Post by @ScientistRebellion@social.rebellion.global

@ScientistRebellion@social.rebellion.global

2025-11-07 17:40 UTC

The predictions scientists made decades are ago are coming true one by one and yet we are still getting told by the scientifically illiterate we need to keep burning oil for their yacht money. We have a decision to make. Do we save humanity or do we save billionaires? Not only do we need to end fossil fuel subsidies, we need to tax them out of business. #ClimateChange #FossilFuels https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/homes/why-are-homes-collapsing-in-north-carolina

Replies (8)

@kim_harding@mastodon.scot 2025-11-07 18:25

@ScientistRebellion For some reason, these two cartoons spring to mind...

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@rainerku@mastodontech.de 2025-11-07 20:12

@ScientistRebellion Yes, the same is happening at the south beach of Ischia, a famous island of Italy. Prior nice hotels and bars at the beach are modern ruins and bankrupt.

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@ChrisTheFool@mas.to 2025-11-07 20:32

@ScientistRebellion The next century is going to be an epic struggle. As always, how bad depends on us. Not good.

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@bubbajet@mastodon.world 2025-11-07 21:15

@ScientistRebellion @lisamelton Amen!

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@pjrm@mastodon.au 2025-11-07 21:49

@ScientistRebellion Specifically, scientists employed (before being sacked) by Exxon Mobil

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@Snorkitty@disabled.social 2025-11-07 22:13

@ScientistRebellion this (and consistently electing climate denialists into county and state office to promote its now multi-billion $ tourism industry) is part of the reason why I have not particularly liked traveling to the Outer Banks of easternmost NC, even retrospectively as a child decades ago.

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@captainrob@mastodon.social 2025-11-07 23:28

@ScientistRebellion oh no, someone #rich lost their beachfront house due to totally foreseeable circumstances... think of the profits! #EatTheRich #climatechange #capitalism

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@Edgar@norcal.social 2025-11-08 13:50

@ScientistRebellion Agreed. Sadly, geopolitics complicates this plan.. The US has huge shale/fracking capacity, putting us 3rd in reserves behind the Saudi Peninsula and Russia. We lead in LNG exports. Russia invades it neighbors regularly over the centuries and has eyes on the Baltic (NATO) states. It has taken years for Europe to ween itself from Russian LNG. The Saudis/OPEC threatened US dominance in the 1970’s. They also practice low-key slavery. Qatar, Kuwaití, UAE etc are little better. They are monarchies opposed to basic human rights. We absolutely need to decarbonize. It’s existential. But Putin and tactical nuclear exchange is an immediate, existential threat. And I can’t support monarchies that behead LGBTQ folks, subjugate women, etc. Europe is leading on this difficult question. We ought to examine their approach

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