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Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.
i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.
and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.
three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.
this is not natural.
unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.
when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.
links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):
link for non-brazilians (paybox)
link for brazilians
pix assufrgs
will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.
Maybe I am just overreacting. Maybe it is just British weather. But I just can't shake this feeling of doubt and concern. The weather has been getting more and more extreme each year too. Sure, I've always known it was important and dangerous, but I've never felt this way about climate change before, and it's starting to concern me.
How the fuck society expects us to make career choices at the age of 16 when we can't even make a phone call without having a breakdown about it . How the fuck are we supposed build our future when there will be no future in 20 years and they think buying Tesla is the solution .htf are we gonna be the genaration who saves our planet when more than half of us are looking up to some seven k pop boys to make themselves feel worthy and loved
Here we go again. This is great for people with asthma.
everyone please read this and share if you can.
Brazil is going through one of the worst climatic crisis ever seen.
i live in the southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul. we have been suffering from extreme, nonstop rainstorms for a week now. the rivers are flooding, reaching 4-6 meters above their natural level. people are being rescued by helicopters, neighborhoods are being evacuated. entire cities are slowly but surely becoming submerged in water. 60 people missing and counting. 32 deaths and counting.
and this is not new. last november also had a flood like this one. 50 dead, many material losses. it happened again this january, with thousands being left without power or water for days.
three catastrophical disasters within less than a year. three disasters only a few months apart.
this is not natural.
unsustainable agricultural practices and politics led to this. a complete disregard for nature led to this. greed led to this. always greed.
when it comes to the climate crisis, i cannot stress this enough: we need to act now if we still want to live. disasters like this are going to happen more often and they're going to be much, much worse. this flood is being considered the worst climatic catastrophe in the history of my state. i don't know how long it will take for another bigger one to happen and take its place. i just know it will be sooner than it should.
links to donate (if you can't donate, sharing already helps a lot):
link for non-brazilians (paybox)
link for brazilians
pix assufrgs
will update more links later. in the meantime, pray for us.
"Too Hot To Dance" 🧊
Hi everyone!
Today Vincent sleep very much to skip an horrible tempest, unfortunately in my country and especialy my region we're struggling with too much rain and this night our river's city the Savio will esonde, a city near mine Forlì is being evacuated, others city like Faenza are now under water. Unfortunately this was even happened the last year ago, my city was under water, luckly not my house, i live in perifery, but i'm worry for my school friends. This is a consequens of climate change and in this day i will help the people and their pets who are without home now. I'm tsaking about that cause this blog give me voice, and I have to speak about this emergency, last year my city lost too much, too much people, too much pets and too much house were destroied. If we don't do somenthig now one day the will be nothing to put under river water, cause it will not be a city more.
For now is everything, see you later guys!
“When I was 26, I went to Indonesia and the Philippines to do research for my first book, No Logo. I had a simple goal: to meet the workers making the clothes and electronics that my friends and I purchased. And I did. I spent evenings on concrete floors in squalid dorm rooms where teenage girls—sweet and giggly—spent their scarce nonworking hours. Eight or even 10 to a room. They told me stories about not being able to leave their machines to pee. About bosses who hit. About not having enough money to buy dried fish to go with their rice.
They knew they were being badly exploited—that the garments they were making were being sold for more than they would make in a month. One 17-year-old said to me: “We make computers, but we don’t know how to use them.”
So one thing I found slightly jarring was that some of these same workers wore clothing festooned with knockoff trademarks of the very multinationals that were responsible for these conditions: Disney characters or Nike check marks. At one point, I asked a local labor organizer about this. Wasn’t it strange—a contradiction?
It took a very long time for him to understand the question. When he finally did, he looked at me like I was nuts. You see, for him and his colleagues, individual consumption wasn’t considered to be in the realm of politics at all. Power rested not in what you did as one person, but what you did as many people, as one part of a large, organized, and focused movement. For him, this meant organizing workers to go on strike for better conditions, and eventually it meant winning the right to unionize. What you ate for lunch or happened to be wearing was of absolutely no concern whatsoever.
This was striking to me, because it was the mirror opposite of my culture back home in Canada. Where I came from, you expressed your political beliefs—firstly and very often lastly—through personal lifestyle choices. By loudly proclaiming your vegetarianism. By shopping fair trade and local and boycotting big, evil brands.
These very different understandings of social change came up again and again a couple of years later, once my book came out. I would give talks about the need for international protections for the right to unionize. About the need to change our global trading system so it didn’t encourage a race to the bottom. And yet at the end of those talks, the first question from the audience was: “What kind of sneakers are OK to buy?” “What brands are ethical?” “Where do you buy your clothes?” “What can I do, as an individual, to change the world?”
Fifteen years after I published No Logo, I still find myself facing very similar questions. These days, I give talks about how the same economic model that superpowered multinationals to seek out cheap labor in Indonesia and China also supercharged global greenhouse-gas emissions. And, invariably, the hand goes up: “Tell me what I can do as an individual.” Or maybe “as a business owner.”
The hard truth is that the answer to the question “What can I, as an individual, do to stop climate change?” is: nothing. You can’t do anything. In fact, the very idea that we—as atomized individuals, even lots of atomized individuals—could play a significant part in stabilizing the planet’s climate system, or changing the global economy, is objectively nuts. We can only meet this tremendous challenge together. As part of a massive and organized global movement.
The irony is that people with relatively little power tend to understand this far better than those with a great deal more power. The workers I met in Indonesia and the Philippines knew all too well that governments and corporations did not value their voice or even their lives as individuals. And because of this, they were driven to act not only together, but to act on a rather large political canvas. To try to change the policies in factories that employ thousands of workers, or in export zones that employ tens of thousands. Or the labor laws in an entire country of millions. Their sense of individual powerlessness pushed them to be politically ambitious, to demand structural changes.
In contrast, here in wealthy countries, we are told how powerful we are as individuals all the time. As consumers. Even individual activists. And the result is that, despite our power and privilege, we often end up acting on canvases that are unnecessarily small—the canvas of our own lifestyle, or maybe our neighborhood or town. Meanwhile, we abandon the structural changes—the policy and legal work— to others.”
- Naomi Klein
i think there's something really sad and also really scary about coming to terms with the fact that my future is not going to be about succeeding in my career, finding love, and moving to a big city because in reality nothing will be waiting for me. i am going to be a climate refugee stuck in poverty and isolation.
religion, parental abuse and patriarchy stole my childhood and youth from me. now, capitalism has stolen my future from me. i'm being told not to despair, but im sorry. its too late. and im not forgiving the ones who did this. if hell is real, i hope you rot there.
Yet another reason that we need extremely urban and walkable cities. If you could do everything within a 5-15 minute walk or bike ride, you wouldn't need all of these gas stations, thus these gas companies wouldn't need to be doing so much to create the gasoline, in turn slowing climate change. I can think of very few downsides for creating more walkable cities.
Billionaires and other wealthy individuals should not have the right to appropriate and use thousands of times more fossil fuels than the rest of us. Another example of inequality being a big cause of our climate crisis.
It's a wierd phenomenon, seeing as traditionalists are usually so dynastic.
Do yall ever feel no cares about our society and environment and everything.. I'm watching the world end before my eyes and everyone my age I talk to could care less I want people to care because what will fucking happen when your way of life is no longer possible I don't care about your status in cookie run kingdom STFU AND CARE ABOUT THIS PLANET WE ARE WATCHING IN REAL TIME OUT SOCIETY FALLING AND YOUR DOING NOTHING NOW IS THE TIME TO LEARN HOW TO CAN FOOD OR HUNT IT SEWING MAKING CONNECTIONS WITH PEOPLE WHO HAVE KNOWLEDGE IN TRADITIONAL CRAFTS PEOPLE YOUR DYING AND DOING NOTHING ABOUT IT YOU ARE PART OF THE RAT RACE THAT WILL ONLY END WITH YOU DEAD
I hate how the average progressive liberal stance on climate change is simply that you must *believe* that climate change is real, that you should listen to *science*. But if you actually act in proportion to what the science of saying then you're q crazy climate nutter. You're just supposed to believe that it's real but act as if we can just keep going like we are now forever
Everyday I read about how many bombs are detonated, how strong the hurricanes are, how green Antartica is turning, and how the 6th extintion event happened because of capital greed, and I just can't wrap my head around the world as I know it ending, with me in it.
I'm not the kind of human to survive harsh winters, strong weather anomalies or hunger. Even if humans can survive another 100 years in a different kind of society, I'm not strong enough. I'll die, and my family will die, and all my friends will die.
And I'm just supposed to go to work because it's Monday.