Reflections on humans, activism, and the fate of the planet
Bend, OR
Joined June 2009
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Frank Forencich retweeted
The way people are suddenly shitting themselves about AI is the way they should have been shitting themselves about climate change for the last 40βyears.
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π¨ NEW: Jon Ossoff calls for constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
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Therapy can only do so much if youβre not able to get your basic needs met. Mental health is affordable housing. Mental health is free healthcare. Mental health is free education. Mental health is food security. Mental health is financial stability. Therapy canβt fix the system.
Frank Forencich retweeted
This is what Google's AI expansion looks like on the ground π€¬
Forests destroyed, topsoil stripped and brown runoff reportedly flowing into a local stream, all before environmental impact assessments were completed. Finnish authorities had to step in and order work to stop.
So much for Google's green credentials. Its sustainability advertising means very little when the reality is this. Corporate hypocrisy at its finest.
Frank Forencich retweeted
Yesterday on fallow land I saw plants that once buzzed with bees & insects before 2000β¦ now silent.
Pesticides didnβt just kill pests. They wiped out the pollinators that keep us alive.
No bees = no food security.
This is environmental terrorism by design. Hold the chemical corporations accountable.
Frank Forencich retweeted
For Africa, climate change is not about the future. It's about now. Our crops failing, our lakes shrinking, our people displaced β while boardrooms thousands of miles away count record profits. We don't have a climate problem. We have a justice problem. #ClimateJustice
Frank Forencich retweeted
Capitalism told us nature has no value until it has a price tag.
So forests became timber.
Rivers became dumping sites.
Atmosphere became a carbon landfill.
You can't sell what you destroy and call it progress.
Frank Forencich retweeted
We don't lack solutions. We lack accountability.
We have solar. They invest in oil.
We have conservation. They have deforestation contracts.
We have climate science. They have PR firms to deny it.
Name the system. #ClimateJustice
Frank Forencich retweeted
People are easier to govern when their suffering is framed as a personal failure rather than a systemic problem.
Frank Forencich retweeted
It's become painfully clear that structuring our whole society around maximizing profit instead of the wellbeing of people and planet was a really terrible idea.
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Hereβs a radical idea: Letβs not let Big Tech Oligarchs replace the human race.
Frank Forencich retweeted
Today, millions of Americans at nearly 3,000 early voting events across the country are coming together to say:
NO to authoritarianism
NO to oligarchy
NO to a rigged economy
NO to Kings
Our job: Educate. Organize. Get your friends to vote.
Frank Forencich retweeted
If our leaders in Congress actually did their jobs, came together, and did even one thing to save lives after every school shooting, this would end. Every other developed country has figured out how to stop school shootings, and so can we. We can disagree all we want on solutions, but we can't let that distract from what we all agree on: doing nothing is not an option.
Authorities in Bend, Oregon say a shooting at Silver Rail Elementary School has left behind multiple victims, including children. A shooter was shot and killed, police say.
At least two people were taken to a local hospital for treatment, but information on their conditions and total number of injuries remain unclear. cbsn.ws/4zy6Mky
Frank Forencich retweeted
It's becoming very clear that structuring our entire society around maximising profit instead of planetary health was an extremely bad idea.
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Living a moral life in an age of bullies requires collective action; it cannot be done alone. Each of us must organize and participate in a vast network of moral resistance. From this solidarity we will grow stronger. This is what our current moment requires.
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Please be the first amongst the thousands to like, comment and repost this message if you believe that our remaining forest in the Amazon and in the Congo basin must be protected for climate action and environmental sustainability. No to deforestation and ecocide.
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Imagine a smoke alarm that has been screaming for decades, while the people in the house argue about whether thereβs really a fire.
The room gets hotter. The smoke gets thicker. The noise gets louder.
And instead of putting out the fire, they insist the alarm is lying, blame the people who installed it and argue that the house has always been this hot.
That is climate denial.