You never know unless you give it a go!

I can already see it now. Forget the hurricanes for a moment:

-Hay isn’t growing at the right time. Last year, no one got good hay where I live, because the weather (which has been in the same pattern during hay season for as long as I’ve been alive) was whacked out.

-None of my animals grew coats correctly, because the weather is just all wrong, and they don’t know what season they’re in.

-We’re getting new temperature records globally; basically, all weather is starting to change already

-Where I live, there are always two weeks where we see echidnas everywhere, and then we don’t see them the rest of the year. that is, until last year, when we barely saw them, spaced throughout several months. 

-Let me reiterate, the animals cannot tell what season it is because climate change is altering weather patterns that have been here for as long as anyone can remember

-We also have more acidic rain due to all the gasses, which is why we’ve got so many statues and whatnot corroding even though they haven’t changed for thousands of years

-We had a tornado start to form in Melbourne. That’s unheard of.

We have the technology to slow down climate change. If we want to survive for more than 50 years, we need to act now. NOW. We need to put in place all the technologies we have, and pour money into more scientific research.

i just recently sat in a climate change presentation and the physicist who gave the presentation talked about how if in the next 30 years we (not just Americans, but humans all over the world) do not cut down on carbon emissions (and this honestly boils down to policy changes that MUST be made amongst industrialists in “developed countries” but that’s a whole other conversation) climate change will ultimately become irreversible. 

Recycling etc. and cutting down your carbon print is great, but it’s not going to help. Just 100 corporations are responsible for 71% of global CO2 emissions.

Similarly, looking to your elected representatives to grant change from above will be too little, too late.

Get involved in grassroots community organising, before it’s too late to build the sort of world we could be proud of, nobody else is going to do it for you. And by you I literally mean anybody reading this. Here are some helpful groups:

Extinction Rebellion

Earth Strike

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Lawns

Demand Utopia

Scenario 1: moderate

CO2 emissions peak in 2050, and fade out altogether by 2200 AD

Ocean gradually absorb excess, becomes carbonic acid in solution

Thermal maximum in 2200-2300 AD, 2-4 C higher than today

In 12,000 AD, temps still 1.1 C higher than today

Scenario 2: super-greenhouse

CO2 emissions peak in 2100 – 2150

Ocean gradually absorb excess, becomes carbonic acid in solution

Thermal maximum in 2500-3500 AD, 5-9 C higher than today

Full recovery takes 400-500k years

tl;dr we’re past the point of no return, and how we act now will determine the magnitude. Will the world start recovering in 12,000 years, OR will the world be dramatically altered for the next 400-500,000 years?

you should take this knowledge you know and do some change with it. vote for candidates that will have policies to hold companies responsible for their actions.

there are already people being affected by this, so to say “this post is sad :( this is a mean post to put on my dash” is a dumbass and privileged position to have.

there are people in developing nations who are having their farms flooded and losing a huge percent of their crops because of climate change. people are losing their food and their livelihoods because companies care more about money than their fellow humans.

the people who are affected first by climate change are the people who can do NOTHING about it. we need to advocate WITH them to help them and ALL OF US survive. reducing your own carbon footprint will help, but only a SMALL SMALL SMALL fraction.

@clangart | instagram