California fires in 2019: - 4,927 fires - 118k acres burned. California fires in 2020 (so far): - 7,606 fires - 2.3 million acres burned. CLIMATE. CHANGE. IS. REAL.

We should just take a moment at some point tonight and reflect on just how fucking stupid it is that we know who is going to get the most votes, but we don't know who will be President

Dems have won popular vote in 7 of last 8 presidential elections Biden leads Trump by 3 million votes Senate Ds represent 15 million more Americans than Rs Yet presidential race is nail-biter, Rs control senate & have 6-3 conservative majority on SCOTUS Our system is broken

FACT: Corporations who say they are deeply committed to action on climate change are working in concert with the fossil fuel industry to kill essential legislative action to reduce climate emissions

Like it’s great that @Amazon bought the naming rights to a stadium in Seattle and call it the Climate Pledge Arena but it’s much more significant that Amazon is collaborating with Business Roundtable and U.S. Chamber to kill the Clean Energy Standard

As a climate reporter, it’s been frustrating to watch the legislative debate. By focusing on $3.5T as a big number, it entirely misses the economic context of climate change. The costs will be astronomical, the losses huge. Old budgets are not a good baseline. Here’s why:

"Here's the deal: There cannot, and will not, be cuts to climate. No climate, no deal." - Ed Markey #NoClimateNoDeal

Absolutely wild that a guy who literally owns a coal producing business that generates millions for him — currently — can make this kind of decision for the whole country and it’s not illegal

We cannot advance legislation that makes the climate crisis worse. The Exxon-designed “bipartisan” infrastructure plan worsens emissions, but pairing it w/clean energy in Build Back Better neutralizes BIF’s harm and lets us tackle the climate crisis. We cannot afford to gut it.

If you care about the planet. If you care about US leadership. If you care about our children. If you care about affordable energy. If you care about our democracy. Then it's time to mobilize. So, so much is at stake. Thread: nytimes.com/2021/10/15/cli…

Hey Senator Dianne Feinstein Alex Padilla Rep. Barbara Lee (Archived), we need you to hold the line and not compromise on the future of our planet. We need you to stay strong and fight to get Manchin over the line. #NoClimateNoDeal nytimes.com/2021/10/15/cli…

Some context on price tags: The $725.8 billion defense spending bill is for 1 year. The $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan is over 10 years. Apples to apples, Biden's economic and social policy bill is less than half of what Congress wants to spend on the Pentagon.

It’s wildly dumb that we keep talking about the “cost” of climate action when: 1) most of those costs are actually investments 2) the cost of inaction is astronomically more 3) our civilization is at stake

JUST IN: The 80,000-member coal miners union, United Mine Workers, just called on Joe Manchin to support the Build Back Better Act, telling him that BBB will protect labor and give coal miners a *better* shot at getting jobs in a renewable energy future.

We're now 2 yrs into the decisive decade. Emissions should be in an unprecedented fall, instead we're seeing the 2nd biggest rise ever recorded. We're wasting invaluable time pretending we can solve this crisis without treating it like a crisis. World leaders are still in denial.

What I think a lot of people who are disengaged with climate discourse don't understand is that... we're losing this battle. We're headed towards catastrophe at full speed. We continue to emit CO2 than ever before year after year. We're losing the only home we've ever known.

Meet Mill, a new way to keep food out of landfills, because wasted food is worse than you think Food from homes is 1/2 of the food in landfills (ReFED) where it produces methane, a greenhouse gas 80x more potent than CO2 over 20-yrs (IPCC) Learn more at mill.com

Over the last 3 years, I became obsessed with our food waste problem. So Harry Tannenbaum and I started Mill, a practical, new system to prevent waste, making it easy to take steps at home that are better for our kitchens and our planet. Check it out at mill.com

Our goal at Mill is to make it easy to do the right thing for the planet. We’re here to change the game. #OutsmartWaste bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Dear Twitter/X, I'm just gonna drop this here... It's a call to adventure for the curious — in the form of ten (rather compelling) reasons to consider joining the next Nervous System Mastery cohort. Onwards! Jonny [MEGA-THREAD] 🧵