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  1. @pvonhellermannn

    Pauline quoted Radhika Govindrajan from the ex-bird site in a Climate Diary entry*:

    > It's so hot in Delhi that bats are dropping dead from trees.

    While I think it is immensely valuable to document these things, and I mean by this no denigration of any such diary entry in whatever raw and personal form it is perceived, here's how I wish most such things were more commonly reported:

    Climate Change brings heat that can kill mammals dead in their tracks. Early victims include bats in Delhi, seen dropping dead from trees. But it's too easy to convince ourselves that this is a problem only bats will experience, that other mammals, such as humans, are immune. Too easy to think that most of us reading this far away from Delhi are somehow safe.

    We're in denial if we are not looking at this and thinking "I could be next, and will be if I don't do something." Instead of thinking it's "happening (t)here", think and say "it's happening (t)here FIRST". This is not an isolated event. It is a step in the march of an aggressive enemy unconcerned about what is crushed beneath the storm of its boots.

    None of us will escape climate change's wrath. We must not persist in denial but instead turn to face it directly, join arms together, and meet it head on with a whole-society response.

    Time to insist on bold action. It is NOT extreme to take sweeping and powerful climate action. It is extreme to NOT meet an extreme threat with a proportional response.

    #Climate #FTFY #ClimateCrisis #ClimateDenial #ClimateAction #heat #ExtremeHeat #collapse #extinction #journalism #media #politics #ClimatePolitics

    *Edit: I originally attributed this to Pauline, but see it's an included reference. My remarks are the same.