been collaborators" but the reason could indicate if that is likely to change/be influenced. My guess is no. Maybe for some individuals but as a system, doubtful. It has been clear on the public stage what he was since at least 2016.
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Yes. At times, it's just the "little" things and I guess I threw up a bit when I saw *that*:
mastodon.social/@gwynnion/1138…
I mean - they can talk all day long about nazi salutes, but this? How come so many neglect this? You can salute all day, but that's what actually got us here and of course that's only possible *because* they're living in their own, entitled fantasy world, completely detached from reality.
Marco Rubio confirmed as Secretary of State 99-0 by the Senate. LOL.
I don’t know well American politicians but I thought he was more leftist than that.
You can’t compromise nor work with fascists
You only loose your soul and strengthen them
I wish the defeat of Harris would have been enlightening but nope…
@GNUmatic I dunno, I think finding common ground with Nazis can be alright.
How can they get put in the dirt if we don't find the ground first?
but even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that working-class pugilist from the Bronx, opined to Punchbowl, “The reason why I think oftentimes Democrats occasionally lose elections is because we’re too reflexively anti-Republican, and that we don’t lean into an ambitious vision for working-class Americans strongly enough.”
I mean.... The hell?
Their response to losing is.... be more republican/fascist?
Republicans bring a message that they bring to their base - discriminate, hate, and destroy their opponents. And their base votes for them.
The democrats do what? Thats right - half-assedly join the republicans in a meek manner.
@crankylinuxuser
Proof they are detached to the point where they've got no idea any longer what working class problems actually are like, innit.
I mean - they really think people seriously worry about borders thousands of miles away when they get up early in the morning, still tired? Turning into the other sex spontaneously just because they've heard about it in school? Making Wall Street great again when they have to work a third job to make ends meet? Seriously?
@GNUmatic
I'm really debating seeing if I can just leave.
All my friends and family are here. And many of them cant leave. Makes that hard.
But I'm not seeing a future here, at least for the long term (40+ years). Only way I see continuing to survive is to form a commune but I'm guessing they too will be targeted.
We're running out of options fast. I for one am German, located in Germany and consider to leave, so that's where it's at. At least be careful with your choices. What seems like a safe haven today can turn into a fascist shit show sooner than you might anticipate and if you're not intimately familiar with the culture you won't notice until it's too late, putting you at risk again, only this time you're in an even more awkward position as a foreigner.
Brown shirts, clashing massively with cops is stupid, though, but I guess that also was intentional. How else would it have been possible to tell the lie of "we, the MAGA people against the establishment"?
Won't happen again, I guess, so I don't get fooled by all the whining from cops who endorsed the fascist, knowing fully well it will put some of their guys who testified at risk. These weren't the ones who let the fascists in, so that's just pigs, pretending to care.
Yes, the fires in Los Angeles are far worse than they would have been because global heating has made winters warmer, fuel drier, droughts worse.
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Wildfire climate connection
Climate change, including increased heat, extended drought, and a thirsty atmosphere, has been a key driver in increasing the risk and extent of wildfires in the western United States during the last two decades.www.noaa.gov
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