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Planet Earth is about to have a fever spike to curb its viral human infection.
Third day in a row I've seen humanity compared to a virus.
Thursday in The Matrix, yesterday from a coworker, and now this.
Not really relevant, just interesting and I have nobody else to tell.
Kinsmen as well
The older I get, the more I come to realize that the true virus killing this planet is not humanity, but inhumanity.
Just bring it on. We aren't going to change anything until something happens first.
And when things happen, the only changes we'll make is adapt so that we can continue with our usual destructive shenanigans during the new circumstances.
Well, we will add some ecology version of thoughts and prayers to it. Some veneer of Never Again
I never suspected that Never Again was just rhetorical flourish
But adapting is quickly getting so expensive it'll crash the economic system anyway and with it, a lot of the destructive shenanigans stop.
Hehe. The destructive shenanigans will not stop for quite some time. There's money in that system, and the system is adaptable. Therfore the shenanigans will continue, but differently. At a cost of course, but a cost the people at the bottom will carry.
The climate has centuries of lag, so even if we stopped all emissions right now, it’d get hotter for longer than all current people will be alive.
Really no point in waiting since we're not planning to prepare.
Planets about to "fuck it, we'll do it live" biosphere collapse.
Everyone is ~~partying~~ denying like it's 1999.
The economy crashes or the planet's ability to sustain life does.
Pro-life conservatives:
golly, gee
That's not even a real dichotomy! Fixing climate change doesn't require crashing the economy; it just requires companies to build different stuff or otherwise clean up their acts instead of lazily continuing their unsustainable business models. (It also requires pissing off all the NIMBYs, which might be the bigger factor in the failure to do it.)
“Don’t be all doom and gloom”
And then…
“Catastrophic” weather event.
If you aren't fighting conservatism, you aren't fighting climate change.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Poleward winds, which previously made few inroads into the atmosphere above Antarctica, are now carrying more and more warm, moist air from lower latitudes – including Australia – deep into the continent, say scientists, and these have been blamed for the dramatic polar “heatwave” that hit Concordia.
These events have raised fears that the Antarctic, once thought to be too cold to experience the early impacts of global warming, is now succumbing dramatically and rapidly to the swelling levels of greenhouse gases that humans continue to pump into the atmosphere.
“Essentially, it is a vicious circle of warming oceans and melting of sea ice, though the root cause is humanity and its continuing burning of fossil fuels and its production of greenhouse gases,” said Meredith.
Last year the species, which is found only in Antarctica, suffered a catastrophic breeding failure because the platforms of sea ice on which they are born started to break up long before the young penguins could grow waterproof feathers.
Researchers say that the discovery of the loss of emperor penguins suggests that more than 90% of colonies will be wiped out by the end of the century, if global warming trends continue at their current disastrous rate.
“Nevertheless, there is a good case for arguing that if countries are knowingly polluting the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and Antarctica is being affected as a consequence, then the treaty protocol is being breached by its signatories and their behaviour could be challenged on legal and political grounds.
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