Why is Nobody Talking About Climate Change Anymore?

[日本語]

To my friends in Los Angeles. This is horrible, this is bad. And I’m sorry.

It is my home state, and although it has been a long time since I’ve lived there, I feel as if I am connected to a history in California that I need to express.

_{[CA Wildfires, NASA - September 2020]}
There is a lot of blame being pointed by the bipartisan media...I’m not going to get into it, but if you’ve seen it you know. Ranging into the world of conspiracy theory, not really worth talking about without empirical evidence.

But

the most blatant and overlooked irony that I see in all these reels and photos is that every piece of media features a plane, or a truck, or people escaping in cars- All gas guzzling vehicles,

with the sound of Creedence Clearwater Revival or some other freedom fighting rock and roll soundtrack,

as a lane swoops into the Pacific Ocean to gather water to drop on the hill of the Palisades

- in the most hollywood of ways.

I see a harrowing escape video and try to see the author’s story, to see where he is or how he made it out. It was just one photo...a photo of him selling a Mega Ford pickup truck.

Now this is not all of them...some of them are quite true and somber. The truth is truely sombering.

But I don’t see anybody talking about Carbon Emissions? Or desperate Climate Action?

The two big dots that I can connect...are that Los Angeles is a motor city, fueled by gas. And the crisis at hand...is fueled by climate change.

The motor corporations born in the 1960’s in collaboration with the urban planners of LA fed the American public and the rest of the developing world a utopian city and suburban model with vast infrastructural freeways. They invented a prototype city that would be copied around the world, in every country today.

If you take the daily rituals of people who drive gas vehicles and multiply it by the millions per city who drive-

that’s a lot of f*cking gas!

And we will never win against the corporations who continue to lobby against public transportation and infrastructure.
But we can be mindful of our carbon footprint. Imagine the amount of fuel that you consume on a yearly basis, and multiply that by the number of years that you drive.

Like it was during covid. The planet was healing. Nature was healing. Nature was naturing. It was great. And then we just went back into hyperdrive. We were winning, but then we lost.
No planes, no taxis, although they will still be flying and driving without anyone on them. As for me...I only bike, I only train.

[Heat Cloud - Creekfire, 2020]

Each person has a choice to make. How will the place you spend the years of your life effect the planet? How much will you consume, and how much of that will effect the planet?

I will always remember the summer of 2020. When the fires in Yosemite created atmospheric smoke clouds visible from space. The skyline of New York was shrouded in smoke. The sun was a reddish orange and the city was ash. The city was in a state of protest and all the windows were broken downtown. I felt for the first time in 30 years of my life that something had changed.

America, lets build a train?

“I want to help save the planet.”

You have to wait until there is a local climate catastrophe

I want to do the most punk thing, and fcking care.*

“I want to help save the planet.”

Why is Nobody Talking About Climate Change Anymore?

the most blatant and overlooked irony that I see in all these reels and photos is that every piece of media features a plane, or a truck, or people escaping in cars- All gas guzzling vehicles,

But I don’t see anybody talking about Carbon Emissions? Or desperate Climate Action?

Each person has a choice to make. How will the place you spend the years of your life effect the planet? How much will you consume, and how much of that will effect the planet?

ゴッタムパーク　　
「ブルックリン
バンクス」

“I want to help save the planet.”

You have to wait until there is a local climate catastrophe

I want to do the most punk thing, and f*cking care.

“I want to help save the planet.”

Why is Nobody Talking About Climate Change Anymore?

the most blatant and overlooked irony that I see in all these reels and photos is that every piece of media features a plane, or a truck, or people escaping in cars- All gas guzzling vehicles,

But I don’t see anybody talking about Carbon Emissions? Or desperate Climate Action?

Each person has a choice to make. How will the place you spend the years of your life effect the planet? How much will you consume, and how much of that will effect the planet?

ゴッタムパーク 「ブルックリン バンクス」

I want to do the most punk thing, and fcking care.*

ゴッタムパーク　　
「ブルックリン
バンクス」