Notices by Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) (susankayequinn@wandering.shop), page 6

@davidaugust :) It was the long-ago days when I did internships for NASA and studied rocket engines. Then I figured out how much harm combustion products were doing to the biosphere and I switched to studying global warming. Then I became an author. Fast forward: now I'm writing hopeful climate fiction. Cuz we need stories like that, badly. We're not doomed, but we're in deep trouble. @Mabande @lkanies

@CloudyMrs I feel like you're taking the meme way more literally than anyone intends. @josephsimons

@CloudyMrs You know... it may not be as far off as you're assuming. "In 2020, the total acres used for crops was 329,000,000 acres, an increase of 6,000,000 acres or 1.86% from 2019."

329M acres for 332M people, right now. That's with industrial ag, and it's unclear how much of that goes to animals and ethanol, but it's not as lopsided as I would have imagined.
@josephsimons

@CloudyMrs Well that changes the message of the meme entirely to transportation. I guess I was asking what image you would use to contrast the top one that's focused on conspicuous consumption as the message that society says we should all "want." In other words, what image would you use to replace the bottom while keeping the top? @josephsimons

@CloudyMrs How would you change the meme to get across a sustainable living that would appeal to people in the same way? @josephsimons

@CloudyMrs You can look at it that way if you wish, but no one uses an acre to grow radishes and everyone needs to eat. Everyone doesn't need to have a mansion and drive a lamborgini. The values are radically different.
@josephsimons

@CloudyMrs I think the second image is a fantasy as much as the first, but it's at least a fantasy that's about life-giving stuff rather than soul (and world) destroying stuff. @josephsimons

Imagine what would happen to the world if we opted out of consumerism and adoration of the "rich and famous"... picture how radical the change would be...

"I don't tell stories about how the climate is changing; I tell stories about how we have to change. I don't (only) talk about the damage we're doing to the biosphere; I build stories around fixing it. We don't just have the ability to destroy the planet (and ourselves); we have the chance to save the world." — me, rehearsing in my head what I'll say to the students writing #climatefiction

#ClimateCrisis #solarpunk

This 2016 article/book is still super relevant today. Can't believe I'm just discovering it now.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateFiction

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/28/amitav-ghosh-where-is-the-fiction-about-climate-change-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Derangement:_Climate_Change_and_the_Unthinkable

Weird cli-fi? Solarpunk horror? Perhaps. https://wapo.st/3RocOjC

I had low expectations for COP28—oil emirate?—but to hear petrostates (that's US) crow about the statement to "move away" from fossil fuels as "historic" & not the utter minimum... well, that's fucking revealing.

Business as Usual will fight to the death.

Our death.

We aren't doomed, but we're in deep trouble. The only way out is together.

1—vote green

2—organize

3—change a high carbon usage to low carbon TODAY

4—keep going

Any action gets you started & we don't have any time to lose.

@abolisyonista we’re nowhere near smart enough to geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis. I say this as an engineer and scientist who got her PhD in aerosol formation and sulfate emissions from aircraft engines and the impact on global warming. But I fully expect the Tech Will Save Us crowd to increasingly demand geoengineering solutions as the crisis grows worse, right next to the eco-fascists who will demand various forms of oppression and genocide. Both are wrong.

@jaystephens "we're nowhere near smart enough to geoengineer our way out of the climate crisis" but we really really want to think that we are, or at minimum, that the times are desperate enough that we must try! But not desperate enough to do things like shut down coal plants or confiscate all oil company profits to pay for the transition or <insert a bunch of actions that would actually matter with very little downside except to profits and would not endanger the planet>

Fascists love to hold us to a social contract they break all the time. Sorry, mah dude, it don't work that way.

@feld Meanwhile the real answer is to stop pumping CO2 into the air. If people could focus on not adding to the problem while trying (very little) to mitigate it, that would be nice

@feld It's absolutely true that there are risks everywhere. But it is also true that those risks are not equally distributed. There's no "safe" place from climate change. There's only less risky.

**don't build in a 500 year floodplain (or anywhere near it)

**don't build on a marshland, wetland, on the coast, in the middle of a forest

The northeast and midwest are actually relative goldilocks zones. Anywhere that experiences both cold/heat are better prepared for both.

10-15% of Americans move every year.

Start now in factoring climate into your next move.

**understand flood plain maps are out of date**

** "everyone seems to think it's fine to live here" is not an accurate read on the risk.**

Maybe FEMA will buy you out. Maybe not. Ask the residents of Houston who've had houses full of mold since Hurricane Harvey in 2017 and FEMA money is still being blocked by the state (because TX politics).

#ClimateCrisis
@grist
https://grist.org/housing/climate-risks-place-39-million-homes-at-risk-of-losing-their-insurance/

#ClimateCrisis #Strikes #SocialJustice #EnergyTransition

The people who can’t deal with more than two genders can’t deal with anything that’s not simple. It’s not just in-group/out-group. The complexity (and uncertainty) of the world freaks them out so they have to impose (artificial) certainty.

#solidarity