https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/earth-50-50-chance-hitting-key-warming-mark-2026-rcna28060
The most frustrating part about discussing this topic is the huge amount of copium people are on. A common one I hear is about all the new tech that will be available. Another one is that people will adapt. What they forget is that the tech they talk about still isn't there and that "adapting" usually involves a lot of death.
Edit: Forgot to add the next worst thing: Deflection. China and India have a larger population, therefore plastic straws shouldn't be banned and I shouldn't have to worry about throwing my trash in the river.
anybody remember the photo of the nonchalant golfer in front of a wall of burning trees
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/sep/27/kristi-mccluers-best-photograph-playing-golf-while-america-burns-oregon-fire-interview
RTA: jesus christ am I fucking sick of webp
just let me save a fucking jpeg
I finally embraced the future and installed webp support for all my applications.
:sicko-zoomer: Join us...
Had this conversation with my mother and she pulled that card. It’s funny bc even if you point all that out and they don’t have any response for it they’ll just go “well… they’ll figure out something.” Lol
I feel like it's about time to stop talking about climate action and start talking about climate vengeance.
The International Court of Climate Justice will be armed with improvised weapons
They will carry rusty machetes, fashioned from twisted sections of I-beam, grips wrapped in soft plastic and electrical tape. They will hold in their hands spears made from broom handles and broken glass bottles as they pass judgments from the top of cracked, crooked multi-level parking lots.
They will cut paths across a changed landscape with outdated cartography, clutching faded printouts from Google Maps that fail to reflect where water has come, where water has gone, and where it has removed roads in the course of those processes. They will stay in the lee of the terrain when storms come and stay in the shadows as much as they can when the storms go. They will eat mostly carbohydrates, made from the tenacious superstrains of wheat that cling to life in soil devoid of nutrients and bare of moisture — hardy stalks engineered to be resilient and adaptive and to mature quickly and to propagate even faster. They will pass little other plant or animal life.
They will have lists, scribbled with notes. Rumours. Tips. Vague recollections. Landmarks. The International Court of Climate Justice will hogtie octogenarian former employees of Shell and Exxon and Chevron and BHP Billiton. Executives who commissioned reports into climate trends and ignored them, kept them secret. Marketers and lobbyists who spun and misdirected and winked and smiled and put money in the right hands. Politicians who absorbed the interests of these companies into their ideologies will kneel helpless before the Court, breathing short and shallow breaths through hessian hoods that smell like rust.
They will hunt them down. From the basements of abandoned supermarkets and in storm shelters and in caves and in old missile silos converted to complexes that are somewhere between apartments and doomsday bunkers, they will drag out once millionaires and once billionaires. CEOs and spokespeople and authors and television hosts. The memory of the International Court of Climate Justice is long for denialists and those that equivocated.
There are no juries in the International Court of Climate Justice. Those who would be jurors are dead. There are no lawyers, either, in the International Court of Climate Justice. There are judges; many of them. As many as can follow them. And they are armed.
https://thomasviolence.tumblr.com/post/183447944801/the-international-court-of-climate-justice-will-be
A little bit reminiscent of parts of Kim Stanley Robinson's cli-fi The Ministry for the Future
Climate justice is already a thing we just need to make it bigger.
Idk if we've all really internalized that yet. I don't think I have. It's hard to come to terms with, but like, nothing will be done. Feel like I have to repeat that over and over for it to even be real
I’ve internalized it and it’s a serious grieving process, on par with losing a loved one.
Anyone who still lives west of the Rockies or south of Kansas still doesn’t get it
Anyone who still lives west of the Rockies or south of Kansas still doesn’t get it
What a garbage take. Just cause people aren't ready to abandon their lives before they're made to doesn't mean they don't understand.
The water is running out right now…
Edit: obviously not everyone has the means to leave but if you’re still living in Vegas or Miami what exactly are you waiting for?
When people defending capitalism bring up "muh productivity" I kinda chuckle on the inside because we are overproducing, and a good deal of what we produce just gets wasted anyway. For example, Burberry just torching unsold merchandise to keep up its "exclusivity".
I do not give a shit about productivity, especially if it solves nothing but gives some self-righteous dipshits bragging rights.
:frothingfash: "I don't believe in climate change. I believe that the weather is the will of God!"
:angel-biblical: "How many cities to I have to smite with fire and brimstone before you chill on the greenhouse gasses?!"
The problem is that the crazies who think God does all the weather also think he's doing it because he's mad about :transshork-happy:
You jest, but I can see PMC dems smugly putting that sticker on their car.
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! :troll:
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST! :troll:
Glad my country is controlled by 80 year olds who couldn't care less because they will be long dead before the worst of it hits.
Its controlled by 80-year-olds who refuse to believe anything will ever change. The Earth won't warm. The treats will never run out. The people will never revolt. The US will never lose its position as Global Hegemon. And they will never, ever, ever die.
What's even more scary than these absolutely demented 80-year-olds being in charge is the legion of 50 and 60 year olds who slavishly pander to them. And the 30/40 year olds who pander to the 50s. And the generation of Teens/20s being raised to endlessly Rise-And-Grind on behalf of their seniors.
We've been living out the sixth season of the Sopranos for the last decade. A nation propped by entirely by a courtier class that's intent on viciously murdering every Adriana, Jackie Jr, or Vito who disappoints The Family. Nevermind all the bystanders who have to get wacked simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
