In two days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to be the second-largest in Texas history
In two days, the Smokehouse Creek Fire has grown to be the second-largest in Texas history
Just a reminder that it's still February, people.
Lies I hear:
global warming is fake
if we recycle and use electric cars we can fix the planet
we are not past the point of no return
we are making real progress to fight climate change
I’m sorry if that ruins your day, but maybe you need to wake up.
Those last two points are just doomerism that is either
I don't want to be a doomer, but I do kind of feel like climate change is going to get worse and worse and we will pay a terrible price.
I'm not one of those "civilization will end" types, but I think there will be a lot more refugees and a lot more war. If the Himalayan ice caps melt, a lot of Asia is very fucked.
We are fucked. Don’t be delusional. Focus on how we can best handle the inevitable disaster, instead of ignoring it and not making a plan for humanity to adapt as much as it can—in time.
Actual readable report from actual qualified scientists:
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf
On your second point, I don't think any expert on the subject has ever claimed that recycling and electric cars will fix 100% of the issue. People unfortunately like simple solutions though so when they hear that you should recycle, they think that will fix the problem. Fixing climate change and the environmental damage we have done is not something that can be fixed with one action. Is recycling good? Absolutely, especially recycling metals. Are electric cars better? Sure. Even better? Use a bike or a train. Should billionaires fly less? 100%. None of those come close to solving the climate problem on their own.
You are correct that we are passed the point where we can avoid major environmental and economic damage. We hit the 1.5°C mark last year and this year is not looking better. Our job now is to minimize the damage.
I don’t think we should give up and make it worse. I do think we should try to make it last as long as we can. I’m not gonna run out and buy a big truck just to hurry things along.
Realistically, humanity will die eventually no matter what we do. Everything dies. Unfortunately, to remove our dependency on all of the various things that are bad for the environment would require trillions of dollars in investments that will never return a “profit,” and near 100% worldwide support. Humanity cannot agree on anything as a whole.
Second largest fire in Texas behind Greg Abbot himself. It would be third if Ted Cruz ever actually showed up for work.
Welcome to Climate Change, where massive wildfires in North America during winter become normalized.
Canada is gonna have a fun year WRT wildfires this year. Western Canada is still in the grips of a massive drought, we got only a fraction of the winter precipitation we needed, and a good chunk of that was in rain instead of the snow that would produce watershed runoff well into the summer.
And it's probably going to be worse next year.
And the year after that.
And the year after that.
There is no "new normal" or return to the old normal without making a real effort to finally combat climate change. Things can - and will - just keep getting worse.
We are already dealing with Zombie Fires in western Canada: https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/wildfires-zombie-fires-canada-bc-alberta-1.7119851
Shit. I forgot to rake the state. Sorry everybody.
Come and rake it!
That only works in the forest. We have a prairie fire over here.