Peter Kalmus
Climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory from 2012 to 2026 and climate activist; author of Being the Change (2017). Writes the Climate Human newsletter on the climate emergency, protest and politics.
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Their wordsWhich is concerning, since humanity is conducint a blind experiment on our planet, heating it, through fossil fuel emissions, faster than at any other time in its 4.5 billion year history.
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Their wordsNonetheless, I still hold that sociology and related fields are more important right now than climate science.
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Their wordsWhy, then, didn't our governments do these obvious things? Because they didn't want to do them. Why not? Because they're corrupted by the billionaire class.
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Their wordsIt now appears that they are decreasing as the planet heats up, which will make the planet heat up faster.
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Their wordsEnding billionairism is the key to untangling the gordian knot of intensifying fascism, unaffordable rents, wage slavery, artificial intelligence, unattainable healthcare, racist incarceration, endless idiotic wars, and global heating.
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Their wordsThe two-party system in America is designed to suppress the left through a "lesser of two evils" voting system. Corporate Dems are able to dominate the Democratic party by pulling as-big-as-necessary donations from the billionaire class.
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- 4 months earlier
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Protest is a necessary component for driving political movements and making other tactics possible.
Their wordsProtest provides the pressure that drives the entire movement and makes other tactics possible.
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Their wordsThere is no bottom to either the cruelty or the stupidity of fascism.
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Their wordsThe billionaire class will use its media assets to try to ensure working class people fight working class people across the political divide, likely through the channel of fascism, since it allows them to maintain control throughout.
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Climate change is entering a phase where it directly impacts daily life, homes, and personal plans.
Their wordsWe have entered the phase of climate change where it chases us. It hits our daily lives, our homes, our friends and family, our travel plans.
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Their wordsOn average, this is the coolest summer for the rest of your life. This is the least floody summer for the rest of your life. This is the least fiery and smokey summer for the rest of your life.
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Their wordsAs I've said many times, climate breakdown is nothing more (or less) than the most planetary-scale symptom of the underlying collective trauma from five hundred unhealed, accumulated years of extractive colonial capitalism.
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Their wordsWe can't stop planetary breakdown without also addressing this collective trauma, and we can't address this collective trauma without also working on our own healing.
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The only way to overcome human harm to each other and life on Earth is to collectively heal.
Their wordsBut in the end, the only way to come out of all the ways we humans are hurting each other and life on Earth is to collectively heal.
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