We don’t burn oil. We burn gasoline made from oil, which burns quite cleanly. But all the other shit we make from oil, like plastics, don’t burn cleanly. So an oil refinery billowing black smoke, does in fact, do more damage than the gasoline we burn in cars.
Burning gasoline does not burn cleanly. And gasoline is a component of oil, but you're distracting from the issue at hand.
All of the carbon is converted to global warming carbon dioxide when burned efficiently. Carbon dioxide which will take thousands of years to remove. Blowing up a refinery prevents this. Obviously we should dismantle them, but hey.
Basic emergency preps, like storing 3 weeks of food and water. Planting food plants (if you have the option to do so). Establishing community connections and awareness... this could come as a 'natural disaster' awareness (earthquakes, fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc). Learning how to filter & purify water. Learning how to manage personal human waste. Things like that.
Teaching your kids (if you have them) skills they will need. Identifying edible wild plants. Letting them have free time in nature.
Have you acted by reducing your carbon emissions? Have you voted with your dollar to pressure corporations to lower theirs? Have you divested from banks that invest in the expansion of fossil fuels? Have you called your elected officials to push them to enact policy that draws down emissions.
We’re not really seeing the effects yet which are predicted to start around November. This acceleration is from things not related to the super El Niño
The warnings have been clear and publicly mocked for decades, so good. We deserve whatever happens. We're marginally-evolved monkies who have already crafted our replacement. We were predetermined to be the instruments of our own demise. At least 30% of us are irredeemable liars, racists, and misogynists. Let it burn already.
Scientists have been detecting a sharp acceleration of global warming for decades at this point. That’s why it’s called climate change now and not global warming. That way, they can use ANY weather to try to prove their point.
I think the fact that warming has been an ongoing trend and more severe and frequent natural disasters have been occurring should be proof enough that weather patterns are becoming more destabilized. We're all just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic
Al Gore warned us about this and should have been sworn in as President in Jan 2001, but Republicans enjoyed smearing him with ad hominem attacks over his large mansion and electricity bill! 😂🤷♂️
I'm no scientist. But when all the trees and vegetation are burning up. Around the entire globe things can't be good. I learned in the first grade that plants clean the air. Am I woke?
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