I remember when +1.5C was a "by the time you reach old age" thing and not a "by this summer and you're not reaching old age bitch lol" thing
+1.5C limit+2.0C limit+2.5C limitI think we are just a few years away from lib media claiming that... Climate engineering will save us!
The funny thing about the boiling frog trope is that it's false for frogs. They simply jump away. But the trope certainly is true for people.
IIRC the frog idiom holds true for lobotomized frogs. Which, given two presidents in a row have had dementia...
IIRC the frog idiom holds true for lobotomized frogs.
Go human beings! We're holding our own against lobotomized frogs!
Every time the IPCC report is issued the actual global warming is drastically worse than the worst case scenario in the previous report. We're accelerating in to a brick wall.
I read years ago that it's because the IPCC was playing politics. They figured if they went in fully on the scale of the problem, govts wouldn't act so it would be better to ease them into it by painting a problematic, but rosier picture of the situation and well...
"The earth goes through cycles" they screamed as they quickly fed hundred dollar coins into the coin operated air conditioner their land lord had provided.
hundred dollar coins
How dare you. You should have said crypto.
Someone please hold me back
Here I go again on :reddit-logo: arguing with liberals to the tune of a barrage of downvotes because I’m saying that market-based solutions won’t solve the climate. We are so fucked lmao that’s a whole different level of delusion
Gotta radicalize the kids. irl.
Kids are pretty radicalized by labor organizing btw. Even if they lose or get fired.
I tend to be a lot less alarmist than a lot of people here in the fact that I believe it’s all a very slow burn that’s going to follow the same extremely boring script of every other US crisis. You’re not going to wake up one day and notice that everything’s different, we’re probably going to see something like the US’s response to COVID. The government and capitalists will be the first to downplay the threat to the populace once things get really bad and whisper sweet nothings about how we’re all in this together, I hear and support you, all of that dumb nonsense while Americans face a crisis in resources.
Then I’d expect another migrant crisis (which the US is in no position to deal with) as areas around the world become inhabitable and wars break out over limited resources (water mainly). All of this will be happening while democrats and republicans fight over whether anything can be done by humans at this point to mitigate climate catastrophe. The liberals will have the right ideas but do jack shit to implement them, republicans will continue to double down on insisting that it’s a natural process which humans cannot control.
It’s so predictable because to determine what path the US takes, you just have to think in terms of business interests (as you know Congress has been bought and sold for decades). This country has shown that it only cares about maximizing shareholder value at every fucking opportunity, and most Americans either don’t care or just want their treats and to enjoy their average lives.
I would think Americans would get angry and protest if things get too bad and they lose access to their “bread and circuses”, but with the absolute power of the police force and military state, who knows.
Remember a few years back when everything west of the rockies was under an apocalyptic shroud of blood red sky, entire towns were removed from the map creating an internal refugee group, and air quality was so bad that people were sharing all kinds of home made filters?
Regional apocalyptic disasters are already happening.
fall of the roman empire except this time the entire world is going down with it
How many years in a row have we had the hottest year on record now?
Yo for real make a plan to actually leave. Almost anywhere else in this country would be less bad, socially and in terms of disaster.
At first I thought you were replying to this - https://hexbear.net/post/267536/comment/3460189
And republicans still don’t “believe” in climate change
What is the next level after jokerification
What is the next level after jokerification
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Usually the same people who think dinosaurs and people walked around the earth together 6,000 years ago, they’re not going to listen to what any scientist has to say about climate change.
The "we believe in science" party is still expanding fossil fuel infrastructure, so...
Hell, even if they managed to implement something that would actually address the problem, I think we would see states like Texas secede specifically to protect oil companies.
When it comes to international politics, we would basically have to pay oil and gas rich nations to not extract oil anymore.
So... launching dust into the skies to block sunlight it is...
"Launching dust into the skies to block sunlight it is a game changer," says Bill Gates a few years from now. And lib media cheers.
I wonder if it'll crash like Windows.
I never questioned climate change but the times? maybe its fake
