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Goodbye Iceland my old friend.
https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/109/377/849/207/673/637/original/0012be0e30511750.png
Why is everything so fucked and we don't have any agency in changing it
Carbon tax would go a long long long way. It would just have to be more severe than any politician would be willing to go.
We have the answers and economists and scientists know what needs to be done it's just the politicians (and people) won't allow it.
This is giving me an existential crisis
Maybe I don't get it, but as far as I understand, the golf stream brings hot air to north Europe. This is why you can live on Iceland while at the same latitude on the center of Canada is unhabitable.
I'm afraid that for a place like Iceland this does not mean warm and sunny, but more extremes in weather.
The number of extreme storms are increasing :
https://www.vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/456-vidvaranir-gefnar-ut-arid-2022
Do you have anything else about the gulf stream that would be Iceland specific, I want to do graduate school there but this makes me question that