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I urge it to not close up shop at the end if things have not resolved. Staying is expensive, and I'll come back to that, but it also says "it matters to resolve this". You can't just walk away from things that matter.

By contrast, postponing to another year's meeting sends a very strong signal (possibly the ONLY signal anyone up the management chain hears) that this is a routine, linear, manageable problem, not an emergency, exponential, must-fix one. So phone in to your office and say you're there until you have resolution.

If you really MUST break, break for less than a year. Maybe you literally don't have funding to stay. Well, get agreement among participants that the next meeting is sooner than a year. Management can't argue against that because that's a group consensus.

Even if you get in trouble for being part of that consensus, (1) you were only a very small part and (2) fixing Climate is going to involve some risks. As risks go, that's a pretty modest one to take. Do your part. Push the line. The world is counting on you.

Probably these things are on budgeted funding cycles, so fighting the notion that this can be scheduled, by pushing the next meeting into the same cycle might get some visibility about the fact that the problem is getting worse.

I'll make a loose analogy, because that's my style and how I think. At a restaurant, if things go wrong in a small way, a manager might give you a free appetizer or dessert. This might feel satisfying, but is probably budgeted. If the problem is bad enough, ask for your whole meal comped. It's a proper response, but it has an important difference. Probably someone will have to answer for it. A higher manager will say "hey, that's unusual. What's that about?" The free appetizer or free dessert isn't just budgeted, but it also doesn't get visibility up the chain so nothing gets fixed. The system knows it is flawed, so it keeps on being flawed and solves the problem by budgets, not by action.

The Climate problem is TOO BUDGETED. But it is a real, not-going-away problem that is worth spending every resource on earth to fix, because every resource on earth is in dire peril just now. Do not behave like this is something that has to fit in a neat box. It does not. The people saying it does are content to see mass death or even extinction. Do not let them have the final word.

People right now seem to meet because it's that time of year. Like it's almost a vacation. Something fun to look forward to all year. To me, that sends the signal that there is no problem. Not in words, but in deeds. Is that the signal you want to send?

One way to make there be a real visibility is to change something that forces the whole management structure (countries, probably, but maybe some big corporations) to have to see it differently.

It also gives the media something to write about rather than just phoning in the previous year's articles with the dates changed.

As I said, just an idea. Well, two of them really. Stay longer, meet more often. But if it's an emergency (and it is), it warrants emergency action, not just routine action.

And it's a problem that's accelerating, but the meeting frequency is not. Is the danger of that dissonance not apparent to everyone? Why not?

#Climate #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #collapse #extinction #conference #COP #COP30 #meetings #media #journalism #ClimateNews #psychology #acceleration #nonlinear #politics #ClimateAction #ClimateInaction

Climate Conscience Wo/Man
at the lights on her/his eCargo-Bike behind the four exhaust-pipe luxury SUV.
>>
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/four-exhaust-pipes-and-a-climate-crisis
#climate #FossilFuels #cars #SUVs #motorists #CarMinds #idling #ClimateInaction #ClimateAction #cycling #pollution #ClimateCrisis #BellingenShire

There are 3 gravestones, More #ClimateInaction, #BlamingMigrants, #NuclearEnergy - all policies that saw our MAGA Lite crash & burn at the Federal Election - but still they just don’t get it, going back to eat their own shit. #coprophagia #auspol #COALition

Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas/The Guardian

At the graveyard of election losing ideas, a gravedigger tells a woman, “We’ve been waiting 5 months to put them to rest but these guys insist on keeping them alive”.

There are 3 gravestones, More Climate Inaction, Blaming Migrants, Nuclear Energy - all policies that saw our MAGA Lite crash & burn at the Federal Election - but still they just don’t get it, going back to eat their own shit.

🌍 Oh, look! Oil states strike again, proving diplomacy is just a fancy word for "nap time 💤" in Geneva. Nine days of talks? More like nine days of "how to make zero progress while pretending to care about the planet." 😂🌱 #PlasticFantastic
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/global-plastics-treaty #OilDiplomacy #GenevaTalks #ClimateInaction #ZeroProgress #PlasticFantastic #HackerNews #ngated

An Entire Country Has to Be Evacuated Because of Climate Change

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/entire-country-evacuated-because-climate-211026350.html

Going Under

Tuvalu, a small island nation in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, is planning to evacuate all of its over 11,000 inhabitants due to rising sea levels caused by climate change.

#Tuvalu #Evacuation #ClimateCrisis #ClimateInaction #ProfitMotive #CountryDestroyed

summer climate change
will this be when crops can't grow?
more Russian roulette

#haiku #poem #ShortPoem #SmallPoem #SmallPoems #climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #ClimateInaction #heat #ExtremeHeat #food #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity

@MsDropbear42 Didn't our Tanya okay that gas expansion? #WhatNationalProgress?
#ClimateInaction

@sortius

Snide bit about "tailwinds" too.

#DanJervisBardy aiming for #Savy?
And is promoting the #CorporateMedia poisoning-of-democracy #HorseRace bullshit.

This, an article titled "Breakthrough drugs for dementia" (which turned out to be speculations about what's on the horizon), and other trashiness, has left me with as much trust for #TheGuardian as for #RupertMurdoch's #TheAustralian.

At least Rupert's is up front on being a fascist-adjacent, #ClimateInaction, propaganda machine.

It’s been awhile for Melbourne, the sun being filtered through the smoke of bushfires, what you are smelling is Gariwerd burning 🔥 a place with over 50 endemic plant species. Respect to the CFA volunteers battling it.
#gariwerd #grampians #climateinaction #melbourne

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

#SaveOldGrowth #EcoActivist #TreesOverGreed #BCpoli #AbolishRCMPCIRG #VancouverIsland #PacificNorthwest #NatureGuardians #WildFirst #ProtectTheWild #PNW #StopDeforestation #BanCorporateLobbyists #CDNpoli #activists #monochrome #BCForestryReform #Cascadia #HelpMotherNature #StopKillingForests #Ecocide #SaveOurForests #ClimateINACTION #MonochromeMonday

Slopeside view. Part of another massive clearcut on South Vancouver Island.
Black and white photo.

@s_unter I want to believe.(in good)
Although i see the EU falling apart right now. And what kind of values "the EU" politicians "uphold" we can see sadly every day everywhere. #FrontexKills #climateInaction #Meloni #Orban #erodingSchengen ...
And every country in the EU has it's own problem with right wing movements... #fckAFD #Sicherheitspaket ...
Yes, we need to uphold our personal(!) values. Giving up is no option.
It's all just really tiring/exhausting.

Australian Security Leaders Climate Group calls for overhaul of federal government's climate threat preparedness strategy

"The ASLCG says the federal government must make sharper and faster cuts to emissions, as well as pressing the largest polluters to collaborate on driving down carbon pollution...The latest climate science showed that large parts of northern Australia "could become uninhabitable within 30-40 years, threatening military bases, communities, and the economy."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-08/australian-security-leaders-climate-group-risk-report/104442438
#ClimateDisruption #ClimateInaction #climate #FossilFuels #pollution #Australia #unliveable

Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study.

Mmm. I get the impression from this and other articles that Project 2025 isn’t such a great thing for folk outside USA.

‘Drill, baby, drill’ may as well say ‘kill, baby, kill’.

#Project2025 #ClimateCrisis #climateinaction

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/14/trump-project-2025-climate?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#ClimateInaction

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