Not that I know of. I just think it would make a good episode.
My above comment does kinda seem sarcastic tho sorry 😂
I live in the southwest USA and the mountains near me just sparked up again. People in the local sub are somehow surprised because it rained an inch or two last week. They literally don't conceive of the notion that decades of drought can't be undone by a few days of cold rain and snow.
The American West is going to be on fire every summer and fall for the rest of our lives. People are gonna complain about the smoke and never question why we're growing water intensive crops and lawns full of grass in the goddamn desert.
Isn't civilian lawns still a rather low part of total water consumption in the American Southwest? I thought a good part of water consumption there was still from agricultural/industrial/commercial use. (Though growing a bunch of grass for no reason in the desert certainly isn't helping)
Yeah, you're absolutely right that that lawns are a small part of total water consumption. I can't remember exactly what the source was, but if I remember right then personal water consumption is less than 10% of water use in the US West. I know I shouldn't blame individuals and their lawns for our terrible waste of water here but it does feel like it gives people the illusion that there's unlimited water to use.
p.s. Found a couple sources that say that irrigation and livestock are responsible for about 85% of water use while public consumption is about 10-15%. 1 2
nah lol, but after i wrote this i realized its probably cause i havent talked to anyone bc of the pandemic
Lmao I don’t think we’ll be here in ten years at this rate
:inshallah:
Every year there's less bugs. Less and less bugs. I don't even need to wash my windshield anymore after bombing down country roads at 55mph. Still plenty of mosquitoes, because God is dead and we live in hell.
Seems like a decent subset of the population will bury their heads in the sand until the rising tide sends them to the grave.
I'm not really scared of climate/societal collapse in this country anymore because whatever lies in post apocalyptia can't be much worse than this
Lol during the food riots the only thing you'll have left to eat is your words
This country is about 10 years from food riots anyway even without the threat of climate change
I've been wanting to do a big effort post on what I feel like I've learned about the ideology of America and combining it as a socialist project for the what the future holds, so I guess I'm gonna fucking do that now. CW kind of Doomer.
Although Covid isnt over yet, the complications and reality bending of it is for the most part done. We know some 600,000 to 800,000 people are or have died from it due to however we actually count everything. Millions, myself included, are unemployed and probably wont have work for the rest of year or even further.
Meanwhile, our politics have taken a completely different turn in a completely stupid way. As though the last 4 years never happened and Hillary Clinton is president, Joe Biden is continuing a failed route of liberalism that will radically shift huge portions of the population away from expressive politics. Whether those people are lumpenprole radical disillusioned with the idea of voting in the wake of the democratic primary stolen once again by a media apparatus and cabal of industry elites, or the petit bourgeoisie who no longer have to suffer under the auspice of Bad Orange Man; these people are no longer reachable by the liberal project to engage in anything approaching what is happening, not that Joe Biden even wants to do anything. The revolution promised by people like Bernie Sanders felt hollow after his capitulation to so much of the democratic establishment for 5 years, and as the more right leaning people of the project split to billionaire-backed snakes like Elizabeth Warren, even in the face of so much horrifying depravity.
So now that we're here, Covid be damned, what else can happen? What will finally shift the American system to change? I think like many people here, we could achieve socialism in our time; we could achieve a better world through the system if we just rammed hard enough against it. But I now know from Covid, that that is liberalism, and it is a poison pill for us. Its going to take a lot more dead people. We've had a plague, and we're now going to have poverty, but as long as so many can pretend that history isnt happening and can turn to their opiate comforts of sports and culture. But climate change will finally offer us the last of the trinity, it will show us the world where no human society has persisted. Soon we will have a famine and thirst, and then a war. Only then will the millions of people die to make the American system change. Kropotkin was wrong when he said that revolutions are an act of hope. In the American dialect, they happen because they have to, because the condition of existence cant be maintained. The only hope is then; will we be alive to see the end of Capitalist Realism?
I live in Iowa and I'm wishing climate change would hurry the fuck up this week.
Ok not really. But it's going to be -20 tomorrow not accounting for wind chill. It's been like this for a week. My car broke down. Get me out of this hellworld.
The day after tomorrow is today. At this rate at least i won't have to kill myself, the planet will do it for me.
"You say the earth is warming and yet Texas is cold. Checkmate libs!"
Yeah the weather is just the beginning. Wait for the catastrophes to start
