@petergleick climate change is nasty as it says that winners and losers may change places . The rich don’t like it because money is everything and climate change is a threat. If they are smart enough then they know it’s coming but they can’t bend to the need to provide for saving the race and the current ecology. They want to continue as they do even though the enemy is at the gate.
#climatechange #climatedenial

we're so fucked #ClimateDenial #FuckCars

@Dragofix

I do actually worry about bananas, but anything with dates even as high as 2050, much less 2080, seem like either risks safely far away (unlikely, but possible) or overly optimistic timelines.

I'm not making light of the Climate threat. Rather, I'm saying all of humanity is in imminent peril of deadly famines and the resource wars that will accompany them, long before such far-off dates. Just to name only one of many nearer-term risks.

People seem to think that the big Climate risks are first-order ones like drowning due to rising seas or heat so high people can't in any way survive. But not everything we depend on is as robust as we are, so if our primary food supply dies (just for example), it won't really matter that our air conditioners still work or that a few bananas still grow somewhere. We will have killed each other in bloody uprisings long before.

It's the second- and third-order effects of climate, the domino effects of seemingly small things, that we should be tracking better. For example, if a country exporting bananas in exchange for other foods finds no one offering those other foods for trade, yes, we're short bananas, but what will those countries do that have an excess of bananas and a paucity of other needed goods. It won't take much before borders start to tighten up.

And then on top of it, we see the felon creating both tariff policy and international bad will that causes people to think about closing down trade for other reasons, hastening a problem that was maybe going to come. That won't make things better. It could just force a crisis even sooner.

But the idea that we'll be able to survive with global society intact doing what we're doing now in the world for another 50+ years until there's a banana crisis just does not pass the laugh test with me.

Until you plan and design for the vast majority of people to easily be able to bike, scooter, trike, or e-bike for a sub-3-mile trip, given the densities US cities currently have, then just admit you're continuing to plan a city around cars. You can have all the aspirations of transit oriented development, and the math simply doesn't connect, you won't have the ridership and political will to get there from here. You need a way to roll past that slump of parking-oriented sprawl. #ClimateDenial

Over half of this meeting gone with only a passing mention of bikes, let's see if PBOT has any bikes. #ClimateDenial

"Bill 3119, introduced by Republican Rep Shelly Boshart Davis [family owns a trucking business], Ed Diehl,…

would prohibit DEQ from implementing and enforcing the ACT until 2027, cosponsors include Republicans Drazan, Owens, Reschke, and Democrats Ken Helm, Emerson Levy, and John Lively. []

…advocates for the [truck emissions] rule say many opponents are misinformed … truck manufacturers as the origins of that misinformation,

“This late in the game, climate delay is #climateDenial " #orPol

What if honking at people on bikes was the same as calling the governor's office at (503) 378-4582 to tell her we need ODOT to put up some signs around the #Portland metro area for the outside lanes of #stroads to be for bike/bus/turn-only and maybe splash some red paint around. #Honky #pdxBikes #orPol #ClimateDenial #WithDemsLikeThese #orDems #ODOTGTFOpdx #VisionZero #ClimateAction #BusLanes

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