Weather and climate change aren’t the same thing, but climate change is creating extremes.
Despite this, Ron DeSantis (R) just signed a law deleting climate change from Florida policy, banning the construction of offshore wind turbines, and boosting fossil fuels.
DeSantis isn’t in the running anymore for President but Trump is and his plan for addressing the climate is if anything worse.
I'm having a hard time believing, not that a #transportation agency would come up with a plan that was to sweep the broken glass and gravel off of the sidewalks and leave it in the bike lanes for a few days before sweeping it up, just that it wasn't done with intentional malice or disdain toward people on bikes. (months after it snowed and they graveled everything while plowing the snow onto the sidewalks) #BarburBlvd#pdxBikes#Portland#BikeTooter#ClimateDenial#CarSupremacy#ODOTGTFOpdx
"The pro-Trump Epoch Times has run hundreds of anti-climate social media adverts in Europe since the beginning of 2024 that have been seen millions of times.
Many of these adverts have explicitly questioned the contribution of carbon dioxide (CO2) to climate change."
An interesting takeaway from the English Local Elections was that candidates supporting Net Zero and stronger environmental policies did better than the pro mass motoring and climate denial/delay candidates.
It is odd that so much of the media don't want to report this, could it possibly have anything to do with the £2bn a year that the motor industry spends on advertising?
hundreds of millions of dollars of federal "investment" going to freeway overpasses and seven-lane car-centric intersections with painted bike lanes are not "reconnecting communities". You're just putting a veneer of modernity on the wall of cars that separates kids and other non-drivers from independence, keeping the vast majority of people enslaved to #motoNormativity. #ClimateDenial#transportation#carSupremacy#ODOTGTFOpdx#legalizeBikes
The idea that you can get #CompleteStreets by giving money to the highway department is a complete failure. It's 2024 and ODOT is rebuilding #stroads with curb-tight sidewalks and painted bike lanes that run between a right turn lane and thru traffic, posted speed: 45mph. The focus needs to be on scrapping-together and then incrementally improving a connected low-stress bikeway network throughout the metro region, not repaving and updating disjoint segments to 1990's designs.
#PBOT has a problem where they all spend effort shuffling around projects trying to catch potential funding sources falling from the sky and then don't really do basic things on the ground about what it's like to ride a bike in this city. #Portland#pdxBikes#Vision60or70something#ClimateDenial
final day to provide feedback about the 82nd Ave Major Maintenance Project. #PBOT’s current plans do not include improvements to a majority of sidewalks or any accommodations for people riding #pdxBikes along #SE82nd at all, no #BusLanes for the bus line with the highest ridership in #Oregon??
Red state attempts to tell city what to do / not do. This is the kind of delay tactics that is the current brand of #ClimateDenial. Helped by #CarBrain that says bus riders are undeserving.
" The bill targeted Indianapolis and could have scuttled over one hundred million dollars in federal funds. Specifically, the bill put a one year moratorium on dedicated lanes deemed essential for the Blue Line while a one year study could be conducted on their effectiveness."
Scene: a wasteland of fascist car supremacy, stroads, millions dead per year, many more maimed, most of the rest coerced into working for their car and sitting in traffic awaiting extinction
Bike Advocate: "we should consider policy that prioritizes bikes, somewhat"
People: "not everyone can ride a bike."
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If the only reason you can't ride a bike three miles is the car traffic, do you think the car infrastructure might be the problem, or should we just wait to find some perpetual motion and infinite geometric impossibility in a cereal box? #climateDenial#carSupremacy
If your EVs aren't selling maybe that's because you're making giant fucking trucks and SUVs and hyper-expensive luxury sedans and the kind of people who want EVs mostly just want a compact car for getting to work and running errands.
@Stybba3019@schizanon@tess Pushing back on the idea that roads shouldn't be maintained exclusively for cars is #ClimateDenial. Sure you can drive a car, but why does that obviate others from riding an e-bike when the majority of trips are under three miles and half of that distance is #Parking. The funding that it would take to enable transit and e-bikes for everyone is being used to subsidize luxury SUVs for a few, but obviously you need a car, fine, pay for it.
Big slowclap.gif for the slow but steady sweeping up of what was all-hands-on-deck spreading gravel. What if those protected bike lanes were connected, wouldn't that help people who are trying to get somewhere but scared to ride in an unprotected lane? This whole event / scenario is a design failure, policy failure, failure of imagination, failure of elected officials to understand how cities work. #Portland#ClimateDenial#CarSupremacy#transportation
For my international audience (because i can't believe my #German audience could have missed this).
After the recent #antifascist#antifa demonstations there has been a popularisation of the #antifasticker meme. People from all walks of live appropriate symbols from their lived experience and combine it with the antifascist logo for something amusing. Here are some samples with alt-texts providing a translation/explanation. A thread 🧵1/10 : #WorkerRights #colorblind#nyancat#cthulhu
the mental gymnastics of #drivers faced with the notion of driving around the block sometimes to avoid extincting our species, is how they get their cardio
PBOT working overtime to clear five car lanes by piling the snow and cut wood in the bike lanes is peak #climateDenial#CarSupremacy just keep serving up half of GHG emissions #GlobalWarming and wonder why people won't get out of their cars. #pdxBikes#Portland#pdxtst
"The [researchers] say the “report reveals how these East Coast #OffshoreWind opponents are not solely local – they are embedded in a network of seasoned #FossilFuel interests and #ClimateDenial think tanks that have perfected obstruction tactics for decades.”
One striking aspect of the anti-OSW network is the sharing of tactics and rhetoric, both in mainstream media and on social networks, said Slevin."
This #FossilFuel driven Dementor campaign is not helping people already struggling with mental health, especially the young. It may help if you point out to them that part of the bleak view on climate they get online is manufactured.
" “New denial” content — attacks on solutions, the science and the climate movement — now makes up 70% of all #ClimateDenial claims posted on #YouTube, according to the report, up from 35% in 2018. "