GottaLaff, #Vermont has become the first state to enact a law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay a share of the damage caused by climate change after the state suffered catastrophic summer flooding and damage from other extreme weather. #ClimateCrisis
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/vermont-1st-state-require-oil-companies-pay-damage-110709150
SallyStrange, 600,000 new climate refugees in Brazil now
dougiec3, Oil corps have billions to fight this.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/28/poll-climate-change-lawsuit-oil-industry
#FossilFuel #ClimateChange
qurlyjoe, @dougiec3
And they have billion$ because we (taxpayers) have been giving them billion$ in subsidies for decades. We’re fucking paying their legal bills. Is this a great country or what?
aus_der_UBahn, German Menschen, die bei dem Wetter für was Gutes auf die Straße gehen, sollten ihre Wünsche sofort erfüllt kriegen, meine Meinung.
What do we want?
#climatejustice
When do we want it?
#NOW
#KlimaStreik #FFF
Bentley, Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from #climate change https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/vermont-1st-state-require-oil-companies-pay-damage-110709150
knizer, #CambridgeMA residents: get a tree planted on your property for free by this #GreenCambridge program:
https://www.greencambridge.org/canopycrew
The best time to plant a tree is 10 years ago, the second best time is now. #Climate #trees #UrbanCanopy #ClimateChange #Solarpunk #Massachusetts #Cambridge #Camberville
mem_somerville, In other news, this surprised me. I knew that they were planning it, but it is actually today!
New England's largest fossil fuel electric plant is shutting down today | Mystic Generating Station
"shuttering the plant shows the era of burning fossil fuels for electricity may have peaked, at least in New England"
#ClimateChange #FossilFuels #SomervilleMA #EverettMA
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/05/30/mystic-electric-station-massachusetts-closing
germanio, Women are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster, new study shows.
CelloMomOnCars, "Rightwing NZ government accused of ‘war on nature’ as it takes axe to #climate policies
Government of Christopher #Luxon has made sweeping cuts to climate projects in its first budget, with no new significant environmental investments"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/rightwing-nz-government-accused-of-war-on-nature-as-it-takes-axe-to-climate-policies?CMP=twt_a-environment_b-gdneco
#NewZealand
KimSJ, @CelloMomOnCars Oh, New Zealand, what are you doing? You used to be my last hope for sane humanity. 😢
Sadly, another example of the #KimbeauEffect…
https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ/110967143741456851
CelloMomOnCars, "#Climate-induced disasters, in the shape of devastating floods and excessive rains, have increased the burden of #malaria manifold, registering an alarming spike in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province [#Pakistan] in the preceding year of 2023.
Data compiled by the Public Health Department puts that in startlingly concrete terms: KP's malaria burden more than tripled in one year, a jump from 150,000 cases in 2022 to 500,000 in 2023, Dr Roghani disclosed."
https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/climate-change-causes-malaria-cases-triple-northwest-pakistan
royaards,
peterdutoit, Here I am sounding like a broken record again.
There is no evidence of an emergency “Covid-like” response to emission reductions.
As a result, we need to prepare physically, mentally and emotionally for a world at 2° within the next 20 years.
peterdutoit, That this needs to be said mid-2024 shows how completely and utterly disconnected the world is with the physics driving the climate crisis!
Keeping fossil fuels in the ground should have been common practice decades ago!
Yet here we are, cards firmly stacked for a 2° world. 🤷🏻
mattotcha, Alaska's rivers are turning bright orange and as acidic as vinegar as toxic metal escapes from melting permafrost
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/rivers-oceans/alaskas-rivers-are-turning-bright-orange-and-as-acidic-as-vinegar-as-toxic-metal-escapes-from-melting-permafrost #ClimateChange #al
RealJournalism, The Aral Sea used to be the lifeblood of people living in #Kazakhstan and #Uzbekistan. But it has been drying since the 1960's, and massive dust storms are hurting the quality of life. So the governments of those two countries are now planting massive forests there. #ClimateChange https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/uzbekistan-plants-a-forest-where-a-sea-once-lay/?ref=fixthenews.com
ebender00, Pollution Paradox: How Cleaning Up Smog Drives Ocean Warming
New research indicates that the decline in smog particles from China’s air cleanups caused the recent extreme heat waves in the Pacific. Scientists are grappling with the fact that reducing such pollution, while essential for public health, is also heating the atmosphere.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/aerosols-warming-climate-change
"Until recently, ships’ aerosol emissions probably cooled the planet more than their greenhouse-gas emissions warmed it."
jamesgbradbury, @ebender00 a small but important point here. Removing aerosol pollution doesn't drive warming, it reduces cooling or unmasks heating by greenhouse gases.
Hence the solution is to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.
thj,
CelloMomOnCars, Women are 14 times more likely to die in a climate disaster than men. It’s just one way #ClimateChange is gendered
But also:
"Evidence from across a range of sectors demonstrates gender-diverse leadership results in more effective and equitable approaches."Example:
"Companies with more than 30% women on their boards display better climate governance, climate innovation and sustainability performance."
CelloMomOnCars, The men are at work elsewhere, and/or women wear the kind of clothing that gets in the way of swimming or climbing a tree or a roof, and/or women simply aren't strong enough physically to hold on to something when flood waters come: there's a litany of reasons. 😥
mi1stormilst, @CelloMomOnCars Yes you are correct there are a lot of reasons. Some of the biggest are that they mostly likely die in poorer areas due to lack of transportation too.
ai6yr, Times of India: Heatwave kills 8 in Bihar, 2 in Madhya Pradesh as temperature continues to rise...schools ordered closed until June 8th. (possibly paywall) https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/heatwave-kills-8-in-bihar-2-in-madhya-pradesh-as-temperature-continues-to-rise/articleshow/110572318.cms #climate #disaster #climateemergency #India #heatwave
ai6yr, **interesting to see the denial that heat was behind the deaths in this article from officials. Trying to deflect blame... imho.
ai6yr, Not familiar with the many news outlets in India, but this one reports at least 19 dead in the last 24 hours (so far)...
Bihar: 19 Die Of Heatwave Within 24 Hours
https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!state/bihar-19-die-of-heatwave-within-24-hours-enn24053005265 #heatwave #india #death #climatedisaster
TatianaIlyina, Edinburgh banned SUV and airline ads as a step-up in action to tackle #climatechange.
Can this be #Hamburg?
compost, Our account goal is not to be popular. Our goal is to inspire a few people to be the change about composting and hope that with a domino effect, they will inspire others.
This is why we have decided to stand for a few topics that are not related to composting.
We want LGBTQIA people to feel included here as I have myself a few letters of the umbrella. It is about to be #PrideMonth and we will celebrate this event.
We stand for the fact that the #climate crisis is a reality. We don't understand why we should follow the feelings of a few old men who are destroying this planet in the name of greed. Fuck that.
Also if democracy is about to be wiped out from the USA we will remind Americans that freedom is never a one-way road. Freedom should never be a privilege for a few people.
JimmyB, @compost I post this about once a week at the moment - very relevant to the state of our politics: from the Billy Bragg version of the Internationale
“Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all”Well said Billy…
Adorable_Sergal, @compost Earth has an astounding diversity of life, and diversity of living. It's all worth saving. Well, except for the bits that are actively killing the planet's biosphere, but that's a given
ClimateNewsNow, Young, green and European: Meet the new generation of eco-activists running in the EU elections. #ClimateChange
XRebellionAus, Sleight of hand: Australia’s Net Zero target is being lost in accounting tricks, offsets and more gas.
(a LOT of gas).
kevinrns, Do Not Make Working Folks pay for the transition out of the carbon dead end cull de sac that billionaires drove us into.
Like Biden, tax those that have done very well driving us up the one way street to firestorms and floods, and just buy the offshore wind-farms and heat-pumps. Just buy the solar roofs.
susankayequinn, Now that I've had it a couple weeks, I'm an even bigger fan of my new modular, repairable laptop from #Framework: lightweight, keyboard is a dream, comparable/better to MS Surfaces I've had (keyboard went bad).
BONUS: with the intro of this new series, they've put the older model on sale!
It's a million small choices like this that will help us reduce waste (particularly ewaste) & live more sustainably on the planet.
CriticalBassHH, Morgen (Freitag 31.Mai) feuern wir wieder Liebe, Bass und Seifenblasen aus allen Rohren: 🥳 ❤️
- 14:00h Klimastreik, Glacischaussee
- 19:00h Critical Mass, Startpunkt Barmbek vorm Globetrotter
#criticalmasshamburg #cmhh #climatejustice #klimastreik #fridaysforfuture