![]() ![]() But this can only happen when enough people join the fight.Īs Democrats search for ways to protect abortion access, a group of liberal senators are calling on the Pentagon to ensure military servicemembers will have access to the procedure regardless of where they are stationed. I believe that the tides could still turn, that power could shift suddenly. To shift society into emergency mode and end the fossil fuel industry, we must join together and do all we can to wake people up to the grave danger we are in. Due to capture by the ultra-rich, our only option is to fight. We desperately need a government working to stop Earth’s breakdown rather than accelerate it, but petitions or pleas to “vote harder” will not make this happen. ![]() The demons begin to stir.” The consequences of ignoring scientists for too long are coming home to roost. Carl Sagan, warning against this sort of anti-science, wrote: “The candle flame gutters. In the US we now live under the sway of robed, superstitious fools hellbent on rolling back basic civil liberties and rejecting scientific facts. The myth of American exceptionalism will offer no protection from deadly heat and climate famine. As the Earth’s capacity to support life continues to degrade, millions, eventually billions of people will be displaced and die, fascism will rise, climate wars will intensify and the rule of law will break down. Without a livable planet, nothing else matters. Crucially, this is all worsening day by day, and it will continue to worsen until we end the fossil fuel industry. It’s driving wildfire and ecosystem collapse, and may already be contributing to famine and warfare. “Global heating is driving extreme heat, drought and flooding in the US and around the world. In an era of crises, global heating increasingly stands out as the single greatest emergency humanity faces,” Kalmus writes. In a new piece for the Guardian, climate scientist Peter Kalmus warns that the Supreme Court’s decision will have far-reaching and devastating consequences for the planet – and humanity.
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