Study of sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth has already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming
Study of sea sponges lead scientists to believe Earth has already passed 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming
The planet could see 2 degrees Celsius of warming by the end of the decade.
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Our sole, shared environment is COMMUNal.
Market Capitalism requires infinite growth/metastasis on a finite world of finite resources. Its very nature is as impossible as one pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.
IF humanity cared about its own future, it doesn't btw, we'd be focused on shrinking humanity's footprint significantly over the next few generations to find homeostasis/equilibrium with this world, the only world we will ever encounter as a species that is naturally hospitable to us.
But that's a non starter. Not only will we not do that, but we will refuse to so much as temper our reckless growth/metastasis, even in the face of oblivion.
It's darkly hilarious how many unwashed peasants, losers of this rigged global economy, still RAGE against the concept of an economy that focuses on having everyone's basic needs met sustainably, because there would be no room for the super yachts and private jets they would never be allowed aboard anyway under such an economy.
We're literally gambling with our own extinction, and losing, in the name of "but someday I might be rich. And then people like me better watch their step!" It's the height of pathetic.
I largely agree with you but I also think advocates of radical change like this need to create a working model of what this actually looks like and implement it somewhere before people will trust that these ideas can help them. Obviously this is very difficult within the context of modern society but I don’t think it’s surprising that most people are wary of radical political and economic change.
I don’t think people are as worried about one day being rich as they are about utopian charlatans wrecking the economy and dropping them into poverty. There is a lot of propaganda that works to heighten this fear as well.
I hear you, but It's impossible to create a working model. The US literally toppled South American governments to make its resource markets open to our market capitalists. Look what we've inflicted on Cuba for half a century, and I look to their survival in the face of it as inspirational.
The global market capitalists endeavor to exploit and enshittify every national economy that dares to serve its citizens over private shareholders at every turn, to dehumanize societies for profit.
You may be right, that if all we can do is make claims in our appeal for radical action, the market capitalists will maintain power. To that I say, that is probably what will happen. This isn't a fairy tale or a movie where everything will work out in the end, the trajectory we're on leads to hell for our species, and we will in all likelihood arrive to that hell. If we're too comfortable or too afraid to do otherwise in spite of the evidence and increasingly our experience of the consequences, this only ends one way.
Market capitalism has been tested, run its course, and imho, it takes a fool not to declare it a complete failure and danger to the species. But I'm just a random perceptive asshole, so that doesn't change anything.
🤔 We all could put money together and go start some intentional communities out in Oregon or something.
Hell, we can look at the Amish to see what works and what doesn't.
Thank you, sometimes I feel like the only person who thinks like this and it's refreshing to be reminded I'm not.
Similarly, I don't understand the human obsession with constantly increasing the world population... as if that isn't inherently a bad thing. Isn't it obvious a finite pizza of fixed size cut into more slices means less pizza per person?
Honestly I'm over how fucked we are at this point.
Will it be hell? Yeah. But every 0.1 degrees we prevent will help. We can't stop fighting because we are not the only people suffering. There are way way way more people that are terrified and are fighting really damn hard. We should never abandon those people. Then we are just bending over to the big polluting corporations. Every 0.1 degrees can save so many damn lives. Humanity WILL survive. Most of is in the west will. Giving up and letting the people in the worst parts of the world rot and burn is not something we should do.
Sorry but i really fucking hate the doomer comments here about giving up.
Scroll down. I'm still going to do what I can. But I'm resigned to the fact that, odds are, it's beyond hope.
I'm glad I decided to start traveling while I still can
Lovely. This is refreshing between all the news about people losing their jobs and the economy booming. At least the shareholders are happy. Yay!
Buried lead - They counted from earlier than other studies because they believe (based on data) that warming started earlier.
Super Buried lead - Counting from the "traditional" start point we've got 1 out of 1.5 degrees on the score board.
Joy.
(lede)
and here I was, wondering what a piece of metal had to with any of it.
TIL lede isn't just the British word for lead.
🤔 I wonder why we weren't told global warming started earlier.
Possibly we just didn't know. They said they had to study a specific Caribbean sea creature to figure it out.
Science is cool. Even if the news ain’t great.
Science is cool. Even if the earth ain't.
Pfft! Balony that is low number why not add one more!
Surely we can do better than that!
Narrator: and indeed they could.
I thought those were donut holes and now I'm sad.
"Karashta, you don't want kids? You'd make a great dad."
I've been asked this several times by close friends since my early 20s. My response has always been about what I feel is the irresponsibility of bringing a child I will desperately love into a world that I've seen crumbling around me since my teens.
People called me stupid for believing in things like the oncoming ecological and societal collapses, despite me trying to show them what I'd seen and read.
Somehow, "I told you so," doesn't, in any way, make me feel better about the situation.
If you still think you'd make a great dad, there's lots of kids that already need one.
When I (hopefully) get my life together enough for myself, this is what I would look into.
My mom is desperate for grandchildren and she is so upset that our branch of the family will end with me. I'm not ever having a child or adopting. Shit is way too fucked for that and is only getting worse. I'm 26, and I fully expect to see society as we know it collapse within my lifetime. My hope is that humanity falling due to its own hubris will allow the planet to finally heal.
The planet will be fine. WE are fucked, the planet doesn't give a shit about us.
Most of the apocalyptic things people imagine are not supported by science at this point, and those that are possible can still be averted. But I also think that our children will find a way to adapt despite our problems. Will it be easy? No, but life is not easy even without the climate going haywire, and we find a way to live anyway. Our descendants will do the same.
Congratulations. You just described the bystander effect. I'm excited to stand with the crowd waiting for someone else to do something as we all die.
There's been a documented decline of about 70% in animal populations, the amount of weather and climate related destruction has demonstrably increased, there's traces of plastic and forever chemicals almost literally all over, Australia was on fire for half a year, wildfires are increasing in frequency in the western US, hurricanes are coming with increasing frequency and intensity from the gulf up the Atlantic.
There's also the fires that tore across Greece, the tornadoes forming in states in the US that have seemingly never had them before, the massive loss of ice from Arctic and Antarctic areas of the world.
This is just a small smattering of the things I remember from recently.
I'm not saying that next year everything is going to immediately collapse. But I can see the stability of the ecosphere dissolving in front of me and there are quite a few nations that seem like they are leaning towards collapse if history is any judge of things.
So who cares about them?