Timothy Schwinghamer (he/him)<p>After the deadly Guadalupe River <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/flooding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flooding</span></a>, some people in Texas are asking what could have been done differently. In the USA, politicians who are beholden to the fossil fuel industry dismiss accountability as “partisan games," but <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climate</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> experts say that now is the time to confront the fossil fuel industry's influence on policy-making & their undermining of <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/disaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disaster</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/preparedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>preparedness</span></a>:<br> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429-what-on-earth/clip/16157491-bonus-will-texas-talk-climate-change-now" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429</span><span class="invisible">-what-on-earth/clip/16157491-bonus-will-texas-talk-climate-change-now</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TexasFloods" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TexasFloods</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FossilFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFree</span></a></p>