this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
537 points (98.0% liked)

World News

38237 readers
2488 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The hottest 21 days so far!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Seriously! I give it pretty good odds this runs for a full month, then we'll probably get some relief with days that are only near record-breaking 🥵

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not true. Fake news. Everyone knows that for the first few hundred million years after Earth first formed the average surface temperature was 80C (176F).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"ever recorded" - there was nobody around to record the formation of the earth.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Um in case you've been under a rock George Santos obviously kept perfect records for the last 4.5 billion years.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Keep it up everyone! We're going to show Mother Nature who's really in charge.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (15 children)

Yes, the planet was destroyed in the name of insatiable capitalist greed.

But for one shining moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders!

(and just to be crystal clear, not you)

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The planet will be fine. It's us that should be worried.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (11 children)

For the love of christ, stop saying that. Every single time someone makes this comment. We. Get. It.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do we? Because the absolutely astonishing sense of self-importance humans have would indicate otherwise.

Other beings live here, and while humans fuck humans over in the name of greed and power, we bulldoze entire ecosystems without any consideration for the other creatures that lived here whatsoever.

No, you're wrong. Most humans live, act, and speak as if the entire world, hell the entire universe, should be bent to better serve ourselves exclusively.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's a thought-terminating cliche that serves to downplay the problem because "hurr durr the animals will be okay" (even though they actually won't since we're in the middle of the Anthropocene mass extinction, but never mind that) and to act as a derailment tactic.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (14 replies)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Welcome to the British Petroleum summer heat wave. Next up is the Exxon Mobile Hurricane season.

Fun fact about the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, oil and gas platforms can get insurance against a storm in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season, but homeowners in Louisiana can't get any homeowners insurance due to the expected severity of the named storms in the Exxon Mobile Hurricane Season.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

In torn between following my dreams and dedicating my life to attempting to help the climate crisis by going to school and inventing some tech to help

and giving up entirely, coasting through life with my stable government job, and drinking to forget until the day I hang myself...

This world is fucked, should I even try? Or should I just hope in reincarnation?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Well if no one does anything it won't be better should reincarnation come around.

I think Dr. Seuss has some pertinent wisdom here.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot nothing is going to get better. It's not.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The problem isn't tech to help the environment, as far as I can tell. It's more getting the people in charge to actually do something about it.

I think the French once invented a device for that, I forget what it was called.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hmm... a baguette?

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seeing how we’ve known about it for decades and this is the amount of progress we’ve made towards slowing/fixing it… idk maybe I’m just being cynical, then again Covid really showed us just how much the general public doesn’t care about their well-being and other’s wellbeing

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

I had a slight glimmer of hope at the start of covid-19, when people were dazed and confused and isolating and waiting for a vaccine. At the very start, I actually thought humanity is proving we're not that bad.

The rest is history now.

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Where I'm from, we were massively talking about it in the 80s when I was a kid. It promply stopped by the end of the 90s. Then all of sudden, we don't hear much about it.

It's so fucked up to be told all your life that your are insane to believe in climate change, and then about 40 years later, most people talk about it as if it was a given.

We should not be anxious about climate change, we should be furious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nobody stopped talking about it.

Its that the channels that we watch news on have been fragmented / specialized to the point where we can "watch the news" and only get right wing propaganda.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Time to get out the guillotines. Socialism or extinction.

load more comments (18 replies)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Moving past tipping points. With permafrost melting, sea ice melting and not reforming, and fires in the boreal forest, the feedback loop is developing. We are going to blow past 2 degrees C way faster than anyone predicted.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Honestly, anyone paying attention saw this coming since 2010.

We had twenty years to avoid this: by massively switching to nuclear power in the 90s and 00s.

We missed that exit ramp. By 2010 it was clear that 2 degrees was unavoidable.

The choice now is, do we limit it to 2-3 degrees warming, or do we go straight to 4-5 degrees?

It will take at least two decades to transform our industrial world economy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (25 children)

"Nuclear power scares me"

Welcome to the result. It's sad, because nuclear power was the way, but instead we propegandized against it and continued to use it as a boogie man.

Ignoring the fact that coal and natural gas still hurt and kill people daily, ignoring there's over 400 nuclear power reactors that are still active, 93 in America... But no.. "Chernobyl" and the discussion ends.

load more comments (25 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

4-5 degrees? You are optimistic. I bet I get to see 3 degrees in my lifetime as we will blast by each and every exit ramps. Not only that we'll also be drifting on the highway, because it looks cool.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I think a few scientists at Exxon Mobile predicted this in the 70's in their worst-case scenario reports.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't worry guys, I'm sure this is just natural weather fluctuation and has nothing to do with us messing with the climate for the past however many decades. We couldn't possibly be suffering the consequences of our own actions (or at least the actions of a few with too much power). /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nah don't worry bro. I separated my plastics from my trash so it's fine now obviously.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (11 children)

In Germany it’s colder and wetter than usual while in southern Europe they’re boiling. Crazy weather.

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm glad I'm old enough that I remember much more seasonally appropriate weather, if nothing else. It was really snowy in December when I was a kid in the 1980s and I think I only saw one green Christmas that whole time, while green Christmas is just normal now. We also didn't have air conditioning until I was in my teens, because Canada had cooler summers, and for the odd hot night you'd just sleep in the basement. Eventually we moved to a house that had central air, but I don't remember needing it the way we have the last 20 years.

I don't have air conditioning now, but it hasn't been a bad summer in Ontario so far heat wise, somehow we're missing the big heat waves everyone else is getting. I'm lucky I get a lot of tree shade.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just waiting for that sea level rise to kick in. There's plenty of anchorages that are still too shallow for my boat.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Yeah well this is frightening. In 25-30 years I will retire and now I need to raise the chances that I will live in a home with air conditioning in a country that -- currently -- hardly has buildings with air conditioning because it was not a necessity up until now. This will be an uphill battle. I don't want to die prematurely because of heat.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah two weeks ago it pained me to leave the house cause the heat was unbearable.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›