solarbird on Nostr: **Tell your family that climate change is actually real and Trump wants more of it.** ...

**Tell your family that climate change is actually real and Trump wants more of it.**

[Republican Florida is banning textbooks that mention climate change](https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/05/textbook-authors-told-climate-change-references-must-be-cut-to-get-floridas-ok/ ), meaning that one of the first-and-worst impacted states is going to try to raise children as ignorant as possible of the facts behind what climate change will be doing to their state.

So Floridians, and people with family and friends in Florida, you’ll need to be the ones filling in the gap. At least, until Florida throws out Republican governance.

Horrifically, there’s nothing unique about Republican Florida in this plan. Not only will rewriting textbooks to meet Florida’s suppression rules affect textbooks in general, Republicans all over support the deliberate disinforming of students in general, and in particular on every topic that they’ve decided they don’t like, banning books everywhere, blocking teaching about history in so many ways, particularly of racism, declaring the mere existence of LGBT people to be obscene. You know the story.

But thanks to the fash funders in the oil and gas companies, they *extra* hate people learning about climate change. Particularly if those people find out the coal and oil companies have known about it for decades, and said “fuck the climate, I won’t outlive it. If my grandkids can’t hack it, that’s not my problem. It’s theirs.”

As hyperbolic as that sounds, it’s actually a reasonably close paraphrase of someone who said that in front of me, and absolutely meant it.

Naturally, all of this includes Trump and his campaign, which has its own strategy – both with and without Project 2025 – to roll back all of Biden’s and the Democrats’ climate progress of the last four years as aggressively as possible. They see the tipping point in renewables costs happening, they see the growing social acceptance of it, the outright *enthusiasm* for it, and by hook or by crook they want that shit *stopped.*

Republicans want to dump as much more carbon dioxide into the air as they can as quickly as they can, enriching the coal and oil companies who pay them so well. It’s why the companies are dumping so much money into fash politicians and causes; they know these bribes are simple investments. It’s the circle of fascist looting at work, in all its fetid grotesquerie.

This is once again who the MAGAts are and this is what they do, and they will do it everywhere, if not stopped.

So make sure your family and your friends understand all this, and what it means. Make sure they understand how *important* it is – I concentrate on the fascism more than the climate change, but only because you have to smash the first to get anywhere on the last. Push comes to shove, *nothing* matters more than climate change. Not in the end.

Meanwhile, much of the media are either derelict or in the pockets of Trump supporters, hyperfocusing on trying to take down Biden before the campaign even really gets going. They won’t talk about this, so it falls to us.

The UK did their part. France shocked and delighted me and did theirs. They *both* reminded us all that if we show up, we win.

It’s our turn.

Time the save the world.

119 days remain.

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