I was reading that it probably isn't a big deal because most methane is locked up in sediments that are so deep that they either won't melt or if they do they physically can't meaningfully contribute to the atmosphere because they're so deep BUT the methane under the eastern siberian arctic shelf is in shallow enough sediment that yeah it could easily melt through and cause some ridiculous amount of global warming as a multiple of what human industrial activity has already caused which if true is just so fucking scary and that's why I posted earlier today that I wished I could stop reading shit that heighten my existential dread.
Yeah, sounds about right. People: "You need to stop worrying these things you're making yourself upset!" Me, screaming, waving a gun around: "Have you considered that if you did worry about these things we could fix these problems and then I wouldn't need to be upset?"
It's not a question of popular consciousness, but one of the needs of capital to grow and grow faster - effective climate change legislation hurts profits and competivity in the medium term, so the ruling political forces of the Pro-Bourgeois political forces are reluctant to do it and even reformist ones suffer from the same pressure.
It's be like a company suddenly deciding to raise wages for all its employees. Sure, it might bring some clients from socially conscious Socdems, but it also lowers the profit margins per employee - basically, it's madness from a capitalist's point of view.
Even a capitalist state led by say radlibs or greens would be uncomfortable with "going too far" - like there were slogans from the neoliberal wing of the Green Party "Between economy and the environment there's no need for an or" (Cem Özdemir, I think) and even the reforms that are done are with the promise that the ecological transformation will bring prosperity and profits to firms.
from what I was reading when trying to reassure myself about the clathrate gun thing today that might actually happen, rejoice
Oh, What did you find out about the gun? Someone had me half convinced it was unlikely to really happen.
existential terror
I was reading that it probably isn't a big deal because most methane is locked up in sediments that are so deep that they either won't melt or if they do they physically can't meaningfully contribute to the atmosphere because they're so deep BUT the methane under the eastern siberian arctic shelf is in shallow enough sediment that yeah it could easily melt through and cause some ridiculous amount of global warming as a multiple of what human industrial activity has already caused which if true is just so fucking scary and that's why I posted earlier today that I wished I could stop reading shit that heighten my existential dread.
Yeah, sounds about right. People: "You need to stop worrying these things you're making yourself upset!" Me, screaming, waving a gun around: "Have you considered that if you did worry about these things we could fix these problems and then I wouldn't need to be upset?"
It's not a question of popular consciousness, but one of the needs of capital to grow and grow faster - effective climate change legislation hurts profits and competivity in the medium term, so the ruling political forces of the Pro-Bourgeois political forces are reluctant to do it and even reformist ones suffer from the same pressure.
It's be like a company suddenly deciding to raise wages for all its employees. Sure, it might bring some clients from socially conscious Socdems, but it also lowers the profit margins per employee - basically, it's madness from a capitalist's point of view.
Even a capitalist state led by say radlibs or greens would be uncomfortable with "going too far" - like there were slogans from the neoliberal wing of the Green Party "Between economy and the environment there's no need for an or" (Cem Özdemir, I think) and even the reforms that are done are with the promise that the ecological transformation will bring prosperity and profits to firms.