The Supreme Court curbed the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to broadly regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants, a major defeat for the Biden administration's attempts to slash emissions at a moment when scientists are sounding alarms about the accelerating pace of global warming.
It's not exactly ideal, but I suspect the global South will use aerosols to cool the planet down. The subsequent consequences of that are unknown. I wouldn't be surprised to see that, in turn, taken too far.
Current climate models almost always assume negative emissions. The best technology we currently posses to do that, is, like you said, planting trees. If all nations keep the promises they made in the Paris agreement, we still need to plant a forest the size of two to three times India to keep us below 1.5°C warming.
That’s definitely the implication when you pedantically correct people who warn against catastrophic global ecological destruction with “eh the earth will be fine”. It’s a very common Redditism, as it combines pedantry with nihilism, anti-humanism and consumerism.
Eh I’m sure you didn’t mean anything by it, it’s just an annoying Reddit trope. You made it in jest as dark humor it seems, but there are people out there who literally use these arguments to not care about the “doom speaking alarmists” who warn about what is coming and continue their inaction
Animal & plant life have ironically been through more bullshit than we've thrown at them & bounced back before. You gotta remember that something like 90% of all biodiversity that has ever existed on the planet went extinct before humans even existed as a species.
Well... that's really just it then, huh? Without serious revolutionary action, which can still happen, the Earth is just fucked
It's not exactly ideal, but I suspect the global South will use aerosols to cool the planet down. The subsequent consequences of that are unknown. I wouldn't be surprised to see that, in turn, taken too far.
global souths gonna plant trees and bill gates is gonna spray aerosols over them and kill the new forests with acidrain & artificial shade
Current climate models almost always assume negative emissions. The best technology we currently posses to do that, is, like you said, planting trees. If all nations keep the promises they made in the Paris agreement, we still need to plant a forest the size of two to three times India to keep us below 1.5°C warming.
They made a documentary about that, I think it's called Snowpiercer
the earth is gonna be fine in the long run, it's human beings who are gonna be fucked.
Almost all animal and plant life on earth will also be fucked. But yeah at least the rocks and dirt will still be there.
Fuck yeah rocks 🪨 🪨
cockroaches will probs be fine
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life always bounces back
This is like using new babies as an excuse for murder. Ecocide is not justifiable because in millions of years life may evolve again.
This is Reddit (tm) pedantic nihilism and it’s gross
I didn't say ecocide is justifiable. I said life would come back.
The end of most species is still bad though
That’s definitely the implication when you pedantically correct people who warn against catastrophic global ecological destruction with “eh the earth will be fine”. It’s a very common Redditism, as it combines pedantry with nihilism, anti-humanism and consumerism.
My apologies I don't think there are any positives to the coming ecological destruction
Eh I’m sure you didn’t mean anything by it, it’s just an annoying Reddit trope. You made it in jest as dark humor it seems, but there are people out there who literally use these arguments to not care about the “doom speaking alarmists” who warn about what is coming and continue their inaction
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I agree with you and am not consoled either. I was just saying what I think will happen (mushroom people)
:yea:
Animal & plant life have ironically been through more bullshit than we've thrown at them & bounced back before. You gotta remember that something like 90% of all biodiversity that has ever existed on the planet went extinct before humans even existed as a species.
Cool. I don't want one of those mass extinctions to happen in a few short generations for the most pointless reasons imaginable.
I mean, yeah. Fair.
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