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  • people migrate illegally from everywhere. you're suggesting the UK should fix what exactly? every undeveloped nation everywhere?

    I mean, not on its own, no, and only those nations from which it's reciving the bulk of the immigrants. But long term that is the only viable option. As I understand it these are not people who are leaving their country because they particularly want to, they leave because things are so bad at home that literally risking their lives is better than staying. I imagine given the chance they'd prefer to stay at home, so at some point we need to help ensure that's possible.

    In the mean time a refugee camp of sorts would allow them to remain in their own country and provide suitable housing etc, meaning they wouldn't have to leave in the first place.

  • Address the issue at the source. Find out why these people are willing to risk their lives to leave and try and fix that. At the very least you could create a safe encampment in their home country where they can go to live, receive aid, food, housing etc. Get the UN involved to protect it or something.

    This is kinda the same issue as with arresting homeless people for sleeping rough - it addresses (poorly) the symptom, not the cause.

  • Good enough for now, certainly. Hence my point about lab grown meat. It's meat. It's not an approximation, it's the real deal.

  • A couple of years ago I saw an article on Toyota inventing something called solid state battery's... Never heard anything about that again.

    ... the article you provided was nothing more than "LG is researching solid state batteries"

  • Just to, you know, keep things interesting.

  • Certainly it's the best choice currently, but lab grown meat will be the best option for the future, offering the best of both worlds - want to eat meat? Go ahead! Want to remain vegan? No problem!

  • 🎶I can show you the woooorrrllld, shining, shimmering, splendid🎶

  • Maybe, but we can certainly help by, amongst many other things, not advertising AI Nude Apps on Instagram. Ultimately what we shouldn't be doing is blaming the victims by implying they are somehow at fault for having the audacity to upload pictures of themselves to the Internet.

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  • Like a Boss!

  • It's about consent. If you have no problem with people jerking off to your pictures, fine, but others do.

    If you don't want people to jerk off to your photos, don't upload any. It happens with and without these apps.

    You get that that opinion is pretty much the same as those who say if she didn't want to be harrassed she shouldn't have worn such provocative clothing!?

    How about we allow people to upload whatever pictures they want and try to address the weirdos turning them into porn without consent, rather than blaming the victims?

  • Thanks, I hate it.

  • Maybe, maybe not. I mean this isn't an isolated survey:

    https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/global-surveys-show-peoples-growing-concern-about-climate-change#one

    There's evidence that your political ideology can influence your willingness to adjust your lifestyle in response to climate change, certainly:

    https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021/09/14/in-response-to-climate-change-citizens-in-advanced-economies-are-willing-to-alter-how-they-live-and-work/

    However, with respect, anecdotal evidence doesn't trump multiple world-wide surveys, even accounting for deliberate misinformation.

    So, maybe they are all lying as you say, maybe they actually mean it. Lacking in evidence to the contrary, I'm going with the latter.

  • No, I meant defeatism. The post I replied to said

    Yup. It's already too late, even if all emissions stopped yesterday.

    Emphasis mine. That's incorrect. It's not 'too late' and confidently stating it is achieves nothing but guarantee failure. That's not 'realistic'. We need drive, determination and hope to deal with what's coming. Those do not grow in a sea of doomerism, pessimism and defeat.

    I'm not a 'fantasist'. I fully understand the scale of the problems we face. Optimism does not mean giving in to ignorance or 'praying the emissions away' it means understanding that pessimism isn't useful, it achieves the opposite of what we need: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23622511/climate-doomerism-optimism-progress-environmentalism

    That article you linked is interesting, but as the comments below it allude to, it misses nuance. It is never too late to save humanity, even if our current understanding of what humanity is will need to change: https://andrewbirley1.medium.com/its-already-too-late-for-this-iteration-of-humanity-but-that-is-not-a-reason-to-stop-trying-e93e4b6b6b4

    Also, whilst articles like that from your man Tom are fine in moderation, try not to drown yourself in them. Too much bad news is bad for you: https://www.wired.com/story/doomscrolling-bad-news-mental-health/

    Don't forget to check out the good stuff to: https://fixthenews.com/

    Finally, talking of nuance, whilst you are right that global emissions went up in 2023 by 1.1% what you neglected to mention is that emissions in advanced economies fell to their level of 50 years ago, a record decline: https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2023/emissions-in-advanced-economies-fell-to-their-level-of-50-years-ago

    And that the growth of clean energy means global energy related CO2 emissions could peak by 2025: https://www.iea.org/news/the-energy-world-is-set-to-change-significantly-by-2030-based-on-today-s-policy-settings-alone

    So, I guess I am a optimist, just not in the way people on Lemmy seem to understand the word: https://medium.com/the-ascent/the-magic-that-happens-when-we-stop-equating-pessimism-with-realism-9480a5481540