Discussion of climate, how it is changing, activism around that, the politics, and the energy systems change we need in order to stabilize things.
As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades:
How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world:
Recommended actions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the near future:
Anti-science, inactivism, and unsupported conspiracy theories are not ok here.
Do you get this uneasy feeling that people know? Like they know they aren't in that 2/3 and that they are kind of racist enough that they sort of want that 2/3 gone? Like people call it "complacency" among the 1% nations but I just got this feeling sometimes.
100%. I often hear the argument "we're not where it will happen first" when people don't want to take any action. Implicitly they know and even welcome climate change mowing down the global south. When asked if billions of climate refugees fit in their plan they handwave it away.
Yeah, I think they know that basically the refugees are going to be met with a military (maybe that's why the fear of refugees is brewing), but I think the thing they don't really understand is that those billions actually make all the things they / we use. At some point the 1% societies get to "peak buying power" and nothing will ever cause it to go up, wages be damned.
Also, we need those wages / taxes for the military they're counting on.
Earth will survive – it’ll be different, but it will carry on.
I hate how glib some people are handling an extinction of not only human life. Countless species, ecosystems and individual animals will die.
But yes, life will continue. You're technically correct. The best kind of correct. /s
"Another species will die" does not spur action quite like "you and everyone you love will die". To be entirely fair, this behaviour is not uniquely human. We aren't that special.
I get the motivational part. It's just the "earth will move on, lol" part that's unnecessarily cruel and pisses me off.
I think the fatalism comes from a place of helplessness. Who is going to survive? The rich. How does a normal person survive or help stave off the worst? They can't. They're busy trying to figure out rent and food for next week, while trying to ignore the chronic condition their healthcare system won't let them fix.
Now, if we all rise up and eat the rich, we might have something. Not sure how one inspires such a necessary movement these days. Especially planet-wide. Plus, it would likely lead to violence, which many are not a fan of, I'd prefer not, myself.
Now, if we all rise up and eat the rich, we might have something.
One of the challenges here is simply organizing such a moevement. The communication platforms needed for that simply will not allow users to plan a revolution.
Plus, it would likely lead to violence, which many are not a fan of, I'd prefer not, myself.
You're ignoring the inherent violence that's already prevalent in the current trajectory things are heading towards.
Technically seen, technically correct is the only kind of correct
Humans, sure, and millions of other species. Think penguins will survive? Nope. Jellyfish? Nope.
I heard of a specific species that was dying en masse, anyway. Maybe other species are handling it better.
Good. Fuck jellyfish.
Humans are cancer.
New proposal to solve world hunger:
I'm not fond of this unusual-views-of-single-scientist kind of article. You can always find, for example, a gravity-denying physicist.
It takes more than that to be definitive.