wrote on Tuesday. All that we've been experiencing recently—the worsening fires, smoke, heat, floods, and collapsing ecosystems—is just the beginning. This is what experiencing the early stages of Earth's unraveling feels like. The immediate cause is the fossil fuel industry, and the overarching cause is extractive-colonial capitalism.
A sheep stands on cracked earth in the Bahia Cohana area of Lake Titicaca, shared by Bolivia and Peru, in the Bolivian Altiplano on Sept. 22.For those of you who still think it's a hoax or are otherwise skeptical – the third group - I urge you to consider any changes in seasons and weather that have occurred over time where you live.
There is now no conceivable way we can stay under 1.5°C of mean global heating. We probably still had that chance a few years ago, but it has been squandered out of political cowardice, media distraction, apathy, a steady diet offrom the fossil fuel industry. We're currently at about 1.3°C and rising at two tenths a degree per decade.