Capitalism. Because money is more important than life.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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Economic system so good it caused a mass extinction event
We've looked at the data. It looks grim and concluded that it costs too much to avoid extinction.
Not that Soviet Union, Eastern European socialist states, China etc have been great for the environment.
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Maybe so that people don't just die of existential despair?
It is very depressing to see our planet go to hell.
People don't usually care to read the same thing over and over again for decades like that
Well they won't have to read about it for too much longer,, they'll be dying of heat, starvation, and skin cancer
Until then
I feel like we’re reminded every day on here, it gets tiring to a point we don’t pay attention anymore.
As usual the mainstream journalists don't understand what the paper is about and produce hysterical headlines.
If you read the paper it does in no way say the earth is going to be uninhabitable. It does say that they have modelled which bits of the earth will become less habitable and they are areas of high population density, and also that the risk is reduced sognificant of climate change is limited to 2 degrees. That's starkly different from the headline.
That is also without any critical appraisal of the paper. My first thoughts are how accurate is transfering static lab based measures of habitability to dynamic open environments?
This research is mildly interesting but like most research frankly it is of limited scope and utility, and unfortunately a great deal of research is actually unreproducible dross.
On top of that a lot of journalism is unthinking dross. This makes a good headline to feed the beast that is the internet but it does not reflect the reality of the climate crisis.
Because news is sales, and this doesn't sell. In fact, it will likely hurt sales. And almost everyone can't do anything meaninful about it on an individual, immediate level. So it's hard to think about and hard to act on.
Bad for business, hard to digest = out of scope for corporate or government media.
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Not good for profits, so it's swept under the rug while we deal with the bloated cheeto craziness as a diversion for something else even shittier happening.
because we know
We can't cost the shareholders.
Be cause there is still enough plausibility of denial, for now…
I dunno. But I have vowed to kill everyone I know who denied climate change as being a thing. Looking forward to that.
The problem is we know but we are still making it worse! Capitalism has proven it can't fix this situation only speed it up!
Because it's not new(s). badumtiss.jpg
Where are the other bones ? The skeleton?
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