Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD
@ClimatePsych
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A clinical psychologist trying to wake up the public to the climate emergency. Executive Director, Climate Emergency Fund. Media: press(at)
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I have been in "emergency mode" on climate for the past 10 years when I left my job to become an activist.
What people don't understand is that even people like me are surprised at how badly this is going. I thought we had more time.
While everything is going haywire in the northern hemisphere, something even more statistically wild is happening around Antarctica where winter sea ice regrowth is failing.
Scientists are calling it a "5 sigma event" which means extreme and impossible without global warming.
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It’s hard to believe how crazy the weather is getting and how the vast majority of people are still acting normal.
The climate emergency is not linear, it is accelerating. We are in such terrible danger.
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Declare a climate emergency, stop all fossil fuel expansion, and initiate an all-hands-on-deck mobilization for zero emissions in 10 years.
This isn’t a “because...2020” thing. This isn’t going away January 1.
What we are experiencing is an existential climate CRISIS.
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Challenge: Add an Indian city to your weather app this week.
When you check the weather, consider how the 1 billion people in India are doing in this brutal, deadly heatwave.
Then consider what you can do to protect humanity and the living world.
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In case you were wondering why
@XR_NYC
disrupted the US Open and 75,000 people marched to end fossil fuels…
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The worst misinformation perpetuated by the media is the silence and understatement on the climate emergency.
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To all the climate-activism critics.
I am once again asking you:
What is the “right” way for them to protest?
What protest gets lots of attention, raises the alarm about the climate emergency, puts pressure on politicians- AND doesn’t bother anyone?
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It is hard to imagine, but what is coming is so much worse.
I couldn't imagine anything worse!
This is Başakşehir National Library in Istanbul, Turkey tonight.
#ClimateCrisis
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I am so sad that we are losing everything.
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Think you can do better than throwing soup onto a painting? Please do.
Seriously, I am begging you.
We need the movement to be huge. PLEASE help build a movement and design actions according to your vision.
I hope they will be tremendously successful.
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I'm so scared
Rome crushes its all-time temperature record by two degrees--two degrees *Celsius.*
That's statistically...crazy. But it shows we're living on a new planet
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The recent acceleration of the climate emergency is absolutely terrifying to me.
How are you doing with it?
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If you understand the climate emergency- how do you enjoy vacation time without drowning in existential dead?
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I have usually talked about the climate collapse coming in “years not decades”
But maybe we are at the point where we should be talking about Months.
Our society cares more about films and music than it does the planet. Not for long. Within months that won’t ever be the same again.
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Everyone dies.
But seriously what is the Republican plan for climate change?
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I wish the Democratic Party, and the philanthropic establishment that supports them understood: This is a HUGE opportunity.
If we make the climate emergency the
#1
voting issue in 2024, the GOP will not be able to compete.
It shouldn't be that hard, given the ongoing floods,…
Zero candidates at the GOP pres debate say they believe in human caused climate change. Horrifying.
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I’m so scared
If I was being asked to draw a picture of the Apocalypse, it would probably be something like this. The planet is being boiled alive
#climatecrisis
#ClimateActionNow
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We are in terrible danger.
Not “future generations.”
Not “your grandchildren”
Not other, far off people.
You, and your family, me and my family ....the whole human family.
We are all in terrible danger.
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The "2020 is terrible" discourse is climate denial.
Sorry my friends, this is just the beginning.
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I don’t think the public understands that people like Peter (and me) who have been deeply terrified about the climate emergency for years-are SHOCKED at how quickly the climate emergency is unfolding.
Even we “alarmists” were too optimistic.
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If being terrified by the climate emergency is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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I used to think, ‘I’m concerned for my children and grandchildren.’ Now it’s to the point where I’m concerned about myself,”
“The majority of the population of the northwest territories of Canada were evacuated last night because all of the major settlements are threatened by separate fires. All of them.”
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Can anyone help me with a logic problem?
At present, we have warmed the planet 1.2°C and are experiencing massive droughts, crop loss, fires, floods and ice-melt.
How can 2° of warming be the "safe limit?"
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Who out there is *newly* freaked out about the climate emergency?
Welcome to the truth based community. You must be going through a lot emotionally. What’s it been like? It would be great to hear from you.
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Don’t look up!
CNBC has dismantled its climate desk and will no longer have staff dedicated to covering climate change.
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The climate protestors are trying to protect us all from catastrophe!
I’m sorry they are annoying… no one wants to bother people. But they are raising the alarm and alarms are annoying. I promise you climate collapse is a million times worse.
Ironically earlier in the week climate protestors blockaded the road to Burning Man. An event deemed unsustainable by some for its climate impact, has now had 2 years of major & dangerous adverse weather.
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Did I miss all the news coverage tying the insane polar vortex/ continent-wide storm to the climate emergency?
Or was there just….. crickets?
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With
@nychange
and
@abigaildisney
at the East Hampton private airport.
During this time of climate emergency, private planes are an abomination. Ban them now.
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It feels so strange and alienating that the vast majority of people are still living their lives as normal (rather than desperately trying to cancel the apocalypse and protect humanity and the living world.)
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We feel climate grief because we love this world.
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And the most horrifying thing: the climate emergency is rapidly accelerating. It’s time to start treating the climate like the apocalyptic emergency it is. We must make protecting humanity our top priority, and mobilize for decarbonization at emergency speed.
I don't think it's exaggeration to say that much of the West Coast is a hellscape right now. Nothing about any of this is "normal," and it's beyond disturbing.
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This is how I have felt for the last 6 years talking to people about the climate emergency.
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I really wish everyone talking about the collapse of the United States included the critical context of the accelerating climate and ecological crisis. Things are never going back to normal. We are in terrible danger. What happens next is up to us.
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I am thankful for climate activists.
They are the heroes of our time.
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The reason activists are “obsessed” with climate change is because we love humanity and this world and want, more than anything, to protect what we love.
If being terrified by the climate emergency is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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The most important thing to understand about the climate crisis is that you are in danger. Not "future generations." You, me, your family, my family. The whole human family. We are ALL in acute danger, and we must respond with everything that we have.
@MobilizeClimate
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If the insects die, we die.
If the fish die, we die.
If the mammals die, we die.
Do we want to live?
Breaking News: As many as 1 million species are at risk of extinction, posing a profound threat to human well-being, a sweeping U.N. report concluded
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Watched
#DontLookUp
and having a panic attack?
Come talk it out with people who understand. Join a Climate Emotions Conservation-- a listening and sharing session TODAY at 8 pm ET.
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The future isn’t what you thought it would be.
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How could we protect humanity and the natural world at this late hour?
A thread.
There is still a brief opportunity for humanity to wake up and fight back against the accelerating climate and ecological crises with everything we have.
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We wouldn't call it "natural coal" or "natural oil"
So don't call it "natural gas"
It's all poison.
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Polling questions I want to see:
Do you expect climate change to devastate global food production?
Do you expect climate change to cause civilization to collapse?
Do you expect to lose your home due to climate change?
Do you expect climate-induced collapse to cause your death?
“The new Quinnipiac poll found that 55 percent of Americans are expecting a “significant negative effect” from climate change, while 41 percent are not.”
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(A rare non-climate post)
People in NYC should know about the city's "One Shot Deal" program. If you are facing eviction, the city will pay your owed rent, if you can pay your rent going forward. Not perfect, but can really help.
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On behalf of environmentalists, I apologize for being euphemistic with the public for decades.
Let me correct the record:
We are in a full blown climate emergency. Siberia is 100 degrees. Global food supplies are in danger. Look at Syria and see the climate-collapsed future.
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I got a mosquito bite the other day in NYC. In late December. Not good, people.
It’s 66 degrees in DC on Dec. 28. I wonder why. 🤔
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But why keep selling fossil fuel powered cars for the next 15 years?
NEW: We’re facing a climate crisis.
We need bold action.
CA is phasing out the internal combustion engine.
By 2035 every new car sold in CA will be an emission free vehicle.
Cars shouldn’t give our kids asthma.
Make wildfires worse.
Melt glaciers.
Or raise sea levels.
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Are you struggling with climate truth?
Feeling terror, despair, and overwhelm?
I wrote a book for you.
It will help you turn all of that pain into effective action to protect humanity and the living world.
Pre-order and Support on Kickstarter!
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Even I- who freaked out about climate 9 years ago and and have been in emergency mode ever since- am shocked at how quickly the climate is warming.
In 2014, this French weather presenter announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Now her forecast that day is the actual forecast for the coming 4 or 5 days, in mid-June 2022.
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It’s ok to have hateful thoughts and feelings! They are part of being human, and can’t hurt anyone- only actions can.
There is no need to judge yourself for them or try to suppress them. Enjoy them!
-a psychologist
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How is it that a *headline* about celebrity gossip mentions the
#ClimateEmergency
when ‘hard news’ outlets fail to mention the connection between extreme weather events and climate change?? (props to jezebel tho)
J. Lo and A-Rod bought a very expensive house that will likely sink into the sea
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One reason why I am *highly* skeptical of this “individual action” frame- the fossil fuel companies love it.
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I’m thrilled to announce my new project, Climate Awakening, which seeks to unleash the power of climate emotions through small-group conversations. ! 1/11
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I am so sad that we are losing everything.
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I think part of being a climate activist, and possibly any kind of activist, is absorbing hate non-defensively.
You think the action was terrible and we are idiots? That’s fine. We will still fight for you and your family and the whole human family.
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Putting my clinical psychologist hat on.
The people who are freaked out about soup-on-glass are, on a deeper level, freaking out about the climate emergency.
They feel terror and grief welling up inside of them.
It becomes- I hate the activists who made me feel this way!
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As a clinical psychologist turned climate activist, I wrote a radical self-help book to help people face the incredibly painful reality of the climate emergency.
All proceeds go to Climate Emergency Fund.
I don't love to self-promote, but this book helps people.…
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Same thing w the climate emergency. Except we also feels alienated as hell because almost no one is talking about it.
Everyone who knows what's coming with COVID is wandering around in a fog of anticipatory grief.
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Friends! I am extremely pleased to share my updated essay with you: Leading the Public into Emergency Mode: Introducing the Climate Emergency Movement.
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They are STILL GOING!!!
A12-blokkade dag 13. Jaarlijks 39,7 tot 46,4 miljard euro fossiele subsidies. Absurd en misdadig.
Wij blijven terugkomen. Iedere dag 12:00 uur
#A12
Meedoen? Zaterdag 23 september wordt een grote. Zorg dat jij erbij bent:
#StopFossieleSubsidies
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2019: let’s turn this shit around.
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In the past 2 weeks the game has fundamentally changed.
@Ocasio2018
and
@sunrisemvmt
are bringing the need for emergency climate mobilization to Congress and
@ExtinctionR
is bringing it to the streets. I am so thankful! The fight has finally begun.
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66% of Australians say we are in a climate emergency.
63% say we need WWII scale climate mobilization.
I am so thrilled to be speaking to this conference, with
@MichaelEMann
in these political conditions.
The time is now. Let's do this.
"Australia: First national Climate Emergency Summit" | Melbourne Australia Feb 14-15. I will be speaking, along with
@PGarrett
,
@ClimatePsych
, Lenore Taylor & others:
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What about an apology?
Here’s the advice I shared with Malia about what progress looks like – and the work we can do right now to make a difference.
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It feels so good to say this publicly and officially: Bernie Sanders is the best candidate to protect humanity and the living world. We are proud to endorse him.
🚨BIG NEWS🚨
We are proud to announce our endorsement of
@BernieSanders
in the 2020 Presidential race!
➡️This is a
#ClimateEmergency
➡️Gradualism is a death sentence
➡️Only urgent, radical change can save us🌍
President Bernie Sanders is the champion our movement needs.
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I’m no economist, but if everyone is dead....
My gut feeling is that 8°C warming would mean the loss of something a lot closer to 100% of GDP than 10%
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The purpose of the climate movement is not to be liked.
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The media- especially TV news- have been horrible perpetrators of climate silence. Americans deserve better, and as
@DoctorVive
shows, they know it. Time to start covering climate like the existential emergency it is.
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There is dancing in the streets in Brooklyn! It’s a beautiful day. I am very happy and relieved.
But it’s 73 degrees. In November.
I can’t shake my terror and dread.
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What will fire season look like in 3 years? In 5? In 10?
The climate emergency is moving so much faster than we are.
The Dixie Fire is about to become one of the 20 largest fires in modern California history. All but three of those have taken place since 2000. Five of the top six were last year.
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Sorry, you don’t deal with emergencies in 30 years.
You solve them RIGHT NOW
South Korea sets net zero target for 2050
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@Greencastellan
I throw myself into my work, which for (lucky) me means doing everything I can to cancel the apocalypse.
But yeah sometimes I am overcome with emotion and it all feels futile.
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I wrote a book about processing these emotions and turning them into action:
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@ClimateHuman
Let's start a spin off - TED Talks That Actually Tell the Truth about the Climate and Ecological Emergency (Featuring: Angry Climate Scientists who are Sick of Sugarcoating Everything.)
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But he’s not declared a climate emergency.
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Over 40?
The climate emergency threatens you, too.
Under 40? Expect an 'unprecedented' life of extreme heat waves, droughts and floods.
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“feeling (painful climate feelings) takes courage, and that as you go on this process, it’s critical to treat yourself with self-compassion. The situation is so extreme that the feelings will also be extreme.” Read the rest of my interview on Bloomberg
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Facing the Climate Emergency brings my experience in clinical psychology knowledge together with my experience of climate activism to help guide people on the journey through climate grief and terror into action.
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This is biblical, people.
The climate emergency fully unfolding IS the apocalypse.
It's up to us to decide: do we want to live?
Enormous locust swarms, linked to climate change "which is creating the perfect breeding conditions," now cover great swaths of Africa. One swarm can eat as much food in a day as 85 million people.
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Today’s the day! My book, "Facing the Climate Emergency: How to Transform Yourself with Climate Truth" hits shelves today! It's a self-help guide for all who are struggling with the climate emergency. Get a free preview now: .
#ClimateSelfHelp
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A prophet and a hero
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Last night I dreamed that
@GretaThunberg
endorsed my forthcoming book, and my Kickstarter hit its 20K goal!
I was sad to wake up and realize it was just a dream; and I was still shy of 10K! Can you help?
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we need to pathologize not having climate anxiety.
Listening to
@brittwray
at the
@CAPE_ACME
Climate Emergency conference. We need to depathologize Climate Grief and EcoAnxiety. It is really just Eco Compassion. A normal reaction to a threatened planet.
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The truth is our most powerful weapon in fighting the climate emergency.
Let's have courage and unleash it. My essay:
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Don't forget the climate crisis, which will, terribly, dwarf all of these soon. It is also happening on an exponential curve.
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If you aren’t terrified of the climate emergency in a “this threatens my life and my family” kind of way, you either don’t understand or are in denial.
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Thank you for fighting for humanity and all life.
Dear commuters: we are interrupting traffic this morning not to annoy you, but to force the public to confront the true dangers of unchecked climate change. If we do not act today, if
@potus
does not act today, NYC will be underwater by 2100. It's a matter of life and death.
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Declare a climate emergency, ban all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and mobilize Washington for zero emissions as quickly as humanly possible.
Climate change is here. Fires in the West. Floods in the Midwest. Rising seas along the coasts.
We need to act, and we need to act now.
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This is a HIGHLY effective first person account of reckoning with climate truth. Thank you
@MaryHeglar
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Same. I avoid single use plastics because it feels bad to use them, not because it’s an effective form of activism.
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I suspect many haven't processed their emotions- their grief, rage, terror, guilt and more.
I'm surprised more climate scientists haven't been radicalized by this point.
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@ChristiCraddick
What if, and hear me out, our “oil and gas interests” are actually hurting, even killing, us?
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Because of the terrifying acceleration of the climate emergency, it seems like a good time to re-up the Victory Plan, written by
@EzraSilk
.
This 90 page plan breaks down what WWII-scale climate mobilization would actually look like.
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Being clear eyed about the climate emergency is like having magical powers to predict the future.
Except it’s not magic, it’s the vast majority of people refusing to see.
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The climate emergency hurts because we love this world. We love our families, humanity, and the web of life. But how do we turn that pain into action?
I am pleased to share my Guest Essay in the New York Times (!)
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As the fires rage, one of the things you may be feeling is grief for your own future. We all have plans, goals, and hopes that depend on a safe and stable climate and a functioning society.
As that breaks down, we realize our best laid plans aren't gonna happen. 1/4
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If your predictions for 2023 ignore the accelerating impacts of the climate emergency, they are daydreams.
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What do you love most about this world we are losing?
Climate records tumble, leaving Earth in uncharted territory
A series of climate records on temperature, ocean heat, and Antarctic sea ice have alarmed some scientists who say their speed and timing is "unprecedented".
#climatechange
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