a Twitter thread from @ClimateHuman

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A few personal notes:

I was just at a NASA team meeting for 3 days in DC. The scientific findings are so fucked up. Experts on tropical rainforests told me privately that they think the Amazon has already passed its tipping point. Let that sink in. The world needs to know

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When I am at these scientific meetings, where basically every talk and poster is about precisely how Earth is rapidly breaking down, I just want to scream. I stood up and asked a question about this in front of everyone, though maybe too politely

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I am on a night train from DC to Jesup, Georgia where I will have a much-needed 10-day silent vipassana meditation course. I try to make it to one of these once a year. I started in 2003.

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When I meditate regularly, I do not have anxiety, and I am far more effective at science, activism, writing. I find it to be a gem of a practice. When I stop practicing the anxiety floods back. Meditation is one of the most important things I do - it lets me keep going & with joy

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It makes me incredibly angry and frustrated and sad that Biden keeps expanding fossil fuel production and infrastructure, in direct opposition to the clearest science. What are climate scientists supposed to do? We are losing Earth, folks. We must force our leaders to stop.

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Yesterday JPL finally gave me its decision on my action at the AGU last December, the one that got my colleague Rose @ultracricket fired: I got a formal written warning. Climate activists should be celebrated, not disciplined. Someday people will know we were right...

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Agree, disagree, whatever, this is how I feel. It's not too late, but it's a lot later than it was a few years ago, and we need a lot more people joining in the fight. And yes, it's a fight. ♥️

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Always, always keep in mind that to halt this, we must end the fossil fuel industry. Nothing else will substitute for that. Don't let them distract you with carbon offsets, carbon capture, fusion, or recycling

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