Climate Dad

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

The BILLIONS of people on track to be killed this century won’t all be climate campaigners. Climate campaigners are just people willing to accept uncomfortable scientific truths, while governments bury their heads in fossil fuel profits.

We’ve had five decades of neoliberal governments pretending that economic growth = what’s best for the people they are elected to serve. It’s a brain disease, a self-delusion set to come crashing down in the next few years, as their growthist fantasy slams into physical reality.

Our entire civilization hinges on the security & stability provided by the insurance industry. Now that industry is deliberately misleading itself about climate breakdown in order to survive. It’s a case of when - not if - this industry will fall.

Who would have predicted establishment journalists prefer a cosy Green Party they can easily ignore instead of one that fights an establishment built on corruption, inequality, ecocide & genocide? Every call for @zackpolanski.bsky.social to resign just reiterates why he MUST stay.

We’re living in a moment where the most ignorant, narcissistic psychopath you can imagine is US President & Earth’s Energy Imbalance has TREBLED across two decades. The endgame of neoliberalism, where greed & idiocy are all powerful, & death & collapse meet with a shrug.

The “Surf Economy” comes to the rescue of journalists struggling to find an angle on a crisis set to decimate our food system, collapse our civilization & kill billions of people in our children’s lifetimes.

Exxon predicts 2.5-3C by 2050! Actuaries & scientists warn 2C by 2050 will cause at least 2 billion deaths & 3C by 2050 will kill OVER 4 BILLION PEOPLE! The fossil fuel industry is TELLING US it’s gonna kill over half the world’s population. And from our ‘leaders’? Crickets.

We’re kept increasingly distracted, stressed & ignorant because stopping & thinking for just a few minutes would make it abundantly clear to anyone that our society is racing toward a collapse which most of us will not survive.

At that point in capitalism where we’re meant to be reassured when a CEO begrudgingly says they’d destroy their business to avoid killing the human race. Where ‘leaders’ have abdicated such decisions to the whims of sociopaths. (I also don’t believe him)

Earth’s Energy imbalance has TRIPLED in 20 years! Maybe a climate scientist can set me straight, but am I right in thinking this is the most rapid change in energy imbalance our planet has seen in its 4.5 BILLION year history?? If so, kinda feels like it should be bigger news.

The red line escaping along with any dreams we might have of a decent future for our children.

Not a particularly smart person here, but with people puzzling ‘how’ AI might be able to kill everyone; it’s been trained by a civilisation that shrugs at genocide, that’s pushed the planet’s atmosphere, biosphere & its own food supply to the brink of collapse. It’s learnt from the best.

This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In a sane society, when someone decides to build a humanity-exterminating machine, everyone else stops them. In a capitalist society, when someone decides to build a humanity-exterminating machine, everyone else races to build a machine that exterminates humanity even better.

It’s no surprise that fascism is marching upward in lockstep with this wiggly line. Those profiting from decimating the planet benefit from public ignorance, confusion & anger. Giving our kids the chance of a survivable future means stopping the rise of the far right.

It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour stands up for corporations and big money. I'm running to stand up for people and our communities. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

He’s running. www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/article/excl...

This was 63 YEARS AGO! And scientists have been raising the alarm for over 150 YEARS! If we’re lucky enough to have a future where historians exist, they will talk endlessly about the grotesque levels of corruption & wilful ignorance that control & permeate our supposedly ‘civilised’ society.

2027 will be devastating. The fallout of this year’s El Niño being described as a “Godzilla level” event for our planet. Quite honestly, dealing with a giant radioactive lizard would be a cinch compared to the looming catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

FYI Anyone who also follows me on the ‘other’ site may have noticed odd activity from my account this afternoon, it has been hijacked and I am now unable to log back in to my account. I have contacted Twitter support but not sure if and how this is going be resolved. 🙄

This headline stays with me. But it’s too easy to blame ‘humanity’. Billionaires, elites & the system they control have conditioned humanity to see destroying life for profit as “just the way things are”. The’re building bunkers where they can watch the rest of us die along with everything else.

This lunacy is end-stage capitalism, politicians bending to the whims of socially-inept billionaire psychopaths despite the writing all over the fucking wall. I’m convinced the vast majority of people would be more than happy to put AI back in a box & never open the thing again.

Scientists, insurers & risk assessors are warning that climate collapse will kill up to half the human race this century! But… “Small boats, Harry & Meghan, women’s toilets…” Our kids are looking back with bemusement & disgust from a future that 50% of them won’t survive.

Despairing at how absolutely nothing is being done to stop the climate crisis as it rapidly slides into the “killing-each-other-over-the-last-loaf-of-bread” crisis.

This year is not a blip. It’s one of the coolest years for the rest of our lives. Our children will not forgive us.

In 2050 my son will be the age I was when he was born. In 2050 our world will be 2-3C above preindustrial temps, a rise that insurance industry risk assessors warn will derail our society & kill 2-4 billion people. No generation in history has failed its children on this scale.

Your kids want you to take a look at this:

England. This Green & Pleasant Land. Reform & the rest of the faux patriots in our politics & media - screaming about sovereignty as they distract us with flags & small boats - are in the pocket of the industry that’s done this to our country. We. Should. Be. Furious.

It doesn’t take much imagination to step outside our current system & see the absolute fucking bat-shit-crazy psychopathy of business as usual. Destroying our world, our souls & our lives in service of the never ending accumulation of meaningless capital.

Essential reading from @rupertread.bsky.social and @carolinelucas.bsky.social 'We’ve left the old normal…but haven’t yet built the institutions, behaviours or sense of security needed for the unstable reality we’re entering.' rupertsreads.substack.com/p/burnham-st... #Thrutopia #ClimateFutures

We don’t need new data centres. We already have all the data we need. It’s telling us billions of people will die this century unless we end fossil fueled capitalism.

Of course these BBQs should be banned - & not just temporarily. But like ‘greenwashing’ & ‘carbon footprint calculators’ this psychologically pushes the blame onto the public & away from the oil & gas giants. It’s a measure that is as cowardly as it is dangerously inadequate.

Just 0.3% of staff in the government department designed to protect our food security are working to adapt our food system to the greatest threat our country has ever faced. We are allowing ourselves to be led by people too inept, corrupt & compromised to save anything at all.

Horrific scenes in Stourbridge. As your home burns, remember the UK government met with fossil fuel lobbyists over 500 times during their first year in power While we bin our BBQs, they’re being wined & dined by the arsonists. Be furious.

The gently sloping line at the bottom is our world 252 million years ago, when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years killing 90% of all species. It is a period known as The Great Dying. That vertical red line is the world our children live in.

Don’t worry, we’re banning disposable BBQs.

Good news in the same way the Titanic’s deck chair arranger finally cracking it on April 15, 1912 was ‘good news’.