Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
The anti-protestor laws have made it a necessity for arrests in order to have anything remotely resembling a successful protest. Our right and civil duty to protest has been criminalised, and the fucking pigs are complicit.
Police are the honour guard of the climate apocalypse.
Look. If there's anything damaging the environment, we'll just tow it out of the environment...
More seriously. Given our current NZ government's attitudes, I fear a similar pattern to emerge here.
How long is jail time of protesting vs murder?
THIS IS THE QUESTION
WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!
*Gets arrested for protesting*
That's okay, when climate change turns Australia into Mad Max, us Americans will be over here in our christofascist hellscape drying from measles and paying for the privilege, so we won't notice.
What, you expected there to be a bright side? Dafuq cloud is your head in?
You didn't protest hard enough when they took away our right to protest. sucks to suck.
will target "anarchist protesters"
we don't fucking protest. anti-protester legislation is only targeting people who still think the state can be reasoned with.
Keep rolling that dice. Please.
Australia isn't real
As an Australian, I can confidently tell you, as a matter of fact, that I'm a paid actor, who lives in some kind of amorphous aether between the mesosphere and troposphere.
I'm surprised we get internet up here.
I hope you get paid well since it sounds like a tough job!!
I could’ve sworn I literally saw an article like a week ago saying it was the UK