(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Climate and You. What will you do? [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-02-24 This post will fade away quickly — If you agree with any of the positive action steps in the resource links — please make a post of KOS from your point of view — rather than waste time arguing with me or arguing with people I will piss off — make a post. Yours will fade quickly as well , however, maybe we can create a niche on the front page for these ideas. -------— The Argument -----— Can we please face facts and admit that everything we have done thus far to curb, or stop climate change has failed. 1st rebuttals But what about _____? aren’t we doing better with this ___? Response — No matter how great the effort and no matter how much success concerned people have brought about — we are not slowing or stopping climate change in any meaningful way to hold back our extinction. 1st conclusion — this is a matter of fact. If you choose to see this as despair — and pick a fight over the psychological impacts of negativity and human activism — that’s a bullshit argument. Why? it reinforces the idea that not doing better is ok and that you — the defender of this position need not be alarmed and take action. Denying the reality of the crisis at hand stops you from making real change and keeping the arguments for change in a stagnant place. The fruits of this position have been a reliance on and call for top down environmental/climate action. which as we know is roadblocked for all the reasons and motivations of greed we can all quote on que. Great — so fucking what. What is the point here? I would solicit and offer you the idea that you have more power to affect real carbon capturing change than you allow yourself to accept. If you have a faucet where you live — you have a means to make a hands on effort to stop climate change in your immediate environments. You need to grow things. If 8 billion people took on 8 billion plants, 1 new plant every 6 months, we would all 1) re establish a visceral understanding of life within nature 2) Sequester more carbon than we had in the previous 6 months 3) Create an economic driver that helps the planet and puts job growth where it is most needed — toward stopping climate change. If we really — really wanted to stop climate change would we be wasting water resources by peeing and shitting and wasting resources on infrastructure to process that waste? Think of the word waste — where in the cyclical bio engines of natural processes is there waste? Shit is a dirty word because we have a moronic relationship with it. We shit where we eat — we come from cultural habits where the livestock was kept in our homes in concentrated ways that improperly processed shit. I don’t know many people — including the ones I live with — who are ready to stop flushing. These are the real things we would need to do to stop climate change — are we gonna wait for a mandate that everyone will protest as governmental over reach? I am repeatedly laughed at and castigated for pointing out the necessity of these kinds of changes because I must be the village idiot for not knowing that we need massive political organized action to stop this or make meaningful change and these are deluded post hippie avoidance of political necessity for mass protest and change. I must be an idiot to not know that we need to stop evil fossil fuel corporations, blind to see that a lack of government resolve is the real issue. Ok — 1) We can’t do two things at once? 2) When you are done hippie shaming — have you and your hands done anything to get carbon into the ground? So here we are — climate change is not changing — we are not changing fast enough to survive it and finger pointing is praised as being part of the solution. Final comments — I personally am at a place of knowing we are about to be extinct — It doesn’t have to be this way, however, all of this waiting for someone to lead and having a necessity for top down change is never coming — it hasn’t yet — there is no indication that it will is how we humans have made it. If, humans can accept where we are and turn off the blame thrower we can at least go out with hospice and love and community. If you feel that we have a fighting chance then activating your hands and creating more nature will definitely vindicate your beliefs. CHOICES -and ACTIONS — here is a host of resources for people and ideas that concretely demonstrate the ideas i am representing today. I hope that some people might check them out and post more in the comments. These links are just a minute resource list. I ask that you look within and consider the question “ can I be political in my life and hands on with climate change at the same time?” https://www.youtube.com/@ThePermacultureStudent https://www.youtube.com/@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL Houseplants as activism and change? Where’s the science hiipie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVp5koAOu9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPNYdSZRSdg https://www.youtube.com/@DiscoverPermaculture https://www.youtube.com/@soilfoodwebschool Johnson Su Bioreactor — hippie shit or real science? https://www.youtube.com/@davidjohnson1910 https://www.youtube.com/@GroundswellAgriculture Kiss the Ground on Netflix or youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X47byQBj8u0 https://www.youtube.com/@edibleacres https://www.youtube.com/@FlockFingerLakes long winded — yes — practical knowledge — yes https://www.youtube.com/@growingyourgreens Microclimate? Whats a micro climate? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYymeUVmdE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvTh-K6dUPg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8KQevszmuk [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/24/2154766/-Climate-and-You-What-will-you-do Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/