Don’t Look Away: The Climate Crisis Demands Our Attention We live in a time of crisis overload. President Trump and his team are following his advisor Steve Bannon’s strategy to “flood the zone…

Bottom line -- speak up, demand action, and don't look away from this existential crisis that threatens the foundations of our society. 7/
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Will ‘The Power Bill Reduction Act’ Make Electric Bills Go Down or Up in N.C.? - Inside Climate News The legislature overrode the governor’s veto, canceling Duke Energy’s interim carbon reduction goal of 70 percent by 2030. Proponents say it will lower energy costs, but volatile gas prices and escala...

This bill guts climate action; it locks in volatile "natural" gas dependency.

"The new law was introduced..by Republican Sen. Paul Newton, a former Duke Energy executive. (Newton resigned to accept a job..[at].. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.) "

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Sometimes I think about those very first scientists & pols who became aware of climate change. They thought, "what's step one? I know, we'll get literally every nation in the world together & sign a binding treaty that will force us all to completely retool our industrial bases!"

Imagine.

Black background. Text reads “American Eagle's controversial ad campaign is all over the news/everyone's newsfeeds. But you know what they're not talking about?” “Not” is underlined in red. Arrow icon in bottom right corner pointing right.

Cream-colored background. Text reads “American Eagle's glaring "D" rating on our Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard.” American Eagle Outfitters logo flipped horizontally next to an image from Stand’s scorecard showing AE’s total score as D, with their manufacturing emissions change showing a 29% increase and their 2023 score also D. Text below reads “A 'D' grade doesn't just mean disappointment: It reflects a troubling lack of transparency, minimal efforts to shift to renewable energy, and insufficient commitments to phase out synthetic fabrics derived from oil, like polyester.”

Cream-colored background. Text reads “Despite the pressure mounting across the industry, American Eagle has yet to publicly chart a credible path to decarbonize its supply chain or meet science-based climate targets.” Image from Stand’s scorecard showing AE’s full rankings, showing their total score as D, with their other scores as follows: Commitment & Transparency: B; Renewable Energy: D-; Low Carbon Materials: D+; Shipping: F; Advocacy: D.” Text below reads “Don't let this key fashion polluter off the hook for anything - including its rising emissions. Fashion is a highly polluting industry and all brands need to not just talk the talk on climate. AE may have strong climate goals, but it needs to back them up with ACTION, especially now that more eyes are on the company.”

Background image of clothing on mannequins in front of fossil fuel infrastructure. Text reads “It's time for American Eagle to move beyond highly questionable ad campaigns and take real steps toward fossil-free fashion.”

American Eagle's controversial ad campaign is all over the news and everyone's algorithms.

But you know what they're not talking about?

The brand’s glaring 'D' rating on Stand.earth’s Fossil Free Fashion Scorecard... 🧵

Texas forbids law that keeps guns away from unhinged people Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.

Gerrymandering in Texas is getting all the attention right now, but look at what else the state's GOP just did...

Texas Forbids Law That Keeps Guns Away From Unhinged People

Despite recent massacres in the state, GOP leaders ban a proven tool to help stop them.
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concerned over recent indications of a cozying up to oil and gas Alberta and their demented climate-change-denying Premier.
To be blunt, I don’t want to spend my remaining years, and more importantly, my children and grandchildren, waking up to this, and worse, for the rest of their lives.

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Is today’s weather normal? Search for your town or city to compare it to previous years The CBC News Climate Dashboard tracks temperature and precipitation and compares them to historical trends. Check back daily to see breaking records and the forecast for where you live.

The CBC climate dashboard is excellent. And ugh, not a good situation right now. newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/202...

Watching all the gerrymandering in the US right now, as a Canadian I am so grateful we have the non-partisan Elections Canada in charge of ridings instead of politicians trying to game the system. Elections Canada is not perfect, but in terms of democracy it leaves the US system in the dust!

Forecast 2-m temperatures today in Finland, based on the MEPS regional model.

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees.

Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.

The forests are tinder dry due to climate change. Rising temps bring drought. The cause is excess CO2 and other greenhouse gases. Most emitted due to burning oil gas and coal. We must stop buring and use renewable energy. President Trump is fuelling the flames. Can he be stopped?

Increasing service hours is the number one way to increase ridership (& therefore revenue).

Why can't the Premier just focus on the basic business of provincial government like reducing wait times at hospitals and ensuring schools aren't falling apart. Why is everything with him another damn scheme?

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Republicans complain to Canada over wildfire smoke despite supporting planet-heating bill Lawmakers send letter railing against ‘suffocating’ smoke days after voting for Trump plan likely to boost pollution

When American politicians complain about Canadian wildfire smoke, it’s like, which country has been changing the climate to create wildfire conditions?

Canada isn’t innocent of greenhouse gas emissions, but compared to the States, come on.

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers. Continue reading...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

Is America great yet? Is this the “Golden Age?”

EVs are very quiet. I am thinking we needd a city with fewer ars and more reliance on bikes walking an transit but for those who nee a car get an EV! Then yes much quieter cities.

lol Ottawa what are you doing

Screenshot of map of Canada showing air quality through colours: green for good in British Columbia and the east coast, gradations of worsening air quality from yellow and orange across most of the country, hazardous red in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec, and very dangerous purple where hundreds of wildfires are currently blazing in the middle of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The jet streams pushing a lot of the wildfire smoke particulates into all of Ontario and Quebec showing up as mostly red. Taken from IQ Air website link in the post.

So is this summer from now on, Canada? While our new PM builds more pipelines? If people aren’t willing to wear a respirator for Covid, they sure won’t wear one for wildfire smoke in summer. So much chronic illness headed our way. 😞
#cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis #wildfires

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#Booksky rec: Moon of the Crusted Snow by @waub.bsky.social was so good I immediately started Moon of the Turning Leaves which will stay with me forever - wow! I highly recommend the audio versions because Anishinaabemowin is so beautiful to hear and Billy Merasty is a joy to listen to.

CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. 

Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The infuriating thing beyond all the obvious that's already been said is that Ford has a *ton* of political capital that we could desperately use in nation building projects. Affordable housing on government land? That's going to upset people and we could use the goodwill he inexplicably maintains.

#GazaGenocide by Israel

#GazaGenocide by Israel

Death Toll in Israel’s Attacks on Gaza Rises by 101 in 24 Hours, Reaching 60,239 The death toll in Israel’s attacks on Gaza has risen by 101 in the last 24 hours, reaching 60,239. Starvation and systematic attacks on aid zones are exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. 🚨 #GazaGenocide #IsraeliAttacks #HumanitarianCrisis #Palestine #Starvation

The death toll in Israel’s attacks on Gaza has risen by 101 in the last 24 hours, reaching 60,239. Starvation and systematic attacks on aid zones are exacerbating the humanitarian crisis. 🚨 #GazaGenocide #IsraeliAttacks #HumanitarianCrisis #Palestine #Starvation

But the Pro-Palestinian people say the Democrats and the GOP are the same. Hmmm 🤔. Good thing yall nuked Democracy because Kamala didn’t say your magic word. #uncommitted #gazagenocide

This - just hauled off the chopping block
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This Entire Country Has To Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change The gorgeous Pacific island nation of Tuvalu will be the first country on earth to be consumed by rising sea levels caused by climate change.

I can’t even imagine the extreme levels of xenophobia and jingoism that are going to manifest when the population of climate crisis refugees explodes over the next few decades.

So. The Canadian government is saying one thing and doing another?

On a genocide? I am speechless.

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