I believe most of us have accepted that we have already passed all the tipping points and at this point We’re fighting for damage control
Failing at damage control, I would say.
If we instinctually felt how dire this is, akin to the imminent danger of, like, a lion circling our huts, maybe we would rise up and do something.
But we didn’t evolve to feel a true sense of urgency about abstract dangers that will happen in 30-100 years.
We know we are fucked beyond belief. We know billions will die. We know 90%+ of the planet’s species will go extinct. We know we will live to see a barren wasteland of populated by suffering. Intellectually we know the horrors. Yet it feels more urgent to go to work and pay the bills and do our day to day things.
Imagine if we felt the urgency to a point where we walked out of our jobs and did what we needed to do to force the change. Force companies to shut down. Ground all airplanes and dismantle cargo ships. Wrest control from the rich. Shut down coal plants. Etc.
And then there’s the greedy bastards… Who would rather do anything to make money now than deal with anything tomorrow or anything that might hurt all of us.
As long as conservatives are alive, there will be no damage control either.
This is so much large than the conservatives. It’s even larger than just the US.
Yes, it is. And the solutions are multi-tiered. And the tiers of solutions that would be reachable are defended against by conservatives who have been brainwashed for generations by corporate interests.
Yes, it’s bigger than conservatives in just the U.S. too. Conservatives globally are the security layer that prevent every major solution from being attainable. To defeat the major pollutors and to legislate change globally, we must first defeat the corporations’ brainwashed henchmen, who are otherwise known as conservatives.
Sorry. Only now did I read your username
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It would be great if you could critique his comment by some other metric.
My point is, that I don’t believe there is a reason for serious discussion with someone who is so single tracked that they’d call themselves that
It is larger than the US but conservatives fighting climate change measures is a global problem
The left is not exactly better or more effective, on a global scale. This is the real issue. sides are also really mostly relative. The right here (Scandinavian country) would be considered somewhere between socialist and communist in the us. Its not about sides. It’s about the lack of actions
That’s what I was thinking. Once the permafrost thaw becomes self perpetuating, there’s no going back.
And seeing as the Antarctic and Arctic are warming about 4x as fast as the rest of the world, I’d say we’re pretty close now.
I feel it basically started in the 20teens and is underway now.
According to this it started in the 60’s … in Russia at least.
After the tipping points, there is no damage control.
And pushing the damage control to other people.
…as conservatives cheer.
They’re all about the conserving until it comes to life on Earth.
No no, financial ruin is included there. They’ll care about that part.
They’ll call it the Biden Collapse or some stupid shit to try to shift the blame.
Yes, they will, but the government will protect them even if it means starving out the undesirables.
No it’s ok. They have a hedge fund set up.
Crapitalists*
I mean, they’re gonna deal with the consequences too so I cheer. I cheer because I don’t care and have nothing to lose. And the people responsible should Suffer the consequences instead of being constantly bailed out by the rest. Let it all fail. You’re just trying to delay thr inevitable. Claiming it isn’t inevitable is exactly why things never changed and never will because people believe it works itself out. Grab popcorn and enjoy.
I hear you. I find some peace in watching my conservative neighbors’ faces when I tell them I want this planet to cook us all into starvation. Conservatives don’t really know how to respond to someone who actually wants to watch the world burn.
When we begin competing for resources, conservative neighbors will be the first places to focus on. They caused all of this. They should be the first to suffer the losses.
Yes, we know.
Profits, shareholders, and not inconveniencing anyone is the priority.
Thus, our human brain are incapable of grasping or begin to comprehend the scale and severity of the climate crisis with just soundbites, anecdotes, news-rants and tiktok videos.
Understanding complex systems is hard and requires continuous concentration over months and years. Even more so for the Hyperobject that is ephemerally understood as Climate Change.
We can barely begin to collectively acknowledge that perhaps something is indeed wrong with :
- all the burning forests just because of the smoke/smog “inconveniently” smothers our cities (occasionally burning them for being too close)
- atmospheric rivers drowning towns and cities in flash floods
- high altitude glaciers irreversibly melting and disappearing
- Greenland and Antarctic have only accelerated their ice loss from sustained glacier retreat
- the thermohaline circulation slowing down due to all that melted water (less dense due to higher temperature and less salt) staying on the surface of the water column
- the migration of millions of humans mostly from regions with latitude between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn due to drought, crops loss, famine, extreme storms, natural disasters and violence or wars
- the increase in frequency and length of heatwaves
Unfortunately, we will probably sooner or later go to war over made-up fantasies or leftovers of a ruined planet before finally collectively understanding and tackling the complex thing that is currently (for now) known as Climate Change.
I’m kind of looking forward to it, to be honest. The collapse of society should be interesting and make my future life as a caveman more worthwhile.
The only thing I’m concerned about are my cats.
The tipping point report, produced by an international team of 200 researchers and funded by Bezos Earth Fund
We have placed the fate of humanity in the hands of billionaire parasites - and we are reaping the consequences.
Stop teasing and just collapse already.
Boy, what an exciting time to live in!
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