It was 20°C outside with clear skies before sunrise. It’s October.

I’m beginning to think those climate scientists were onto something.

Nothing more grounding than absolutely going through it and having some complete stranger, visibly having a worse time than you casually blow through your life.

Never say never

You’ve only gotta find one person that’s the same kinda odd as you, they introduce you to someone else thats stranger, then you’re well on the way to having actual community.

It might not seem like the easiest of things to do, but the more you keep trying, the more likely it is that you’ll meet them.

That makes sense, I saw the word podcast and refused to click the link

Have you got something that isn’t a youtube video or a podcast made by some randoms saying “this definitely happened”

Can highly recommend making one of the diy ‘soylent’ type drinks, using those in the morning so that the rest of your meals throughout the day are where you get your surplus, because you can mix in whatever extras you’d like, if you’re not allergic, throwing a load of nuts into a food processor to get a fine paste can help with boosting the protein and fat content of the drink.

https://dashboard.theclimatebrink.com/#enso

We need revolutionary individual and mass action

Ok, describe the action. Do you want me to describe how to organise a protest without the surveillance state quashing it or having the local police harass you and legally enter your home to search through your belongings to find a reason to arrest you?

Or are you thinking of more direct action like those kids who keep going around pulling down flock cameras or burgling their way into the offices of the many arms of the military industrial complex, to then be arrested and charged as domestic terrorists?

Or do you want me to fill a fire extinguisher with orange paint?

Glue myself to a main road to make the proletariat late for work and sit idling their cars?

You want to be real? Then treat this like we’re going to survive, but treat it like the only way we’re going to do so is through actual community standing up for their rights as a group,

Small acts of defiance from fringe groups that do nothing but feed into the atomisation of society through mass media hysteria and put more bodies into prisons.

Relying on personal consumption changes like “don’t buy from Amazon” is also insufficient and essentially a capitalist myth that the onus of climate change is on the consumers

I’m not doing it to sound like BP with their “Carbon footprint” bullshit, I’m saying the less people feeding money into this modern day slave labour business, the better off we are as a society. The lessened environmental impact is a bonus even if it is just a drop in the ocean.

“Pestering” your local politicians and voting for the liberal capitalist party over the regressive capitalist party is not proving to be a sufficient formula for change.

Ok, so instead of putting people in power who can enact change, we should do what exactly?

Continue to talk about it on a message board until we say something egregious enough for the clanker currently scalping our words to flag up a “person of interest” label and have someone come knocking?

If you’re going to make a post saying “nuh uh, we need to dismantle the system” then please elaborate on how you intend to do so and what comes after, how you intend to actually survive the future climate without going completely bougie isolationist and starting a homestead out in the countryside where you grow your own food, make your own power, build your own house and somehow do so with no money, bo community and without dying of preventable diseases.

Start growing potatoes and a few varieties of beans, learn how to ferment vodka, and how to safely run a distillation to get alcohol strong enough to sterilise bandages or run a generator (<95% or so)

Get to know your neighbours and look out for one another. Being the person with big ratchet straps, wood planks and tarps, who’s also willing to help batten down the hatches is a good way of being part of the community, learn how to make flood defences and how to not die in one.

Get on a first aid course that goes on for more than just a day. Keep your first aid kit and your skills up to date.

Learn to maintain things without killing yourself by touching something charged (physically or electrically) or damaging the thing you’re trying to fix.

Get solar panels, charge caravan batteries to run inverters for when the rolling blackouts come.

Find out how to make the chalk paint they put over shop windows for the coming months when the sunlight is unbearable, IR blocking window films also help to keep the indoors from heating up as harshly, while lowering heat loss in the winter, the paint is cheaper but can be washed off when it rains, window films are easier if you’re not on the ground floor.

Switch to a renewable energy provider and cancel your amazon/whatever food delivery things you may use (I genuinely dont get why someone would pay double to order a private taxi for a fast food slop meal in the first place let alone the environmental impact of someone taxi-ing food around a city.)

Pester the shit out of your local politicians to focus more on environmental protection, and dont fall for the “voting is pointless, every party is bad” bullshit, because the worst and dumbest people you know are voting for the worst and the dumbest candidates that are ripping the copper out of the walls as we speak.

If things don’t get to 3°C and ~2bn deaths by 2050 it’ll be through the efforts of the people in power actually being forced to give a shit.

I feel ashamed that I know this information

Isn’t this the same tumblr that posted the hydraulic press pineapple video?

Probably sometime around 1912.

This is why I never want Iain M Bank’s books to be made into film

Ayyyy nicee

With any luck you will be (sorry, couldn’t resist the bad joke)

How about “The worlds most advanced military power allowed 2000 deaths to occur, all to further allow its parent state to tighten restrictions on free movement, increase surveillance on innocent civilians, and garner support for an invasion of an unrelated country?”

Holy shit we found them. It’s the one good cop.

Unfortunately they pulled a David McBride on him (Aussie whistleblower who worked as a military lawyer during the Afghanistan conflict, was tasked by higher ups to move blame from war criminals to more innocent soldiers, the news corp he leaked it to threw him under the bus and reframed it as “all these soldiers doing no harm and its the system punishing them” days before his whistleblowing trial because big america stepped in)

I can’t wait for the days where passive cooling (highly emissive IR panels that require little to no electricity to cool buildings) create new errors in the sat data that scientists have to deal with instead of “Oh yeah we’re fucking RUINING the place in specific regions and creating heat islands around all these carbon fuel powerplants and datacenters”

That seems like an open shut wrongful dismissal case, but I really don’t know what the labour laws are in your end of the world