This is our implementation of democracy not working. One might even argue that our system is not actually democratic, because, as this example shows, neither the will nor the interests of the people are represented.

A large group of solar panels is often called a solar farm. Similarly, groups of wind turbines are often called wind farms.

The world has already warmed by about 1.1C since the industrial era began

Where does the 1.1C figure come from? It’s about 1.5C for the past years and 1.3-1.4C for the multi-year average.

The only page where I found something starting with 1.1C is here (https://science.nasa.gov/earth/explore/earth-indicators/global-temperature/)

Global temperatures in 2025 were cooler than 2024, with average temperatures of 2.14 degrees Fahrenheit (1.19 degrees Celsius) above the 1951 to 1980 average.

But 1951-1980 is obviously not “since the industrial era began”.

On the one hand, news and information are important. We need them as a basis for action.

On the other hand, I feel that news are often shared with the hope that someone else will act according to the new information. This applies to scientists, journalists and also posters on social media. This is a very logical assumption. Unfortunately, the action part is sadly much smaller than we had hoped. However, I feel many people (especially scientists) get completely stuck in the logic that information leads to action and try to combat that by sharing even more information, researching for even more details etc.

Instead we should embrace action and invite others to join. However, this somewhat conflicts with the pseudonymity of lemmy. But it may be easier on other platforms, where people more easily share their real identity (mastodon, pixelfed, loops and their commercial counterparts).

Sometimes you have to us big tech to reach more people. Many groups also use Instagram, some also mastodon. But you should certainly not use it for organizing. If they don’t have a signal group or similar, I would stay away.

You could look into environmental groups. On the national level, there are climate defiance and scientist rebellion in the US on a national level (and probably a lot more). Maybe they also have local groups that you could join? Or you could support remotely and start building a local group (that’s hard but someone has to start).

First of all, thank you for (trying) to inform people.

It is really important that we do not see ourselves as passive, waiting for other more skilled people to solve the current problems. Everyone of us can do something. Although sometimes it doesn’t turn out as we had hoped, but not trying would bring is nowhere.

I don’t exactly know about the organization of anonymous, but for most groups there are a lot of possibilities to support. Legal support, social media and website support, giving interviews, food and material, logistics as a few examples.

You could also join other local groups against datacenters. I think there is a lot of campaigning going on.

We need Anonymous to do something about data centers.

Don’t wait for others to save us.

I’ve been using nym for a few month now. It generally works and I’m convinced by the project. However, they are still implementing features and there are often small issues (slow connections, no servers found, needs new permissions on Linux after update, etc.)

They are discussing climate hushing as a strategy to win votes and whether it is a mistake in that regard or not. It’s all about power. Are they forgetting that it might be a mistake to doom our civilization?

I fully understand. I did that for a long time, too (working and participating in a frequent flying environment). But that’s really where we need to change society. The way we think about things that we have never questioned before.

And one additional thing should become very clear: it’s not only about our footprint. Someone needs to stop others from destroying everything, from flying, from coal rolling monster suvs etc. And as there are too few people being that someone, we need to be that someone.

This is not supposed to be personal, but an additional point is how it is completely natural to us as a society to fly somewhere. Even if it’s for work.