Blue skies will save us from climate change – What’s the use of that?
A twitter thread about an article on Business Insider.
Originally tweeted by Insider (@thisisinsider) above July 28, 2022.
Earlier this month, a monstrous Midwest thunderstorm called derecho turned the skies of South Dakota an astonishing blue.
The new colors of the sky are scary, they will spur us to action, @jetjocko speak.
Here’s why.
Images from the storm went viral and became news.
Everything is moving faster than the storm – just like it did two years ago, when the great wildfire turned the sky of San Francisco an orange of the Golden Gate.
Derechos, wildfires and sandstorms have happened before, but not like this.
The difference: climate change, @jetjocko speak.
Absurd, bigger and more dangerous are the marks of the new world, where the city skies are the color of a dead planet.
Climate change has been going on for a century and a half.
Most of the time, it’s so subtle that people can’t see it, or can ignore it.
But our color vision is adjusted for survival.
When the sky turns green, we notice.
The colors that we pay the most attention to are the ones that are most important to our existence, @jetjocko Speak.
Not the usual colors that make up most of our world, like blue (sky, water) or green (plants).
Which means, in a way, we stop paying attention to it.
We’ll have to thank the Earth’s terrifying new lines of color – and the quirks in the evolution of our eyes and brains that allowed us to see color in the first place, @jetjocko write.
We may not be built to follow every growing blip of climate change, but we are built to notice (eventually!) when the planet we’ve evolved to see doesn’t exist anymore.
That’s probably what it’s going to be, if anything ever changes, @jetjocko speak.
Around the world, people living in countries on the front lines of the climate crisis and its effects – mainly poorer countries in the global south – say there are more worries. climate in general.
They are seeing stronger evidence.
If a stubborn Democratic senator (and all Republicans) can thwart even the most fundamental policy changes to avert a planetary catastrophe of our own making, then we’ll all be under pressure to change course, @jetjocko write.
.@jetjockoHopefully the new colors of the sky are scary, they will motivate us to take action.
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Originally tweeted by Insider (@thisisinsider) above July 28, 2022.