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   Tim Waterman (timwaterman@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:03:07 JST Tim Waterman

   I haven't posted a TED talk in years, but this one is utterly necessary. A dire warning, and a small chance of hope. "The Tipping Points of Climate Change--and Where We Stand" by the incredible Johan Rockström https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl6VhCAeEfQ&ab_channel=TED

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     Markus Ojala (mojala@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 17:47:20 JST Markus Ojala

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     • Aral Balkan

     @timwaterman @aral Those repeated ”we ” and ” us ” are doing a whole bunch of work in that presentation. And it also smudges the fact that the tipping point may well have been crossed the last two decades. Finally, the solutions mentioned are given in such generous terms that they are essentially meaningless. Nobody with power is taking the ipcc or the science in general seriously. A lot of green wash maybe, but this isn’t useful for the whole, just the ff guys.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 17:47:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Markus Ojala

     @mojala @timwaterman Well, it is TED.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 17:55:04 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Markus Ojala

     @timwaterman @mojala * white, western, and, let’s not forget, _neoliberal_ “we” (again, it’s TED) :)

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     Tim Waterman (timwaterman@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 17:55:05 JST Tim Waterman

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     @aral @mojala I don't think he glosses over the fact that we have passed tipping points. The important thing is he is getting across the point that we must act quickly and decisively and not give in to doom. It's a message very well pitched to a very general White, Western 'we'.