Venezuela has become the first country in the world to lose all of its glaciers. The climate crisis is now.

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

This is different from accelerationism, different from wanting the chaos or believing it will deliver a promised future, it's just recognizing that all moments, especially chaotic ones, are multipotential.

Nurture the hell out of the seeds of the future you want because they too are sprouting in the chaos.

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

bad. scary. but also, exceptionally stupid and deeply unserious.