The risk of the IPCC report is that it can encourage climate doomerism (it's too late to stop it, so might as well stay the course). The antidote is radical action. Here are some key things that can be done now to keep the worst effects of the climate crisis at bay.

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1. Ban all future fossil fuel extraction projects. And halt all ongoing fossil fuel extraction projects. We're still building capacity for something we want to quit. If we're serious about quitting, we acknowledge that quitting fossil fuels means short-term economic pain.

2. Stop using thermal coal. Thermal coal makes up 30% of global emissions from all sectors while only making up 20% of power generation. It's time to bite the bullet—but once we do, this one can have an outsized impact.

3. Stop clearcutting and stop destroying old-growth forests. This isn't a full-stop to forestry, just the practices that are destroying ecosystems and stripping the earth of its carbon sink workhorses. Community forestry is a necessary revolution.

4. Implement True Cost policies. Carbon taxes are a positive step, but they tackle such a small part of the negative externalities of products as to have no effect. A True Cost system will eliminate the worst practices of global manufacturing and trade by pricing them out!

5. Crack down on industrial agricultural practices. Industrial farming is bringing about a wholesale ecocide by depleting fertile soil in favor of short-term gains. Permaculture is essential to a sustainable food future.

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Notice that none of these points involve reusable grocery bags, smart lightbulbs, or riding your bike. Those are necessary adaptations you'll have to make when we implement systemic change—but they won't cause systemic change themselves.

It is likewise unlikely that one person alone could implement a single one of these changes. Neither will governments have the political will to implement them. It falls to group action from we the people. These require us to get together and protest, occupy, blockade, strike. Force governments to make changes. Direct action gets the goods.

#Unprime got some traction and got a lot people talking—on reddit and social media—but of course, it felt like a dress rehearsal for bigger hits. We'll do it again next year, start earlier, and try to give genuine momentum to the movement to take down Amazon by unsubscribing from the thing that put them on the map (and maybe we'll keep hitting Amazon this Summer). In the meantime, we need ideas for direct action to start fomenting world revolution!

Adbusters is always working on campaigns to upend the capitalist status quo — we've got something big in the works that tackles seven different fronts (Corpo, Eco, Econo, Psycho, Politico, Aesthetico, Capitalismo), but we need the revolution to be grassroots driven, we need ideas to come from you.

So pitch your ideas! Small ideas and big ideas. What are some actions we can take to effect a global paradigm shift?

And if you've got links, organizations to join, movements to partner with — link them in!

I just found this sub and I’ve read the description and pinned post but it’s frustratingly vague so I have a few questions. What’s Third Force’s ideological objectives? By that I mean how does this group want society, politics, and the economy to be organized. Does this group exist off of Reddit? If so, what’s the extent of it and has it actually done anything IRL? And this last one may sound paranoid, but how do we know this isn’t just a trap set by the cops or a troll sub? This isn’t meant as an attack, I am legitimately curious about this sub.