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June extremes suggest parts of climate system are reaching tipping points (arstechnica.com)

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Research shows heat domes, wildfires, and vanishing polar ice are the symptoms.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Glad to be child free, can’t imagine bringing a child into this world…

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I’m terrified for my kiddo. We’ve done all we can over the past 10 years. Went plant based, got our winter heating off oil, ride electric bikes, all my lawn tools are electric, bought an EV. I’m running out of ideas.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Spoiler alert: your individual choices don't matter. Drastic and sweeping changes need to be made at the corporate/supply chain level if we have any hope of surviving this.

So... We're fucked.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every bit helps. I can’t tell others to make changes if I don’t do it myself.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Sure you can. We don’t need to be martyrs to demand system-wide change

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I’ve done this for 3 decades…. Shit has only got worse

This is way beyond being fixed at individual levels

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Compared to the amount of emissions China is putting out you can't really make a difference with those changes.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

You may find this article helpful in why it still matters:

“My country’s emissions are so negligible, it doesn’t matter what we do. It won’t make a difference”. It’s true: the emissions of many countries in the world are completely dwarfed by a few big players. We see this in the chart below. But there are several reasons why rich countries with ‘negligible’ emissions need to step up to the challenge. What they do does matter.

https://open.substack.com/pub/hannahritchie/p/small-emitters

Individual actions, while inconsequential, can help signal the market ( eg demand for ev infrastructure) and can add up when combined with federal regulations.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

For the sake of my kid I’m willing to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fucking THIS. It's the main reason I don't want kids. I know they'd likely live a life of agony, and I don't want THEM to have kids, because my grandchildren would be even more fucked.