Meteorologist Austen Onek<p>"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fossilfuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fossilfuel</span></a> executives have known since the 1970s that burning oil, coal and gas would cause escalating <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climatecatastrophes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatecatastrophes</span></a> and worldwide suffering. Yet they lied, sacrificed our safety for their greed and just unleashed an apocalypse on my hometown. Their actions will condemn children today to a planet that’s more hell than Earth by the end of the century if we don’t stop them. </p><p>It isn’t just a tragedy; it’s a crime against humanity."</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-10-04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-climate-change" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/opinion/story/2024</span><span class="invisible">-10-04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-climate-change</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a></p>