Well, they better start prepping for the climate crisis now, cause this new normal ain’t no joke. You’re literally melting in your ignorant echo chambers, yet you deny the sobering reality in front of all your faces. In between retweeting Fox News lies and drooling over Trump photos, do try to notice how the A/C can’t keep up anymore, crops are failing, and local stores are running out of bottled water. Climate migrants will soon be knocking on the door of your car-dependent cookie-cutter suburban single family (read: nuclear family model-reinforcing) house, but no worries, I’m sure y’all still got plenty of racism, saturated fat, and Confederate flags left to make them “feel at home.”
As we face this new normal of record temperatures, megadroughts, devastating storms and wildfires, “thoughts and prayers” won’t cut it anymore. Those lobbing snowballs on the Senate floor are slipping into full-blown climate denial, sticking their heads in the sand as Florida and Louisiana face ever worsening hurricanes and sea level rise.
And sadly, it’s not just the South. It’s the whole damn country. Remember the Northeast wildfire smoke? This is every summer from now on.
We simply cannot afford four more years of climate criminal Trumpism. Our generations have inherited this mess left by fossil-fueled capitalism and inaction. If capitalism runs its course according to current models and projections, there will be no more country for us.
I grew up in the south Louisiana to be specific. The confederate flag was not as ubiquitous as some seem to believe. Sure you would some times see a redneck driving a lifted truck with a confederate bumper sticker but it wasn’t the norm. Truck nuts and american flags were way more popular. But rednecks don’t make up a majority of the south.
Hell I saw a confederate flag sticker on the back window of a truck in California recently, sure its in the rural parts but its the first time I had seen one in real life in a long while. And we visit family in two Louisiana cities every year.
The south doesn’t own racism as a concept its a stereotype.
Well, they better start prepping for the climate crisis now, cause this new normal ain’t no joke. You’re literally melting in your ignorant echo chambers, yet you deny the sobering reality in front of all your faces. In between retweeting Fox News lies and drooling over Trump photos, do try to notice how the A/C can’t keep up anymore, crops are failing, and local stores are running out of bottled water. Climate migrants will soon be knocking on the door of your car-dependent cookie-cutter suburban single family (read: nuclear family model-reinforcing) house, but no worries, I’m sure y’all still got plenty of racism, saturated fat, and Confederate flags left to make them “feel at home.”
As we face this new normal of record temperatures, megadroughts, devastating storms and wildfires, “thoughts and prayers” won’t cut it anymore. Those lobbing snowballs on the Senate floor are slipping into full-blown climate denial, sticking their heads in the sand as Florida and Louisiana face ever worsening hurricanes and sea level rise.
And sadly, it’s not just the South. It’s the whole damn country. Remember the Northeast wildfire smoke? This is every summer from now on.
We simply cannot afford four more years of climate criminal Trumpism. Our generations have inherited this mess left by fossil-fueled capitalism and inaction. If capitalism runs its course according to current models and projections, there will be no more country for us.
I grew up in the south Louisiana to be specific. The confederate flag was not as ubiquitous as some seem to believe. Sure you would some times see a redneck driving a lifted truck with a confederate bumper sticker but it wasn’t the norm. Truck nuts and american flags were way more popular. But rednecks don’t make up a majority of the south.
Hell I saw a confederate flag sticker on the back window of a truck in California recently, sure its in the rural parts but its the first time I had seen one in real life in a long while. And we visit family in two Louisiana cities every year.
The south doesn’t own racism as a concept its a stereotype.
Have you read Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson? Really nice depiction of what climate migration within the US might look like.