HAH, wouldn't it be funny if one year it just never came back?
:agony-consuming: AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA
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Let's get everything back to normal y'all! This is completely reversible!
We can transition to a world without oil subsidies by 2050. Vote or you're a terrorist.
Really really really hard not to fall into climate doomerism lol
One of these days I'm probably gonna snap and make Ted Kaczynski look like a liberal
I was reading so much climate science sometime back as if it was an addiction. It was very bad for my mental health and just overall happiness. I still read it but I have to limit my intake to only two or three articles or journals a week now. I don't wanna tell people how to live their life, but I will say it took quite sometime to stop feeling like the biggest doomer ever even after limiting my intake of climate science. If you can help it, put some limitations on your intake as well, it's not healthy and you likely know it's all happening faster than expected and how bad it is. Take care of your mental health, things like this are out of our control.
It's still important to stay current on it all,but please, don't over do it. It's still important to advocate for legit climate solutions, but try your best not to dwell on it too much, most humans have a threshold on how much stuff like this they can handle. ♥️
God damn, thanks comrade, I really appreciate it. Don't worry, I usually try my best not to obsess over climate stuff too much, but every once in a while I get reminded of the sheer scale of this event and feel really, really fucked. I guess revolutionary doomerism is the way to go, huh
If you're not a climate doomer than you don't have an accurate view of the world
The vast Siberian forest is having a criminally underreported megafire right now. They had one last year but not nearly as large as this year. No coincidence CA, CO and AUS all had the largest recorded fires this year than any other year. Megafires are the new normal and folks, I'm so goddamn worried about this planet. Lots of suffering is inevitable
Disposing waste is a pretty huge issue and groundwater contamination would make Flint taps look like dasani.
If there's a way to deal with that properly then I'm all on board.
There is a way to dispose of it properly, but the water will always get through whatever you do. At best with the most advanced technology, like in France recently, the waste can be put under the earth with vitrification and a whole load of processes, and can last up to several hundred thousand years (at best, and without seismological activity ! big if in some countries), which is still a limited amount of time before water gets in it. Still, you need a lot of fucking money and knowledge to do it correctly, and without years and years of experience you would fuck it up. It's kind of a bet against time, you need to separate the waste from its exterior environment long enough for the radioactivity to subceed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste#Vitrification (not up to date tho)
The thing is its still recent and only the most advanced countries utilizing nuclear power actually search for better ways, but even in France where its very advanced, the nuclear program is being dismantled without the coherent (i.e. ALL-IN) renewable alternative behind. So you get the worst of both worlds : no actual long-term effective waste storage, no full renewable, half-assed short-term measures.
Nuclear energy would have been passable as an all-in transition (and only transition) measure against CO2 emission before we actually use only renewable, but it's late, it doesn't work as an emergency measure, you actually need a lot of work to do it safely.
They only use uranium as an input because we want to be able to enrich it or use the byproducts in bombs, we could generate more energy for less waste if we weren’t a suicidal species
uranium's pretty easy to work with as these things go. still, fast breeder reactors and thorum need more love, especially as the former can eat up some of the existing nuclear waste
imagine if fission was discovered during peacetime. we would be so much farther ahead
By the way, what is techno-libertarian’s obsession with nuclear energy?
It's just throwing a wedge issue out in an attempt to disrupt any sort of consensus about switching from fossil fuels to renewables.
Clathrate gun cocked and loaded and the hammer is currently swinging into the pin right fucking now.
I think you'll find the bullet is already on its way down the barrel, if ocean saturation data is anything to go by.
Ahh the joy of localized greenhouse gas emission feedback loops.
If this goes the same as the COVID timeline, we have another 3 months before shit hits the fan
It was recognized in November, it became a problem in March. More like 4.5 months actually
Yeah but once spring starts the ice sheet will finally die and the apocalypse will start. Ironically this will boost the stock market for a while thanks to the northwest passage finally opening
I think this is what you're referring to? (Laptev Sea in Russia's Arctic) https://www.wired.com/story/russias-laptev-sea-should-have-started-to-freeze-by-now/
