#believe in us

[born-to-lose-btl]

#missing #feelings #du fehlst #liebe #love #vermissen #hoffnung #Hope #du und ich #nur du #believe in us #ich hasse es ohne dich

[fushiaphenix]

#white knight #my future #i love you #black and white #thoughts #love #kitten #my everything #believe in us #original #relationship quotes #where are we now #life quotes #i will always love you #the things i do to myself #everything is ok here

[surethingath]

Next to my heart I keep your name.

In my heart it beats your name

In my mind there is no delay

#my everything #black and white #white knight #believe in us #kitten #relationship quotes #where are we now #i love you #sf-97 #life quotes

[inspiredimnott]

Do you think you could ever truly be mine. I know that we are meant to be… that you are my soulmate. I know that no one has ever touched me the way you do.(not just physically) I know that no one could have ever sparked the desire that burns within me. I don’t think I could have ever made it this far in my life without meeting you first. During this time, I’ve spent much of it figuring that much out. The love I have for you isn’t replaceable, can’t be watered down, or drown out. Every in counter, conversation, every moment in this time and space only amplifys who you are and the effect you have on my experience. What I see in you…what I naturally have with you. Isn’t discovered in another

#where do i begin #my love for you #branding #believe in us #original content #i do #love #Anthony Hensley #everything to me #relationship quotes #black and white

[enbydemirainbowbigfoot]

#believe in us #dr. teeth and the electric mayhem #the electric mayhem #quite possibly the greatest song in the world atm /lh #[headbonks this song] [headbonks this song] [headbonks this song] [[headbonks this so #Spotify

[burningartwork]

I've come to the realization that artists (and especially online artists) are like fairies. We only exist if you believe in us. 🧚‍♀️🧚‍♂️🧚

#When we're ignored it's like saying we don't exist #and when you don't believe in faires #you know what happens. #artists on tumblr #fairies #believe in us #we live off you seeing us

[titleofpersonage-p01]

#palestine #free palestine #israel #israel is committing genocide #i understand both sides of the argument in the comments #but the fact that this can even be some what believable is concerning in itself #always remember that an “us vs them” narrative is dangerous #we cannot deny that innocent lives are being slaughtered #i just want this war to be over #but thats not something thats going to be easily done

[dendrochronologies]

maya angelou saying the funniest thing anyone has ever said about editing, which i can never let myself forget EVER AGAIN [x]

#OK. YOU'RE RIGHT. SO WHAT? DON'T EVER MENTION THIS TO ME AGAIN. IF YOU DO I WILL NEVER SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN. #i used to think about this interview all the tiiiiime i can't believe i let myself lose track of it!!!!!!! #maya angelou #FAVE #editing #*r #god i've read this a thousand times and i still laugh every time it's so GOOD #'OK. YOU'RE RIGHT. SO WHAT. DON'T EVER MENTION THIS TO ME AGAIN' #notifications are off for this besties 💗 #i will eventually turn reblogs back on but 20k notes overnight was a little too much pls slow down ✋️ #also pls do not follow me unless you are desperately in love with me. i can't make silly little personal posts with so many of you here!!!!

[reasonsforhope]

No paywall version here.

"Two and a half years ago, when I was asked to help write the most authoritative report on climate change in the United States, I hesitated...

In the end, I said yes, but reluctantly. Frankly, I was sick of admonishing people about how bad things could get. Scientists have raised the alarm over and over again, and still the temperature rises. Extreme events like heat waves, floods and droughts are becoming more severe and frequent, exactly as we predicted they would. We were proved right. It didn’t seem to matter.

Our report, which was released on Tuesday, contains more dire warnings. There are plenty of new reasons for despair. Thanks to recent scientific advances, we can now link climate change to specific extreme weather disasters, and we have a better understanding of how the feedback loops in the climate system can make warming even worse. We can also now more confidently forecast catastrophic outcomes if global emissions continue on their current trajectory.

But to me, the most surprising new finding in the Fifth National Climate Assessment is this: There has been genuine progress, too.

I’m used to mind-boggling numbers, and there are many of them in this report. Human beings have put about 1.6 trillion tons of carbon in the atmosphere since the Industrial Revolution — more than the weight of every living thing on Earth combined. But as we wrote the report, I learned other, even more mind-boggling numbers. In the last decade, the cost of wind energy has declined by 70 percent and solar has declined 90 percent. Renewables now make up 80 percent of new electricity generation capacity. Our country’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling, even as our G.D.P. and population grow.

In the report, we were tasked with projecting future climate change. We showed what the United States would look like if the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius. It wasn’t a pretty picture: more heat waves, more uncomfortably hot nights, more downpours, more droughts. If greenhouse emissions continue to rise, we could reach that point in the next couple of decades. If they fall a little, maybe we can stave it off until the middle of the century. But our findings also offered a glimmer of hope: If emissions fall dramatically, as the report suggested they could, we may never reach 2 degrees Celsius at all.

For the first time in my career, I felt something strange: optimism.

And that simple realization was enough to convince me that releasing yet another climate report was worthwhile.

Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate. State, local and tribal governments all around the country have begun to take action. Some politicians now actually campaign on climate change, instead of ignoring or lying about it. Congress passed federal climate legislation — something I’d long regarded as impossible — in 2022 as we turned in the first draft.

[Note: She's talking about the Inflation Reduction Act and the Infrastructure Act, which despite the names were the two biggest climate packages passed in US history. And their passage in mid 2022 was a big turning point: that's when, for the first time in decades, a lot of scientists started looking at the numbers - esp the ones that would come from the IRA's funding - and said "Wait, holy shit, we have an actual chance."]

And while the report stresses the urgency of limiting warming to prevent terrible risks, it has a new message, too: We can do this. We now know how to make the dramatic emissions cuts we’d need to limit warming, and it’s very possible to do this in a way that’s sustainable, healthy and fair.

The conversation has moved on, and the role of scientists has changed. We’re not just warning of danger anymore. We’re showing the way to safety.

I was wrong about those previous reports: They did matter, after all. While climate scientists were warning the world of disaster, a small army of scientists, engineers, policymakers and others were getting to work. These first responders have helped move us toward our climate goals. Our warnings did their job.

To limit global warming, we need many more people to get on board... We need to reach those who haven’t yet been moved by our warnings. I’m not talking about the fossil fuel industry here; nor do I particularly care about winning over the small but noisy group of committed climate deniers. But I believe we can reach the many people whose eyes glaze over when they hear yet another dire warning or see another report like the one we just published.

The reason is that now, we have a better story to tell. The evidence is clear: Responding to climate change will not only create a better world for our children and grandchildren, but it will also make the world better for us right now.

Eliminating the sources of greenhouse gas emissions will make our air and water cleaner, our economy stronger and our quality of life better. It could save hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives across the country through air quality benefits alone. Using land more wisely can both limit climate change and protect biodiversity. Climate change most strongly affects communities that get a raw deal in our society: people with low incomes, people of color, children and the elderly. And climate action can be an opportunity to redress legacies of racism, neglect and injustice.

I could still tell you scary stories about a future ravaged by climate change, and they’d be true, at least on the trajectory we’re currently on. But it’s also true that we have a once-in-human-history chance not only to prevent the worst effects but also to make the world better right now. It would be a shame to squander this opportunity. So I don’t just want to talk about the problems anymore. I want to talk about the solutions. Consider this your last warning from me."

-via New York Times. Opinion essay by leading climate scientist Kate Marvel. November 18, 2023.

#WE CAN DO THIS #I SO TRULY BELIEVE THAT WE CAN DO THIS #WE CAN SAVE OURSELVES AND THE WORLD ALONG WITH US #climate crisis #united states #climate change #conservation #hope posting #sustainability #climate news #climate action #climate emergency #fossil fuels #global warming #environmentalism #climate hope #solarpunk #climate optimism #climate policy #earth #science #climate science #meteorology #extreme weather #renewable energy #solar power #wind power #renewables #carbon emissions #climate justice

[travelersrest]

🐺🌹🐺

#believe in love #believe in us #fountain of love #so much to say #lovers #journey #passion #lion hearts #destiny #genuinely #a gentleman

[fushiaphenix]

I love you so freaking hard.

I love you so much.

I’m so in love with you

And you left me

You left me

To die

You killed me

To live

Live with her

To love her

A life with her

I never left you

I never stopped loving you

I died

In love with you.

I died loving you

I would die

To be loved by you

But you left me

To die

Loving you

And I would do it all over again

Just to be the one

Who loved you

#my everything #i will always love you #kitten #white knight #love #the things i do to myself #believe in us #black and white #everything is ok here #words

[born-to-lose-btl]

#Love #Miss you #you and me #hopefully #feelings #confident #believe in us #believe for two

[surethingath]

I’m scared. I’m scared to say”ok universe I love him and I want no other. So bring him home therefore we can be a family. Mean while I’ll be over here not thinking about how much I want him back into my life putting more resistance in my desire than necessary” only for the universe not to improve the happiness I have. I’m scared of having a future that he isn’t a part of.

#my everything #black and white #white knight #believe in us #relationship quotes #kitten #im scared #you and i #we are a team

[inspiredimnott]

Letting go is something I can’t do. I can’t let go of the possibility that you and I will become an US again. That one day we will be a family. That one day we will hang our hats together. Please don’t ask me to loose hope. I can’t let you go

#where do i begin #my love for you #branding #believe in us #relationship quotes #original content #i do #black and white #love #i will always love you

[arunneronthird]

in the batcave where i feel safe

#i love their old suits #and jason who looked the same 30 years #damian wayne #jason todd #dick grayson #tim drake #robin #red hood #nightwing #red robin #batman #dc comics #weezer #cant believe i get to use that tag #my art #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[apollos-boyfriend]

so my younger cousin is flying in to visit from brazil on sunday, and will be staying here for like, the entirety of july. which, don't get me wrong, is super cool! i love the kid! but it felt like a super weird move, considering his parents are the SUPER strict and borderline helicopter parents. even the smallest prank/roughousing with him/his little sister would lead to a strict talking to from his parents, he couldn't ever do anything without their clear permission, that sort of stuff. so letting him fly at alone at 16 to a whole different country and stay there for a whole month seemed WILDLY out of character. additionally, it just felt like a super last-minute trip. it's not like we have any plans to do when he gets here, and the flight itself and stuff only got booked like, midway through june.

and i was talking to my mom about it, kind of trying to nudge some answers out of her, and after a while she went, "yeah, i think they're sending him over here to get away for his boyfriend. see if the distance breaks them off." which, first of all, surprised me because last i checked, they didn't KNOW he had a boyfriend. literally everyone in the family did EXCEPT for them because while that entire side of the family being semi-conservative, his parents (mostly his dad) are EXTREMELY old-fashioned. so clearly something already went wrong. and considering the only reason the rest of the family knew is because one person found out and it spread like wildfire, i have a sneaking suspicion he wasn't the one to tell them, either.

and second of all. they're sending him HERE. to try to make him forget his homosexuality. i couldn't do anything but just wordlessly gesture to the multiple pride flags scattered around my room, then to myself, because really? he has like two other cousins in the us and they're sending him to me? honey i am about to introduce this kid to queer scenes you have never even heard of. he'll be returning home with labels only shrimp can perceive

#icarus speaks #i fully believe she's correct btw #they are. not the brightest people. and honestly probably believe this is something that could work #cause i can see the logic of get him away and hopefully he'll realize it's a phase. which is Likely what they think #but oh honey you have a big storm coming #side note this is the SECOND time someone's been outed without permission on that side of the family 😭 #bitches learned of my transgenderism SO quickly #also even if that's NOT why they sent him here. i will still be rocking his world #they have given me Infinite Power and i will use it to make this kid's life as queer as physically possible