đ„” It's hot as hell in South America, in the Middle East, in Southern Europe, in China and Southeast Asia, and in much of North America â so many heat waves, and so many heat deaths, it's almost impossible to keep track.
đ„ Forest fires are STILL out of control in Canada, sending *double* the previous record amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
âïž But that's not all we have to worry about. Because climate chaos also will destabilize our economies, disrupt food chains, cause crop failures, and more.
Our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl, aka Sane Thinker (@gdeihl), has some strong words about what we must expect, and what actions we should be prepared to take...
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These heat waves, droughts, and floods are destroying agriculture. If agriculture fails at scale, and it will if we stay on this path, societies will crash, massive inflation will rise, and hundreds of millions of people will migrate to escape death only to find closed borders.
Infrastructure will break, including hospitals, medical care, and medicines. Riots, military law, and governmental collapses will be in the daily news, if our power is on to see it. This is how the economy is going to break if we donât act.
This situation was foreseen 50 years ago by the oil industry. Exxon funded its own scientists to perform studies that predicted the crisis weâre in today with remarkable accuracy. Exxon's executives chose to minimize and hide this information, and our congress, bought by oil, couldnât be bothered to look closer.
We also have a compromised, corporate owned mainstream press that wallows in routine sins of omission, and a murderous lack of urgency in reporting on the #ClimateEmergency. Finally, theyâre forced to give it coverage, because the planet is thrashing before our eyes. What they wonât do, however, is tell you how to change the outcome.
We live in a world that is now controlled by a handful of insatiable billionaires. They become richer by impoverishing the rest of us, and raping the Earth. They and our politicians are not going to save us. They are either oblivious to the destruction they are causing, donât care, or have determined the only way to save the planet is to depopulate it. We have to save ourselves. The fastest way to do this, perhaps the only way, is to deprive them of money. We need to slow this economy down to a crawl, or be complicit in watching our world burn and drown.
It is time to sick out, protest, strike and walk out. I know itâs hard, I know itâs scary, I know it involves risk, but if enough of us do it, we canât all be fired. We will gain the upper hand. Itâs the only way. We can either sacrifice now, or sacrifice everything later, and it appears later is here.
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There is much more in the full article, and I urge you to read the whole thing.
FULL ARTICLE -- https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-is-going-to-break
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