#david wallace-wells

[tomorrowusa]

« [T]he albatross was not just Joe Biden; it was the longer-term perception that liberals constituted the country’s ruling class. This is something the otherwise inchoate conservative moment has emphasized consistently and effectively in recent years: that the Democrats were now the party of power and the establishment, and that the right was the natural home for anti-establishment resentment of all kinds — of which, it’s now clear to see, there is an awful lot. Most on the left haven’t seen it this way, frustrated by legislative stalemates and judicial setbacks and too-close-for-comfort elections seemingly every cycle, with a feeling all along that liberals were always swimming upstream. But in profound ways that the party’s voters rarely recognize, the Democrats have been the country’s incumbent political force now for a full generation. »

— David Wallace-Wells at the New York Times. (archived)

It was actually more than just an incumbency thing. In the eyes of much of the population, Democtats had become The Establishment. And whipping up popular grievances is always going to hurt The Establishment.

A problem is that Liberals are still not great at messaging – though there have been some minor improvements. Warning about Project 2025 and climate catastrophe had a little effect, though it wasn't that visceral.

Donald Trump's incompetence in the early months of the pandemic led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of additional American deaths and unleashed 2½ years of recession, unemployment, and inflation. Yet we hardly heard anything about this in the campaign.

Joy is nice. But if you really want to win over an unsettled electorate, you need to make them fear in their bones what the other guy would do if elected. Donald Trump personally created a real life dystopia in 2020. Reminding people of that in a visually graphic way would have offset Trump's unsupported claims about migrants on the prowl for your family pets for dinner.

If you are seen as The Establishment then you have to get voters to view the previous Establishment with greater trepidation. For five consecutive presidential elections, starting in 1932, Democrats successfully pinned the blame for the Great Depression on Herbert Hoover. Trump's pandemic disaster should have been good for at least two such cycles.

[judywouldvestopped]

"I sometimes call it toxic knowledge," Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute, where McLemore was a commenter, has said.

"Once you know about overpopulation, overshoot, depletion, climate change, and the dynamics of societal collapse, you can't un-know it, and your every subsequent thought is tinted."

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells

[joe-england]

As Texans suffer in the heat, state Republicans play politics

Damn, just... damn.

No water breaks.

[ourdramaqueen]

I don't know if I dare be as hopeful as OP, but this just goes to show that if every single country truly were to do whatever they can to limit climate change, we could make an even bigger difference in an incredibly short amount of time. We could not only reach the warming limit goals, we may be able to surpass them! Which would save millions of people and whole communities and even countries whose very existence is threatened by rising temperatures and ocean level rise. We won't be able to undo all suffering, but we'd at least be able to minimize it, which opens up resources to help those still affected.

Whatever you can do (and afford) in sustainability, please do it! And demand that big business and governments do better - they are the ones who can make the biggest impact because they have the money and ability to make large scale changes! Be it reducing greenhouse gas emissions or other environmental pollution with PFAS, microplastics, fertilizer and pesticide overuse, toxic waste, etc., shifting to renewable and eco-friendly resources, paying fair wages and providing safe working environments even for workers in countries with little regulation, who often get exploited, not using child labor, etc. etc. It's all connected, it all needs to go hand in hand, and those most disadvantaged must be supported by those who are more privileged.

We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

[nonesuchrecords]

"Uninhabitable Earth, Paragraph One"—a word-for-word setting of paragraph one of David Wallace-Wells' 2019 bestselling book The Uninhabitable Earth, from David Longstreth's upcoming album, Song of the Earth—is out now. 

The video, shot by Jake Longstreth, features drone footage of Lake Tulare in California, which dried up from agricultural irrigation but re-emerges periodically from excessive rain or snowmelt. 

[historiaiswritten]

Year in Review

I know this is a day late, I wanted to get it up yesterday, but life happens. So here is last years reading challenge. I didn't gain much traction towards the end of the year due to life dragging me to the depths for a sink or swim test. So although I didn't get much further in my reading challenge, I did have plans for each of these categories and this next year, I plan to take a small break from my reading challenge and read what I have laying about. The TBR has grown exponentially since starting with these challenges.

Reading challenge journey:

A dystopian

Involves a STEM topic - The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Katie Moore

Philosophy book - The Cat Who Taught Zen by James Norbury

One From TBR - Sherlock Holmes and the Red Tower by Mark A. Latham

Themed Holiday - The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

Read Before - A Shameful Life (No Longer Human) by Osamu Dazai

African-American Author

From the Library - Kill Joy by Holly Jackson

A New Favorite Author - As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson

A Novella - What Feasts at Night by T. Kingfisher

Romance - Pestilence by Laura Thalassa

Dark Acadamia

Made Into a Show or Movie

That’s Won a Prize

About Nature - The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells

World Reading Challenge:

Latin America

Australia

Scotland

Japan

Egypt - Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Iraq

Russia - We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Malaysia

Brazil

Iceland

Morocco

Zimbabwe

[jeffalessandrelli]

One estimate is that food production is directly responsible for nearly a quarter of all global carbon emissions. Add indirect emissions, Project Drawdown’s Jonathan Foley notes, and agriculture is responsible for one-third of the global total of emissions. If food waste were a country, it would be somewhere around the world’s third or fourth biggest emitter of carbon.

[isaacsapphire]

It's a start at least. Definitely worth reading as a postmortem.

this might be the only take i’ve seen in the prestige media that hasn’t made me feel like i’m taking crazy pills. not saying it’s a heartbreaking work of staggering genius brimming with insights and solutions, i’m just saying that i recognize the reality he describes, which is more than i can say for like Any of the postmortems out there

David Wallace-Wells, gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/opinion/election-postmortems.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ck4.NBfe.dcyLoQMkQ1bh&smid=url-share

[rubikor]

can you really understand?

[ichorkurt]

ficrecs masterlist ii.

welcome to my second ficrecs masterlist! find my main blog @ichorai. find my own fics here.

below the cut includes jujutsu kaisen, lord of the rings, saltburn, the halcyon, marvel, game of thrones, house of the dragon, prisoners, world on fire, dc, doctor who, scott pilgrim, succession, harry potter, the boys, interview with the vampire, gangsta, and arcane fics!

jujutsu kaisen.

jujutsu kaisen men in the world of work by @drak3n

ೃ⁀➷ naoya zenin.

only a fool for you by @mochimoshis

ೃ⁀➷ satoru gojo.

intertwined, sewn together by @kiwicider

luxury & lingerie by @celestie0

ೃ⁀➷ suguru geto.

the guy i lost my virginity to is stalking me by @gorehsk

lord of the rings.

ೃ⁀➷ legolas.

watcher of wanderers by @entishramblings

saltburn.

ೃ⁀➷ michael gavey.

the golden ratio by @ewanmitchellcrumbs

midpoint by @asumofwords

mine all mine by @humanpurposes

the poetry of logical ideas by @sylasthegrim

stick it out to the end by @aemondsbabe

the halcyon.

ೃ⁀➷ billy taylor.

one more tomorrow by @tomhiddleston

marvel.

ೃ⁀➷ kurt wagner.

bamf babies by @bamfkeeper

for love, we sin the most by @larcenywrites

kurt's instincts are still flaring... you know just how to help by @/bamfkeeper

parents by @/bamfkeeper

untitled by @dinogoofymutated

untitled by @dreaming-tonite

untitled by @kayesfanfics

untitled by @sanguineterrain

ೃ⁀➷ logan howlett.

logan's reaction when you wear one of his shirts by @periprose

ೃ⁀➷ peter parker.

untitled by @forever-rogue

game of thrones / house of the dragon.

pregnancy headcanons by @princessbellecerise

ೃ⁀➷ gwayne hightower.

& now i'm covered in you by @swordgrace

ೃ⁀➷ jacaerys velaryon.

hunger games au by @maidragoste

lotus bloom by @hxtd

ೃ⁀➷ jaime lannister.

the best fit by @casterladyrock

war has changed by @villaingaze

prisoners.

ೃ⁀➷ david loki.

blood bond by @davidlcki

sfw alphabet by @charliehoennam

tall, dark, and handsome by @rebelliousstories

world on fire.

ೃ⁀➷ tom bennett.

best intentions by @/ewanmitchellcrumbs

rocking the boat by @ultraintrovertedgryffindor

dc.

attractive things they do ... without realizing by @ahqkas

ೃ⁀➷ adrian chase.

five times vigilante definitely does not have feelings (and one time he does) by @tropes-and-tales

helluva drug by @lysenfeu

hot venom by @jangofctts

never been kissed by @training4theapocalypse

thirsty by @/training4theapocalypse

ೃ⁀➷ bruce wayne.

clingy mornings by @kurogxrix

wife on repeat by @bat-mom-writer

ೃ⁀➷ dick grayson.

sunset anew by @/sanguineterrain

doctor who.

ೃ⁀➷ eleventh doctor.

cold feet by @undiscovered-horizon

dangerous habits by @social-mockingbird

a day in by @cloginthedrain

my john by @watchoutforthefanfics

safest place in the universe by @holly-the-trash-writer

set things right by @pastanest

ticking love bomb by @/watchoutforthefanfics

scott pilgrim.

ೃ⁀➷ kim pine.

right next door by @writersbarrierblock

ೃ⁀➷ wallace wells.

untitled by @twiixr4kidz

untitled by @/twiixr4kidz

succession.

their marriage proposal by @romeulusroy

ೃ⁀➷ lukas matsson.

normal people by @the-west-meadow

ೃ⁀➷ roman roy.

baby by @richeeduvie

being roman roy's personal assistant (and his obsession) would include... by @senselessviolets

gossamer by @/romeulusroy

i'm annoying by @bowieandqueen11

movie by @eeveebitches

right where you left me by @aurorag98

smile like you mean it by @cvrnelians

this hope is trecherous by @aprilthearcher

untitled by @/richeeduvie

untitled by @/richeeduvie

untitled by @/richeeduvie

untitled by @/richeeduvie

untitled by @/richeeduvie

wedding prep by @/richeeduvie

harry potter.

ೃ⁀➷ cormac mclaggen.

finders keepers by @/training4theapocalypse

ೃ⁀➷ fred weasley.

anything by @ibbythebee

beloved, besotted, betrothed by @emeritusemeritus

the boys.

ೃ⁀➷ black noir.

i want to f**k you like an animal by @dollerinna

interview with the vampire.

dating headcanons by @tomriddleslovergirl

untitled by @steph-speaks

ೃ⁀➷ lestat de lioncourt.

gold, and gold again by @theawfuledges

gangsta.

initiation by @imperatorkhaleesi

ೃ⁀➷ nicolas brown.

untitled by @dollwrites

arcane.

ೃ⁀➷ viktor.

my atlantis, we fall by @strangefilms

[lolo-l0ved]

Canon Lesbain, Bisexual & Gay characters within media !

Lesbian: Sydney Novak (I am not okay with this), Taissa Turner (Yellowjackets), Deena Johnson (Fear Street)

Bisexual: Javier Garcia (TWD: New Frontier), Margaret Shaw/Queen Maeve (The Boys), Exer Campbell (Jackson’s Diary)

Gay: David Miller (Jackson’s Diary), Richie Tozier (IT 2017), Wallace Wells (Scott Pilgrim Vs The World)

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[zwampp]

bought from my friend!! :D

[themeridian]

scott and wallace are so ash and david coded

i state my case

[leighcest]

wallace wells/scott tibbs/david radford can anyone hear me