JdeB<p>100 <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a><br>How to celebrate the 100th toot on <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Climate</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateAction</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateLegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateLegal</span></a> and last but not least <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateSolutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateSolutions</span></a> ?<br>In short : toots directly related to my [pinned] 'Mission Statement'.<br>The only celebration is the picture below, and quite cynical. Otherwise a celebration is not really called for.</p><p>WHAT TO DO TO SAVE THE PLANET AND IT'S LIFE ?</p><p><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Mitigation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitigation</span></a> or <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Adaptation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Adaptation</span></a> ?<br>The answer is simple: both.<br><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Sequestering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sequestering</span></a> ? Always.</p><p>MITIGATION means : to reduce the factors that promote or cause climate change. This is hard... but also the ONLY DURABLE CURE in the long run.<br>Why is it so HARD?<br>* It is very impopular with the general public. It means losing luxuries perceived as 'a civil right'. Humans are not made to comprehend this. <br>* Civilizations and cultures that are first confronted with the consequences are also the civilization the least equipped with taking action. <br>* It costs [very] much money. The predominant economic structures are not equipped, or motivated to react. Investment have seemingly no direct effect.<br>* This cannot be done alone. It's bigger than a state or nation. It has to be Global. And by Action, not BlaBla.</p><p>ADAPTATION means : to react to the ramifications of the climate crisis. e.g. when flooded you build a dam; in case of wildfires you increase the fire dept., when you get hot switch on the A.C. Don't get me wrong: adaptation is in most cases necessary.<br>This is MORE EASY... but in the long run the climate crisis will continue. You can only build a dam this high, you won't need a fire dept. when there are no more trees, what will you do when the A.C. has no more power ?<br>* This is very egoistic, short sighted and dumb. And that's why is more popular: save my house, my town,my city instead of save the planet [there is no planet B]<br>* Investments have a direct revenue.Be it that these have to be constant, a capitalist dream but in the end a bottomless pit.<br>* It can be done on a smaller more comprehensible scale. Simple to understand.<br>* The MAJOR FLAW about this is that you playing catch-up with <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateCollapse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCollapse</span></a>, a race 'we' can't win unless we can <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Mitigate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mitigate</span></a> the climate emergency successfully.</p><p>But you probably knew this, ...</p><p>so this is more a toot to compact arguments to use against the<br>Nay sayers, or the "Yes, but" sayers.<br>Maybe the very most important thing is to keep talking to 'the other side'. <br>Make and keep those aware of the slow <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> . <br>It may be slow and unobtrusive but by comparison it's more important than for instance the rise of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a>, the wars on different continents, genoside or any other problem that makes the news. While all connected, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ClimateEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateEmergency</span></a> is <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Global" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Global</span></a> !</p>