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Boston-area climate activists report visits from the FBI
(www.wbur.org)
Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
It's as if the powers that be think the only path to a fossil fuel free future is terrorism. So they treat climate activists as terrorists.
It's more their view that anything that diminishes the profits of the fossil fuel industry is terrorism.
I don't like CEO's and board members being called "the powers that be", because they're the ones demanding this.
And they treat them that way,b ecause they know they're right. They don't want to spend money to make more money by diversifying or investing in new technology. They just want more money right now at the cost of the earth and human lives.